Monday, December 27, 2010

The Blotter: THE BLOTTER

Driver opens fire at another car in D.C.

A man driving through the Third Street tunnel in Northeast Washington opened fire at another car, police said.

The shots were fired early Sunday morning after a car tried to pass a Dodge Charger with tinted windows. As the car passed the Dodge, passengers started yelling at each other, authorities said. The driver of the Dodge then started shooting at the other car, seriously wounding one of the passengers.

Anyone with information is asked to call D.C. police at 202-727-9099.

The owner of a Maryland pawn shop has pleaded guilty to tax evasion for not reporting $18.4 million in revenue over a four-year period.

Yooho Weon owns Parkway Pawn Shop in Bladensburg. From 2004 to 2008, Weon did not report $18.4 million in gross sales from the business, which includes selling items on the Internet, he admitted. The Internal Revenue Service estimates that the total tax loss was $2.4 million.

Weon faces five years in prison and is scheduled to be sentenced in March.

About a half-dozen cars were damaged when a blaze broke out in one and spread to the others in a Catholic University parking lot, a D.C. Fire Department spokesman said.

The fire started around 1:30 Saturday afternoon in a lot outside Caldwell Hall. The blaze caused about $50,000 in damage, said D.C. Fire Department spokesman Pete Piringer. No one was injured. The cause of the fire is under investigation.

Md. accountant gets two-year sentence for lying on clients' tax returns

A Maryland accountant was sentenced to two years in prison and ordered to pay $45,000 in restitution after overstating charitable contributions and claiming losses on operating farms the clients didn't own.

The Internal Revenue Service estimates that Arnold Wood, who ran Arnold's Tax Service in Baltimore, caused up to $2.5 million in tax losses.

Source: http://washingtonexaminer.com

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