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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1996
Page
2
Several hundred Windsor Knolls Middle School students signed a No Weapons pledge during the National Day of Concern. Seventh grade Life Skills in Society organized the event with lavender ribbons and a prize for wearing them, while Marylanders Against Handgun Violence backed the statewide effort.
Wilbur Martin Wetzel, 54, was sentenced to 18 months of a 10 year term after a Frederick County Circuit Court jury found him guilty of attempted kidnapping, assault and battery for using a fake snub-nosed pistol to threaten Nancy Wolfe as she returned to her car in the Seventh Street Shopping Center on February 1. The judge suspended all but 18 months and granted work release after half served, with three years of probation and a drug and alcohol abstinence condition. Wolfe, grateful yet unsatisfied, called it a message to the community. authorities argued the act could have turned deadly and demanded harsher punishment.
Frederick County man Marshall Damon Mitchell, 19, was charged by Brunswick police with second degree rape, third degree sex offense, and battery for an incident May 18 involving a 17 year old Brunswick girl. He faces pending court action on October 1995 charges and was held without bond at Frederick County Adult Detention Center as detectives continue the investigation.
An Urbana Fire and Rescue crew responded to a car crash on Urbana Pike at the Monocacy National Battlefield entrance shortly before 10 this morning. Frederick County Central Alarm cited a 9 49 a.m. report from National Park Service police with no further details released.
The forecast notes unseasonably warm air spreading from the central and southern Plains into the Midwest and lower Ohio Valley tomorrow. It calls for sunny, milder conditions in the East, warm and sunny South, hot Southwest, and cool, cloudy Northwest with frosty nights in parts of the interior. Local forecasts for Frederick predict mostly sunny skies, highs in the upper 60s, and cold nights near 30.
Rain soaked the Northwest and mid Atlantic while the Southwest stayed misty and the Northeast was clear. Low pressure could bring showers to New England and mid Atlantic today as highs shift. winds push warm air into the Plains and Mississippi Valley. Temperatures reach 100 in the Southwest desert, 80s in California and the Plains, 70s in the South and Northwest, 60s in the mid Atlantic and Midwest, and 50s in the Northeast.
Frederick County Circuit Court ruled that a wallet found under a bed in David Charles Morgan's apartment should not have been seized as evidence. The wallet linking Morgan to victim Francisco Hernandez, an El Salvador immigrant, was debated after a prior suppression ruling. Trial for Morgan, charged with Hernandez's Aug 30, 1995, machete killing, is set for November 7.
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