- Matt Zapotosky
- Reporter
Matt Zapotosky covers law enforcement in Prince George’s County. In about two years on the job, he has broken stories about a cheating scandal in the police academy and a narcotics detective selling guns on the street. Most recently, he chronicled the human toll of an inexplicable spate of murders, and he explored the inner workings of an auto theft ring that was shipping stolen cars to Africa. Before coming to Prince George’s, Zapotosky worked in The Post’s Southern Maryland Bureau, where he was most well known for his reporting on a Calvert County woman who killed her two children and stored their bodies in a freezer. Zapotosky is a graduate of Ohio University and resident of Northwest D.C.
- Administrator of Prince George’s charity accused of theft
- Clinton man killed in crash
- Plagued by gun crime, Prince George’s considers making offenders register
- Fairfax police shoot, wound Mount Vernon man in confrontation
- Waldorf man burned igniting 270-gallon barrel converted to BBQ grill
- Two pedestrians critically hurt in Prince George’s County incidents
- Using live video from phones, U-Md. plans to offer virtual safety escorts to students
- Prosecution continues in Roger Clemens trial
- Maryland driver guilty in crash that killed bicyclist
- 16 Prince George’s nightclub owners, operators charged in tax crackdown
- Man sought in District Heights domestic slaying
- Owners, managers of seven Pr. George’s night clubs indicted in broad tax and licensing crackdown
- Rape suspect ordered held without bond
- Hyattsville man charged in 2 sexual assaults
- Three charged in connection with robbery spree
- Md. high court will not reverse DNA ruling; state officials plan Supreme Court challenge
- Bowie woman killed in early morning crash
- Child injured in fall in Rockville
- Men wanted in six weekend robberies
- Pair accused of pocketing, reselling $20K in perfume, cosmetics
- Cyril Williams sentenced to life without parole for killing Md. Trooper Wesley Brown
- Maryland trooper’s killer could face life in prison
- Motorcyclist killed in crash sparked by buzzard
- Twelve Pr. George’s students suffer minor injuries in school bus crash
- Guilty plea for Kevin Britton in international car theft ring
- Rape suspect arrested at BWI
- Mount Rainier-Hyattsville area shaken by attacks, rapes on or near trails
- College Park bouncer charged with assault
- Gansler asks Maryland high court to overturn or suspend DNA swab ruling
- Maryland AG appeals DNA ruling
- District Heights man convicted of killing drug dealer
- Md. high court bans DNA swabs of charged suspects; police, prosecutors seek appeal
- District Heights man charged with stabbing pregnant girlfriend
- Prince George’s officer suspended during probe
- District Heights man charged in death of pregnant girlfriend
- Redskins safety Brandon Meriweather is arrested on drunk driving charges
- Redskins safety arrested for DUI
- U-Md. student’s killer sentenced to 49 years after family’s tearful testimony
- Teen charged in 2011 slaying fatally shot in District Heights
- Five killed in Oxon Hill home by apparent carbon monoxide poisoning
- 5 die from apparent carbon monoxide poisoning
- Defendant in activist’s death charged in 2 other killings
- Bowie State student charged with killing roommate released on $250,000 bond, ordered to stay home
- Student stabbed in fight at Pr. George’s high school
- Police ID woman found slain in apartment
- Six Prince George’s neighborhoods targeted for crime reductions, economic and other gains
- Woman found dead in Temple Hills apartment
- Car crashes into popular Lanham seafood restaurant
- Teen pleads guilty to killing 92-year-old neighbor
- Body found in Potomac River
- Dramatic rescue for worker caught in machine at Laurel mulch plant
- Police ID 6-year-old who accidentally shot himself
- Bank robbery suspect caught after apparent suicide attempt
- Charges filed in Prince George’s County concerning accidental shooting death
- Vial, ski mask recovered from man shot by police
- Charges in accidental shooting of 6-year-old boy
- Clinton 6-year-old’s accidental shooting death might lead to charges against acquaintance
- Child dies after accidentally shooting himself: police
- Annapolis teen stranded for more than 9 hours on capsized boat
- Teen rescued after more than 9 hours stranded aboard capsized sailboat
- Woman injured after golf cart rolls at Va. club
- Man shot in hand during Pr. George’s eviction
- Man arrested in Oxon Hill, charged with killing in Georgia
- Sources: Woman found dead in District Heights had broken hyoid bone
- Va. man charged anew in 2009 murder
- Two held in connection with man’s death
- Teen convicted in toddler’s shooting
- Prince George’s couple dead in apparent murder-suicide
- Pr. George’s officer charged in theft
- Police investigate fatal Beltway crash
- Pr. George’s officer charged with theft
- Md. couple found dead in apparent murder-suicide
- In Pr. George’s, 5 killed in deadly weekend
- Fire at Andrews Air Force Base destroys three townhouses, displaces residents
- Decades-old case drives up Pr. George’s homicide count
- Councilwoman going more than 100 mph on Beltway could challenge reckless driving charge: legal experts
- Riverdale man abducted, forced to withdraw cash from ATM: police
- Prince George’s shooting suspects are captured -- with a baby
- Two shot, wounded in Langley Park area: police
- Barbers charged for peddling stolen goods
- Serial arsonist sentenced to 15 years in prison for Pr. George’s fires
- Mt. Rainier officer involved in shooting, sex offense sentenced to 10 years
- Man fatally shot Wednesday in Fort Washington area
- Amid Pr. George’s casino debate, a crackdown on illegal slot machines
- Robbery suspect who threatened to nuke banks arrested in Texas
- Man stabbed, wounded in Riverdale Park
- Man shoots brother in Capitol Heights: police
- School buses involved in accident in Pr. George’s county, minor injuries reported
- Pr. George’s officer returns from Afghanistan
- Prince George’s teen indicted in case involving online messages about judge
- Philadelphia man arrested in ‘08 Pr. George’s shooting
- Pr. George’s police make arrest in January slaying
- Man sentenced in connection with teen’s 2005 slaying
- Driver in U-Md. student’s shooting sentenced to 15 years in prison
- D.C. woman killed in Temple Hills crash
- Students rob schoolmate at Flowers High School
- Toles issues another apology
- Temple Hills man sentenced in murder at barbecue
- Karen Toles, Prince George’s council member, charged with reckless driving
- Man acquitted in Bowie teen’s ‘05 murder
- Police: Officer who pulled over councilwoman did not have time to pace her
- Karen Toles, Prince George’s council member, was driving more than 100 mph on Beltway, sources say
- Md. man sentenced to 20 years in PCP conspiracy
- Nike Foamposite Galaxy shoe release canceled; one arrested at Maryland mall
- Man involved in trooper’s murder sentenced to 5 years in prison
- Man killed while repairing car
- Woman ID’d in KFC crash
- Four shot, wounded in District Heights
- Woman identified in fatal Suitland crash
- Teen killed in single-vehicle crash in Suitland; police searching for driver
- Woman killed in apparent hit-and-run in Clinton
- Man guilty of killing Maryland state trooper outside Forestville Applebee’s
- Man convicted in fatal shooting of trooper
- Defendant charged with killing Maryland trooper wanted ‘revenge,’ prosecutors say
- Killings in line of duty haunt police officers
- Pr. George’s police officer charged with DUI
- Pr. George’s police: Hundreds arrested in January enforcement effort
- Some charges dropped against Pr. George’s teen in altercation with police
- Two young men killed in Pr. George’s
- Third suspect charged as hundreds remember slain activist Lenny Harris
- 3rd man in custody in Lenny Harris slaying
- Prosecutors drop charges in Prince George’s slaying
- Pr. George’s officer fires at robbery suspect
- Anne Arundel Co. police officer tipped drug suspects to raid, police say
- 84-year-old woman assaulted, robbed inside Suitland home
- Massage parlors raided in Greenbelt
- Charges dropped against teens accused of killing Air Force vet
- Boy, 17, stabbed at Prince George’s high school, police say
- 17-year-old stabbed in gang-related fight at High Point High School
- Second arrest in Lenny Harris killing
- Suspect denied bond in Va. activist Lenny Harris’s death
- Adelphi shooting victim identified
- No bond for suspect in Lenny Harris murder
- Arrest in shooting of Lenny Harris, Alexandria community activist
- Man charged in Va. activist Lenny Harris’s death
- Alexandria activist Lenny Harris was shot to death
- Police: Alexandria community activist was shot, then dumped down well
- Mistrial in case of Pr. George’s detective accused of selling guns
- Ex-jail guard faces civil rights charges in death of inmate in 2008
- Body found in well in Pr. George’s
- Man attempts robbery inside Fort Foote Elementary
- Detective stole and sold seized guns, prosecutors say
- Woman run over by car in school parking lot
- Police search for New Carrollton home invasion suspects
- Police ID suspect in robbery of 84-year-old woman
- Authorities: Man found dead lit himself ablaze while cooking
- Police ID body found in Md. creek
- Robber uses children to trick elderly victim in Prince George’s County
- Convictions in Pr. George’s nightclub crackdown
- Man found dead in Pr. George’s
- Woman used children in robbery ruse: police
- Pr. George’s police make arrest in fatal stabbing
- Md. teen gets 85 years in beating death of Cheltenham Youth Facility teacher
- Police exploring whether Pr. George’s home invasion connected to Montgomery County incidents
- Man fatally shot by acquaintance, police say
- Body wrapped in plastic found behind dumpster in Capitol Heights
- Two teens arrested in Greenbelt rape
- Md. man charged in killings is convicted in separate series of robberies
- Craig Baxam, ex-U.S. soldier, charged with trying to aid terror group al-Shabab
- Car strikes two people in Prince George’s, driver flees: police
- Man slain in Prince George’s County
- Pr. George’s Council candidate admits spending campaign funds on gas, groceries
- Arrest in Clinton teen’s slaying
- As homicides fall in D.C., rise in Prince George’s, numbers meet in the middle
- A year later, mother of slain U-Md. student grieves in court
- 70-year-old woman beaten in Capitol Heights
- Woman raped near Greenbelt Metro
- Father who left toddler alone charged: police
- Man convicted in house party shooting
- Pr. George’s police ID officer involved in shooting
- Pr. George’s school bus driver charged with ramming trailer
- Prince George’s police shoot, kill armed man
- Police ID stabbing suspect shot and killed by Takoma Park officer
- Suspect in Md. abductions held without bond
- Man is charged in five attacks after violent robbery in Wheaton
- Man accused in Wheaton abductions, robberies
- Crash stemming from possible street race kills 72-year-old man
- Man questioned in Wheaton abductions
- Mistakenly released murder suspect taken back into custody
- CSX train derails in Hyattsville
- Two women injured in Sunday house fire have died
- Man who helped move disabled vehicle struck by SUV, killed
- Child killed in fatal fire identified
- 10 years after son disappears, a Maryland mother’s grief feels fresh
- Police: Man abducted in Wheaton, forced to withdraw cash
- Bloody night in Prince George’s includes fatal Adelphi shooting
- D.C. police investigate 11 robberies and carjackings of cabdrivers
- Pr. George’s firefighters rescue four from Bowie home
- Police identify man fatally struck by car in Home Depot parking lot
- Thieves illegally towed old cars, sold them for scrap, police say
- Alexandria man arrested in Oxon Hill stabbing
- Mishandled paperwork blamed for murder suspect’s release
- Mount Rainier police officer pleads guilty to attempted murder, sex charges in July shooting
- Moped rider in Prince George’s killed in morning crash
- Two slain in separate incidents in Pr. George’s
- Waldorf man killed in possible drunk-driving crash
- Spotsylvania man inadvertently shoots self in Giant parking lot
- Man killed in three-vehicle crash in Laurel
- Teen arrested in theft of Girl Scout money
- Prince George’s detectives investigate tip that police beat brothers
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