MARYLAND BRIEFING
MARYLAND BRIEFING
Man might have tried to commit several attacks.
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CHARLES COUNTY
Tree-Killing Bug Makes an Entrance
The emerald ash borer, an Asian beetle species that can devastate ash trees, has been detected in Charles County for the first time, Maryland authorities said this week.
The ash borer, whose larvae kill trees by tunneling in crucial tissues under the bark, was brought to Prince George's County in 2003 in an illegal shipment of infected trees from Michigan. This summer, the metallic-green insects have also been found in Fairfax County.
In Maryland, officials cut down thousands of ash trees around the site of the ash borer's first appearance. But on Aug. 15, state workers found one of the beetles in Charles, just over the border with Prince George's. That was about two miles beyond the "eradication zone" in which state officials were seeking to contain the beetle.
As a result, officials imposed a firewood "quarantine" in the area, banning anyone from removing ash trees or any type of firewood from Prince George's and Charles.
-- David A. Fahrenthold
Lengthy Term for Man in Bank Heist
A Prince George's County man was convicted and sentenced to 295 years in prison Thursday for last year's armed robbery of a Waldorf bank.
Nicholas A. Goolsby, 27, of Landover had been accused of robbing the Wachovia Bank branch May 7, 2007. Goolsby was linked to the crime after police found saliva in the getaway van, which had been abandoned in a nearby neighborhood. A DNA sample taken from that saliva matched a sample of Goolsby's in a federal database.
William Renahan, Goolsby's defense attorney, said yesterday that he will appeal the case because Goolsby's DNA was in the federal database by mistake and should not have been used as evidence.
