A man suspected of raping at least nine women in Prince George's County, many of whom he met through the popular Web site Craigslist, died after shooting himself in the head yesterday while barricaded inside a Hyattsville apartment building, Prince George's police said.
A 32-year-old Maryland man convicted of running a drug distribution ring that smuggled PCP into the region by the gallon was sentenced yesterday by a federal judge in Washington to life in prison without the possibility of release.