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according to federal prosecutors. Kenneth Wayne Hart, also known as “Big Daddy,” was convicted Thursday after a seven-day trial in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt, federal prosecutors said. Hart, who lives in Beltsville i n Prince George’s County, was found guilty of possession with intent to distribute drugs and witness tampering. He was also found guilty of conspiracy to engage in sex trafficking along with sex trafficking by force, fraud and coercion. The U.S. attorney’s office for the District of maryland said that f rom December 2016 through April 2017, Hart and a co-conspirator ran a prostitution business that recruited women to engage in sex acts. Prosecutors said Hart supplied the women with heroin and crack cocaine and threatened to withhold drugs “if the victims displayed any sign of disobedience or tried to leave the locations where the commercial sex acts occurred.” Hart is to be sentenced July 8. —Peter Hermann

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Hearing delayed in slave plaque removal

A court hearing for a man accused of removing a plaque that marks where slave auctions were held in the Virginia city of Charlottesville has been rescheduled for June. The Daily Progress reports that the hearing was originally scheduled for Thursday. Police say that richard H. Allan, III, 75, admitted to taking the historical marker in the city where a deadly white nationalist rally was held in 2017. Allan told multiple news outlets that he removed the plaque because he believed it was insulting to enslaved Africans and their descendants. Allan told The Post he removed the marker with a crowbar and threw it into the James river. Allan was charged with felony grand larceny and felony possession of burglarious tools, police said in the news release. He was being held in jail until a bail review hearing. —Associated Press

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Man sentenced for disabilities fraud

A florida nursing school president was sentenced to one month in prison for his role in a scheme that defrauded the D.C. Department of Disability Services of over $800,000 in rehabilitation benefits, U.S. prosecutors announced. Cleophat Ta nis, 52, of Naples, fla., was also sentenced to seven months of home detention, ordered to pay $47,895 in restitution and fined $10,000 after pleading guilty Dec. 19 to one count of mail fraud Dec. 19. T anis’s co-conspirator and the scam’s ringleader, former District government employee Eugenia rapp, 50, of Woodbridge, Va., pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit mail fraud in July 2019 and will be sentenced on April 1, court records show. rapp worked as a vocational rehabilitation counselor with the disability agency, which provides benefits like college tuition to help prepare qualified recipients for work, court filings said. Despite conflict of interest rules, rapp approved more than $834,000 in benefits to relatives and friends from 2012 through 2016, court filings said. When one of rapp’s recipients wanted to attend Ta nis’s nursing school, rapp helped Ta nis become an approved District vendor, records showed. In the process, Ta nis asked rapp to have $47,895 in benefits awarded to five students at his school, even though they were ineligible, according to Ta nis’s plea. T anis provided one of rapp’s relatives with a full scholarship, as well as money at rapp’s request, plea documents showed. —Spencer S. Hsu

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ever they could get their hands on. “I went to Costco last night and people were fighting over things,” Johnson said. “I tried to get one onion last night and couldn’t g et a single one. This is the first time I’ve been able to get bananas.” Similar scenes left Hrubala feeling distraught. “Yesterday was dire for me. I left this store actually in tears,” said Hrubala, who also had seen people at their worst in the past few days. “It just felt so strange for shelves to be empty and people fighting over f ood,” s he said. “ Peo- ple were grabbing food out of people’s hands at the frozen sec- tion.” The Giant Co., which operates 186 stores in maryland, Virginia and other states, reported over- whelming demand for many household staples, including cleaning supplies. “We are focused on getting back in stock as soon as possible,” G iant spokeswoman Ashley flower said in an email. “We apologize to our customers for this inconve- nience.” Shortages hit Hrubala, who was at Trader Joe’s buying for friends and for her dog. But the dog — thanks to a run on ground beef — might have to cope with a change in diet. “I’m trying to keep a level head,” Hrubala said. “Personally, I don’t think there’s this much need for panic.” [email protected] [email protected]

hem,” Hrubala, 50, said. “It’s cra- zy.” “I didn’t stock up beforehand, and that clearly was a mistake,” Johnson, 24, said. “Now that ev- eryone else has panicked, well,... we have to panic.” Johnson, who recently opened the Hollows cof- fee shop in Adams morgan, and Hrubala, chief of staff for a business in Alexandria, said they have witnessed consumer mayhem in some stores. flowers strewn on the ground, people gobbling d own food in the stores without buying it, battling outside for parking spots and battling inside for what-

and breathe. That’s a lot of expo- sure.” Cox said this panic-buying spree seemed different from oth- ers. “I just think people are really afraid,” she said. “This is some- thing w e’ve never experienced be- fore.... It’s s cary.” ruth Hrubala and Kyle John- son became friends while waiting on line friday afternoon at the Trader Joe’s on 14th Street NW. The line — five hairpin turns around the s helves, some of which were cleaned out — t ook maybe an hour to get through. “We’re making fun of this may-

they might need and some — trig-
gered by the sight of empty
shelves and dairy cases — admit-
ted buying stuff they might not
need at all. The new pandemic-
driven shopping calculus meant
skipping fresh produce and in-
stead grabbing canned goods,
items from the freezer case and
other nonperishable items. To ilet
paper v anished from local grocery
stores and appeared to be in short
supply online, too.
“I just got the l ast bag o f flour a t
Safeway,” Tara mullin, 29, a data
analyst for a nonprofit organiza-
tion, said as she left the store in
the District. She said she planned
to follow t hrough on plans to cele-
brate St. Patrick’s Day with a batch
of cookies.
The number of reported cases
of the coronavirus in the region
hovered around 59 friday eve-
ning, according to a Washington
Post analysis. reported cases in
Virginia nearly doubled over-
night, rising to 30. maryland has
reported 18 cases, a nd the District
has reported 11 cases.
Concerns over the spread of
virus have led many jurisdictions
to cancel e vents where large num-
bers of people might gather. Busi-
nesses have asked employees to
work from home. Schools have
closed, some for up to a month.
And universities have sent stu-
dents home, unsure of when they
might be able to return. The sense
of unease and the realization that
some people might be stuck in
their h omes for at l east a couple of
weeks had many flocking to
stores, h oping to get cleaning sup-
plies and any nonperishable f oods
they could f ind.
The scene at Costco, on South
Dakota Avenue in the District,
was chaotic. motorists bickered
and jockeyed for empty parking
spots as car alarms wailed and
shopping carts rattled by. Lines of
people snaked out the door and
down the side of the building,
including a woman with a 2-year-
old who swabbed her shopping
cart with Lysol disinfectant. for a
time, the store was so crowded
that entry was temporarily halted.
Shoppers on the way out pushed
carts laden with food, booze and
bleach. To m Cox of Brookland said
vodka was a good hand sanitizer,
after all.
Jacalyn Cox, 68, a yoga teacher
from Brookland, said all the wait-
ing in line among all those people
added to her stress.
“I wish I hadn’t been in there,”
said Cox, who was pushing a heavy
cart loaded with pasta, paper t ow-
els and dog food into the parking
lot. “I couldn’t wait to get outside

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Quarantine fears trigger run on groceries, supplies

pHotos by mICHael s. WIllIamson/tHe WasHIngton post Godfrey Cheumaga buys mostly cleaning supplies, not staples, for his business at the Costco store in Northeast Washington. the store was busy Friday and eventually ran out of some household items.

shoppers intending to stock up wait in line outside the Costco, where e ntry was stopped at one point by the fire marshal.

BY MARTIN WEIL

In t he District, friday was a day
that won acclaim at the very
highest levels of government for
its environmental qualities.
Shortly after emerging from
the White House for his after-
noon news conference, President

Trump stood at a lectern and observed that it was a “beautiful day in the rose Garden.” Little elaboration seemed to ensue, but was any needed? After all, could controversy be caused by such a remark on a mid-march afternoon when the District’s temperature had attained its

highest point of 2020, 77 d egrees? magnolias flowered in pink and white, the celebrated cherry blossoms appeared to be but a week from full bloom, and the thermometer reading was 22 degrees above normal. That was three degrees warm- er than the year’s previous high,

the 74 degrees reached on mon- day. It was breezy, and a bit cloudy, but it was bright enough. So it might have been said that if it was necessary to declare a national emergency, friday was, meteorologically speaking, a nice day for it. [email protected]

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Meteorologically s peaking, Trump says, Friday was a ‘beautiful day’

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