Maryland
Bodycam video shows bar arrest of migrant accused in murder, rape of Maryland mom Rachel Morin
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Newly released body camera footage captured the arrest of the illegal migrant accused of killing Maryland mom Rachel Morin.
In footage released by the Tulsa Police Department and obtained by FOX 5, officers encounter Victor Martinez Hernandez at a bar in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
His arrest came 10 months into an intense nationwide manhunt.
The mother of five, whose children range in age from 8 to 18, was raped before being murdered in August while jogging on the Ma & Pa Trail in Harford County, Maryland.
In the footage, officers arrive at a bar where Martinez Hernandez was sitting.
After the initial encounter, he complied when taken outside the bar, and police began asking him for his identification.
Martinez Hernandez told the officers he didn’t have an ID and provided a fake name.
“You live in El Salvador?” one officer is heard asking.
The migrant’s identity was revealed, and officers snapped pictures to circulate the long-awaited capture of Morin’s suspected killer.
In a press conference, Harford County Sheriff Jeffrey Gahler said Victor Martinez Hernandez was arrested in Tulsa and booked.
“Five hours after meeting with [Morin’s] family and just before midnight our time, police in Tulsa, Oklahoma, assisted by our federal partners, located and arrested Rachel’s murderer: Victor Antonio Martinez Hernandez,” Gahler said.
He was charged with first-degree murder and first-degree rape.
The 23-year-old migrant illegally crossed into the United States in February 2023, police announced.
“We all suspected that Rachel was not his first victim,” Gahler said. “It is my understanding that this suspect, this monster, fled to the United States illegally after committing the brutal murder of a young woman in El Salvador a month earlier, in January of 2023.”
Gahler said the first DNA match for Martinez Hernandez was from a Los Angeles attack in March 2023.
“Once in our country, and likely emboldened by his anonymity, he brutally attacked a 9-year-old girl and her mother during a home invasion in March of 2023 in Los Angeles,” Gahler said. “And as everyone I believe is aware, that was our first DNA match linking Rachel’s case to the one in Los Angeles.”
The sheriff turned his attention to the crisis at the Southern border, directing his remarks to the White House and to “both members of Congress.”
“We are 1,800 miles of the southern border,” Gahler said. “And American citizens are not safe because of their failed immigration policies.”
“This is the second time in two years that an innocent Harford County woman has lost her life to a criminal in our country illegally,” he said. “In both cases, they are suspects from El Salvador with ties to criminal gangs. This should not be happening.
“Victor Hernandez did not come to this country to make a better life for him or his family. He came here to escape the crimes he committed in El Salvador. He came here to murder Rachel and, God willing, no one else. But that should have never been allowed to happen.”
Rachel Morin murder
Morin, 37, was reported missing in August 2023 by her boyfriend, who said she never returned after going out for a run on the Ma & Pa Trail, a pedestrian trail in Bel Air, a quiet and typically safe town about 28 miles northeast of Baltimore, Aug. 5, 2023.
Her body was found on a trail the next day.
In February, police released new sketches of Martinez Hernandez.
The sketches came after DNA evidence linked Martinez Hernandez to the location of a Los Angeles home invasion.
Police used the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS), which led them to a single DNA match for an unidentified Hispanic male.
The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) collected a hat left behind at the site of the March 2023 home invasion that turned violent, leaving multiple people, including minor children, injured.
The suspect allegedly broke into the home in the middle of the night and assaulted the family inside before he was chased out. Surveillance video footage captured the man leaving, shirtless, through the front door.
“I’m going to make this short because I’m very emotional,” Rachel’s mother, Patricia Morin, said. “I just want to take this time to thank all the law enforcement for all their hard work.
“They just really cared for our family and for our daughter,” she said. “They were going to diligently work and find the person who murdered her.”
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Maryland
“Best Sandwich Shop in Maryland” Offers High End Sandwiches With In-House Roasted Meats and Homemade Sauces – The MoCo Show
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Business Insider recently published a list of the best sandwich shops in every state according to Yelp, and Full On Craft Eats & Drinks was named the best in Maryland. Michelle Houser Harris, co-owner, chef, and manager at Full On Craft was a contestant on season 14 of the Fox reality show Hell’s Kitchen back in 2015.
Yelp is a popular crowd-sourced review website. The article explains, “To find the best sandwich shop in every state, Yelp identified businesses in its ‘sandwiches’ category and ranked them using various factors, including the volume of reviews and their ratings.”
Although the article highlights the Full On location at 2478-A Solomons Island Rd in Annapolis, the original location, with the same menu and recipes, is located at 4007 Norbeck Rd in Rockville. Full On features high end sandwiches made with in-house roasted meats and homemade sauces, as well as a rotating selection of regional beer and wine.
About Full On: “By definition, the term ‘Full On’ means “to hold nothing back” and we are serious when it comes to making craft sandwiches. We are also passionate about craft beer and wine. We feel that nothing in life is worth doing halfway. High quality food and drinks in a comfortable and relaxing environment is what we do.
At FULL ON, everything that goes into our food is made in our own kitchen. You won’t find preservatives, stabilizers or chemicals here. We braise, season, marinate, rub and roast our own meats. Each of our sandwiches are hand-sliced or carved to order and served hot. All sauces, dressings, sides and desserts are created here also. We believe that scratch cooking using high quality ingredients is what will set us apart, and we hope you will enjoy.”
Maryland
Breakfast links: Developer scales up housing plans thanks to new Maryland law
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Maryland
Comedian Iliza Shlesinger visits Maryland to ‘Get Ready’ for next standup special – WTOP News
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Comedian Iliza Shlesinger cracks up The Hall at Live! Casino & Hotel in Arundel Mills, Maryland, on Friday with her new “Get Ready” tour.
WTOP’s Jason Fraley previews Iliza Shlesinger at Live! Casino in Maryland (Part 1)
Marylanders will soon have a chance to see one of the funniest standup comedians working today.
Iliza Shlesinger cracks up The Hall at Live! Casino & Hotel in Arundel Mills, Maryland, on Friday.
“This is the ‘Get Ready Tour,’ you guys are getting ready with me because I’m shooting my brand new special with Amazon, it’ll be my seventh hour in November in Salt Lake City,” Shlesinger told WTOP. “I’m polishing that hour and I’m also capitalizing on those ‘get ready with me’ videos that people like to make online like, ‘Get ready with me while I journal, have a green juice and lie about everything.’ It’s girly, it’s fun and that’s the special.”
Born in New York City in 1983, She mostly grew up in Dallas, Texas, before studying film at Emerson College in Boston, where she joined sketch-comedy groups on campus. Shlesinger then moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in standup comedy, gaining national notoriety after winning the sixth season of NBC reality competition “Last Comic Standing” (2008).
From there, she began cranking out a string of Netflix standup specials, including “War Paint” (2013), “Freezing Hot” (2015), “Confirmed Kills” (2016) and “Elder Millennial” (2018), which explored the vastly different life experiences of those on opposite ends of a generation defined as being born between 1981 and 1996.
“Comedy is about bringing people together by pointing out the differences,” Shlesinger said. “Elder millennials are where you’re not Generation X but you’re also not a younger millennial, so I wanted to point out, ‘While I’m not one of you, I am an elder, so I do have the life advice and I do remember things that people younger than me may not have a context for.’ All any generation wants is to leave their mark and get an apology from the one before.”
Now, she’s ushering in a new generation by parenting alongside her chef husband Noah Galuten. Their 2018 marriage was the subject of her fifth Netflix standup special “Unveiled” (2019), while her sixth and most recent Netflix special “Hot Forever” (2022) dropped before the birth of her two children in 2022 and 2024.
“I took a step back to actually give birth to a child, which I know we like to fault women for doing that, but you know, I’m doing my best,” Shlesinger said.
Elsewhere on TV, Shlesinger has hosted the game shows “Excused” (2011) and “Separation Anxiety” (2016), the late-night talk show “Truth & Iliza” (2017), the sketch-comedy series “The Iliza Shlesinger Sketch Show” (2020) and the stand-up comedy series “Iliza’s Locals” (2023), highlighting the best rising standup comedians.
“I’m always trying to create things from an honest and funny place and flex different muscles,” Shlesinger said.
She even transitioned into movies, starring with Mark Wahlberg and Rose Byrne in “Instant Family” (2018) and Wahlberg again in “Spenser Confidential” (2020), before writing and starring in her own rom-com “Good on Paper” (2021). Her most acclaimed film remains the indie drama “Pieces of a Woman” (2020), playing the sister of Vanessa Kirby, who earned an Oscar nomination and won best actress at the Venice International Film Festival.
“It’s always great to go to a set where you are the least experienced person; all you have to do is shut your mouth, watch other people and let them make you better,” Shlesinger said. “If you’re doing standup, it’s all me, I do everything; but when you go on set with people like Vanessa or Ellen Burstyn, it’s an absolute chance to get to learn something. As an actor, I want to be around people who are better than me. Standup is such a solo sport.”
WTOP’s Jason Fraley previews Iliza Shlesinger at Live! Casino in Maryland (Part 2)
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