Well see what happens in the next couple weeks. Thank you. He could have spent 24 years in federal prison, but today Linwood Barnhill got seven years in prison for prostituting teens and possession of child porn. Bruce leshan has a look at why. Reporter former d. C. CopLinwood Barnhill pleaded guilty to horrible crimes, prostituting 15, 16, 17year old girls from his southeast apartment and possession of a video of the 17yearold performing oral sex on him, but to save the girls from having to publicly testify against him, prosecutors agreed to a deal that will have him spend just seven years in prison. Thats at least two years less than federal sentencing guidelines. This enables everyone to move forward and enables the witnesses to go forward, mr. Barnhill. He obviously expressed a lot of remorse from the beginning. Reporter both the prosecutor and defense attorney here in federal court told the judge the victims never knew that barnhill was a cop. That weighed into the judges reluctan
And arranging sexual encounters for two others. The victims ranged in age from 15 to 17 years old. And as part of his sentence, the former officer is required to register as a sex offender. Coming up on news4 at 5 00, the attorney for one of the victims says more Police Officers may be involved. Montgomery county police are handing out flyers today hoping it will lead to new clues in their search for a dangerous robbery suspect. A woman was nearly stabbed to death in the parking lot of the Forest Park Apartments along piney branch road in silver spring. The attack happened last week. Police say the victim was walking home when a man walked up to her and demanded money. He then knocked her to the ground and stabbed her repeatedly. A Good Samaritan witnessed the attack and called police. First at 4 00, youre about to see some newly released photos of a skimming device, the same used to steal peoples money at some maryland atms. These devices were attached to atms at six Sandy Spring Bank