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CELEBRATINGCELEBRATING 8787 YEARSYEARS OFOF SERVICE!SERVICE! Vol. 87, No.01• 50¢ A NEWSPAPER OF RECORD Thursday, January 10, 2019 INSIDE Mustangs Fall To Panthers Minor is charged with Redevelopment in Largo death threats toward The Prince George’s County Redevelopment Authority an- nounced $1.7 million in available three county schools funding for its Commercial Proper- ty Improvement Program (CPIP) The person continued saying and discussed the application By Jessica Ricks that they had five-to-10 crew mem- process for grants to go towards im- @jessica_ricks25 bers to help carry out that plan that provements to retail space with lo- RIVERDALE — Prince would include planting bombs in cal shopping center owners on Jan. George’s County Public Schools each school to blow it up. 3. (PGCPS) and the Prince George’s It said they will be coming on County Police Department (PGPD) the days listed at 1:00 p.m. Page 3 investigated a threat that three The message quickly circulated schools received via email on the on social media and PGCPS re- first day back from winter break of a leased a statement saying that the suspect allegedly threatening to threat did not seem credible. shoot every person in the school and “At current, the threat does not charged a 14-year-old student with seem credible,” the statement said. the crime on Jan. 2. “Providing students with a safe and The threat, addressed to orderly environment is our top prior- Bladensburg High School, Parkdale ity, and all threats are taken serious- High School and William Wirt Mid- ly. As a precaution, there will be ad- dle School, stated that the assailant ditional security at all three schools ‘Another Door would attack the schools on Jan. 2, 3 when classes resume Wednesday, and 4 and shoot every student and January 2.” Opens’ staff member. PGPD Director of Media Rela- “No one will stop me,” the mes- tions Jennifer Donelan said that the “Another Door Opens” is an sage said. “Not even the police ei- Homeland Security Division of the exceptional performance at Laurel ther they die I die, or we all die, but Prince George’s County Police De- Mill Playhouse. no one will make it out alive. I’m partment was in charge of the inves- going to have a 30 kill streak and tigation into the threats. Halfway Page 7 more it will happen, and if you can- through the day they identified a suspect and determined that the per- cel school, I’ll wait till there is PHOTO BY CHRIS THOMPKINS son did not have the means to carry school but I’m getting my revenge Bishop McNamara’s Johnathan McGriff looks to find an open teammate during a match against Paul VI on Jan. 4 in Forestville. The Mustangs fell one way, or another or I’ll just kill to the Panthers 67-52. Story on Page 20. kids on the way to school makes it easier for me.” See Threat, page 4 Fatal collision on Indian Head Highway kills three, raises safety concerns 9:40 p.m. on Indian Head Highway Mejia, all of Falls Church, Va., were “The driver of the pick-up is By Demetrius Dillard Flowers destroys (MD-210) near Wilson Bridge Dri- killed upon impact. The two adult suspected of driving under the influ- Special to The Sentinel Suitland ve in Oxon Hill. victims, the children’s parents - ence and, it appears, was moving at OXON HILL — The year end- The impact caused the victims’ Alexis and his wife Juanita - were a much higher rate of speed than the Charles H. Flowers High ed treacherously for a Virginia fam- vehicle to strike the car in front of it transported to a local hospital im- victims’ cars. Preliminarily, there is School boys basketball team com- ily after three young children were which struck another vehicle as mediately following the incident in no evidence of skid marks on the pletely dismantled Suitland by the killed and two adults were critically well, according to PGPD. The vic- critical but stable condition. scene before the point of impact score of 102-58, before an ener- injured in a fatal, multi-vehicle col- tims were said to have been in a The incident is still under in- with the vehicle carrying the family. getic crowd on Jan. 4. lision on Indian Head Highway on sedan when the speeding pickup vestigation by PGPD’s Collision The pick-up truck came to rest on the evening of Dec. 30, Prince truck slammed into them from be- Analysis Reconstruction Unit top of the rear passenger compart- Page 18 George’s County Police (PGPD) hind; the impact was so forceful, the (CARU). ment of that sedan.” said. car’s roof was ripped off, and the “While it is early in our investi- The driver of the truck, who re- The preliminary investigation truck’s front tires tore into the back gation, we know the crash occurred mains unidentified, was taken into custody at the scene for sobriety revealed that a man, whom investi- seat where the children were, police just before an intersection where the testing, officials said but was later gators suspect was intoxicated and said. family was either slowed or stopped released. was driving alone in a pickup truck , Five-year-old twins, Alexander behind two other vehicles for the rear-ended a vehicle carrying two Mejia and Rosalie Mejia, and their traffic light,” PGPD said in a state- adults and three children at around baby brother 1-year-old Isaac ment from Dec. 31. See Collision, page 4 2 THE PRINCE GEORGE’S SENTINEL JANUARY 10, 2019 OPINION The Prince George’s Sentinel, published weekly by Berlyn Inc., is a And now, a few more words about tariffs community newspaper covering Prince George’s County, Maryland. It what is referred to as the country of States by raising the price of the im- again that Mexico would pay for that is a newspaper of record. Our offices By Paul K. Schwartz are located at 9458 Lanham-Severn manufacture. From there it is export- ported good, guess what? wall, if not directly, then “indirect- Road, Suite 203, Seabrook, MD 20706. @PKSpaul Sold for 50¢ per single copy, subscrip- ed to an importing country, also re- The other country retaliates by ly.” Indirectly? tions to The Prince George’s Sentinel Let's talk about tariffs, a subject ferred to as the country of final desti- making it more difficult for U.S. My guess is, once again, that by can be obtained at these rates: $31.50 per year, $26.20 for senior citizens. of which the current president of the nation. For our purposes, we are producers to sell their goods in that indirectly he is thinking tariffs. Higher rates apply outside MD/VA/DC. United States demonstrates time and concerned with imports entering country. What we now have has all Maybe he is thinking that the “New (ISSN 1041-262x, USPS 444-840) time again that he has no basic un- into the United States upon which of the makings of a trade war, some- NAFTA,” or the United States Mex- derstanding of. tariffs, or import duties, will be due. thing that Senior Economic Adviser ico Canada Agreement (USMCA), Bernard Kapiloff At times, that journey can take a Larry Kudlow denies every time I as he likes to call it, will result in fi- PUBLISHER EMERITUS rather circuitous route and enter into ask him if we have entered into a nancial benefit to the United States Lynn G. Kapiloff the commerce of other countries be- trade war yet. through tariffs on Mexican made Paul’s View CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER/ fore reaching the United States, but The evidence of a trade war goods entering the United States that PUBLISHER by for our purposes, the key factor is started with the imposition of tariffs he can claim can be used to pay for [email protected] who ultimately pays the tariff once by the United States, however, can- that wall. Paul Schwartz the merchandise enters into the com- not really be denied or ignored. As a There are a couple of problems Mark Kapiloff merce of the United States. matter of fact, the more than $12 bil- with this line of thinking. First of all, ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER The answer to that question is lion needed to bail out U.S. farmers, that is not how the appropriations [email protected] Tariffs are, in effect, a tax on you, the ultimate consumer of the especially those who raise and ex- process works. Even if the new trade imported merchandise. When it is imported product. port soybeans, is clear evidence of agreement with Mexico and Canada determined that it is in the best inter- Accordingly, when the presi- the dire effects of the trade war in did generate, somehow, revenue for EDITORIAL ests of the United States, for whatev- dent claims that the tariffs on Chi- which we currently find ourselves. the United States, that money would er reason, to in effect, raise the price nese merchandise are resulting in Who will pay for that $12 bil- go into the general fund from which Daniel Kucin Jr. of a particular good from a particular our “coffers being filled,” it is entire- lion bailout? Not Mexico. It will be it would have to be appropriated by EXECUTIVE EDITOR country as it is being imported into ly possible that he is technically cor- the American taxpayer, so you can Congress for specific programs and [email protected] the United States, a tariff can be rect.