Man arrested, charged with fatal Landover stabbing

By Rick Massimo
May 31, 2021 | 1:43 PM

A District Heights, Maryland, man has been arrested and charged with stabbing a Landover man to death last week.

Prince George’s County police said Monday that Anthony Gantt Jr., 33, of Addison Road South, District Heights, was arrested and charged in the death of Michael Lee Braxton, 36, of Landover.

Police said Braxton turned up at a hospital at about 11 a.m. May 26 with a stab wound and died a few hours later. They said he was stabbed on Martin Luther King Jr. Highway, about a mile from FedEx Field.

According to authorities, Gantt and Braxton knew each other, and the stabbing with the result of a dispute.

Gantt is charged with first- and second-degree murder and other related charges. He’s being held without bond.

The police are asking anyone with more information on this case to call them at 301-516-2512. If you want to remain anonymous, you can call Crime Solvers at 1-866-411-TIPS (8477), go online at pgcrimesolvers.com, or use the “P3 Tips” mobile app.

Fentanyl seizures plummet as Trump administration shifts focus to immigration

By Maryland Matters
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WASHINGTON — Fentanyl seizures decreased by 39% during the first year of the second Trump administration after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement shifted the Department of Homeland Security’s criminal investigations arm to conducting immigration enforcement, according to a report government investigators published Friday. Agents with Homeland Security Investigations, a subagency of DHS’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement, reported an “all hands-on deck” environment toward immigration enforcement began in January 2025, according to the DHS Office of Inspector General report. “With ICE dedicating more staff hours to immigration investigations, staffing hours for fentanyl investigations declined,” the report said. The report found that the hours dedicated to fentanyl investigations for fiscal 2025 declined by more than 250,000 hours, or 31%, compared to fiscal 2024.

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