A Virginia landlord has been sentenced to 17 years in prison for a series of heinous crimes against his Black tenants, ...

A Virginia landlord who owned more than 60 properties, many of which were in poor condition, was sentenced to nearly two ...

David Merryman, 59, owns dozens of rental properties across Hampton and Newport News. In a sentencing hearing Wednesday, ...

A slumlord who took advantage of Black renters in Hampton Roads was sentenced to 17 years in prison for wire fraud.

his is the first case with criminal charges brought against a landlord for knowingly not keeping the property up to safe and ...

David L. Merryman, 59, owned dozens of rental properties in Hampton and Newport News, many in poor condition and located in low-income neighborhoods. From 2019 to January 2024, Merryman defrauded ...

David Lee Merryman, 59 — who owns more than 60 residential properties in Newport News and Hampton — was charged in January in ...

A landlord with dozens of rental properties on the Peninsula was sentenced to 17 years in prison Wednesday for racially harassing and evicting tenants.

A Hampton landlord was sentenced Wednesday to 17 years in prison for wire fraud, aggravated identity theft and race-based ...

Jackson exceeded by three years the sentence federal prosecutors had sought against David Lee Merryman, who owned 65 residential properties in Newport News and Hampton. The terms of a July plea ...