Ex-Va. Tech student from Laurel gets 40-year term

A former Virginia Tech student from Laurel who helped dump the body of a slain 13-year-old girl has been sentenced to 40 years in prison. Natalie Keepers, 21, was convicted in September of being an accessory before the fact in the 2016 death of Nicole Lovell. Keepers’ friend, David Eisenhauer, 21, of Columbia, pleaded no contest to first-degree murder and is serving a 50-year sentence. Judge Robert Turk followed the jury’s recommendation on Tuesday in sentencing Keepers. The Roanoke Times reported that Keepers declined to say anything when given the opportunity before she was sentenced. Keepers and Eisenhauer were freshman engineering students at Virginia Tech, while Lovell was a Blacksburg middle school student. Prosecutors said Eisenhauer met Lovell online and later killed her because he feared she would expose their relationship. on the same road. Police have also battled against alleged prostitution and human trafficking rings based around the Linthicum airport and north county, with a number of arrests seemingly centered around New York state. A New York man was charged in February with human trafficking after detectives allegedly made contact with two women advertising prostitution on the internet. In January, a woman from Brooklyn, N.Y., was one of two arrested after police investigated a massage parlor in Glen Burnie. It was the third parlor in Glen Burnie with employees or owners from New York who were charged with prostitution.