In the early hours of the morning, a resident in the Bethesda area alerted authorities to a potentially dangerous situation unfolding in their neighborhood. While many were settling in for the night, the midnight shift officers received a call about a suspicious individual attempting to break a window at a local business. This timely tip-off would soon lead to a series of events culminating in the arrest of the suspect, according to a social media post by District 2 Commander Amy Daum of the Montgomery County Police Department (MCPD).

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The Montgomery County Police Department (MCPD) announced it has arrested an FBI Special Agent accused of sexually assaulting two adult women. Detectives from the Special Victims Investigations Division will hold a news conference on November 26, 2024, at 11 a.m. at police headquarters in Gaithersburg to encourage any additional victims to come forward. (more…)


The Montgomery County Police Department (MCPD) has arrested 35-year-old Dori Campbell of Silver Spring on charges, including negligent manslaughter and driving under the influence, following a September 8 collision that killed 39-year-old WSSC employee Ernest Dyson while he was working near New Hampshire Avenue and Rodney Road. (more…)


A recent episode of the Oxygen television show Accident, Suicide or Murder takes a look at the “brutal murder that started over an argument about a hat.” What first looked like a tragic accident on December 28th, 2013, quickly turned into a homicide investigation in Carderock– a popular rock climbing area within the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park in Montgomery County, MD.

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Prince William County police arrested Elias Samuel Vargas Canaviri, 22, of Silver Spring, MD, on charges of indecent liberties, carnal knowledge, and using a communication system to facilitate offenses involving a minor, following an investigation into a sexual assault reported by the victim to a school counselor. (more…)


A Montgomery County, MD man and former Montgomery County Police officer, 25-year-old Justin Lee, was sentenced to prison Friday after he was previously convicted of forcibly obstructing law enforcement and other charges related to his conduct during the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol.

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The Office of the Montgomery County State’s Attorney today shared that “in the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, MD, before Judge Rachel McGuckian, a jury convicted defendant, Torrey Damien Moore, 33, of Silver Spring, on two counts of first-degree murder for the shooting death of his girlfriend, Denise Middleton, and for the death of her unborn, viable fetus.

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The Montgomery County Police Department (MCPD) has arrested 23-year-old Brooklyn man for allegedly scamming a 75-year-old couple out of over $400,000 through a government-imposter gold bar scheme, with his arrest made possible through collaboration with the FBI and NYPD. (more…)


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