On April 9, 2025, at approximately 2:00 PM, Rockville City Police Department (RCPD) officers responded to an assault and theft at the 7-Eleven located at 13251 Atlantic Avenue in the Twinbrook Community of Rockville.
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Takoma Park Police are investigating a contact shooting that occurred on Wednesday in the 6500 block of New Hampshire Avenue. Police shared that the incident is classified as a contact shooting, meaning the firearm discharged at close range and struck the victim.
Today, Nicholas John Roske, 29, of Simi Valley, California, pled guilty to attempting to kill a United States Supreme Court Justice. As part of his guilty plea, Roske admitted that on June 7, 2022, he flew from Los Angeles International Airport to Dulles International Airport with a firearm and ammunition in his checked baggage. He then took a taxi from the airport to Montgomery County, Maryland, with the intent to kill the Supreme Court Justice.
In Montgomery County Circuit Court, Judge Sharon Burrell sentenced 26-year-old Cesar Alexander Lopez of Hyattsville to ten years in prison, suspending all but five years, followed by five years of supervised probation. Lopez pleaded guilty in November 2024 to involuntary manslaughter in the death of 17-year-old Aiden Vining, who overdosed after taking pills purchased from him. (more…)
The Montgomery County Police Department (MCPD) responded to a shooting at Dick’s Sporting Goods in Wheaton on Monday night. (more…)
A Montgomery County jury found Edgard Castro-Contreras, 21, guilty on charges of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit first-degree murder for his role in a 2022 gang-related shooting that killed o20-year-old Edvin Agustin Leon and critically injured another. He faces multiple life sentences plus 40 years at his August 2025 sentencing. The case involves several co-defendants linked to the MS-13 gang, with trials and sentencing still pending for others. (more…)
The Montgomery County Police Department (MCPD has announced that the deaths of a married couple found in their Chevy Chase home have been ruled a murder-suicide.
The Montgomery County Police Department is asking for the public’s assistance in identifying three suspects involved in a residential burglary that occurred back in February.
Demonta King, 18, of Chevy Chase, MD, pleaded guilty today for carjacking a taxicab driver at knifepoint in November 2024 and robbing another victim at gunpoint when he was 16 in August 2022, announced U.S. Attorney Edward R. Martin, Jr., Chief Pamela Smith, of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
The Montgomery County Police Department (MCPD) responded to a shooting at 10:41am on Sunday in Montgomery Village.
The Montgomery County Police Department (MCPD) has announced the arrest of a 23-year-old Prince George’s County man in connection with the March 8, 2025, shooting death of 23-year-old Jonah Kimindu Mutua on Fairdale Terrace in Silver Spring. (more…)