The Montgomery County Police Department (MCPD) responded to a shooting overnight in Montgomery Village. (more…)
Crime
Donald Amechi C. Igwebuike Jr., 23, of Silver Spring, and Dawda Kairaba Jawara, 25, of Columbia, were arrested on May 29 after Anne Arundel County Police recovered two loaded handguns, drugs, and over $2,000 during a traffic stop on Fort Smallwood Road. (more…)
Torrey Damien Moore, 34, of Silver Spring, was sentenced in Montgomery County Circuit Court to three consecutive life terms and an additional 80 years in prison following two separate murder convictions. He was found guilty in the 2022 shooting deaths of a gas station employee and his pregnant girlfriend, marking the County’s first conviction for the murder of a viable fetus. (more…)
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland unsealed two indictments charging a South Carolina man with defrauding Medicare out of over $5 million through a COVID-19 laboratory testing scheme and defrauding customers of his private jet company out of approximately $15 million. (more…)
The Montgomery County Police Department (MCPD) has charged a Washington, D.C. man with second-degree murder in connection to a fatal stabbing that occurred during a May 15 altercation in White Oak; the suspect was arrested in D.C. and is awaiting extradition. (more…)
Chief Antonio DeVaul from the Takoma Park Police Department has announced the arrest of Amilcar Seliano Ramos Mejia, 32, of Takoma Park, Maryland, for 2nd Degree Assault.
During a traffic stop in the Briggs Chaney/Castle Boulevard area of Silver Spring, MCPD’s 3rd District Community Action Team arrested a driver with an active warrant and recovered a stolen loaded handgun, while a passenger was also arrested after an AR-style pistol with 30-round magazines was found.
HBO Max’s series Toxic will feature the tragic Montgomery County, MD case of 25-year-old Sarah Harris, whose boyfriend, Dr. James Ryan– a 50-year-old oral surgeon in Germantown– was convicted of second-degree depraved heart murder and involuntary manslaughter in connection with her death.
The Montgomery County Police Department (MCPD) responded to an armed robbery on Wednesday evening in Gaithersburg in which an adult male was shot and transported to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries (more…)
The Montgomery County Police Department (MCPD) recovered two illegally possessed loaded handguns in separate incidents in Silver Spring and Briggs Chaney, arresting individuals during a trespassing investigation and a traffic stop.
In the Montgomery County Circuit Court in Maryland, Judge Jill Cummins sentenced defendant Alex Ye to ten years in prison for threatening to “shoot up” Wootton High School in Rockville in 2024. All but 12 months of the sentence were suspended, and upon release, Ye is to serve five years of supervised probation.