A Clarksburg man was sentenced to 12 months in prison and lifetime sex offender registration after being convicted of a third-degree sex offense for groping a woman during a 2021 college graduation event. (more…)


An adult male suspect was arrested after assaulting a truck driver with a box cutter, smashing the vehicle’s window, and attempting to steal the truck outside the Aspen Hill Giant; the victim sustained minor injuries and escaped.

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A Montgomery County police officer and another driver sustained serious but non-life-threatening injuries in a two-vehicle collision on December 20, 2024, near Snouffer School Road and Flower Hill Way, with the officer rescued from a burning police cruiser. (more…)


The Montgomery County Police Department (MCPD) has arrested two men for stealing used cooking oil from two downtown Silver Spring restaurants using a siphon and tanks. Restaurants sell used cooking oil for biodiesel production, and one victim reported losing approximately 20,000 pounds of oil recently, valued at over $2.38 per pound. (more…)


Marion Pearson, 67, of Durham, NC, was sentenced to 40 years in prison, suspending all but 17 years, for second-degree rape and sexual offense charges stemming from attacks in 1981, and will serve two years of supervised probation and register as a lifetime sex offender.

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The Montgomery County Police Department (MCPD) will conduct a sobriety checkpoint at an undisclosed location on Saturday, December 21, 2024, starting at 10 p.m., focusing on enforcing impaired driving laws. The locations of checkpoints are selected based on statistics based on impaired driving arrests. (more…)


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