Police/Crime/Fire

Traffic was backed up and some lanes blocked for much of the morning and early afternoon along I495 between MacArthur Boulevard and River Road when the driver of a truck… Read More

Updated July 22 at 12 p.m. Montgomery County Police identified the driver of a brown 2018 Indian Scout motorcycle as Ian Capps. Capps was pronounced dead at the scene. —————————————-… Read More

Montgomery County Police arrested and charged Efrain Diaz Romero, of Silver Spring, with the death of 42-year-old Candido Noe Rojas Rojas, as a result of a fatal hit-and-run collision on… Read More

Police said officers successfully stopped an illegal car meet-up involving exhibition driving Saturday in Burtonsville. Officers responded to the Sandy Spring Road area where they found a large group of… Read More

A third co-defendant has been sentenced in a 2022 fatal shooting in Germantown, according to the Montgomery County State’s Attorney’s Office (MCSAO). Daylon Miller, 19, of Germantown, was sentenced Thursday… Read More

Sorie Mansaray, 20, was sentenced to 12 years in prison on Wednesday after being convicted of attempted second-degree murder and first-degree assault. Mansaray, of Boyds, was convicted by a jury… Read More

Zhenyong Weng, of Brooklyn, NY, has been arrested for allegedly targeting an 82-year-old Silver Spring woman through a government-imposter-related gold bar scam. According to court documents, Barbara Lampe fell victim… Read More

A car struck Davis Library in Bethesda on Tuesday afternoon, causing a gas leak. The leak, which occurred after the car struck a gas main on the outside of the… Read More

Seis autos resultaron dañados durante un incendio en el quinto piso de un estacionamiento, en Ellsworth Drive en Silver Spring, el lunes. El incendio fue accidental, según el Servicio de… Read More

Fire and rescue personnel responded to an attic fire Monday after lightning struck a home in the 14800 block of Braemar Crescent Way, Darnestown. The fire broke out around 5… Read More

Six cars were damaged during a fire on the fifth floor of a county parking garage on Ellsworth Drive in Silver Spring Monday. The fire was ruled accidental, according to… Read More

Detectives del Departamento de Policía del Condado de Montgomery investigan una colisión fatal que ocurrió el sábado 13 de julio. Según el comunicado de la policía, aproximadamente a las 5… Read More