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Chesapeake Beach Woman Accused of Violating Peace Order, Threatening Witness

Chesapeake Beach Woman Accused of Violating Peace Order, Threatening Witness

Marie Ann Lamb, 60, of Chesapeake Beach, has been charged in Calvert County District Court with failing to comply with a peace order and intimidating or influencing a juror or witness after an alleged incident on May 20, 2026, according to court documents. The criminal case was filed on May 22, 2026, and remains...
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Juvenile and Hollywood Man Charged Following Investigation Into Stolen Gun And Burglaries

Juvenile and Hollywood Man Charged Following Investigation Into Stolen Gun And Burglaries

Nathaniel Warren Shaklee, 19, of Hollywood, has been charged with 13 counts connected to an alleged burglary at Brudergarten in Leonardtown and a series of reported vehicle break-ins in the Leonardtown area, according to District Court documents filed in St. Mary’s County. Shaklee is charged with second-degree burglary, fourth-degree burglary of a store, eight...
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Huntingtown Man Charged With Two Counts of Assault in Calvert County Case

Huntingtown Man Charged With Two Counts of Assault in Calvert County Case

Joshua Chazz Brown, 30, of Huntingtown, has been charged in Calvert County District Court with two misdemeanor counts of second-degree assault after an alleged May 17, 2026, altercation at a home in Prince Frederick, according to court documents. The case, filed May 18, 2026, remains open in District Court for Calvert County. According to...
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Saint Leonard Man Charged With Assault After Reported Domestic Incident

Saint Leonard Man Charged With Assault After Reported Domestic Incident

Darien Marquell Chase, 28, of Saint Leonard, has been charged with second-degree assault after Calvert County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to a reported domestic incident on Garrison Street in Saint Leonard on May 20, 2026, according to District Court of Maryland records. Court documents state that Cpl. R. Shrawder responded at about 8:32 p.m....
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Lexington Park Man Sentenced After Spitting on Deputy During Lexington Park Arrest

Lexington Park Man Sentenced After Spitting on Deputy During Lexington Park Arrest

Ty-Kane Shi-Heim Briscoe, 30, of Lexington Park, pleaded guilty to second-degree assault in St. Mary’s County District Court after an arrest tied to a February 5, 2026 incident in Lexington Park. Court records show Briscoe was also charged with disorderly conduct, resisting or interfering with arrest, driving under the influence of alcohol, driving while...
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Avenue Man Charged With Obstructing Police During Hit-and-Run Investigation

Avenue Man Charged With Obstructing Police During Hit-and-Run Investigation

Jeremiah Robert Jameson, 19, of Avenue, has been charged in St. Mary’s County District Court with one misdemeanor count of obstructing and hindering after a deputy reported that he interfered with a hit-and-run investigation in Charlotte Hall, according to court documents. The charging document states that the alleged incident happened on May 20, 2026,...
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Fugitive Wanted in Connection with Sexual Assault of a Minor Located and Arrested

Fugitive Wanted in Connection with Sexual Assault of a Minor Located and Arrested

On May 21, members of the Charles County Sheriff’s Office’s Judicial Services Section assigned to the United States Marshals Service Capital Area Regional Fugitive Task Force (CARFTF) and detectives from the Criminal Investigations Division arrested Jose Mercedes Pineda-Callejas, age 45, of Riverdale, MD, in connection with multiple sexual offenses involving a minor. Pineda-Callejas had...
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Student Armed With Knife Charged After Threatening to Stab Teacher at Great Mills High School

Student Armed With Knife Charged After Threatening to Stab Teacher at Great Mills High School

On Thursday, May 21, 2026, the school resource officer assigned to Great Mills High School was notified by school administrators that a student had threatened to stab a teacher. Following the verbal threat, school administrators searched the student and located a pocketknife in the student’s pants pocket. The knife was immediately confiscated. The 15-year-old...
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Waldorf Woman Arrested Twice in Less Than a Week on Multiple Fraud and Theft Charges in Charles County

Waldorf Woman Arrested Twice in Less Than a Week on Multiple Fraud and Theft Charges in Charles County

UPDATE 5/22/2026: Annaya Lisette Hines, 26, of Waldorf, is facing multiple fraud, identity theft, and theft-related charges after detectives from the Charles County Sheriff’s Office Criminal Investigations Division said she used stolen personal information to lease an apartment on Talbert Place in Waldorf. Court records show Hines was arrested on May 20, 2026, and...
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UPDATE: Fraud Suspect Arrested for Second Time in Under a Week After Additional Cases of Theft and Fraud is Discovered

UPDATE: Fraud Suspect Arrested for Second Time in Under a Week After Additional Cases of Theft and Fraud is Discovered

UPDATE 5/22/2026: On May 20, 2026, detectives from the Criminal Investigations Division arrested Annaya Lisette Hines, age 26, shortly after she was released from the Charles County Detention Center on electronic monitoring. Hines had initially been arrested on May 14 on an active warrant. While she was in custody, detectives served her with a...
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Traffic Stop in Indian Head Leads to Drugs and Firearm Arrest of Waldorf Man

Traffic Stop in Indian Head Leads to Drugs and Firearm Arrest of Waldorf Man

On May 18, 2026, at approximately 3:39 a.m., an officer from the Charles County Sheriff’s Office initiated a traffic stop on Chicamuxen Road near High Ground Farm Place in Indian Head. The driver slowed but continued traveling for a short distance. During that time, the driver was observed placing items into the back seat...
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95 Animals Seized From Prince Frederick Property – Three Prince Frederick Residents Charged In Animal Cruelty Case

95 Animals Seized From Prince Frederick Property – Three Prince Frederick Residents Charged In Animal Cruelty Case

Filo Joseph Blake, 43, of Prince Frederick; Katie Renee Blake, 45, of Prince Frederick; and Makayla Leann Brehm, 20, of Prince Frederick, are facing misdemeanor animal cruelty-related charges in Calvert County District Court after authorities alleged about 95 animals were seized from an Arthur King Road property in Prince Frederick on May 7, 2026....
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Day After Receiving Suspended Sentence and Probation, Dunkirk Man Faces New Drug Charges After Traffic Stop

Day After Receiving Suspended Sentence and Probation, Dunkirk Man Faces New Drug Charges After Traffic Stop

Joseph Moreland Bylan, 50, of Dunkirk, is facing new misdemeanor charges in Calvert County for possession of a controlled dangerous substance other than cannabis and possession of drug paraphernalia after a May 13, 2026, traffic stop on Maryland Route 260, according to District Court records. The open case, filed May 14, 2026, in the...
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Lexington Park Man Charged With Violating Protective Order After Disturbance

Lexington Park Man Charged With Violating Protective Order After Disturbance

Joel Harold Notman, 31, of Lexington Park, has been charged in St. Mary’s County District Court with one misdemeanor count of violating a protective order after an alleged disturbance on Great Mills Road in Lexington Park on May 14, 2026. According to charging documents filed by Deputy Matthew Craig of the St. Mary’s County...
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St. Mary’s County Traffic Stop Leads to Cocaine and DUI Arrest

St. Mary’s County Traffic Stop Leads to Cocaine and DUI Arrest

Matthew Tyler Eastburn, 31, of Mechanicsville, has been charged in St. Mary’s County District Court with possession of a controlled dangerous substance that was not cannabis, possession of drug paraphernalia, driving or attempting to drive while under the influence of alcohol per se, driving or attempting to drive while under the influence of alcohol,...
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Sheriff’s Office Surveillance Leads to Drug Charges for Huntingtown Man

Sheriff’s Office Surveillance Leads to Drug Charges for Huntingtown Man

Edwin Stanford Foote Jr., 63, of Huntingtown, is facing misdemeanor charges of possession of a controlled dangerous substance that was not cannabis, possession of drug paraphernalia, and obstructing and hindering after an arrest in Calvert County on May 14, 2026, according to District Court records. According to court documents filed by Det. Tunnell of...
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Police Say Welfare Check at Prince Frederick Walmart Led to Drugs, Loaded Handgun

Police Say Welfare Check at Prince Frederick Walmart Led to Drugs, Loaded Handgun

Aleksandrs Koptevs, 31, of Owings Mills, is facing felony and misdemeanor drug and firearm charges after Maryland State Police said a welfare check in a Prince Frederick parking lot led to the discovery of suspected controlled substances, drug-packaging materials, and a loaded handgun, according to District Court documents filed in Calvert County. Koptevs is...
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Shots Fired – Vehicle Plows Into Group of People After Lexington Park Fight, 24-Year-Old Woman Arrested and Released On Own Recognizance

Shots Fired – Vehicle Plows Into Group of People After Lexington Park Fight, 24-Year-Old Woman Arrested and Released On Own Recognizance

Shayonna Renee Miles, 24, of Lexington Park, has been charged with first-degree assault, second-degree assault, and reckless endangerment after St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office deputies say she used a vehicle to strike people during a May 16, 2026, disturbance in Lexington Park. According to charging documents, deputies from the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office...
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Prince Frederick Man Charged in Calvert Animal Cruelty Case Also Faces Frederick County Burglary and Arson Charges

Prince Frederick Man Charged in Calvert Animal Cruelty Case Also Faces Frederick County Burglary and Arson Charges

David Allen Roberts, 34, of Prince Frederick, is facing separate criminal cases in Frederick and Calvert counties, including felony charges tied to a Frederick County commercial burglary and suspected arson, as well as 14 misdemeanor animal cruelty-related charges filed in Calvert County. In Frederick County, Roberts is charged with second-degree burglary, second-degree arson, first-degree...
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Mechanicsville Man Arrested After Metal Knuckle Knife Found During Hospital ICU Trespass Call

Mechanicsville Man Arrested After Metal Knuckle Knife Found During Hospital ICU Trespass Call

Antwand L. Johnson, 43, of Mechanicsville, is facing misdemeanor charges of trespassing on private property, resisting or interfering with arrest, and concealing a dangerous weapon after deputies responded to a reported disturbance at MedStar St. Mary’s Hospital in Leonardtown on May 8, 2026, according to District Court documents. Court records list the incident location...
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Great Mills Man Arrested After Removing Court-Ordered Ankle Monitor

Great Mills Man Arrested After Removing Court-Ordered Ankle Monitor

Glenn F Flores, 33, of Great Mills, is charged in St. Mary’s County District Court with second-degree escape related to conditions of release after authorities alleged he removed a court-ordered ankle monitor on May 8, 2026. According to court documents, Deputy Preston Dixon of the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office responded on May 8,...
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Pomfret Man Charged with Robbery Near Old Washington Road in Waldorf

Pomfret Man Charged with Robbery Near Old Washington Road in Waldorf

James Pernell Knott Jr., 31, of Pomfret, has been charged in Charles County District Court with robbery, second-degree assault and theft of property valued between $100 and under $1,500 after authorities said a man was robbed in Waldorf. According to charging documents filed by the Charles County Sheriff’s Office, the reported robbery took place...
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Sunderland Man Charged with Indecent Exposure After Performing Lewd Act Inside Prince Frederick TJ Maxx

Sunderland Man Charged with Indecent Exposure After Performing Lewd Act Inside Prince Frederick TJ Maxx

Xavier Alexander Jones, 24, of Sunderland, has been charged with one misdemeanor count of indecent exposure after court documents say he allegedly exposed himself to an adult female victim inside a Prince Frederick TJ Maxx. The case was filed May 8, 2026, in District Court for Calvert County and remains open. According to the...
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St. Mary’s County Woman Charged After More Than 100 Animals Seized From Hollywood Property

St. Mary’s County Woman Charged After More Than 100 Animals Seized From Hollywood Property

Michelle Rene Kelley, 63, of Hollywood, is charged in St. Mary’s County District Court with 147 misdemeanor counts of animal cruelty for allegedly failing to provide proper care for animals at a Brown Road property in Hollywood, according to court documents. The case, filed on May 14, 2026, lists the charge description for each...
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Lexington Park Man Charged After Reported Assault Inside St. Mary’s County Detention Center

Lexington Park Man Charged After Reported Assault Inside St. Mary’s County Detention Center

Carlonte A. Knott, 34, of Lexington Park, is charged with second-degree assault on a Department of Corrections employee or inmate after authorities said he assaulted an adult male inmate during a basketball game at the St. Mary’s County Detention and Rehabilitation Center in Leonardtown on May 4, 2026. According to charging documents, Deputy Michael...
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