By Ridge Volunteer Fire Department Lieutenant Scot Best, April 20, 2022. “Every year, wildfires burn across the United States, and a growing number of people are living where wildfires are a real risk. In 2018, more than 58,000 fires burned nearly nine million acres across the U.S. More than 25,000 structures were destroyed, including...
Read More »
Home-school families looking for support creating an educational plan that works best for their children can turn to the College of Southern Maryland (CSM) for experiences that help students of every age with their academics. In the last five years Southern Maryland has seen a 74 percent increase in home-school students and now has...
Read More »
On Tuesday, April 12, 2022, Jahlil Perry, 19, of District Heights, Maryland, was sentenced to 30 months in prison for carrying out a carjacking last August of an Uber driver in Northeast Washington, announced U.S. Attorney Matthew M. Graves and Robert J. Contee III, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD). Perry pleaded guilty...
Read More »
Governor Larry Hogan today announced nearly $10 million in grant awards through the new Community Safety Works program to more than 300 business districts and nonprofit organizations across Maryland, advancing a key plank of the governor’s Re-Fund The Police Initiative. Administered by the Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD), Community Safety Works awards...
Read More »
On Friday, April 8, 2022, the CCSO Traffic Operations Unit and Community Policing Unit, in cooperation with the Prince George’s County Police Traffic Enforcement Unit, conducted a special enforcement on North and Southbound MD-210 focused on seatbelt usage and distracted driving. The operation was funded by the Maryland Highway Safety Office Distracted Driving Grant....
Read More »
U.S. District Judge Paul W. Grimm sentenced George William Dodson, age 31, of Capitol Heights, Maryland, to 13 years in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiracy, two counts of commercial robbery, and for using, carrying, and brandishing a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence. Judge...
Read More »
On Wednesday, April 13, 2022, at approximately 3:30 a.m., officers responded to Worth A Shot (a firearm retailer) on Veterans Highway for a side glass burglary alarm. The first officer arrived on the scene in under 2 minutes from dispatch and reported he had one suspect at gunpoint with two other suspects inside the business....
Read More »
Homicide Unit detectives charged a man in connection with the murder of his girlfriend. The suspect is 50-year-old Marc Deangelo Evans of Waldorf. He is charged with fatally shooting 45-year-old Rema Gibson of Fort Washington. On Tuesday, April 12, 2022, at approximately 9:20 p.m., patrol officers responded to the 1000 block of Palmer Road...
Read More »
UPDATE 4/13/2022: St. Mary’s County State’s Attorney Richard Fritz announces that on April 12, 2022, William Edward Johnson, III (Date of Birth May 7, 1990) was found guilty by a St. Mary’s County jury of Armed Car Jacking, Armed Robbery, First Degree Assault, Use of a Firearm During a Crime of Violence, Possession of...
Read More »
Gov. Larry Hogan broke ground on the first-ever comprehensive cancer center in Prince George’s County, which is part of a new Maryland Cancer Moonshot Initiative to expand and accelerate cancer detection, screening, prevention, treatment, and research in the state. Expected to open in 2024, the center will be located at the site of the newly-opened University of...
Read More »
A District Heights resident who decided to try a Mega 7s “scratch ‘em” is still thanking her scratch-off loving uncle for “sprinkling a little luck” over her. She just won a $100,000 top prize on the $10 oversized game. The anonymous winner, who is calling herself “La Femme” for Lottery publicity, said that her...
Read More »
On Friday, April 1, 2022, at approximately 5:07 a.m., firefighters were alerted to 3315 Leonardtown Road in Waldorf, for the reported structure fire. Crews arrived on the scene and found a 1-story commercial building with smoke showing from the BP Gas Station. Incident command requested the working fire upgrade. Additional crews from Charles and Prince...
Read More »
UPDATE 4/8/2022: On Thursday, March 31, 2022, at approximately 10:30 p.m., officers and local fire departments and EMS responded to the 3000 block of Heathcote Road in Waldorf for the report of an altercation and a fire. After the fire was extinguished, investigators located Rashawn Cline, 27, and her daughter, Dashawn Cline, 1, inside...
Read More »
The Prince George’s County Police Department is asking the community for assistance as we actively work to identify and arrest the four suspects who assaulted a senior citizen in an attempt to steal her car. The crime was caught on camera. On March 29, 2022, at approximately 6:40 p.m., the four suspects approached the...
Read More »
UPDATE 4/7/2022: Officials from Medstar Washington Hospital Center reported that Barbara Sue Thompson, 75, succumbed to the injuries she had received during a fire inside her home yesterday, April 6, 2022, in Hughesville. The Office of the State Fire Marshal and Charles County Sheriff’s Office are continuing to investigate the cause of the fire...
Read More »
Bryant Webster, 38, of Suitland, Maryland, was sentenced today to 39 years in prison for a series of home invasions carried out over a 50-day period in 2016 in which he sexually assaulted three men, announced U.S. Attorney Matthew M. Graves and Robert J. Contee III, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD). Webster...
Read More »
On Saturday, April 2, 2022, at approximately 11:35 p.m., an officer in his marked cruiser attempted to disperse a large crowd that had gathered for a car meet up in the area of Chevy Chase Drive at Sweitzer Lane. There were approximately 100 vehicles as well as the large group of spectators. The officer...
Read More »
The Maryland Department of Transportation Motor Vehicle Administration (MDOT MVA), in partnership with the Maryland Department of Health (MDH) Division of Vital Records, has expanded its birth certificate printing service to three additional branches. Maryland-born customers can now request a certified copy of their birth certificate and have it printed onsite as proof of...
Read More »
Mark Bowser, 42, of Capitol Heights, Maryland, has been found guilty by a jury of first-degree murder while armed and other charges in a stabbing that resulted in 47 sharp force injuries and that took place inside the victim’s home in Southeast Washington. announced U.S. Attorney Matthew M. Graves and Robert J. Contee III,...
Read More »
The Prince George’s County Police Department’s Homicide Unit identified and charged two teenagers for a recent fatal shooting in the city of Hyattsville. The suspects are both 16 year old males from Washington, DC. They are charged as adults. The teens are charged in connection with the fatal shooting of 22-year-old Daquan Dockery of...
Read More »
Congressman Steny H. Hoyer (MD-05), Senators Ben Cardin (D-MD) and Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Congressman Anthony Brown (MD-04), Maryland Governor Larry Hogan, and Prince George’s County Executive Angela Alsobrooks released the following statement after the President unveiled his budget for the Fiscal Year 2023, which includes language to ensure the FBI will have a...
Read More »
Larry Clinton Proctor, age 33, of District Heights, Maryland, pleaded guilty to federal charges of possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine and cocaine, and to illegal possession of a machinegun. The guilty plea was announced by United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Erek L. Barron; Special Agent in Charge Thomas J....
Read More »
UPDATE 3/30/2022: Calvert County State’s Attorney Robert Harvey is pleased to announce that law enforcement has taken down a major dogfighting ring operating in Southern Maryland. Rodney Carlton Rance, 53, of Lusby, was sentenced on March 28, 2022 to 3 years and 6 months of active imprisonment to be served at the Department of...
Read More »
The Collision Analysis and Reconstruction Unit is investigating a fatal collision that took place Friday evening involving a dirt bike and an SUV. The dirt bike operator, 18-year-old Peter Joven of Capitol Heights, died of his injuries the next day. On Friday, March 25, 2022, at approximately 6:20 p.m., officers responded to Pennsylvania Avenue...
Read More »
Governor Larry Hogan, Senate President Bill Ferguson, and House Speaker Adrienne A. Jones announced that they have reached a historic bipartisan agreement to provide $1.86 billion in tax relief over five years for Maryland retirees, small businesses, and low-income families. Combined with the recently-enacted gas tax suspension, this legislative session will deliver nearly $2 billion...
Read More »
