UPDATE 2/3/2025: State’s Attorney Jaymi Sterling announced that Sidney Joseph Spry, 29, of Lexington Park, Maryland, was sentenced to 75 years in prison with 52 years of active incarceration for attempted second degree murder, first degree assault, and firearm charges. In September 2022, Spry armed himself with two firearms and drove to his former...
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The Independent Investigations Division (IID) of the Maryland Office of the Attorney General is investigating a fatal police-involved pedestrian collision that occurred on Saturday, February 1, 2025, in Oxon Hill, Maryland. The preliminary investigation revealed on Saturday, February 1, 2025, at approximately 7:58p.m., police officers found a car, stolen in a carjacking earlier in...
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The St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office is seeking the whereabouts of these two individuals, who are each wanted on a Bench Warrant for Failure to Appear for a Child Support Hearing. If you have any information, please contact Cpl. Chad Hartzell at 240-309-5227 or Cpl. Kristi Nelson at 240-538-6104. You can also report tips...
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The Prince George’s County Police Department’s Homicide Unit identified and charged a 17-year-old male from Temple Hills in connection with a fatal shooting that occurred in late December. The suspect is charged with fatally shooting 29-year-old Harvey Jones Jr. of Temple Hills. The suspect is charged as an adult. On December 27, 2024, at...
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UPDATE 1/25/2025: Tony Covington, State’s Attorney for Charles County, announced that on Thursday, December 19, 2024, Charles County Circuit Court Judge H. James West sentenced Ryan Lamont Bell, 38, of La Plata, to 35 years in prison for Conspiracy to Commit the First-Degree Murder of Leon Nathaniel Inabinett, Jr. and the Use of a...
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On Thursday, January 23, 2025, at approximately 6:55 a.m., police responded to a reported burglary at JMJ Firearms, located in the 29000 block of Three Notch Road in Mechanicsville. Upon arrival, deputies observed significant damage to the front door and windows of the business, which appeared to have been intentionally smashed. A preliminary investigation...
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On Tuesday, January 14, 2025, at 7:44 p.m., two suspects entered a business in the 3500 block of Crain Highway in Waldorf, and a third suspect remained at the door as a lookout. The suspects displayed a handgun and demanded tobacco products. The employees complied and the suspects fled after stealing a large quantity...
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On Tuesday, January 14, 2025, at 7:30 p.m., officers responded to the 1100 block of Cornell Lane in Waldorf for the call of a citizen armed robbery. The victim reported he was walking to his vehicle when he was approached by three males who displayed firearms and demanded his wallet, phone, and expensive designer-brand...
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Charles County Sheriff’s detectives are seeking the whereabouts of Cliffton Eugene Greenfield, 50, of Bryans Road, MD, who has an active warrant charging him with first-degree assault. On Friday, January 10, 2025, Greenfield stabbed a relative in the head and neck after an argument – reportedly over the use of a television remote control....
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On Thursday, January 9, 2025, at approximately 8:53 p.m., deputies from the Calvert County Sheriff’s Office Patrol Bureau responded to R&J Liquors located at 2797 W. Chesapeake Beach Road in Dunkirk, for the report of an armed robbery. The complainant advised two suspects robbed the store at gunpoint and fled from the area. Calvert...
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UPDATE 1/21/2025: Tony Covington, State’s Attorney for Charles County, announced that on Thursday, January 16, 2025, Charles County Circuit Court Judge Donine Carrington Martin sentenced Marvin Ernesto Funez-Martinez, 23, of White Plains, to 38 years in prison for the Second-Degree Murder of Marco Alexander Pulido-Castro and the Wear and Carry of a Dangerous Weapon...
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In September of 2023, the Charles County Sheriff’s Office received a Cyber tip, which was reported to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) by a cloud storage provider. The tip outlined a user who was storing child pornographic files in their cloud storage account. Detectives initiated an investigation. Soon after, the...
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The La Plata Police Department is investigating several complaints about an individual described as a light skinned male in his early 20’s driving a blue Nissan with Maryland plates who attempted to solicit females in the parking lot of the Target located on Shining Willow Way. The agency has developed a person of interest...
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U.S. District Judge Lydia Kay Griggsby sentenced Erbeth Gomez-Delgado, 48, of Hyattsville in Prince George’s County, Maryland, to 24 months in federal prison for illegally reentering the country after he was deported. In November 2024, after a three-day trial, a federal jury found Gomez-Delgado, a convicted child sexual abuse offender, guilty of a sole...
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UPDATE 1/10/2025: On January 10, 2025, at approximately 7:17 a.m., a Charles County Sheriff’s patrol officer was traveling on Smallwood Drive West near St. Patrick’s Drive in Waldorf when he observed a body in the road on the eastbound side of the roadway. The officer arrived on scene at the same time as a...
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UPDATE 1/8/2025: Jayson D. Pressley, 38, of Lexington Park, has been charged with first-degree murder, second-degree murder, and use of a firearm in a violent crime following a fatal shooting on January 3, 2025. The victim, identified as Chaquanda Odom, 36, was found deceased with multiple gunshot wounds inside a vehicle in Lexington Park....
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Today is the 22nd anniversary of the homicide of Jack Moore, a 63-year old resident of Georgia, who was visiting the area at the time of his death. His case remains unsolved. Your assistance can help us bring justice to Jack and his family. On January 8th, 2003 at approximately 10pm, officers with the...
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On Monday, January 6, 2025, at approximately 10:10 p.m., a white 4-door Jeep struck a delivery van which was in the rear parking lot of the Roland’s of Chesapeake Station. If anyone has information, they are asked to contact the Calvert County Sheriff’s Office. No known injuries were reported and the damage was contained...
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UPDATE 1/03/2025: The Independent Investigations Division (IID) of the Maryland Office of the Attorney General today released body-worn camera footage from the fatal collision that occurred Tuesday, December 3, 2024, in La Plata, Charles County, Maryland. The decedent has not been identified in accordance with juvenile privacy laws. UPDATE 12/16/2024: The involved officers have...
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UPDATE 1/2/2024: Timothy Ignatius Gatton, 22, of Lexington Park, was arrested on January 1, 2025, for domestic assault, child abuse, and firearm-related violations. According to the police report, a deputy from the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office responded to a residence on Oxford Court in Lexington Park after receiving a report of an assault...
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St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office Deputies were dispatched to a Charlotte Hall location for an alarm call at a business that sells guns at approximately 11:53 p.m. Friday, December 27, 2024. Upon arrival, deputies discovered the front window of GLR Enterprise shattered. A search of the premises determined no suspects were inside the store....
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UPDATE 12/26/2024: The Independent Investigations Division (IID) of the Maryland Office of the Attorney General has identified the decedent and the Charles County Sheriff’s Office deputies involved in the fatal police-involved shooting that occurred on Friday, December 20, 2024, in White Plains, Charles County, Maryland. The decedent has been identified as 30-year-old Jordan Proctor...
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On December 19, 2024, Krystal Ninette Clay, age 64, of Indian Head, Maryland, was arrested in Charles County on charges of abducting a child under the age of 12. According to court documents, officers responded at approximately 8:59 a.m. to a welfare check in Bryans Road. A witness reported seeing a white Chevrolet Malibu...
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On Wednesday, December 18, 2024, at 10:40 a.m., officers responded to the 6800 block of Swann Gate Place in Hughesville for the report of a body in a field. When officers arrived, they found a male who was deceased. The male was taken to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Baltimore where...
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December 13th, 2024: Homicide Unit detectives are investigating a fatal shooting that occurred Friday in Suitland. The victim is 17-year-old James Fitzgerald of Suitland. A reward of up to $25,000 is being offered for information leading to an arrest and indictment in this case. On December 13, 2024, at approximately 4:00 pm, officers responded...
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