On October 19, 2022, Trooper T. Eckrich of the Maryland Department of State Police Leonardtown Barrack conducted a traffic stop on Pegg Road at Westbury Boulevard, Lexington Park. A probable cause search of the vehicle was conducted which revealed suspected Marijuana and a loaded gun with an obliterated serial number. The passenger, and owner...
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UPDATE 10/20/2022: On Monday, October 17, 2022, at approximately 12:55 p.m., firefighters from NAS Patuxent River, NAS Webster Field, Ridge, Bay District, and Valley Lee responded to 47454 Leonard Calvert Circle in St. Mary’s City, for the reported structure fire. Crews arrived on scene and reported they had a fire in a built in utility...
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On October 19, 2022, at 9:51 a.m., school administrators at Robert D. Stethem Educational Center detected the odor of marijuana on a 14-year-old student. Further investigation by the administrators revealed the student was in possession of baggies containing residue of marijuana and a replica firearm / BB gun, which was recovered from his waistband....
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St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office Juvenile Referrals: 10/09/22 – Female age 15 of Great Mills- Assault 2nd Degree and Disruption of School Operations by Dep. Stewart# 310. 10/09/22 – Male age 15 of Lexington Park- Assault 2nd Degree and Disruption of School Operations by Dep. Stewart# 310. 10/10/22 – Male age 16 of Mechanicsville-...
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On Sunday, October 16, 2022, at approximately 11:48 a.m., police, fire and rescue personnel responded to the area of Turkey Hill Road and Brittingham Court in La Plata for a motor vehicle collision reported serious with one vehicle overturned. Crews arrived on the scene to find a single vehicle overturned on its side with...
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On Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2022, detectives from the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office’s Vice/Narcotics Division executed a series of search warrants at First Road in Lexington Park. The subject of the investigation, Thomas Donnell Evans, age 42 of Lexington Park, was located and apprehended with the assistance of K-9 Dyno. As uniformed deputies attempted...
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The St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office is seeking the identity of the persons pictured in a burglary investigation. On Friday, Aug. 12, 2022, at 10:55 p.m., the suspects used a chunk of concrete to break the glass and enter the Vape Jungle business in Millison Plaza in Lexington Park. Once inside, the suspects removed...
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On Tuesday, October 18, 2022, at 3:16 p.m., school authorities at J.P. Ryon Elementary School notified the school resource officer about a juvenile male in the parking lot with what appeared to be a gun. A parent who was waiting in the car rider line saw the juvenile place the gun in his backpack...
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The Collision Analysis and Reconstruction Unit is investigating a fatal collision in Accokeek. The deceased driver is 33-year-old Tiffanie Bunch of Waldorf. On Saturday, October 15, 2022, at approximately 3:00 a.m., officers responded to the area of Indian Head Highway near Berry Road for a single-vehicle collision. The preliminary investigation revealed Bunch was traveling...
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On Tuesday, October 18, 2022, at approximately 6:45 p.m., police, fire and rescue personnel responded to the area of Three Notch Road and Hermanville Road in Lexington Park, for a motor vehicle collision reported serious with possible entrapment. Crews arrived on the scene to find two vehicles involved at the intersection of Three Notch...
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On Wednesday, October 19, 2022, at approximately 7:55 a.m., police, fire and rescue personnel responded to the area of Pegg Road and West Westbury Boulevard in Lexington Park, for the reported motor vehicle collision involving a school bus. Crews arrived on the scene to find a single vehicle and a St. Mary’s County School...
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On Tuesday, October 18, 2022, at approximately 3:40 p.m., police, fire and rescue personnel responded to the area of Three Notch Road and Porter Drive in Dameron, for the reported head-on collision. Crews arrived on the scene to find two vehicles involved in an off-set head-on style collision with one vehicle in the roadway...
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UPDATE: On October 18, 2022, at 12:47 p.m. deputies from the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office responded to the 22500 block of MacArthur Boulevard in California, for the reported shots fired into a business. Deputies arrived on scene within two minutes and located two businesses struck by projectiles. The businesses and surrounding establishments were...
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On Monday, October 17, 2022, at approximately 3:20 p.m., officers responded for a citizen’s report of a male with a handgun walking in the area of Glen Burnie High School with another male. The school’s SROs were alerted and quickly located the males off the school’s property. After conducting a search, one suspect was...
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Court of Appeals of Maryland Chief Judge Matthew J. Fader has named Judge DaNeeka Varner Cotton as county administrative judge for the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County. Judge Cotton succeeds Chief, Circuit, and County Administrative Judge Sheila R. Tillerson Adams, Seventh Judicial Circuit, who will retire on December 31, 2022, after serving nearly...
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The Department of Justice’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) announced a new $9.8 million award under the Preparing for Active Shooter Situations (PASS) program to the Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training (ALERRT) Center at Texas State University to provide multi-disciplinary, scenario-based active shooter training to first responders. The PASS program...
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National Teen Driver Safety Week is October 16 – 22, 2022. St. Mary’s County Public Schools (SMCPS), in partnership with the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office, will continue efforts to educate young drivers about the importance of wearing seatbelts and the dangers associated with distracted driving. The St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office Traffic Safety...
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On Sunday, October 16, 2022, firefighters from Leonardtown, Hollywood, Valley Lee, Bay District and Seventh District responded to 21475 Abells Wharf Road in Leonardtown, for the reported trailer fire. The 911 caller reported multiple kids were trespassing and had entered the structure and believed they set it on fire, the caller reported smoke was...
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Please join the men and women of the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office in congratulating Lt. Patrick Britt for being awarded the Maryland Police and Correctional Training Commission’s Non-Academy Instructor of the Year for Corrections. Lt. Britt’s nomination was submitted by St. Mary’s County Detention and Rehabilitation Center staff for providing valuable instruction to...
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On Saturday, October 15, 2022, at approximately 2:07 a.m., deputies from the Calvert County Sheriff’s Office Patrol Bureau and Crash Reconstruction Team responded to the area of Southern Maryland Boulevard (MD Route 4) and Ward Road in Dunkirk, for a serious motor vehicle crash. Upon arrival, deputies located a single vehicle, a blue Toyota...
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On Saturday, October 15, 2022, at approximately 1:42 a.m., firefighters from Hollywood, Mechanicsville, Leonardtown, Bay District and Seventh District Volunteer Fire Departments responded to 40740 King Drive in Mechanicsville, for the reported residence on fire. Crews arrived on the scene to find smoke and fire showing from the single story residence. Firefighters extinguished the...
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On Thursday, October 13, 2022, at approximately 1:31 p.m., Paramedic Ambulance 398C advised they were involved in a motor vehicle collision at Point Lookout Road and St. Andrew’s Church Road in Leonardtown. Police, fire and rescue personnel responded to the scene and located two vehicles in the roadway involved in a T-bone style collision...
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The Calvert County Department of Public Works advises citizens to use caution as improvement work on Dowell Road in Solomons begins the next phase of construction. Work will involve an increase in heavy construction traffic as crews install a gravel road base between Oyster Bay Place and Foxhall Road, beginning Oct. 12, 2022. The...
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The St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office is seeking the identity of the person pictured in a theft investigation. On Monday, Oct. 10, 2022, at 5:02 p.m., the suspect entered a private yard on Sydney Drive in Lexington Park and took a child’s green and black colored bicycle with the words “You Rule” on the...
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