On December 14, 2021, at approximately 12:05 p.m., a call was received at the 9-1-1 call center indicating a shooting had occurred at Indian Head Elementary School. The school was immediately placed in a hold/stay-in-place status. An officer, who was in the school parking lot when the call was made, entered the school with...
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The St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office, in cooperation with the Charles County Sheriff’s Office, will be conducting a roadside sobriety checkpoint on Friday evening, Dec. 17, 2021. The sobriety checkpoint will take place on Point Lookout Road/Route 5 near the Charles and St. Mary’s county line where law enforcement officers will evaluate drivers for...
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UPDATE 12/14/2021 @ 4:00 p.m.: The Calvert County Sheriff’s Office Crash Reconstruction Unit has been working throughout the night to determine the causation and contributing factors to the fatal crash that occurred on Rt. 4 at Calvert Beach Road in St. Leonard, on December 13, 2021. Based on the numerous witness statements from citizens...
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On December 3, 2021, Deputy Ashely and Deputy First Class R. Evans of the Calvert County Sheriff’s Office responded to a report of a burglary in progress in the 600 block of Silver Rock Road in Lusby. Upon arrival, deputies observed two males at the front door of the residence trying to break in....
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On December 9, 2021, at approximately 11:40 a.m., a call was received at the 9-1-1 call center indicating a shooting had occurred at General Smallwood Middle School, in Indian Head. The school was immediately placed in a lockdown status. Officers arrived, quickly entered the school, and observed nothing out of the ordinary. As officers...
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On Saturday, December 11, 2021, at approximately 8:43 p.m., police responded to the rear parking lot of the Bay District Volunteer Fire Department located at 46900 South Shangri La Drive in Lexington Park, for the reports of a large fight at the rental hall. A short time later, gunshots were reported and deputies arrived...
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On Friday, December 10, 2021, at approximately 9:28 p.m., police, fire and rescue personnel responded to the area of Point Lookout Road and St. Andrew’s Church Road in Leonardtown, for the reported motor vehicle collision with injuries. At 9:32 p.m., additional crews were dispatched and the assignment was upgraded to a motor vehicle collision...
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On Saturday, December 11, 2021, at approximately 12:45 p.m., police, fire and rescue personnel responded to the area of Point Lookout Road and Willows Road in Lexington Park, for the motor vehicle collision reported serious with one trapped and unconscious. Crews arrived on the scene to find a single vehicle off the roadway with...
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Crime Solvers Offering Cash Reward for Information Leading to the Identity of Theft Suspect: Charles County Sheriff’s officers are investigating three thefts from autos that occurred on December 7 in the early afternoon in the parking lots of Festival Shopping Center and Waldorf Market Place. In each case, the suspect(s) broke out a window of...
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A total of 97 participants braved the cold water on Saturday, December 4, 2021, at Point Lookout State Park and over $36,000 was raised for Special Olympics Maryland. Our individual team members have combined digital forces to create this awesome fundraising team. Together we will raise more money for Special Olympics Maryland than we...
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On December 8, members of the Charles County Sheriff’s Office Narcotics Enforcement Team served a search warrant at an apartment in the 2000 block of Amber Leaf Place after investigating the report of drug trafficking and nuisance complaints at the address. Detectives recovered approximately 21 bags of crack cocaine, 13 grams of marijuana, 21...
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On September 28, 2021, the Anne Arundel County Police Department was notified by school officials of allegations involving a sexual relationship between a student and an employee of Old Mill High School. The School Resource Officer and school officials interviewed the student as it was learned that the student was sexually assaulted by the...
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Anne Arundel County State’s Attorney Anne Colt Leitess announced today that Erickson Recinos, 36, of Lanham was sentenced to five years suspend all but 18 months for one count of second degree assault on Anne Arundel County Police Officer Erica Magnuson and one count of driving a vehicle while under the influence of alcohol....
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“On Thursday, December 2, 2021, Calvert County Sheriff’s Deputy and School Resource Officer (SRO) Kam Parks walked into the cafeteria at Windy Hill Middle School for routine lunch duty with his 8th grade students. It was business as usual, until Deputy Parks observed what appeared to be a child in distress out of the...
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On Thursday, December 2, 2021, a Charles County Sheriff’s school resource officer was made aware of suspicious activity that occurred outside of school, but involved students. A preliminary investigation revealed a student at Mattawoman Middle School was on an online video chat with students at Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer Elementary School when he...
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On Friday, November 19, 2021, the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office Alcohol Enforcement Unit conducted 16 covert compliance checks within St. Mary’s County. Fourteen businesses were found to be in compliance, while two were not. The clandestine component of the check used a 20-year-old male Sheriff’s Office Cadet wearing jeans and a sweatshirt in...
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The Collision Analysis and Reconstruction Unit is investigating a fatal crash that occurred Tuesday evening in Cheltenham. The deceased driver is 27-year-old Marcell Johnson of Brandywine. On December 7, 2021, at approximately 7:15 p.m., patrol officers responded to the 9800 block of Surratts Road for a single-car crash. Johnson was pronounced dead on the...
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On Monday, December 6, 2021, at approximately 7:47 p.m., police, fire and rescue personnel responded to the 45800 block of South Springsteen Court in California, for a motor vehicle collision involving a pedestrian. Crews arrived on the scene to find an adult female victim crying on the porch with obvious injuries to the lower...
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On December 6, 2021, the Anne Arundel County Police Department began investigating an alleged domestic-related incident involving Corporal Tyler Brennan. The Office of Professional Standards subsequently began an investigation into the incident. As a result of the preliminary investigation, a summons was issued from the court commissioner charging Brennan with Second Degree Assault and...
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On 12/3/2021, Trooper C. Riggs of the Maryland State Police Leonardtown Barrack conducted a traffic stop on Maryland Route 5 at Baptist Church Road, in Mechanicsville. A probable cause search of the vehicle was conducted which yielded multiple glass smoking devices, all containing CDS, Cocaine. The occupants of the vehicle were identified as Kevin...
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The Prince George’s County Police Department obtained an arrest warrant and is actively searching for the suspect wanted for a recent fatal shooting in the Town of University Park. The suspect is 18-year-old Andres Aguilar of University Park. He’s charged in connection with the murder of 19-year-old Luis Miguel Utrera of Hyattsville. On November 17,...
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On Tuesday, December 7, 2021, at approximately 5:45 p.m., police, fire and rescue personnel responded to the area of Three Notch Road and Hills Club Road in Mechanicsville, for the motor vehicle collision reported serious with one trapped and unconscious. Crews arrived on the scene to find three vehicles involved and confirmed one victim...
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On December 3 at 8:57 p.m., officers were notified that several men were showing off a handgun outside of a business in the 3600 block of Leonardtown Road, in Waldorf. A lookout was given and officers observed the men nearby. As officers approached, one male fled. He was quickly apprehended without further incident, and...
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On December 6, 2021, Charles County Sheriff’s officers and the U.S. Marshals Service located Twanasae Sincere Damon, 22, of Baltimore, who was wanted in connection with a shooting that occurred in November 2021. On Sunday, November 7, 2021, at approximately 9:26 p.m., police responded to the Sam’s Tobacco & Wireless in the Pinefield Shopping...
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The St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office hosted on Sunday its 20th Annual Silent Angel Memorial service, remembering those from St. Mary’s County who lost their lives at the hand of another over the recent decades. The names of 89 people were read aloud, while survivors, friends, family, Sheriff’s Office personnel and Criminal Justice students...
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