On Friday, December 20, 2019, at approximately 3:00 p.m., police fire, and rescue personnel responded to the area of Three Notch Road and Exploration Drive in Lexington Park, for the reported motor vehicle accident with injuries. Crews arrived on the scene to find three SUVs in the parking lot on Quality Way, and one...
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On Monday, December 23, 2019, at approximately 11:25 a.m., Troopers from the Maryland State Police La Plata Barrack responded for a report of a motor vehicle collision involving a single vehicle on Maryland Route 234 (Budds Creek Road) in the area of Jenkins Road in Charlotte Hall. Due to the circumstances, the Maryland State...
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Tony Covington, State’s Attorney for Charles County, announced that on Thursday, December 19, 2019, a Charles County jury convicted Melvin Edward Johnson, 63, of Indian Head, of Home Invasion, First-Degree Assault, Attempted First-Degree Arson, Second-Degree Assault, Reckless Endangerment and related charges. On July 1, 2018, officers responded to a residence in the 3300 block...
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Sergeant Anthony Oglesby was killed in a single-vehicle crash on December 18, 2019, when his patrol car left the roadway and crashed into a tree. The tree fell onto the patrol car and caught fire. Sergeant Oglesby died at the scene. Sergeant Oglesby is the 40th law enforcement officer to be killed in a...
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On December 9, 2019 deputies of the Wicomico County Sheriff’s Office Criminal Investigation Division began an investigation into a reported CDS violation involving a teacher soliciting a student for prescribed medication. The investigation revealed that the teacher, Elizabeth Day, solicited a 16-year-old student to purchase two (2) ADHD pills for $20.00. Day is a...
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On December Saturday, 21, 2019 at approximately 7:45 a.m., officers from the Charles County Sheriff’s Office responded to the 8900 block of Jacksonstown Road in Nanjemoy for the report of a male lying on the side of the road. Officers arrived and found Guy Kevin Hayes, 31, of Nanjemoy; he was pronounced deceased on...
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Maryland State Police are investigating a crash that killed a Department of Defense civilian police officer early this morning in Charles County. Around 2:30 a.m., troopers from the LaPlata Barrack responded to the area of southbound Maryland Rt. 224 Chicamuxen Road and Sweden Point Road in Indian Head, on a report of a vehicle...
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UPDATE 12/18/2019: Deante Mandel Duckett, 34, of Brandywine was arrested by U.S. Marshals at a home in Waldorf on December 12, 2019. Duckett had been wanted since July 10th when he cut off his ankle monitoring device. When Duckett was arrested, he was in possession of a stolen 9mm handgun and a box of ammunition....
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On Wednesday, September 18, 2019, at approximately 9:30 a.m., Officers responded to the 1400 block of Orr Court, Pasadena, Maryland for a threats complaint. The homeowner, Gregory Richard Korwek, a forty year old male, advised that an acquaintance, identified as Jeffrey Thomas Dickinson, a forty four year old male, called him, made threats to...
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On Sunday, December 15, 2019, at approximately 2:30 a.m., Deputies from the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office and Troopers from the Maryland State Police Leonardtown Barrack responded to Rogers Drive in Lexington Park for the report of shots fired. Investigations determined numerous shots were fired from a handgun, and as a result several vehicles...
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During the weeks of November 11 to December 15 deputies of the Calvert County Sheriff’s Office responded to 7,117 calls for service throughout the community. On November 11, 2019 Deputy T. Buckler responded to 9th Street in Chesapeake Beach for the report of damaged property. The complainant advised that the suspect, Tunde Samurai Oderinde,...
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On Tuesday, December 17, 2019, at approximately 4:10 p.m., police, fire and emergency medical services personnel responded to the 37000 block of Mohawk Drive in Charlotte Hall, for the reported unknown aged patient not breathing. Emergency medical personnel from Charles County arrived on the scene and reported CPR in progress. Less than 10 minutes...
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On December 11, 2019, the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office Vice Narcotics Division with assistance from the Emergency Services Team, K-9 Unit, and members of the Patrol Division executed a search and seizure warrant at a residence located at 46475 Chapman Drive in Lexington Park. Thomas Emanuel Gross, 34 of Lexington Park, was located...
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On December 14, 2019, the Optimist Club partnered with the St. Mary’s County Fraternal Order of Police, and the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office, and hosted the 16th annual “Shop with a Cop” program. Children nominated by St. Mary’s County Public Schools (SMCPS), police officers, and other agencies in the community, were be picked...
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It is with great sadness that the Calvert County Sheriff’s Office has to announce the passing of retired K-9 Wolf. K-9 Wolf was the partner to Sgt. Shawn Morder and served the agency from 2011-2018. K-9 Wolf was a European import German Shepherd that was purchased from a vendor in North Carolina during the...
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On Sunday, December 15, 2019, at approximately 10:50 a.m., police fire, and rescue personnel responded to the area of Mechanicsville Road and Asher Road in Mechanicsville, for the motor vehicle accident reported serious, with one vehicle overturned and one patient trapped. Crews arrived on the scene to find two vehicles in a t-bone style...
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UPDATE: On December 14, 2019, at 6:15 p.m. deputies from the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office responded to the area of Three Notch Road and Pegg Road in Lexington Park, for the reported motor vehicle collision involving a pedestrian. Upon arrival deputies determined a single vehicle had struck a pedestrian causing injury. The St....
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To the Editor, The following comments are addressed very specifically to St. Mary’s County Commissioners Hewitt, Guy, and Morgan. From 2006 to 2016 I was a Deputy Sheriff with the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office. I held assignments in Patrol, Investigations, and Special Operations as well as a number of collateral duties. I often...
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UPDATE 12/13/2019: Tony Covington, State’s Attorney for Charles County, announced that on Friday, December 13, 2019, Charles County Circuit Court Judge H. James West sentenced Sherman Kelly, Jr., 40 of Waldorf, to 43 years in prison for Sexual Abuse of a Minor, Third-Degree Sex Offense, and two counts of Production of Child Pornography. On...
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The St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office, with the assistance of the Maryland State Police and the Maryland State Highway Administration, will be conducting a roadside sobriety checkpoint on Friday evening, Dec. 13, 2019, in central St. Mary’s County. The sobriety checkpoint will be conducted on Route 235 on Friday night in the California/Lexington Park...
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UPDATE 12/12/2019: Tony Covington, State’s Attorney for Charles County, announced that on Thursday, December 12, 2019, Charles County Circuit Court Judge Amy J. Bragunier sentenced Miguel Angel Santana, 29 of Waldorf, to life in prison for Conspiracy to Commit the First-Degree Murder of Lydell Wood and Possession of a Firearm with a Disqualifying Crime....
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UPDATE: 12/12/19 – Luis Alonzo Sedillo, age 49 of Callaway was charged with the following: FAILURE TO CONTROL VEH. SPEED ON HWY. TO AVOID COLLISION RECKLESS DRIVING (DRIVING, ATTEMPTING TO DRIVE) VEH. WHILE IMPAIRED BY ALCOHOL (DRIVING, ATTEMPTING TO DRIVE) VEHICLE WHILE UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF ALCOHOL PER SE (DRIVING, ATTEMPTING TO DRIVE) VEHICLE...
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On Tuesday, December 10, 2019, at approximately 3:15 p.m., police fire and rescue personnel responded to the area of Colton Point Road and Bushwood Wharf Road in Bushwood, for the motor vehicle accident reported serious with multiple patients injured and trapped.
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FOP Lodge #7 President Elect, Austin Schultz provided SMNEWSNET with the following statement: Today the Commissioners of St. Mary’s County were asked to vote to give the hard-working men and women of the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office pay parity with our surrounding jurisdictions. We did not ask for more, we simply asked to...
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On Monday, December 9, 2019, at approximately 10:10 a.m., police fire, and rescue personnel responded to the area of Route 4 & Route 260 in Dunkirk, for the reported motor vehicle accident with injuries. Crews arrived on the scene to find a single vehicle overturned in the roadway. The single trapped occupant had been...
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