On Saturday, March 14, 2026, at approximately 5:10 p.m., police, firefighters and emergency medical services responded to the intersection of Pegg Road and Lexington Drive in Great Mills, for the serious motor vehicle collision with entrapment. Crews arrived on the scene to find two vehicles in a T-bone style collision with the operator of...
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On Saturday, March 14, 2026, at approximately 4:32 p.m., police, firefighters and emergency medical services responded to the intersection of Point Lookout Road and Morganza Turner Road in Mechanicsville, for the motor vehicle collision with injuries. Crews arrived on the scene to find two vehicles in a T-bone style collision with no entrapment, and...
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On Tuesday, March 10, 2026 at approximately 7:00 p.m., Troopers from the Maryland State Police Leonardtown Barrack responded to the Dollar Tree, located at 21800 Shangri La Dr, Lexington Park, for the report of an assault. Please see the images below of the suspect and suspects vehicle. If you have any information pertaining to...
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Darius Paul Chew, 22, of Lexington Park, pleaded guilty in St. Mary’s County Circuit Court to two counts of animal cruelty and one count of failing to provide necessary care for an animal in a case that began with his August 2025 arrest and later moved from District Court to Circuit Court. Court records...
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Lavonte Lewis Grimes, 30, of Hyattsville, is facing multiple misdemeanor charges after an alleged theft and confrontation with deputies outside the Walmart in Prince Frederick, according to court documents. Grimes is charged with theft between $100 and $1,500, obstructing and hindering, and second-degree assault. According to charging documents filed by the Calvert County Sheriff’s...
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Corey Antonio Paul, 36, of Washington, D.C., is facing multiple firearm-related charges after deputies conducted a traffic stop in Dunkirk and allegedly discovered a loaded handgun and ammunition in his vehicle, according to court documents. The charges include illegal possession of a regulated firearm, handgun on a person, handgun in a vehicle, possession of...
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Terry Joe Hahn, 44, of Hollywood, is facing two misdemeanor charges of possession of child pornography following an investigation by the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office, according to court documents. According to the charging documents, the investigation began on February 22, 2026, when deputies with the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office were contacted regarding...
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On Friday, March 13, 2026, at approximately 2:41 a.m., firefighters from Mechanicsville, Seventh District, Hughesville, Hollywood and Charles County responded to the 39000 block of Harper’s Corner Road in Mechanicsville, for the reported structure fire. 911 callers reported a fire in the bathroom. Firefighters arrived on scene to find fire showing from the 1-story...
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UPDATE 3/12/2026 @ 2:00 pm: On March 11 at approximately 6:46 p.m., officers responded to the 2200 block of Davis Road for the report of a shooting. A preliminary investigation showed that the victim was standing outside a residence when an unknown suspect drove up in a dark colored SUV and fired multiple shots,...
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Christopher James Jones, 29, of Lexington Park, has been charged with first-degree assault and second-degree assault after St. Mary’s County deputies said he assaulted an adult female victim during a reported domestic incident in Lexington Park on February 22, 2026. Court records show the case began in District Court for St. Mary’s County and...
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Carlton Eugene Young, 55, of Leonardtown, is charged with first-degree assault, two counts of second-degree assault, and dangerous weapon with intent to injure in a St. Mary’s County criminal case tied to incidents dated February 4, 2026, and February 7, 2026, according to court records. The case began in District Court for St. Mary’s...
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Leonard Michael Nelson Jr., 19, of Clements, is facing 10 charges in St. Mary’s County after prosecutors filed a criminal indictment in Circuit Court alleging he distributed, possessed, accessed and viewed child pornography, according to court records and charging documents. The indictment filed on March 9, 2026, lists two felony counts of child pornography...
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On Wednesday, March 11, 2026, at 4:10 p.m., police, firefighters and emergency medical services responded to the St. Mary’s County Airport located at 44200 Airport Road in Hollywood, Maryland, for the reported plane crash. 911 callers reported a single engine plane crashed at the end of the runway with unknown occupants and unknown injuries....
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On Wednesday, March 11, 2026, at 3:33 p.m., firefighters and emergency medical services responded to the 20000 block of Piney Point Road in Callaway, for the reported traumatic injuries after a dirt bike accident. 911 callers reported a 13-year-old male suffered burn injuries to the lower body after a dirt bike crash, with the...
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On Wednesday, March 11, 2026, at approximately 1:27 p.m., firefighters from Waldorf, La Plata and surrounding departments responded to the 10700 block of Esprit Place in White Plains, for the structure on fire. Crews arrived on the scene to find smoke and fire showing from the 3-story middle of the group townhouse. Firefighters made...
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The Charles County Sheriff’s Office is currently investigating two separate shootings in the county that occurred within an hour of each other. At approximately 6:46 p.m., officers responded to the 2200 block of Davis Road for the report of a shooting. A preliminary investigation showed that a 26-year-old male was standing outside a residence...
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Attorney General Anthony G. Brown released the following multistate statement regarding the ongoing antitrust case against Live Nation, which owns Ticketmaster, for unlawfully monopolizing the live entertainment industry and concert ticketing services: “In May 2024, a bipartisan group of state attorneys general joined the U.S. Department of Justice to sue Live Nation for monopolizing...
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UPDATE: Emergency medical services evaluated the patient and requested a helicopter, however, due to weather, all were unavailable. One patient was transported by ambulance to the University of Maryland Capital Region Medical Center. Two patients denied injuries and were not transported. 3/11/2026: On Wednesday, March 11, 2026, at approximately 7:48 p.m., police, firefighters and...
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UPDATE: One victim located at a nearby hospital with a gunshot wound that appears to be non-life-threatening. Police are investigating if there are multiple victims. 3/11/2026: On Wednesday, March 11, 2026, at approximately 7:24 p.m., police responded to Jennie Run Drive in La Plata, for multiple 911 calls reporting shots fired. Police arrived on...
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Maryland State Police are urging motorists to avoid aggressive, distracted and impaired driving throughout St. Patrick’s Day weekend. Maryland State Troopers from all 23 barracks, including the State Police Impaired Driving Reduction Effort (SPIDRE) team, will focus on aggressive, distracted and impaired driving while conducting increased saturation patrols along roadways where impaired driving-related crashes...
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Multiple large-scale illegal car rallies were prevented or dismantled and two arrests were made by members of the Maryland Car Rally Task Force and partner law enforcement agencies this past weekend across Prince George’s and Montgomery counties. The joint operation started at 10 p.m. Saturday night and continued through 4:00 am Sunday morning. High...
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Maryland State Police are investigating a two-vehicle double fatal crash in Prince George’s County. The driver of a Nissan Maxima, identified as Douglas Orlando Smith, 39, of Brandywine, Maryland, was pronounced deceased on the scene. A passenger in the Nissan, whose identification is being withheld pending next of kin notification, was additionally pronounced deceased...
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UPDATE 3/13/2026: On Wednesday, March 11, 2026, at 3:41 a.m., police, firefighters and emergency medical services responded to 41885 Medley Neck Road in Leonardtown, for the structure fire. Crews arrived on the scene to find a single story, single family house with smoke showing and the single occupant outside. The cause of the fire...
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On Monday, March 9, 2026, at approximately 7:57 p.m., emergency medical services, and firefighters from Solomons and St. Leonard responded to the 12000 block of Painted Horse Trail in Lusby, for the reported brush fire with burn injuries. Crews arrived on the scene to find a small fire contained to the backyard of the...
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On Tuesday, March 10, 2026, at 3:24 p.m., firefighters and emergency medical services responded to the 43000 block of St. John’s Road in Hollywood, for the reported fall. 911 callers reported a 5-year-old male fell from a 2-story window, and advised no one witnessed the child fall and doesn’t know when it occurred. Maryland...
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