On December 5, 2018 at approximately 9:55 a.m., Volunteer Firefighters from Hollywood, Leonardtown, Mechanicsville, Bay District and Seventh District responded to 25705 Ricky Drive, in Hollywood for the reported structure fire. Crews arrived on scene to find an approximate 10×10 foot shed fully engulfed in fire, threatening another shed nearby. The fire was placed...
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The St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office is seeking the identity of the person pictured. On Monday, Dec. 3, 2018, at 10:45 a.m., the suspect took a package that had been delivered to the victim’s home on Creeping Primrose Lane in Lexington Park. Anyone with information about the identity of the suspect or this incident...
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Great Mills High School will be dismissing early today at 12:45 and students will take their normal buses home. Great Mills High School has been placed on lockdown. Reported sightings of a possibly armed individual in the area have been made. No one is permitted to enter or leave the facility until law enforcement...
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On December 4, 2018 at approximately 12:15 p.m., volunteer firefighters from Seventh District, Leonardtown, Mechanicsville and Hollywood responded to 38231 Hatchet Thicket Road, and Olen Mattingly Road, in Avenue for the reported structure fire. Crews arrived on scene to find a single wide trailer on the ground and fully engulfed in fire. Firefighter controlled...
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On December 4, 2018 at approximately 6:55 p.m., police fire and rescue personnel responded to the area of the Wendy’s on Great Mills Road in Lexington Park, for the reported motor vehicle accident. Crews arrived on scene to find one vehicle in the roadway, and one vehicle in the Wendy’s parking lot. One patient...
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The County Attorney’s Office for St. Mary’s County and the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office announce the successful civil prosecution to have the property located at 24550 Horse Shoe Road in Clements declared a Nuisance. A Nuisance means a property that is used by persons for the specific purpose of illegally administering a controlled dangerous substance; for...
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St. Mary’s County Sheriff Tim Cameron took the oath of office on Monday, December 3, 2018, along with other local elected officials. The Sheriff was elected last month to a historic fourth consecutive term. Only one other man served four terms as St. Mary’s County Sheriff in the office’s 381-year history, but those were...
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The Prince George’s County Police Department, Collision Analysis and Reconstruction Unit is investigating a fatal collision in Brandywine on Monday. The victim is 47-year-old Albert Clark Jr. of Decatur Place in Northeast Washington. On December 3rd, at approximately 9:30 am, patrol officers were called to the 10500 block of Cedarville Road for a single...
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Homicide Unit detectives from the Prince George’s County Police Department were called to investigate a fatal shooting in Temple Hills on Saturday, December 1, 2018. The victim is 25-year-old Brian Crayton Jr. of Rock Lynn Circle in Waldorf. Detectives do not believe this was a random crime. On December 1st, at approximately 2:15 am,...
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On Monday, December 3, 2018, at approximately 6:35 p.m., police fire and rescue personnel responded to the Park and Ride, located at 37750 Golden Beach Road, and Triangle Drive, in Mechanicsville for the reported one possibly not breathing. The initial dispatch advised a male was laying on the ground and looked to be not...
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On December 2, 2018, at approximately 12:51 p.m., officers from the Charles County Sheriff’s Office responded to the area of Poplar Hill Road near Bell Flower Place in Waldorf for the report of a motor vehicle crash. A preliminary investigation revealed the driver of a Mercury Mountaineer, operated by a 66-year-old male, was northbound...
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On Sunday, December 2, 2018, at approximately 2:40 am, Trooper First Class Matthews, from the Maryland State Police Prince Frederick Barrack, received an alert from the fixed License Plate Reader of a stolen vehicle going south on Route 4. TFC Matthews conducted a traffic stop on Route 4 at Robshire Manor Rd. in Huntingtown....
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On Monday, December 3, 2018 at approximately 11:40 a.m., police fire and rescue personnel responded to Fairgrounds Road, in the area of Cartwright Road, in Leonardtown for the reported motor vehicle accident with one vehicle overturned. Crews arrived on scene to find a single vehicle in the roadway on its roof, with the single...
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On December 1, 2018 at approximately 10:30 a.m., Trooper Posch responded to the 45000 block of Take It Easy Ranch Road, in Callaway, for a suspicious vehicle. The complainant reported the vehicle, a blue and tan Chevrolet 1500 Z71 bearing VA registration, had been parked in the woods behind the campground for approximately six...
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On Sunday, November 18, 2018, Cpl. Seyfried of the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office, responded to 25926 Chaffee Court in Mechanicsville, for the reported domestic assault in progress. According to court documents, Joseph Michael Bowles, 32 of Mechanicsville, assaulted his mother by striking her in the arm, causing visible injury. Bowles and his mother...
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The St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office is seeking the identity of the persons pictured. On Friday, November 16, 2018, at 4:38 p.m., the suspects took two phone chargers from the display and left the Kohl’s store in Lexington Park without paying for them. They were seen leaving the parking lot on bicycles and traveling down Buck Hewitt...
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On Friday, November 30, 2018 at approximately 5:15 p.m., police fire and rescue personnel responded to the area of Mechanicsville Road, and Asher Road for the reported motor vehicle accident. Crews arrived on scene to find a single vehicle off the roadway overturned and in a ditch, with the single occupant out of the...
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Tony Covington, State’s Attorney for Charles County, announced that on Thursday, November 29, 2018, Charles County Circuit Court Judge William R. Greer, Jr. sentenced Brian Douglas Pierce, 36 of Indian Head, to 65 years in prison for the Second-Degree Murder of Robert Branson, First-Degree Assault of Karwin Carroll, Possession of a Shotgun with Disqualifying...
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Mitchell Oren Smith, age 28, an Airman in the U.S. Air Force, pleaded guilty today to abusive sexual contact with a child, which occurred while he resided at Joint Base Andrews in Prince George’s County, Maryland. The guilty plea was announced by United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Robert K. Hur; Special...
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During the Thanksgiving Holiday (11/21/2018-11/25/2018) Troopers from the Maryland State Police Leonardtown Barrack conducted numerous traffic and criminal initiatives to make our community and roadways safer. The troopers conducted a total of 617 traffic stops, resulting in 364 citations, 438 warnings and 77 safety equipment repairs orders being issued. These efforts additionally resulted in...
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On November 26, 2018 Trooper First Class, Oyler from the Maryland State Police Leonardtown Barrack ,was assisting the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office with a fatal accident on Route 5 in the area of Fairgrounds Road. While the road was blocked due to reconstruction, a subject drove through the fatal accident scene. TFC Oyler...
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A convicted serial killer who has confessed to murdering more than 90 people in the 1970s and 1980s across the country has now admitted to killing a female here in Prince George’s County back in 1972. The victim in that case is still unidentified. For 46 years, the killer was unknown – until now....
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On Wednesday, November 28, 2018, at approximately 7:55 a.m., police fire and rescue crews responded to Point Lookout Road and Fenwick Street, in Leonardtown for the report of a motor vehicle accident. Personnel arrived on scene to find a crash involving a dump truck and Jeep. Two people with minor injuries were taken to...
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A man from Prince George’s County was arrested and charged Tuesday, November 27, 2018, after a Maryland State Police Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force investigation developed evidence supporting charges of distribution and possession of child pornography Jonathan Simmons, 22, of Mount Rainier, Md., is charged with eight counts of distributing child pornography and...
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Stephen McGrath, age 44, of Rockville, Maryland, pleaded guilty on November 20, 2018, to federal charges of coercion and enticement of a minor to engage in sexual activity in order to produce child pornography, and possession of child pornography. The guilty plea was announced by United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Robert...
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