Deputies from the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office responded Sunday night to the Royal Farms convenience store on Tulagi Place in Lexington Park for a reported assault involving a handgun. The victim told deputies the suspect entered the store to purchase items and became verbally aggressive following a conversation. The victim reported that the...
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5/11/2026: On Saturday, May 9th, 2026, just before 3:00 a.m., firefighters were dispatched to 49808 Airedele Road in Ridge, for the reported house on fire with occupants trapped. Crews arrived on the scene to find heavy fire showing from the two-story multi family residence and confirmed all occupants, and three pets were out of the...
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Gerrell C. Robinson, 47, of Lexington Park, has been charged with malicious destruction of property valued at less than $1,000 after a St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office deputy reported that Robinson allegedly punched the driver’s side window of an agency vehicle during an incident on May 5, 2026, in Lexington Park. According to court...
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Kathleen Estelle Blackwell, 48, of Chesapeake Beach, and Jacob Alan Swierczewski, 29, of Chesapeake Beach, are each facing 63 animal-related charges after court documents say a neglect investigation at a St Andrews Drive residence led authorities to remove a dog and several cats from the home. According to District Court for Calvert County records,...
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Krystal Marie Davis, 23, of Waldorf; Damar Malik Abney, 23, of Waldorf; Takwon Demarion Mason, 21, of Waldorf; and Quentin Antoine Harley Jr., 24, of Lusby, have been charged in connection with a May 3, 2026 shooting investigation in Lusby that investigators say involved a drive-by shooting followed by retaliatory gunfire during a vehicle...
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Detectives with the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office Criminal Investigations Division arrested a Lexington Park man Friday following an investigation into suspected drug activity and the execution of multiple search warrants at a residence in the 46000 block of Radford Lane. During the early morning hours of May 8, 2026, detectives served the warrants...
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Raul Luis Malpica-Adorno, 39, of Baltimore, is facing multiple misdemeanor drug charges after a traffic stop in Lexington Park on April 22, 2026, according to charging documents filed in St. Mary’s County District Court. Malpica-Adorno is charged with possession of a controlled dangerous substance not cannabis and possession of drug paraphernalia following an investigation...
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On Friday, May 8, 2026, at approximately 10:55 p.m., firefighters from St. Leonard, Prince Frederick, Solomons, Huntingtown, and Dunkirk Volunteer Fire Departments were dispatched to the 5000 block of Douglas Street in St. Leonard, for the reported house on fire. Crews arrived on the scene to find a two-story residence with fire through the...
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On April 28 at 8:46 p.m., officers observed Labrons Edward Butler, age 50, of Nanjemoy, traveling in a vehicle in the area of Bryans Road; he was known to have two active arrest warrants. Officers initiated a traffic stop and arrested Butler. A passenger in the vehicle, Lewis Andrew Washington, age 64, was found...
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Barry Jeremiah Parran, 58, of Prince Frederick, faces multiple criminal and traffic charges after Calvert County deputies responded to a report of a driver slumped over inside a vehicle on Arthur King Road during the early morning hours of May 2, 2026. According to charging documents filed in the District Court for Calvert County,...
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Sgt. Kevin Molitor was named Naval Air Station Patuxent River’s Police Officer of the Year for 2026 in a special ceremony hosted by the St. Mary’s County Commissioners and Department of Aging and Human Services. Molitor, a Naval District Washington Police Officer stationed at Pax River, joined the air station’s Security Department in January...
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La’Joi Kayla Scott-Butler, 18, of Lexington Park, has been charged in Calvert County District Court with malicious destruction of property valued under $1,000, disorderly conduct, and failure to obey a reasonable and lawful order following an incident at an apartment complex in Prince Frederick, according to charging documents filed by Maryland State Police. According...
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Michael Thomas McHutchison, 36, of Lusby, has been charged with failing to obey a lawful order, disorderly conduct, arson threat, threat of mass violence, and resisting arrest following an incident on April 30, 2026, in Lusby, according to court records filed in Calvert County District Court. According to charging documents, deputies with the Calvert...
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Richard Rayondo Harris, 50, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is facing multiple felony drug charges along with misdemeanor assault and obstruction charges after Calvert County detectives allegedly discovered more than 1,100 grams of suspected cocaine during a traffic stop on Solomons Island Road on April 28, 2026, according to court documents. According to charging documents filed...
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Garry Wayne Morris, 36, of Great Mills, has been charged with two misdemeanor counts of possession of a controlled dangerous substance following an April 22, 2026 arrest in Lexington Park, according to court documents. Charging documents filed in the District Court for St. Mary’s County state that Morris was charged with two counts of...
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Charles Edward Taylor, 40, of Waldorf, has been charged with trespassing on private property, possession of a controlled dangerous substance not cannabis, and possession of drug paraphernalia following an arrest in Lexington Park on April 16, 2026, according to court documents. Charging documents filed in St. Mary’s County District Court state that deputies with...
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Jamal Jonathan McKinney, 29, of Fort Washington, is facing multiple criminal charges after an incident at the food court of St. Charles Towne Center in Waldorf on April 23, 2026, according to charging documents filed in the District Court for Charles County. McKinney has been charged with felony second-degree assault on a law enforcement...
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Dereon Jabari Foster, 18, of Lexington Park, was charged with second-degree assault following a domestic violence investigation on May 3, 2026, according to court records filed in the District Court for St. Mary’s County. Deputies with the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office responded at approximately 9:37 a.m. to the Lexwood Drive apartment complex in...
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Ronald Steven Clements, 53, of Lexington Park, has been charged with violating a protective order after deputies with the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office alleged he drove past a protected person’s residence and shouted profanities while an active peace order was in effect. According to court documents, the charge stems from an investigation on...
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Charles County Sheriff’s detectives are seeking the location of Michael Avon Johnson, 22, of Waldorf. Johnson has active warrants charging him with several counts of first degree assault, reckless endangerment, carrying a loaded firearm on his person, and additional related charges stemming from a shooting that occurred on November 8, 2025 at a tobacco...
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UPDATE 5/6/2026: On Tuesday, May 5, 2026, at approximately 9:38 p.m., a deputy with the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office observed a Mitsubishi Mirage cross the double yellow center lines while traveling southbound on Route 4 near Kingston Creek Road in California. The deputy continued to observe the vehicle as it entered the parking...
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Paul David Bennett Jr., 39, and Paul David Bennett Sr., 72, both of Hollywood, Maryland, were arrested and charged with second-degree assault following an alleged assault investigation at Iron Horse Lane in Hollywood on April 27, 2026, according to court documents filed in St. Mary’s County District Court. Both men face one count each...
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Jason Joseph Baldwin II, 22, of Lusby, and Jayvion Marquise Buck, 20, of Lusby, are facing multiple handgun and drug-related charges after Calvert County deputies recovered a loaded FN .40 caliber handgun and an altered prescription bottle during an April 24, 2026 traffic stop in Prince Frederick, according to court records and charging documents....
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James Dickerson, 32, and John Garner Fenwick III, 39, both of Mechanicsville, were arrested following a traffic stop in Mechanicsville on April 24, 2026, and now face multiple drug and traffic-related charges in St. Mary’s County District Court, according to court documents. Deputy Joseph Senatore of the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office stated in...
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April Marie Quade, 29, of Mechanicsville, is facing multiple charges in St. Mary’s County following separate investigations involving alleged counterfeit currency and suspected cocaine possession, according to court records. In the first case, Maryland State Police responded to the Wawa on Three Notch Road in Mechanicsville at approximately 1:11 a.m. on February 20, 2026,...
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