Law Enforcement

Police in Waldorf Investigating an Adult Male Shot at Apartment Complex

Police in Waldorf Investigating an Adult Male Shot at Apartment Complex

UPDATE 4/11/2024: On April 10 at 7:15 p.m., officers from the Charles County Sheriff’s Office responded to the parking lot of an apartment complex in the 2100 block of Crain Highway in Waldorf for the report of a shooting. A preliminary investigation revealed an adult male shot another adult male, both of whom are...
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Maryland State Police Vehicle and a Motorcycle Involved in a Motor Vehicle Collision in Lexington Park

Maryland State Police Vehicle and a Motorcycle Involved in a Motor Vehicle Collision in Lexington Park

On Tuesday, April 9, 2024, at approximately 10:25 p.m., police, fire and rescue personnel responded to the area of Three Notch Road and Buck Hewitt Road in Lexington Park, for the motor vehicle collision involving a Maryland State Police vehicle and a motorcycle. Crews arrived on the scene to find both vehicles in the...
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St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office Investigating Another Occupied Residence Shot Up in Lexington Park

St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office Investigating Another Occupied Residence Shot Up in Lexington Park

At approximately 11:05 p.m., on Monday, April 8, 2024, deputies from the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office responded to the 21000 block of Wilcutt Street in Lexington Park, for a report of shots fired into a residence. Detectives from the Criminal Investigation Division (CID) responded, and the subsequent investigation revealed an unknown individual or...
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UPDATE: Police Investigating Wrong-Way Crash That Killed Two People in Waldorf

UPDATE: Police Investigating Wrong-Way Crash That Killed Two People in Waldorf

UPDATE 4/10/2024: Mr. David Ross, 47, of Swan Point, succumbed to his injuries on Tuesday, April 9, 2024, at MEDSTAR/Washington Hospital Center. UPDATE 4/2/2024: On Monday, April 1st, 2024, at approximately 11:03 p.m., Troopers from Maryland State Police La Plata Barrack responded to Maryland Route 228 (Berry Road) at Sharpersville Road for a report...
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23-Year-Old Waldorf Man Found Deceased in Talbot County

23-Year-Old Waldorf Man Found Deceased in Talbot County

The Talbot County Sheriff’s Office Criminal Investigations Division is investigating the death of a man found in his vehicle yesterday morning along Maryland Route 328 in Easton, Maryland. On Monday, April 8, 2024, at about 9 a.m., a uniformed deputy with the Talbot County Sheriff’s Office was on patrol in the area of Maryland...
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State’s Attorney Jaymi Sterling Announces Plans for 40th Annual Project Graduation

State’s Attorney Jaymi Sterling Announces Plans for 40th Annual Project Graduation

State’s Attorney Jaymi Sterling proudly announces plans for the 40th Annual Project Graduation to celebrate the St. Mary’s County Class of 2024 high school graduates. In 1984, then State’s Attorney Walter Dorsey first established Project Graduation to provide students with a safe and fun way to recognize graduates’ achievements, while also abstaining from alcohol...
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62-Year-Old Man Arrested After Armed Carjacking and High Speed Pursuit Through PG and Charles County

62-Year-Old Man Arrested After Armed Carjacking and High Speed Pursuit Through PG and Charles County

On Tuesday, April 9, 2024, at approximately 8:55 a.m., police responded to the Exxon Gas Station located at 15797 Livingston Road in Accokeek, for the report of a carjacking. Police made contact with the victim on scene who advised that she was pumping gas when an unknown suspect arrived on foot at the next pump...
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Maryland’s Spring Turkey Season Set to Open April 18th, 2024

Maryland’s Spring Turkey Season Set to Open April 18th, 2024

The Maryland Department of Natural Resources announces that the statewide spring wild turkey season will kick off April 13 with Junior Turkey Hunt Day. All hunters can hunt during the regular spring turkey season, which begins April 18 and continues through May 23. “Wild turkeys remain abundant throughout most of Maryland,” Wildlife and Heritage Service Director Karina Stonesifer...
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UPDATE: Chaptico Man Arrested for Murder of 26-Year-Old Man at Sheetz in St. Mary’s County

UPDATE: Chaptico Man Arrested for Murder of 26-Year-Old Man at Sheetz in St. Mary’s County

UPDATE 4/9/2024: Police in St. Mary’s County arrested Tavion Kelly Sommerville, 18, on Monday, April 1, 2024, on an open warrant for First-Degree Murder, firearm use during a violent crime, and related charges in connection with the April 4, 2023, murder of Marcus Anthony Day that took place in Great Mills. Sommerville is incarcerated...
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VIDEO: Police Arrest Suspect Linked to Multiple Residential Robberies, Home Invasion

VIDEO: Police Arrest Suspect Linked to Multiple Residential Robberies, Home Invasion

UPDATE 4/9/2024: The Prince George’s County Police Department’s Robbery Unit identified and charged the suspect wanted in connection with a residential robbery at an apartment in Lanham. The suspect is 22-year-old Augustine Koroma of Lanham. Koroma is charged with a residential robbery at a home in the 9900 block of Good Luck Road which...
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Roadside Solicitation Ban Enacted in Calvert County

Roadside Solicitation Ban Enacted in Calvert County

A law that would prohibit the roadside solicitation of money in Calvert County was passed by the Maryland General Assembly on Friday, April 5, 2024. If signed by the Governor, the law will take effect on October 1, 2024. The legislation makes it unlawful for any person to stand in a roadway, median, or...
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Maryland Natural Resources Police Honors Officers at Annual Awards Ceremony

Maryland Natural Resources Police Honors Officers at Annual Awards Ceremony

The Maryland Natural Resources Police held its annual award ceremony to recognize the achievements made by conservation law enforcement officers and civilians in 2023. The officers were presented honors by Maryland Department of Natural Resources Sec. Josh Kurtz and Natural Resources Police Acting Lt. Col. Brian Rathgeb. The annual event was held April 3...
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St. Mary’s County Health Department Partners With Sheriff’s Office to Prevent Underage Tobacco Sales

St. Mary’s County Health Department Partners With Sheriff’s Office to Prevent Underage Tobacco Sales

The St. Mary’s County Health Department (SMCHD) has partnered with the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office (SMCSO) to prevent underage tobacco sales in the County. This partnership works with local businesses to ensure their staff consistently inspect IDs and refuse sales to underage customers. The majority (47 out of 57) of compliance checks completed...
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Join the Hunt: How to Catch a Blue Catfish in Maryland!

Join the Hunt: How to Catch a Blue Catfish in Maryland!

The bad news: Blue catfish can be easily found in a majority of Maryland’s rivers, both tidal and non-tidal and out in the Bay itself, and they eat almost anything. The good news: Blue catfish can be easily found in a majority of Maryland’s rivers, both tidal and non-tidal and in the Bay itself,...
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Dump Truck Suffers Tire Blowout Resulting in Fiery Rollover Crash That Injures Two Adults and Two Children

Dump Truck Suffers Tire Blowout Resulting in Fiery Rollover Crash That Injures Two Adults and Two Children

Maryland State Police are investigating a crash that occurred in Prince George’s County this morning. Shortly before 11 a.m., troopers from the Maryland State Police Forestville Barrack responded to the area of northbound Interstate 495, near Maryland Route 4 for a report of a vehicle fire. According to a preliminary investigation, a dump truck...
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Twelve of 17 Businesses Pass Alcohol Compliance Checks, Six of 10 Pass Tobacco Compliance Checks in St. Mary’s County

Twelve of 17 Businesses Pass Alcohol Compliance Checks, Six of 10 Pass Tobacco Compliance Checks in St. Mary’s County

In March, the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office (SMCSO) Alcohol Enforcement Unit conducted separate alcohol and tobacco compliance checks. On March 21, 2024, alcohol compliance checks were performed using a Sheriff’s Office confidential informant (CI), who was 18 years old and wearing jeans and an athletic sweatshirt. The underage individual was informed to enter...
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Man Charged for Murder of His 72-Year-Old Mother

Man Charged for Murder of His 72-Year-Old Mother

The Prince George’s County Police Department’s Homicide Unit charged a son in connection with the murder of his mother inside of their home in the town of Bladensburg. The suspect is 51-year-old Reginald English. He’s charged with the murder of 72-year-old Lorena Royster. On April 3, 2024, at approximately 11:10 pm, officers with the...
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One Dead and Three Seriously Injured After Single Vehicle Collision in Lothian

One Dead and Three Seriously Injured After Single Vehicle Collision in Lothian

On Saturday, April 6, 2024, at approximately 1:36 a.m., Southern District officers responded to Sands Road near Patuxent Mobile Estates for a single vehicle crash. The investigation revealed a 2012 Infiniti G37 was traveling northbound on Sands Road at a high rate of speed. The driver lost control of the vehicle, crossed over the...
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Police in St. Mary’s County Investigating the Throwing of a Cinder Block Off Roof of a Building at Leonardtown Square

Police in St. Mary’s County Investigating the Throwing of a Cinder Block Off Roof of a Building at Leonardtown Square

The Leonardtown Square Facebook Page posted the following information on Monday, April 8th. To the immediate attention of the four young men who decided to climb on the roof of the former PNC Bank building at 12:45 a.m. Saturday morning to trespass and damage private property by tossing a cinder block off the roof...
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Charles County Sheriff’s Office Welcomes Four New Correctional Officers

Charles County Sheriff’s Office Welcomes Four New Correctional Officers

Sheriff Troy Berry, alongside Director Ryan Ross (Charles County Detention Center), Training Commander Lt. Ryan Taylor (CCDC), and Chief Deputy of the Circuit Court Joyce Tippett, gathered for a badge-pinning and swearing-in ceremony, honoring four exceptional new correctional officers set to graduate tonight after completing 11 weeks of training at the Southern Maryland Criminal...
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Blue Catfish Are Spreading in Maryland Waters, State Officials and Fishing Community Are Working to Contain the Spread

Blue Catfish Are Spreading in Maryland Waters, State Officials and Fishing Community Are Working to Contain the Spread

The first catch of the afternoon was a white catfish—saved by its wider head and a few less anal fin rays, and tossed back into the water. The blue catfish came next—two in quick succession. “It only takes a few minutes for them to start biting,” said Capt. Marcus Wilson, whose Rock-N-Robin Charter Fishing, operated...
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Charles County Seeking Assistance in 2003 Cold Case Murder of Waldorf Mother

Charles County Seeking Assistance in 2003 Cold Case Murder of Waldorf Mother

Charles County Sheriff’s detectives are seeking the public’s help identifying the suspect(s) responsible for a murder that occurred in 2003. Charles County Crime Solvers and the CCSO are offering a combined cash reward of up to $10,000 for information leading to the arrest of the suspect(s) On April 7, 2003, Lamon Wright was shot...
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Maryland State Police Investigating T-Bone Collision in Leonardtown That Injures One

Maryland State Police Investigating T-Bone Collision in Leonardtown That Injures One

On Saturday, April 6, 2024, at approximately 9:00 p.m., police, fire and rescue personnel responded to the area of Point Lookout Road and St. Margarets Drive in Leonardtown, for a motor vehicle collision with unknown injuries. Prior to the arrival of First Responders, an additional 911 caller reported two subjects were now trapped. The...
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Impaired Driver Flown to Trauma Center After High Speed Single Vehicle Collision in Great Mills

Impaired Driver Flown to Trauma Center After High Speed Single Vehicle Collision in Great Mills

On Sunday, April 7, 2024, at approximately 1:28 a.m., a 911 caller reported a Toyota sedan with Texas registration plates was driving erratically and was possibly impaired. The 911 caller reported they were following the vehicle which was travelling Southbound on Route 5. While on 911, the caller then stated the vehicle went into...
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No Injuries Reported After Single Vehicle Overturns in Hollywood

No Injuries Reported After Single Vehicle Overturns in Hollywood

On Saturday, April 6, 2024, at approximately 2:47 a.m., police, fire and rescue personnel responded to the area of Hollywood Road and Tim Top Hill Lane in Hollywood, for a serious motor vehicle collision with one overturned and one trapped. Crews arrived on the scene to find a single vehicle off the roadway, into...
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