On January 12, 2019 at approximately at approximately 4:15 am, Deputies from the St. Mary’s County Sheriff Office responded to Scotch Neck Road for the report of a theft. Upon arrival, the officer made contact with the victim. The victim that he had recently met the defendant Melissa Ruth Melenson, 39 of Mechanicsville, on...
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On Sunday, January 27, 2019, at approximately 5:10 p.m., fire and rescue personnel responded to Spring Ridge Middle School in Lexington Park, for the reported traumatic injuries involving an ATV. Dispatchers advised responding units that an adult female stated she had a 10 year-old male with her, and that she was stuck under the...
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On Saturday, January 26, 2019 at approximately 6:30 p.m., firefighters from Prince Georges County, Anne Arundel County and surround companies responded to 5664 Columbia Park Drive in Cheverly, for the reported structure fire. Crews arrived on scene to find smoke showing from a approximate 120 x 100 building. Units shortly evacuated from interior operations set...
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On January 13, 2019 Deputies from the Charles County Sheriff Office responded to Sedgewick Court in Waldorf for the report of a person who would not leave a residence. Deputies met with the victim who told police that Terence Jamal Collins, 26 of Waldorf, his son, came over tonight and wanted to watch football....
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On Friday, December 28, 2018, Cpl. D. Reppel of the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office responded to the report of a theft at the Leonardtown Rescue Squad on Lawrence Avenue in Leonardtown. A Chief Medic told police that a paramedic with the Rescue Squad made contact with him about the seal on one of...
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On Friday, January 25, 2019, at approximately 9:45 a.m., firefighters from NAS Patuxent River and Bay District responded to building 1452, on the Patuxent River Naval Air Station for the reported electrical odor. Units on scene reported a working fire on the first floor of the barracks, and were searching for extensions. Firefighters quickly...
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On Friday, January 25, 2019 at approximately 8:30 a.m., police fire and rescue personnel responded to 45201 Clarkes Landing Road, in Hollywood, for the Hazardous Materials Emergency. Crews arrived on scene to find a commercial oil truck overturned in the roadway leaking fluids, with the operator out of the vehicle. SMECO was requested to...
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On Sunday, January 20, 2019 at approximately 12:15 p.m., firefighters from Ridge, Bay District, Second District and Seventh District responded to 13311 Point Lookout Road in Ridge, for the reported structure fire. Crews arrived on scene to find a single family residence with nothing evident from all four sides of the structure. After further investigation,...
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A La Plata man arrived at Maryland Lottery headquarters this week with an unusual Thanksgiving leftover — a $50,000 winning scratch-off. When he claimed the prize with his girlfriend, the winner explained his delay in turning in his winning $1,000,000 Blowout game. “I was kind of waiting for a day off,” the 42-year-old told...
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On Friday, January 25, 2019 at approximately 11:50 a.m., police fire and rescue personnel responded to the area of Point Lookout Road, Indian Bridge Road in Great Mills, for the motor vehicle accident reported serious with one trapped. Crews arrived on scene to find 3 vehicles in the roadway with no entrapment, in front...
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UPDATE 1/25/2019: Prince George’s County State’s Attorney Aisha Braveboy announced that Thomas Hawks was indicted in connection with the Dec. 30 crash that killed 5-year-old Alexander Mejia, 5-year- old Rosalie Mejia, and 1-year- old Isaac Mejia, all of Falls Church, Virginia. According to officials, Hawks’ blood alcohol content was nearly twice the legal limit...
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Detectives from the Prince George’s County Police Department arrested and charged a teenager with shooting his friend inside of a Landover home Wednesday morning. The suspect is 16-year-old Edwin Munoz Hernandez of the 6700 block of Dorman Street in Landover. On January 23rd, at approximately 10:00 am, officers were called to the 6700 block...
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On Wednesday, January 23, 2019 at approximately 10:20 p.m., police fire and rescue personnel responded to Point Lookout Road and St. Andrews Church Road in Leonardtown for the report of a vehicle fire. Units arrived on scene to find a motor vehicle accident involving two vehicles with one on fire. Witnesses told SMNEWSNET that a...
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On Saturday, January 19, 2019, Cpl. Stone of the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office responded to the 21300 block of South Essex Drive in Lexington Park, for the reported disturbance. Upon arrival Stone saw Tyrell Marquice Birdine, 18, of Lexington Park, was on top of the brother, actively assaulting him. Deputies removed Birdine from...
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On Friday, January 11, 2019 at approximately 3:15 p.m., Deputy Smith from the Charles County Sheriff Office responded to Kenbrook Court in Waldorf for the report of domestic violence. When the deputy arrived, he could hear yelling coming from the inside the residence. When one of the homeowners, who the deputy met in the...
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On Monday, January 21, 2019 at approximately 8:10 a.m., police fire and rescue personnel responded to First Colony Boulevard and FDR Boulevard in California, for the motor vehicle accident reported serious. Crews arrived on scene to find two vehicles involved in a t-bone style collision with one vehicle in the roadway, and one vehicle...
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On Sunday, January 20, 2019 at approximately 5:25 p.m., firefighters from Waldorf Volunteer Fire Department Station 3 called dispatch requesting a working fire to be dispatched, after looking over at the building next to the firehouse and seeing fire showing from the top of the building. Crews advised they had fire showing from the 4th...
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On Saturday, January 19, 2019 at approximately 1:45 p.m., police fire and rescue personnel responded to Wildewood Parkway and Cherry Laurel Parkway in California, for the reported motor vehicle accident. Crews arrived on scene to find two vehicles in the roadway in a rear-end style collision. One patient was transported to an area hospital...
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Senator Jack Bailey released the following statement today after the Governor’s inclusion of $11,953,000 in Maryland’s Fiscal Year 2020 Budget to complete the design and begin construction of the University of Maryland Academic and Research Center at the Southern Maryland Higher Education Center, also known as the ‘Third Building’ at the Regional Higher Education...
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On December 17, 2018 at approximately 12:30 a.m., Deputies from the Calvert County Sheriff Office observed a vehicle traveling at a high rate of speed and initiated a traffic stop in the area of Nursery Road, on Maryland Route 4, in Lusby. When police approached the vehicle, they noticed that the driver and the...
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The St. Mary’s County Animal Control Division has many faces. One area they work on which traditionally goes unnoticed is animal rescue. On January 18, 2019, Animal Control Officer Christy Hoover rescued an injured owl after responding to a location in Wildewood. Upon arrival she found a Barred Owl which appeared to be unable...
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Annmarie Scuplture Garden & Arts Center in Solomons, presents Artists In Action: Temporary Studio Experience, January 18 – February 26, 2019 from 10:00am-5:00pm daily. Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center will serve as a creative retreat for over twenty artists for a few special weeks this winter, providing Annmarie guests the opportunity to get a glimpse into the...
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St. Mary’s County Public Schools’ families that have lost or reduced income due to any change in family circumstances, including the government shutdown, loss of job, or another similar event, may immediately apply for their children to receive free or reduced-price meals (FARMs). Families that would not ordinarily qualify for the FARMs program could be eligible for the...
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Perdue Foods, LLC, a Perry, Ga. establishment, is recalling approximately 68,244 pounds of ready-to-eat chicken nugget products that may be contaminated with extraneous materials, specifically wood, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today. The ready-to-eat chicken nugget items were produced on Oct. 25, 2018. The following product is...
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Charles County Sheriff Troy D. Berry is proud to announce the Southern Maryland Criminal Justice Academy (SMCJA) celebrated the graduation of 11 correctional officers – four from Charles County – from the Corrections Entrance Level Training Program (CELTP), Session 60, at a ceremony held January 4 at La Plata High School in La Plata,...
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