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Charlotte Hall Man Sentenced to 25 Years for Raping and Assaulting 13-Year-Old Girl

Charlotte Hall Man Sentenced to 25 Years for Raping and Assaulting 13-Year-Old Girl

UPDATE 6/6/2019: St. Mary’s Circuit Judge Michael Stamm, sentenced Paul Michael Hess, 40, of Charlotte Hall, to 25 years in prison for sexually assaulting a female juvenile. Hess sexually assaulted the 13-year-old girl from 2016 to 2018. Upon release, Hess will be subjected to lifetime sexual offender supervision 9/28/2018: On Wednesday, September 26, 2018, St....
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St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office Arrests – 6/6/2018

St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office Arrests – 6/6/2018

The following information was provided by the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office. Violation of Protective Order- On May 20, 2019, Dep. Luffey responded to the 24800 block of Hill Road in Hollywood, for the reported violation of protective order. Investigation determined Jacqueline Mary Schrader, age 33 of Hollywood, sent numerous messages to the victim,...
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UPDATE: Waldorf Woman Sentenced to Two Years in Jail After Killing Her 37-Year-Old Boyfriend

UPDATE: Waldorf Woman Sentenced to Two Years in Jail After Killing Her 37-Year-Old Boyfriend

UPDATE 6/5/2019: Tiffany Jade Smith, 32, of Waldorf, was sentenced to two years in jail on Monday, June 3, 2019, by Charles County Circuit Court Judge William Greer. Smith, shot and killed her boyfriend, 37-year-old, Tavon Purnell Matthews, during an argument at their residence in Waldorf, on February 18, 2018. Smith originally denied having...
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Lexington Park Man Sentenced to Home Detention After Shooting 18-Year-Old Woman with Shotgun

Lexington Park Man Sentenced to Home Detention After Shooting 18-Year-Old Woman with Shotgun

UPDATE 6/5/2019: On Monday, June 3, 2019, Michael Hemi Fischer, 22, of Lexington Park, was sentenced to home detention followed by three years of probation, for his role in shooting an eighteen-year-old female with a shotgun.  Fisher fired two shots during the incident, one round ricocheted and struck the teens leg. St. Mary’s Circuit...
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Police Investigating Suspicious Male who Approached Juvenile Females at Park in Lusby and Tried to lure Them With Candy

Police Investigating Suspicious Male who Approached Juvenile Females at Park in Lusby and Tried to lure Them With Candy

On Monday, June 3, 2019, Calvert County Sheriff’s Office responded to report of a suspicious person at Cove Point Park in Lusby. Deputies made contact with the complainant who advised a suspicious male had approached a group of juvenile females at Cove Point Park and tried to lure them in his vehicle with candy....
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St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office Arrests – 6/5/2018

St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office Arrests – 6/5/2018

The following information was provided by the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office. Assault- On May 9, 2019, Cpl. Foor responded to the 20700 block of Old Great Mills Road in Great Mills, for the reported assault. Investigation determined Derrick Lewis, age 54 of Great Mills, assaulted the victim by pouring a beer on the...
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AUDIO: Waldorf Man Arrested After Machete Attack at Liquor Store and Foot Chase in Waldorf

AUDIO: Waldorf Man Arrested After Machete Attack at Liquor Store and Foot Chase in Waldorf

UPDATE 6/4/2019: On Saturday, June 1, 2019, at approximately 11:10 p.m., Deputies from the Charles County Sheriff’s Office 925 Liquors on Old Washington Road in Waldorf, for the reported man armed with a machete and an active fight in progress. Police arrived on scene to see Adam Godines Perez, 21, of Waldorf, fleeing on...
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Hollywood Man Sentenced to 8 Years in Jail After Found Passed Out in Vehicle with 2-Year-Old Son in Back Seat

Hollywood Man Sentenced to 8 Years in Jail After Found Passed Out in Vehicle with 2-Year-Old Son in Back Seat

St. Mary’s County Circuit Judge David W. Densford sentenced Brandon Michael Gohl, of Hollywood, to fifteen years in the division of corrections suspended down to eight years, as to the possession of distribution of heroin count and five years in the division of corrections, all suspended, as to the child neglect count to run...
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Leonardtown Woman Arrested for Possession of Oxycodone After Traffic Stop in Hollywood

Leonardtown Woman Arrested for Possession of Oxycodone After Traffic Stop in Hollywood

On Friday, May 24, 2019, at approximately 8:00 p.m., Trooper R. Kaszubski from the Maryland State Police Leonardtown Barrack conducted a traffic stop on St. John’s Road, Hollywood. Upon contact with the occupants, a strong odor of marijuana was emitting from the vehicle. A probable cause search was conducted and a prescription bottle with...
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Great Mills Man Arrested for Possession of Heroin After Traffic Stop

Great Mills Man Arrested for Possession of Heroin After Traffic Stop

On Friday, May 24, 2019, at approximately 7:00 a.m., First Sergeant M. Laney from the Maryland State Police Leonardtown Barrack was traveling westbound on Great Mills Road when he initiated a traffic stop. The driver, identified as Kyle Ryan Summers, 31 of Great Mills, pulled a glass vial from the console and advised F/Sgt....
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Maryland State Police Arrest Three People for Drunk Driving During Sobriety Checkpoint in St. Mary’s County

Maryland State Police Arrest Three People for Drunk Driving During Sobriety Checkpoint in St. Mary’s County

On Saturday, May 25, 2019, at 10:45 p.m., Troopers from the Maryland State Police, Leonardtown Barrack assisted by the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office conducted a Sobriety Checkpoint on southbound Maryland Route 235 (Three Notch Road) at First Colony Boulevard, in California. The Southern Maryland chapter of Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) were also...
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Detectives in Charles County Arrest Two Men in Connection with Murder of Walter Thomas on Fairchild Court

Detectives in Charles County Arrest Two Men in Connection with Murder of Walter Thomas on Fairchild Court

Detectives assigned to the Charles County Sheriff’s Office Criminal Investigations Division have charged Michael Rashid Moore, 22, of Waldorf and Darren Earl Miller, 24, of Washington, D.C., in connection with the murder of Walter Eugene Thomas, 18, who was shot and killed on March 4, 2019, in the 2100 block of Fairchild Court in...
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Calvert County Sheriff’s Office to Conduct Sobriety Checkpoint This Weekend

Calvert County Sheriff’s Office to Conduct Sobriety Checkpoint This Weekend

The Calvert County Sheriff’s Office will Conduct a Sobriety Checkpoint and DUI Saturation Patrols this holiday weekend. Sheriff Mike Evans asks that “If you consume any alcoholic beverages, please find a sober driver and help reduce the number of fatal and serious crashes on the roadways of Calvert County. If you drink, please do...
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VIDEO: St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office Seeking Identity of Theft Suspect

VIDEO: St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office Seeking Identity of Theft Suspect

The St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office is seeking the identity of the person pictured. On Friday, May 10, 2019, at 3:15 pm, the suspect took a debit card that the victim had left on the counter of Abell’s Tavern in Callaway. The suspect then went to the Callaway Shell gas station and attempted to...
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Lexington Park Felon Pleads Guilty to Stealing 11 Handguns from Tackle Box Gun Store

Lexington Park Felon Pleads Guilty to Stealing 11 Handguns from Tackle Box Gun Store

UPDATE 5/21/2019: Robert Jacob Eberle, 30, of Lexington Park, Maryland, pleaded guilty to the federal charge of theft of firearms, which Eberle admitted he stole from the Tackle Box Gun Store located at 22000 block of Three Notch Road in Lexington Park. The guilty plea was announced by United States Attorney for the District...
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VIDEO: Lexington Park Man Arrested for Driving While Impaired by Alcohol and Assault

VIDEO: Lexington Park Man Arrested for Driving While Impaired by Alcohol and Assault

On Tuesday, May 7, 2019, Deputy Wynnyk from the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office responded to the 46900 block of South Shangri La Drive in Lexington Park for the reported motor vehicle accident and fight in progress. An investigation determined the victims drove around Joshua Bruce Hildreth, 38 of Lexington Park, while Hildreth’s vehicle...
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St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office Seeking Identity of 3 Theft Suspects

St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office Seeking Identity of 3 Theft Suspects

The St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office is seeking the identity of the persons pictured. On Wednesday, May 15, 2019, at 8:00 p.m., three suspects entered the Dollar General store in Charlotte Hall and loaded bars of Dove soap, containers of Arm & Hammer detergent, Dove liquid body wash and Gain detergent pods into a...
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New Tag Readers and Good Old Fashioned Police Work Lead to Arrest of PNC Bank Robber

New Tag Readers and Good Old Fashioned Police Work Lead to Arrest of PNC Bank Robber

On Thursday, May 9, 2019, the Calvert County Control Center dispatched deputies from the Calvert County Sheriff’s Office to the PNC Bank on Jennifer Lane in Owings for a bank robbery in progress. Deputies arrived on scene and made contact with three female employees who told police that at approximately 10:05 am.., a white...
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Waldorf Man Arrested After Traffic Stop in North Beach

Waldorf Man Arrested After Traffic Stop in North Beach

On Friday, May 17, 2019, Deputy Holt, of the Calvert County Sheriff’s Office, conducted a traffic stop in the area of 5th street and Greenwood Ave. in North Beach. Upon making contact with the vehicle occupants, Deputy Holt detected a moderate odor of burnt marijuana emanating from the vehicle. The driver, Nicholas Allan Thomas,...
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Intoxicated Prince Frederick Man Arrested at Carnival

Intoxicated Prince Frederick Man Arrested at Carnival

On Sunday, May 19, 2019, Deputy Bradley, of the Calvert County Sheriff’s Office while working security for a carnival being held in the Fox Run Shopping Center located in Prince Frederick, was contacted by the owner/manager for the report of an intoxicated person causing a problem with the staff. The owner asked that the...
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Waldorf Man Killed in Early Morning Pedestrian Accident on Crain Highway

Waldorf Man Killed in Early Morning Pedestrian Accident on Crain Highway

The Maryland State Police have identified a Waldorf man who was struck and killed in an early morning, pedestrian collision that occurred on Maryland Route 301 (Crain Highway) at Rosaryville Road in Prince George’s County on Sunday. On scene investigation with troopers from the Forestville Barrack, members of the Maryland State Police CRASH Team,...
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UPDATE: Lexington Park Man Wanted for Sexual Abuse of a Minor Arrested for Bank Robbery in Calvert County

UPDATE: Lexington Park Man Wanted for Sexual Abuse of a Minor Arrested for Bank Robbery in Calvert County

UPDATE 5/19/2019 @10:00 a.m.: Donald Edward Rankin, 63, of Lexington Park was was apprehended and arrested on Saturday, May 18, 2019, by Calvert County Sheriff’s Office detectives. In the robbery, Rankin was charged with the following ARMED ROBBERY ASSAULT-FIRST DEGREE ROBBERY ASSAULT-SEC DEGREE THEFT: $1,500 TO UNDER $25, HANDGUN IN VEHICLE HANDGUN ON PERSON...
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Prince George’s County Police Department Arrest Three Suspects for Murder of 14-Year-Old Girl

Prince George’s County Police Department Arrest Three Suspects for Murder of 14-Year-Old Girl

The Prince George’s County Police Department Homicide Unit identified and charged three suspects in connection with the murder of a teenage girl. The victim is 14-year-old Ariana Funes-Diaz of Adelphi. The suspects are 16-year-old Josue Fuentes-Ponce of Bladensburg, 17-year-old Joel Escobar of Northeast Washington, DC, and 14-year-old Cynthia Hernandez-Nucamendi of Lothian. Detectives are working...
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Wanted for Escape – Brandon Lee Bates – St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office

Wanted for Escape – Brandon Lee Bates – St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office

The St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office is seeking the whereabouts of Brandon Lee Bates, 26 of Charlotte Hall. Bates has an active warrant for the charge of escape second degree for violating the conditions of his pretrial release. Bates was previously arrested on theft charges. Bates is 5’10” in height, weighs 175 pounds, and...
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Officers Apprehend Four Robbery Suspects in Charles County

Officers Apprehend Four Robbery Suspects in Charles County

On May 8 at 11:36 p.m., officers from the Charles County Sheriff’s Office responded to a motel in the 11000 block of Crain Highway in Glasva for the report of a citizen armed robbery. The victim reported two suspects, one who was armed with a gun, approached him as he was sitting outside his...
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