On Tuesday, May 27, 2025, the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office Alcohol Enforcement Unit conducted a series of tobacco compliance checks at retail establishments throughout the county to ensure adherence to laws prohibiting the sale of tobacco products to individuals under the age of 21. The operation involved 34 businesses and utilized a 20-year-old...
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On Sunday, June 1, 2025, at approximately 7:40 a.m., patrol deputies conducted a traffic stop on a Hyundai Sonata near the intersection of Three Notch Road and Lei Drive for an equipment violation. The driver, identified as James Perry Bond, 34, of Lexington Park, was known to deputies as an unlicensed individual. During the...
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A Virginia man is facing attempted murder charges following a Memorial Day road-rage shooting on Interstate 95 in Prince George’s County. The accused is identified as Fredy Gonzalez-Esquivel, 22, of Leesburg, Virginia. Gonzalez-Esquivel is charged with two counts of attempted second-degree murder, felony assault, using a firearm during a felony crime, malicious destruction of...
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United States District Judge Stephanie A. Gallagher sentenced Llyod Linwood Comer, 63, of Brandywine, Maryland, to 41 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release — with the first seven months on home detention — for conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank fraud, passport fraud, identity theft, and possession of a...
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Deputies from the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office responded to a reported motor vehicle collision with a possible disturbance on Sunday, May 18, 2025, at approximately 4:38 p.m. around MacArthur Boulevard and South Poteat Court in California, MD. While enroute, a deputy observed a group of five juveniles walking away from the vicinity of...
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UPDATE 5/27/2025: On Sunday, May 25, 2025, at approximately 1:07am, Troopers from the Leonardtown Barrack responded to the Sheetz gas station located 22711 Three Notch Road, California, MD 20619 for the report of an armed robbery. A black male, wearing a gray shirt, camouflage bandana (covering his face) and jeans, entered the Sheetz and...
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On Friday, May 23, 2025, at approximately 12:50 a.m., police and emergency medical services responded to the 10500 block of Shooting Star Lane in Waldorf, for the reported stabbing with serious injuries. 911 callers reported a 37-year-old female had a stab/laceration wound to the hand while reporting “the hand is almost falling off.” Crews...
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On Sunday, May 25, 2025, at 3:00 a.m., police, firefighters and emergency medical services responded to Eastbound U.S. Route 50 at Veterans Parkway for a motor vehicle collision with injuries. Prince George’s County Fire Department Engine 830 from Landover Hills responded to the scene to find multiple vehicles involved. A short time after EMS...
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On Tuesday, May 20, 2025, at approximately 7:00 p.m., police responded to the Chancellors Run Park, located on Chancellors Run Road in Great Mills, for the reported suspicious person. 911 callers reported a black male was exposing himself to children with multiple parents attempting to detain the subject on the ground. Upon arrival, St....
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Maryland State Police are reminding motorists to drive responsibly ahead of Memorial Day weekend. To combat distracted, aggressive, and impaired driving, troopers from each of the 23 Maryland State Police barracks and the State Police Impaired Driving Reduction Effort (SPIDRE) Team will conduct statewide DUI saturation patrols and high-visibility enforcement. A portion of the...
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Kenneth Watts, 57, of Upper Marlboro, Md., and James Kinard, 47, of Temple Hills, Md., were found guilty by a federal jury for their roles in a drug trafficking conspiracy that distributed large amounts of cocaine, fentanyl and PCP in the DMV. The conspiracy also used firearms to protect their narcotics and the proceeds...
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The Prince George’s County Police Department’s Homicide Unit assumed the investigation into a fatal shooting that occurred in the town of Fairmount Heights this weekend. The decedent is identified as 30-year-old Edward Coates III of Temple Hills. On May 18, 2025, at approximately 4:00 am, officers responded to the 5700 block of J Street...
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The St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office is proud to announce that Deputy Joseph Senatore recently completed a six-week K-9 handler training program. Deputy Senatore recently returned to patrol duty with his K-9 partner, Karma—a 16-month-old Czech German Shepherd trained in narcotics detection and tracking. The team was assigned to patrol last week and has...
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Attorney General Anthony G. Brown announced the indictments of seven defendants for multiple charges, including participation in a criminal gang, attempted murder, armed carjacking, armed robbery, assault, and firearms-related counts. These wide-ranging crimes are alleged to have occurred from August 2023 to July 2024 in Anne Arundel, Prince George’s, Howard, Charles, and Montgomery counties....
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CyJuan Hemsley, 18, of District Heights, Maryland, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in connection with the December 2023 break-in and burglary of 34 firearms from a Maryland pawn shop. The plea was announced by U.S. Attorney Edward R. Martin Jr., ATF Special Agent in Charge Anthony Spotswood of the Washington Field Division of...
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UPDATE 5/12/2025: Criminal Indictments have been filed for Jeff Allen Crews, age 33 of Washington D.C., and Maurice Antwan Roots age 34 of Washington D.C. Roots has been charged with Robbery, Conspiracy-Robbery, and Assault 2nd Degree. Crews is charged with the following. Armed Robbery (Felony) – 1 count Conspiracy-Armed Robbery (Misdemeanor) – 1 count...
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The Prince George’s County Police Department’s Collision Analysis and Reconstruction Unit is investigating a fatal collision that occurred early Monday morning. The deceased driver’s name will be released once his family is located and notified. On May 5, 2025, at approximately 12:50 am, officers responded to a collision in the 8600 block of Riggs...
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The PGPD’s Homicide Unit released video and images from a murder that recently occurred in Riverdale. Detectives are asking the community to call with any information on the suspect who killed 58-year-old Adeyemi Martin of New Carrollton. A reward of up to $25,000 is being offered for information leading to an arrest and indictment...
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On May 4, 2025, at approximately 7 a.m., Calvert County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to the 9700 block of Wildfire Lane in Owings for the report of a motor vehicle theft. Upon arrival, it was discovered that unknown suspect(s) had stolen a 2016 white Dodge Journey from the victim’s driveway and stole a wallet...
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Nathaniel Lamar Nelson Scott, 36, of Bowie, Maryland, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 96-months in federal prison in connection with traveling to sexually abuse a six-year-old girl in the District of Columbia. The sentence was announced by U.S. Attorney Edward R. Martin Jr., FBI Special Agent in Charge Sean Ryan of the...
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UPDATE 5/5/2025: State’s Attorney Jaymi Sterling announced that a St. Mary’s County jury found James Jerome Adams, Jr., 20, of Great Mills, Maryland, guilty of first-degree murder and the use of a firearm in the commission of a crime of violence for his role in a shooting homicide in Great Mills, Maryland. On April...
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UPDATE 5/5/2025: Ranje Reynolds, 28, of Beltsville, Maryland, was found guilty today by a jury of first-degree murder while armed and other charges related to a shooting that took place on a January evening on M Street in Georgetown, announced U.S. Attorney Edward R. Martin Jr. and Chief Pamela Smith, of the Metropolitan Police Department...
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On May 2, 2025, at 5 a.m., Demetrius Charles Dorsey, age 23, of La Plata, was arrested and charged in connection with numerous thefts of ATVs from across the region including King George County, Charles County, La Plata, Alexandria City, Prince William County, Prince George’s County and St. Mary’s County. Dorsey would seek out...
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The Prince George’s County Police Department’s Financial Crimes Unit (FCU) recently arrested two suspects linked to carrier scams. In the two cases, the victims handed over large amounts money and gold bars to scammers posing as carriers. In the first case, detectives arrested 25-year-old Parmveer Parmveer of Grove City, Ohio. He’s charged in connection...
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Prince George’s County Police Westphalia Division VIII patrol officers were dispatched on Saturday to the report of two large dogs attacking a man. This occurred at approximately 10:35 am in the 3200 block of Walters Lane. The preliminary details reveal that once on scene, one of the two dogs charged toward a responding officer....
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