On Monday, December 23, 2019, at approximately 11:25 a.m., Troopers from the Maryland State Police La Plata Barrack responded for a report of a motor vehicle collision involving a single vehicle on Maryland Route 234 (Budds Creek Road) in the area of Jenkins Road in Charlotte Hall. Due to the circumstances, the Maryland State...
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Tony Covington, State’s Attorney for Charles County, announced that on Thursday, December 19, 2019, a Charles County jury convicted Melvin Edward Johnson, 63, of Indian Head, of Home Invasion, First-Degree Assault, Attempted First-Degree Arson, Second-Degree Assault, Reckless Endangerment and related charges. On July 1, 2018, officers responded to a residence in the 3300 block...
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On December 9, 2019 deputies of the Wicomico County Sheriff’s Office Criminal Investigation Division began an investigation into a reported CDS violation involving a teacher soliciting a student for prescribed medication. The investigation revealed that the teacher, Elizabeth Day, solicited a 16-year-old student to purchase two (2) ADHD pills for $20.00. Day is a...
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On December Saturday, 21, 2019 at approximately 7:45 a.m., officers from the Charles County Sheriff’s Office responded to the 8900 block of Jacksonstown Road in Nanjemoy for the report of a male lying on the side of the road. Officers arrived and found Guy Kevin Hayes, 31, of Nanjemoy; he was pronounced deceased on...
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UPDATE 12/18/2019: Deante Mandel Duckett, 34, of Brandywine was arrested by U.S. Marshals at a home in Waldorf on December 12, 2019. Duckett had been wanted since July 10th when he cut off his ankle monitoring device. When Duckett was arrested, he was in possession of a stolen 9mm handgun and a box of ammunition....
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On December 11, 2019, the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office Vice Narcotics Division with assistance from the Emergency Services Team, K-9 Unit, and members of the Patrol Division executed a search and seizure warrant at a residence located at 46475 Chapman Drive in Lexington Park. Thomas Emanuel Gross, 34 of Lexington Park, was located...
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UPDATE 12/13/2019: Tony Covington, State’s Attorney for Charles County, announced that on Friday, December 13, 2019, Charles County Circuit Court Judge H. James West sentenced Sherman Kelly, Jr., 40 of Waldorf, to 43 years in prison for Sexual Abuse of a Minor, Third-Degree Sex Offense, and two counts of Production of Child Pornography. On...
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The St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office, with the assistance of the Maryland State Police and the Maryland State Highway Administration, will be conducting a roadside sobriety checkpoint on Friday evening, Dec. 13, 2019, in central St. Mary’s County. The sobriety checkpoint will be conducted on Route 235 on Friday night in the California/Lexington Park...
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UPDATE 12/12/2019: Tony Covington, State’s Attorney for Charles County, announced that on Thursday, December 12, 2019, Charles County Circuit Court Judge Amy J. Bragunier sentenced Miguel Angel Santana, 29 of Waldorf, to life in prison for Conspiracy to Commit the First-Degree Murder of Lydell Wood and Possession of a Firearm with a Disqualifying Crime....
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On Saturday, November 23, 2019, at approximately 10:45 p.m.,Cpl. Beishline of the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office made contact with the female victim who advised of a domestic assault which occurred at a residence on Rosslare Court in Lexington Park. The victim told police that she was seated in the garage when Michael Andrea...
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On Saturday, December 07, 2019, at approximately 12:45 a.m., Troopers from the Maryland State Police La Plata Barrack responded for a report of a motor vehicle collision involving two vehicles on northbound United States Route 301 in the area of Faulkner Road in Faulkner. Due to the seriousness of the collision, a request was...
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The St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office is seeking the identities of the persons pictured in a theft case. On Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019 at 10 am, the suspects entered the Ulta Beauty store in California together. One suspect loaded a large purse with various boxed men’s cologne and women’s perfume. The other suspect also...
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UPDATE 12/6/2019: Tony Covington, State’s Attorney for Charles County, announced that on Thursday, December 5, 2019, Charles County Circuit Court Judge Amy J. Bragunier sentenced Marquis Deangelo Swann, 26 of Waldorf, to 20 years in prison for three counts of First-Degree Assault. On June 28, 2019, co-defendant Butler-Charles entered a guilty plea to three...
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On Wednesday, December 4 at 12:32 p.m., officers from the Charles County Sheriff’s Office responded to the 800 block of Copley Avenue in Waldorf for the report of a male assaulting several family members. When the first officer arrived, he observed a male, later identified as Kelvin Lynell Brawner, 30, of Waldorf, in front...
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On Sunday, November 24, 2019, Deputy A. Budd, from the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office, responded to St. Mary’s College, to assist College Public Safety Officers, after they had activated an emergency button on their radio. An Investigation determined officers Douglas Sprouse and Nicholas Landrum were assaulted by Corey James Squibb, 18, of Greenbelt....
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On December 3, 2019, at approximately 5:50 p.m., officers from the Charles County Sheriff’s Office responded to the 12000 block of Ell Lane in Waldorf for the report of a shooting. When officers arrived, they located an adult male with a gunshot wound to his arm. He was transported to an area hospital where...
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UPDATE: The armed robbery is now being investigated as a home invasion. The suspects forced open front door of the complex and then a door to the residence before entering the apartment. Once inside the suspects demanded specific items from the home and stole a large amount of cash. It appears the suspects knew...
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UPDATE 12/3/2019: On November 25, 2019, police responded to a residence on Harrow Court in Waldorf for a home invasion. An adult female, had been confronted at the front door of her home, forced back inside, tied up with duct tape and severely beaten in her face by two unknown males. Once inside the...
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A teacher at Bowie High School in Bowie is facing charges in connection with the sexual abuse of a female student at the school. The teacher is 29-year-old K Sean Donovan Jr. of the 3200 block of Winterbourne Drive in Upper Marlboro. On December 1st, the Prince George’s County Police Department launched an investigation...
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In June 2019, the Maryland State Police Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) task force received one Cybertip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) in reference to someone distributing child pornography. The cybcrtip, was reported by Tumblr and that the report was created in Tumblr’s system on 4-24-19. Police reviewed the...
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The St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office is seeking the identity of the person pictured in a burglary case. On Sunday, Nov. 24, 2019 at approximately 8:00 a.m., the suspect broke into the victim’s detached garage at the 21600 block of Mechanicsville Road in Mechanicsville and took a Stihl leaf blower, an Echo weed eater,...
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Maryland State Police will have extra troopers on patrol all across the state as the Thanksgiving holiday approaches. A variety of initiatives will be employed to keep traffic moving safely, to respond quickly to highway incidents, and to take appropriate enforcement action when violations occur, to keep travelers safe on Maryland roads. Beginning Wednesday,...
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On December 21, 2018, Deputy First Class Ball of the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office responded to the 38700 block of Collinwood Drive in Abell, for the reported burglary. Investigation determined an unknown individual forced entry into the victim’s residence and removed personal property. St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office Crime Lab responded and processed...
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Dailisa Charmainge Mease, 28, of no fixed address, was sentenced to eighteen months of active incarceration for assaulting two law enforcement officers and resisting arrest from an August 2019 incident in Mechanicsville. Mease was believed to be under the influence of Phencyclidine (PCP) and admitted using PCP earlier in the day. Mease will have...
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On November 12, 2019 Deputy Rzepkowski of the Calvert County Sheriff’s Office responded to Cabin Court in Owings for the report of a vehicle theft. The victim advised that sometime between 3:00 pm on November 11th and 8:30 am on November 12th and unknown suspect(s) stole their vehicle that was parked in their driveway....
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