UPDATE 1/20/2019: According to a Staff Directory on the Leonardtown High School website, Dwayne Ronald Dyke, 58 of Issue, is employed as a physical education teacher. Dykes Employment status is unknown at this time. A spokesman for the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office confirmed Dyke is a teacher at Leonardtown High School, and that the...
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On Sunday, January 20, 2019 at approximately 2:25 a.m., fire and rescue personnel from Calvert and St. Mary’s County responded to the Thomas Johnson Bridge, for a water rescue investigation. At approximately 2:15 a.m., police requested a boat to investigate under the bridge after finding an unoccupied vehicle still running on the bridge. Shortly...
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On Saturday, January 19, 2019 at approximately 3:30 p.m., police fire and rescue personnel responded to the boat ramp parking lot below the base of the Thomas Johnson Bridge for a subject with traumatic injuries. 911 callers reported the subject had what looked like multiple serious injuries and fire personnel responded asking for a...
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The Prince George’s County Police Department and the Seat Pleasant Police Department have both issued press releases on the investigation of an officer-involved shooting involving on-duty City of Seat Pleasant police officer, and St. Mary’s County Commissioner, John E. O’Connor. Prince George’s County Police, Press Release: Prince George’s County Police Detectives with our Criminal Investigation Division along...
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UPDATE: 1/18/2020: U.S. District Judge George J. Hazel sentenced Justin Paul Keener, age 31, of Patuxent River, Maryland, to 25 years in federal prison, followed by lifetime supervised release, on each of two counts of abusive sexual contact with a child, to be served concurrently. Judge Hazel also ordered that, upon his release from...
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On December 16, 2018 at approximately 6:40 a.m., police from the Calvert County Sheriff Office responded to a residence on Howard Drive in Port Republic for the report of a theft. Police arrived on scene and made contact with the victim who told officers that she was looking through here jewelry box and noticed...
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On Saturday, January 12, 2019, Deputy First Class Roszell of the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office responded to the 38000 block of Golden Beach Road in Mechanicsville, for the reported assault. Investigation determined Clements William Copsey III, 41 of Mechanicsville, assaulted the victim, who is an amputee and wheelchair bound. The victim told police...
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Detectives with the Charles County Sheriff’s Office Criminal Investigations Division and Forensic Science Unit have identified the suspect in a sexual assault that occurred in 1993 in Waldorf. Vincent Wayne Jones, 51, of Tennessee, was arrested by members of the Bartlett County Police Department and the CCSO in September 2018. He waived extradition and...
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On Thursday January 17, 2019 at approximately 7:15 a.m., police fire and rescue personnel responded to the area of Hollywood Road, and Fwd Drive, in Hollywood for the reported motor vehicle accident with injuries. Crews arrived on scene to find two vehicles in the roadway in a head-on style collision. Two patients were transported...
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In July 2018, the Maryland State Police Internet Crimes Against Children received a cyber tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in reference to someone distributing child pornography. According to the cyber tip, Twitter, advised someone uploaded possible child pornography in June of 2018. Twitter provided that the Twitter account returned...
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On Saturday, January 12, 2019 at approximately 2:30 a.m., Riverdale Heights and surround volunteer fire departments responded to 5804 Roanoke Avenue, in Riverdale, for the reported structure fire. Prior to arrival, dispatch advised the 911 caller reported smoke coming from the roof of the structure. Firefighters arrived on scene to find a 1-story building...
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UPDATE 1/15/2019 @ 5:00 p.m.: On January 14, 2019, at approximately 2:00 a.m., firefighters from Second District and surrounding volunteer fire departments responded to 20475 Point Lookout Road, in Great Mills for the reported structure fire. Crews arrived on scene of the APF construction yard and found 4 commercial vehicles on fire. The four vehicles,...
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UPDATE: On January 12, 2019 at approximately 6:15 a.m., Waldorf and surround fire departments responded to 3325 Leonardtown Road, in Waldorf, for the reported building fire. Firefighters arrived on scene of a single story storage facility with fire and smoke showing. The fire reached 2-Alarms and 75 firefighters fought the blaze for over an hour...
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On January 2, 2019, at approximately 1:20 p.m. Deputies from the Calvert County Sheriff Department responded to the Walmart in Dunkirk for the report of a person with a weapon. Police were advised that a subject wearing camouflage pants and a purple jacket advised that he was going to his car to get a...
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On Sunday, January 13, 2019 at approximately 5:00 a.m., firefighters from Waldorf and surrounding companies responded to a reported chimney fire/smoke in a residence. Shortly after responding, Chief 3B from Waldorf Volunteer Fire Department advised Rescue Squad 3 from Waldorf crashed and overturned on Crain Highway and Acton Lane, in the area of the...
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UPDATE 1/14/2019: The Maryland State Police has lifted the Snow Emergency Plan for Charles, Calvert and St. Mary’s Counties effective at immediately. Motorists are encouraged to continue to use caution while driving as they may quickly encounter different road conditions throughout Southern Maryland. 1/12/2019: The Snow Emergency Plan for Calvert County has been placed into...
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UPDATE 1/14/2019: The Maryland State Police has lifted the Snow Emergency Plan for Charles, Calvert and St. Mary’s Counties effective at immediately. Motorists are encouraged to continue to use caution while driving as they may quickly encounter different road conditions throughout Southern Maryland. 1/12/2019: The Snow Emergency Plan for Charles County has been placed into effect...
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UPDATE 1/14/2019: The Maryland State Police has lifted the Snow Emergency Plan for Charles, Calvert and St. Mary’s Counties effective at immediately. Motorists are encouraged to continue to use caution while driving as they may quickly encounter different road conditions throughout Southern Maryland. 1/12/2019: The Snow Emergency Plan for St. Mary’s County has been placed into...
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On Saturday, January 12, 2019 at approximately 3:35 a.m., firefighters from Prince Frederick, Solomons, St. Leonard, Hollywood, Bay District and surrounding fire departments responded to Cheyenne Lane in Lusby, for the reported structure fire. Dispatch advised responding units they received multiple calls advising a neighbors house two doors down is on fire. Crews arrived...
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On Friday, January 11, 2019 at approximately 4:55 p.m, units from Calvert and St. Mary’s County responded to the area of 12444 Sedalia Trail, and 540 Antelope Trail, for the reported plane crash. First arriving units reported a fire with multiple extensions. Firefighters on scene are now reporting it is NOT a plane crash,...
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On January 10, 2019, detectives with the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office Vice Narcotics Division, along with the COPS Unit, Sheriff’s Office K-9, and the Emergency Services Team executed a search warrant in the 40000 block of King Drive in Mechanicsville. Recovered during the search warrant were two handguns, cocaine, marijuana, and U.S. currency....
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On Saturday, December 29, 2018 at approximately 10:40 p.m., Trooper Kelly of the Maryland State Police Prince Frederick Barrack responded to the area of Stoakley Road, in Prince Frederick, to assist Corporal Newcomer with a traffic stop. Corporal Newcomer advised Trooper Kelly that he was following a black GMC truck southbound on Maryland Route 4...
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On Thursday, January 3, 2019, Deputy R. Forbes, from the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office was in the area of Great Mills Road and Midway Drive, in Lexington Park when he observed a green Dodge Dakota operated by a female who was stopped the day before for driving on a suspended and revoked license. The...
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On Monday, January 7, 2019, at approximately 12:30 a.m., Patrolman First Class, R. Fields, from the La Plata Police Department was dispatched to Piscataway Court, in La Plata, for the report of an assault in progress. Upon police arrival, they made contact with the victim, an adult female, who advised her children’s father had...
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On Monday, January 07, 2019 at approximately 2:15 p.m., deputies from the Calvert County Sheriff’s Office responded to Tranquil Court, in Prince Frederick, for a report of an intoxicated adult male causing property damage in a house. Deputies were at this same address earlier that day for a disorderly subject. The caller, an adult...
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