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UPDATE: 20-Year-Old Lexington Park Man Dead After Vehicle Strikes Tree in Lexington Park

UPDATE: 20-Year-Old Lexington Park Man Dead After Vehicle Strikes Tree in Lexington Park

UPDATE 12/5/2023: On Sunday, December 3, 2023, at approximately 12:15 p.m., Troopers from the Maryland State Police Leonardtown Barrack responded to the Northbound Lanes of Three Notch Road, near McDowell Lane, for the report of a vehicle into a tree. Troopers and other emergency services personnel arrived to find a single vehicle off the...
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Nanjemoy Man Sentenced for Reckless Endangerment After His Son Shoots Himself with Gun

Nanjemoy Man Sentenced for Reckless Endangerment After His Son Shoots Himself with Gun

On November 27, 2023, Christopher Thomas Chaillet, 36, of Nanjemoy, pleaded guilty in Calvert County Circuit Court to reckless endangerment and permitting a child to have access to a firearm. The evidence showed that Chaillet, who possessed a valid Maryland handgun permit, knowingly left a loaded handgun in his truck while his 2-year old...
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UPDATE: Young Boy Passes Away After Fierce Fight with Cancer

UPDATE: Young Boy Passes Away After Fierce Fight with Cancer

We regret to announce the passing of Finn Cusick on Sunday, December 3, 2023. His family shared the following “At 3:16 p.m. Finn took his last breath and made his journey home. It was very peaceful. He is with God and is suffering no more.” The Charles County Sheriff’s Office shared the following. “On...
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One Transported to Trauma Center After Serious Motor Vehicle Collision in La Plata

One Transported to Trauma Center After Serious Motor Vehicle Collision in La Plata

On Sunday, December 3, 2023, at 5:33 p.m., police, fire and rescue personnel responded to the area of 9075 Mitchell Road in La Plata, for the serious motor vehicle collision with entrapment. Crews arrived on the scene to find a two vehicle involved in a T-bone style collision with one trapped. Firefighters requested a...
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Elderly Male Suffers Medical Emergency Leading to Single Vehicle Collision in California

Elderly Male Suffers Medical Emergency Leading to Single Vehicle Collision in California

On Friday, December 1, 2023, at approximately 11:30 a.m., police, fire and rescue personnel responded to Wildewood Parkway and White Oak Parkway in California, for the reported motor vehicle collision with unknown injuries. Crews arrived on the scene to find a single vehicle off the roadway and into a tree with the elderly male...
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Detectives Investigating Teen Shot by Masked Gunman in Prince Frederick

Detectives Investigating Teen Shot by Masked Gunman in Prince Frederick

On Friday, Dec. 1, 2023, around 7:05 a.m., deputies from the Calvert County Patrol Bureau responded to the report of a shooting on Sark Court in Prince Frederick. Deputies arrived on scene and located a juvenile male suffering from a gunshot wound to the upper body. The victim was flown to an area trauma...
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Calvert Sheriff’s Office Launches Holiday Safety Campaign

Calvert Sheriff’s Office Launches Holiday Safety Campaign

Sheriff Ricky Cox and the men and women of The Calvert County Sheriff’s Office have kicked off a holiday safety campaign, with the goal of keeping our residents and businesses safe this holiday season. The Sheriff’s Office has supplemented routine patrols with additional deputies on foot patrol, bicycle patrol, and in marked and unmarked...
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The Second District Volunteer Fire and Rescue Squad Hosting 2nd Annual Christmas Tree Lighting

The Second District Volunteer Fire and Rescue Squad Hosting 2nd Annual Christmas Tree Lighting

Mark your calendars! The Second District VFD&RS will be hosting their 2nd Annual Christmas Tree Lighting on Friday, December 1, 2023, from 5:00 – 9:00 PM. Santa & Mrs. Claus and their elves will be there to light the tree at 6:30 PM. We even heard that the Grinch may show up! There will...
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Great Mills High School Releases Statement After Large Fight with Injuries

Great Mills High School Releases Statement After Large Fight with Injuries

On Thursday, November 30, 2023, at approximately 1:12 p.m., police responded to the Great Mills High School for a large physical disturbance. 911 callers reported 20 to 30 students were actively fighting. An ambulance was requested to standby nearby, however, they were cancelled prior to their arrival. Principle BeeJay Dothard released the following letter....
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Sunderland Man Sentenced to 45 Years for Sex Abuse of Minor

Sunderland Man Sentenced to 45 Years for Sex Abuse of Minor

On November 27, 2023, Nam Hong Nguyen, 40, of Sunderland, was sentenced in Calvert County Circuit Court to 45 years in prison, with 15 years of active time, for attempted rape and sex abuse of a minor child. The sentence was imposed by Judge Mark S. Chandlee. In November of last year, Nguyen entered...
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Police Seize Firearms and Drug Cache in Lexington Park Apartment, Suspect Arrested in Calvert County

Police Seize Firearms and Drug Cache in Lexington Park Apartment, Suspect Arrested in Calvert County

Through a joint investigation conducted by the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office and the Calvert County Sheriff’s Office Drug Enforcement Unit, a search and seizure warrant was executed Wednesday, November 29, 2023, at an apartment in the 46000 block of Hilton Drive, Lexington Park, MD; the resident of the apartment was previously identified as...
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Charles County Detectives Assume Investigation Into Missing Indian Head Man After Finding His Vehicle Submerged in Mattawoman Creek

Charles County Detectives Assume Investigation Into Missing Indian Head Man After Finding His Vehicle Submerged in Mattawoman Creek

The Charles County Sheriff’s Office is currently seeking information leading to the location of a missing person, Jamell LeeHeung II, 25, of Indian Head. LeeHeung was initially reported missing on November 25, 2023, to the U.S. Navy Police at the Indian Head Base where he lived. On November 27, 2023, investigators from the Naval...
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Stomach Contents of Blue Catfish Reveal Their Ecological Toll

Stomach Contents of Blue Catfish Reveal Their Ecological Toll

By Bay Journal – Jeremy Cox – Photos by Dave Harp., November 28, 2023: In terms of appetite and willingness to gorge on just about anything, blue catfish have few peers in the Chesapeake Bay, experts say. “They’re eating everything, anything they can get their mouths around,” said Noah Bressman, a fish biologist at...
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SMECO Employees Raise $58,000 for Cornerstone Southern Maryland

SMECO Employees Raise $58,000 for Cornerstone Southern Maryland

Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative (SMECO) employees recently held a fund-raising event and donated $58,000 to Cornerstone Southern Maryland. “We chose Cornerstone as this year’s fund-raising recipient because they help people with behavioral health disorders enhance their quality of life and realize their potential as citizens of the community,” said Natalie Cotton, SMECO’s government affairs...
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Police Investigating Hunting Accident Involving Self-Inflicted Gunshot Wound in Great Mills

Police Investigating Hunting Accident Involving Self-Inflicted Gunshot Wound in Great Mills

On Sunday, November 26, 2023, at approximately 9:00 a.m., police, fire and rescue personnel responded to the 19000 block of Greens Crossing Court in Great Mills, for the reported shooting. The 911 caller reported he was approximately 20 yards into the wooded area behind the address provided and advised he had accidentally shot himself...
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Maryland State Police Investigating Fatal Motor Vehicle Collision in Waldorf

Maryland State Police Investigating Fatal Motor Vehicle Collision in Waldorf

On Friday, November 24, 2023, at approximately 7:48 p.m., Troopers from the Maryland State Police La Plata Barrack responded for a report of a motor vehicle collision on Route 301 (Crain Hwy) south of Acton Lane in Waldorf. Due to the seriousness of the collision, the Maryland State Police La Plata Barrack requested a...
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UPDATE: Three Indicted for Murder of 26-Year-Old Man at Sheetz in Great Mills

UPDATE: Three Indicted for Murder of 26-Year-Old Man at Sheetz in Great Mills

UPDATE 11/25/2023: On Monday, November 20, 2023, James Jerome Adams Jr., 19, of Great Mills, and an adult, who at the time of the incident was a juvenile from Bushwood, were indicted for their involvement in the murder of 26-year-old Marcus Anthony Day on April 4, 2023. Both the juvenile from Great Mills, and...
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Governor Moore and Lt. Governor Miller Honor Victims Of Fatal Crashes In Maryland

Governor Moore and Lt. Governor Miller Honor Victims Of Fatal Crashes In Maryland

Governor Wes Moore and Lieutenant Governor Aruna Miller last night joined safety advocates from across the state and families who have lost loved ones in car crashes for the 20th annual Maryland Remembers ceremony in Annapolis. The ceremony traditionally honors Marylanders who were killed in impaired driving crashes. This year, the event was expanded...
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Police Investigating Motor Vehicle Collision After Suspected Overdose in California

Police Investigating Motor Vehicle Collision After Suspected Overdose in California

On Wednesday, November 22, 2023, at approximately 5:30 p.m., police, fire and rescue personnel responded to the intersection of Three Notch Road and Chancellors Run Road in California, for the serious motor vehicle collision with one occupant trapped and a second unconscious. Crews arrived on the scene to advise multiple vehicles in the roadway...
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Lusby Couple Arrested on Multiple Drug Charges in Calvert County

Lusby Couple Arrested on Multiple Drug Charges in Calvert County

On November 8, 2023, Calvert County deputies initiated a traffic stop on a vehicle after observing several traffic offenses. Upon making contact with the driver, Kevil Casswell Gregory, 43 of Lusby, and passenger Alexa Kirsten Freeman, 28 of Lusby, it was learned Gregory was operating the vehicle without a valid driver’s license. Further investigation...
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UPDATE: Lexington Park Man Sentenced to Life Without Parole Plus Life in Prison for the Murders of a 6-Year-Old Child and Her Mother

Wayne Carroll Key, Jr., 43, of Lexington Park

UPDATE 11/21/2023: Wayne Carroll Key, Jr., 44, was sentenced to Life without parole consecutive to Life in prison for the double homicide of a six-year-old child and her mother. “The defendant viciously and senselessly murdered the child’s mother and when he realized the child witnessed his heinous crime, he consciously and maliciously killed again. I...
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Police Investigating Pedestrian Struck in Lexington Park, Victim Transported with Life-Threatening Injuries

Police Investigating Pedestrian Struck in Lexington Park, Victim Transported with Life-Threatening Injuries

On Tuesday, November 21, 2023, at approximately 1:05 p.m., police, fire and rescue personnel responded to the area of Great Mills Road and Westbury Boulevard in Lexington Park, for the reported motor vehicle collision involving a pedestrian. Multiple 911 callers reported a pedestrian was struck and was possibly not breathing. Crews arrived on the...
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Police Investigating Two Children Struck and Killed While Walking to School in Prince George’s County

Police Investigating Two Children Struck and Killed While Walking to School in Prince George’s County

The Prince George’s County Police Department’s Collision Analysis and Reconstruction Unit (CARU) is investigating a fatal collision outside of Riverdale Elementary School in Riverdale Park on Monday. Two students were struck as they walked to school and died of their injuries. The victims are 10-year-old Shalom Mbah of Riverdale and five-year-old Sky Sosa of...
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Police in Charles County Investigating Reports of Unconscious Driver Recover Drugs and Make Arrest

Police in Charles County Investigating Reports of Unconscious Driver Recover Drugs and Make Arrest

On November 19, 2023, at 5:28 a.m., patrol officers from the Charles County Sheriff’s Office responded to the area of Crain Highway and Mattawoman Beantown Road for the report of a car stopped in the roadway. When officers arrived, they observed the driver was unresponsive, the car was in drive and the driver’s foot...
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UPDATE: Police in St. Mary’s County Investigating Fatal Motor Vehicle Collision That Killed 42-Year-Old Lexington Park Man

UPDATE: Police in St. Mary’s County Investigating Fatal Motor Vehicle Collision That Killed 42-Year-Old Lexington Park Man

UPDATE @ 3:00 p.m.: At approximately 8:59 a.m. Monday November 20, 2023, Deputies from the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office responded to the report of a head on motor vehicle collision in the area of Three Notch Road and Expedition Drive. A preliminary investigation revealed the operator of a Honda Accord, was traveling southbound...
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