Updates will be provided throughout the day on this article. The risk of severe thunderstorms over much of our region today is ENHANCED (level 3 of 5). Damaging winds appear to be the primary threat, but hail, a few tornadoes, & flooding are also possible. Remain alert for rapidly changing weather conditions late this...
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On Monday, May 9, 2022, police responded to an apartment on Mechanicsville Road, in Mechanicsville, for the report of a baby not breathing. Upon arrival, police made contact with the mother of the 20-month-old female victim and she was identified as Samantha Marie Shadrick, 39, of Mechanicsville. Shadrick told police that earlier in the...
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The second-year Criminal Justice students from the Dr. James A. Forrest Career and Technology Center completed their 2022 internship program with the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office on May 4, 2022. This year’s session marked the return of the internship program for the first time since 2019 because of COVID-19 restrictions in place during...
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On Saturday, May 14, 2022, at approximately 5:45 p.m., police, fire and rescue personnel responded to the rear of the Super 8 Hotel located at 40 Commerce Lane in Prince Frederick, for the reported subject not breathing. Crews arrived on the scene to find the victim in the nearby wooded area in a homeless...
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With the assistance of the Maryland State Apprehension Team, Deputy State Fire Marshals arrested a Prince Georges County woman on multiple charges of arson stemming from two separate firebombings in October of 2021. Latrice Joneah Williams, 20, of Upper Marlboro, was arrested on multiple charges, including Arson 1st Degree and Manufacturing and Possession of...
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Derrell Lamar Hooker Orange (“Hooker Orange”) age 37, of Brandywine, Maryland, pleaded guilty to enticement of a minor to produce child pornography and to possession of child pornography. After Hooker-Orange entered his guilty plea, U.S. District Judge George J. Hazel ordered the defendant into U.S. Marshal custody because he determined that Hooker-Orange was a...
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On May 9, 2022, at 1:15 a.m., detectives from the Charles County Sheriff’s Office were conducting surveillance in the 3100 block of Leonardtown Road in Waldorf due to recent commercial burglaries in which the suspect(s) were smashing out the front windows to businesses and stealing money from cash registers. During their surveillance, a detective...
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On Thursday, May 12, 2022, at approximately 7:32 p.m., police, fire and rescue personnel responded to the Governor Thomas Johnson Bridge for the reported unoccupied vehicle. 911 callers reported a vehicle was located unoccupied on the top of the bridge. Deputies arrived on the scene and located a victim treading water directly under the...
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On Wednesday, May 11, 2022, at approximately 12:00 p.m., police, fire and rescue personnel responded to 625 Solomons Island Road in Prince Frederick, for the reported motor vehicle collision involving a structure and one patient reported unconscious. Crews arrived on the scene to find a single vehicle completely into the structure and reported two...
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Governor Larry Hogan announced the shipment of a multimillion dollar aid package, including medical supplies and body armor, to support the people of Odesa, Ukraine—a sister city of Baltimore. The Maryland Department of Health (MDH) is donating more than 485,000 bandages and wound care supplies, 95 Eternity mechanical ventilators for hospital intensive care units,...
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On Tuesday, May 10, 2022, detectives from the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office Criminal Investigations Division along with members of the Emergency Services Team (EST) served a search and seizure warrant at the residence of Joseph Daren Brooks Jr., age 19, in the 21700 block of Kearsarge Place in Lexington Park. As a result,...
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A suspected impaired driver was rescued from his burning vehicle after he struck a Maryland State Police patrol car which then subsequently struck a trooper, sending him airborne several feet from the crash. The accused is identified as Francis Ndoh, 29, of Laurel, Maryland. Ndoh is charged with driving under the influence. He was...
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UPDATE 5/9/2022: On May 5, 2022, members of the Lexington Park COPs Unit located and arrested Zeolaunte Monticello Hilliard, age 36 of Lexington Park, on an outstanding warrant for a shooting in March of 2021. On March 17, 2021, deputies from the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office responded to the 21000 block of Pegg...
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UPDATE 5/9/2022: Tony Covington, State’s Attorney for Charles County, announced that on Friday, May 6, 2022, Charles County Circuit Court Judge Donine Carrington Martin sentenced Fred Odell Scott, 58, of Waldorf, to 20 years in prison for the Second-Degree Murder of John Staton and the Use of a Firearm During the Commission of a...
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In February 2022, members from the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office Vice/Narcotics Division began an investigation into the distribution, transferring, manufacturing, and purchasing of firearms to minors. During the investigation Keyshawn NMN Green, age 19 of Lexington Park, was identified as a distributer of firearms to a minor. On April 7, 2022, a search...
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James Hutchings Jr., 41, of Waldorf, Maryland, has been found guilty by a jury in the District of Columbia of a federal conspiracy charge for his role as the middleman in an illegal transfer of weapons involving people prohibited from possessing firearms. The verdict was announced by U.S. Attorney Matthew M. Graves, Wayne A....
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UPDATE 5/8/2023: On Monday, May 8, 2023, Ronald Joseph Garraway, 60, of Chesapeake Beach, pleaded guilty to four charges in connection with a barricade situation that occurred last August. The charges included first and second degree assault and use of a firearm. On August 19, 2022, the Calvert County Circuit Court issued an order...
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UPDATE: Harvey was located and is being held at the Charles County Detention Center. 5/5/2022: The Charles County Sheriff’s Office is seeking the whereabouts of George Harvey, 43, of Waldorf, who has four open warrants including unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, failure to appear in court for two burglary charges and failure to...
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Westphalia Division VIII investigators released video of a shooting that occurred Wednesday evening in the City of District Heights. A young boy and a teenager were struck by the gunfire. Their injuries do not appear life-threatening. The video shows a Dodge minivan with at least four occupants, and Nissan Altima or Nissan Maxima 4-door...
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UPDATE 5/7/2022: Jesse Richard Bowen Jr., age 45 of Lusby, has been issued with five traffic citations on May 3, 2022. He was released from jail on the same day on his own recognizance. NEGLIGENT DRIVING RECKLESS DRIVING FAILURE TO DRIVE RIGHT OF CENTER (DRIVING, ATT.TO DRIVE) VEH. WHILE SO FAR IMPAIRED BY (DRUG(S),DRUG(S)&ALCO.))...
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On May 3, 2022, at 7:19 p.m., Traffic Operations officers from the Charles County Sheriff’s Office were conducting commercial vehicle inspections in the 12600 block of Crain Highway in Newburg when they stopped a truck for an inspection. During the stop, the officers learned the driver did not have a driver’s license. Upon further...
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UPDATE 5/5/2022: State’s Attorney Richard Fritz announces that on May 4, 2022, Ezekiel Jedidiah Thomas (DOB August 29, 1997) pled guilty to false imprisonment and felony assault on a staff member of Medstar Saint Mary’s Hospital that occurred on September 30, 2019. In his plea, Thomas admitted that he attacked a hospital staff member while...
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The Maryland State Police will be joining law enforcement agencies across the country by participating in the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s “Slow down – Move Over” campaign Friday, May 6 through Sunday, May 8. Every day, thousands of first responders and road workers take to the streets to help...
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U.S. District Judge Theodore D. Chuang sentenced Jason Daniel Ort, age 36, of Waldorf, Maryland, to 11 years in federal prison, followed by 15 years of supervised release, for transportation of child pornography, specifically videos Ort had surreptitiously recorded using a hidden camera in a bathroom, as well as other images and videos he...
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On May 4, 2022, detectives from the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office Vice/Narcotics Division conducted an operation with assistance from the Sheriff’s Office K-9 Unit and members of the Patrol Division. A vehicle stop was conducted in the 22400 block of Chancellors Run Road in California, and the operator of the vehicle was identified...
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