UPDATE: This upcoming Monday and Tuesday (10/12 & 13/2929), funeral services will be taking place in Charles County for Officer Jacob Hancher, a police officer in Myrtle Beach who was killed in the line of duty on October 3. Officer Hancher was from Charles County and his family still lives in this area. Members of...
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On Saturday, October 10, 2020, at approximately 11:15 p.m., police, fire and rescue personnel responded to the area of the Piney Point Post Office in Piney Point, for the motor vehicle collision involving a golf cart with one subject unconscious. Firefighters arrived on the scene to find a single golf cart on the shoulder...
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UPDATE 10/10/2020: When asked about the release of Tyquan Samuel Wills. Sr., State’s Attorney, Richard Fritz provided SMNEWSNET with the following Quotes. “This office has been complaining about the bonding process for years. Between the Maryland legislature and the courts, it is most difficult to hold anyone except the most violent criminals in jail....
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The Commissioners of St. Mary’s County, St. Mary’s County Health Department, the Volunteer Rescue Squads and the St. Mary’s County Department of Emergency Services are committed to providing emergency medical service response to our citizens during the pandemic. The Department of Emergency Services is working toward supplementing the county’s volunteer EMS services. The county...
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The Commissioners of St. Mary’s County held their regular business meeting Tuesday, Oct. 6, in the Chesapeake Building in Leonardtown and opened by presenting four proclamations. The recognitions included National Disability Employment Awareness Month, Case Management Recognition Week, Domestic Violence Prevention Month, and National 4-H Week. Commissioner John O’Connor brought up the recent concerns...
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UPDATE 10/7/2020: Delante Javon Holley, 28, Tyrell Marquice Birdine, 20, both of Lexington Park, were charged in St. Mary’s County Circuit Court with First Degree Murder and First Degree Assault. On Sunday, September 13, 2020, Birdine and Holley were seen by witnesses kicking and were stomping on the head of 63-year-old Twain Belafonte Harrod...
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On Sunday, October 4, 2020 the Harrington Police Department arrested Robert Moton 30, of Waldorf, MD after he led officers on a high speed pursuit early Sunday morning. While on patrol at approximately 1:16 a.m., an officer was conducting traffic enforcement on South DuPont Highway in the area of Shaw Avenue in Harrington, DE....
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UPDATE 10/06/2020: On September 21, 2020, Paul Sylvester Thompson, 27 of Mechanicsville was arrested by Dep. Wynnyk for Driving Vehicle While So Far Impaired by Drugs Cannot Drive Safely. Thompson has been charged with the following. (DRIVING, ATT.TO DRIVE) VEH. WHILE SO FAR IMPAIRED BY (DRUG(S),DRUG(S)&ALCO) CANNOT DRIVE SAFELY (DRIVING, ATTEMPTING TO DRIVE) VEH....
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UPDATE 10/6/2020: On Wednesday, September 23, 2020, Samantha Lynn Lester, 29, of Hollywood was arrested by Trooper J. Azzari. Lester has been charged with the following. NEGLIGENT DRIVING VEHICLE IN CARELESS AND IMPRUDENT MANNER ENDANGERING PROPERTY, LIFE AND PERSON DRIVING VEHICLE WHILE UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF ALCOHOL DRIVING VEHICLE WHILE UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF...
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On Saturday, October 3, 2020, at approximately 4:31 p.m., an unidentified subject operating a Ford Fusion struck the outdoor seating area of the Social Coffee House located at 41658 Fenwick Street in Leonardtown. The St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office is currently investigating the collision. No injuries were reported. If you have any information on...
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On Thursday, October 1, 2020, at approximately 4:30 p.m., police and emergency medical personnel responded to the 46400 block of Sue Drive in Lexington Park, for the animal attack in progress. Dispatchers advised the 911 caller reported a 3-year-old male was actively being attacked by a Pit Bull with the child having unknown severity...
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On Sunday October 4, 2020, at approximately 12:25 p.m., police and emergency medical personnel responded to Gate 2 located at Cedar Point Road and Three Notch Road in Lexington Park, for the possible overdose and motor vehicle collision. Police arrived on the scene to find a green Ford Focus had struck, and was resting...
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On Sunday, October 4, 2020, at approximately 1:15 p.m., police, fire and rescue personnel responded to 17211 Bramble Way in St. Inigoes, for the reported gunshot victim. The 911 caller was a realtor who was showing a property to a client on Bramble Way when she told 911 operators that her client was struck...
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During the month of September, deputies of the Calvert County Sheriff’s Office responded to over 6,316 calls for service throughout the community. On September 21, 2020, Deputy Savick responded to E. Chesapeake Beach Rd. Owings (Dash-In) for a disorderly complaint. The complainant advised a male subject Vernon K. Pumphrey, Jr. (64) was inside the...
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On Thursday, October 1, 2020, at approximately 3:45 p.m., police, fire and rescue personnel responded to the area of Colton Point Road and Hurry Road in Clements, for the motor vehicle collision reported serious with one subject trapped and not alert. Crews arrived on the scene to find two vehicles in the roadway involved...
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The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Baltimore Field Division and the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), the trade association for the firearms industry, have announced a combined reward of up to $10,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for the theft of numerous...
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On Friday, September 25, 2020, at approximately 10:58 a.m., police, fire and rescue personnel responded to 21729 Great Mills Road and North Shangri-La Drive at the Walgreens Pharmacy, for the reported motor vehicle accident involving a structure. Crews arrived on the scene to find one vehicle on the sidewalk with intrusion into the building....
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On Tuesday, September 29, 2020, at approximately 11:48 a.m., police, fire and rescue personnel responded to the 48200 block of Hillside Drive in Lexington Park, for the motor vehicle accident with one subject unconscious. Crews arrived on the scene to find a single vehicle in the roadway with minor damage, with the adult male...
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The St. Mary’s County Health Department (SMCHD) has determined that persons confirmed to have COVID-19 may have come into close contact with other community members. The potential public exposure location, dates, and times are as follows: Expressions of Beauty Hair Salon 28103 Three Notch Rd, Mechanicsville, MD 20659 Dates: September 12, 16, 17 and...
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UPDATE 9/28/2020 @ 10:30 a.m.: On Sunday, September 27, 2020 at approximately 8:45 p.m., members of the Calvert County Sheriff’s Office Patrol Bureau and Crash Reconstruction Team responded to the intersection of Chesapeake Beach Rd. (MD Route 260) and Mt. Harmony Road in Owings, for a report of a single vehicle collision involving a...
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On Saturday, September 26, 2020, at approximately 2:00 a., Troopers from the Maryland State Police La Plata Barrack responded for a report of a serious motor vehicle collision on US Route 301 (Crain Hwy) in the area of Pierce Road in Waldorf. Due to the seriousness of the collision, the Maryland State Police La...
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UPDATE 9/25/2020: Tony Covington, State’s Attorney for Charles County, announced that on Friday, September 25, 2020, Shawn Marshall Myers, after a bench trial before District Court Judge W. Louis Hennessy, Shawn Marshall Myers, 42 of Hughesville, was convicted of two counts of Failure to Comply with an Emergency Order. Immediately after the trial, Judge...
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On Thursday, September 24, 2020, at approximately 5:05 p.m., police, fire and rescue personnel responded to the area of Three Notch Road and St. Andrew’s Church Road in California, for the motor vehicle collision reported serious with possible entrapment. Crews arrived on the scene to four vehicles in the roadway with no entrapment. Witnesses...
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On Wednesday, September 23, 2020, at 8:30 a.m., Chief 6A from the Valley Lee Volunteer Fire Department requested a structure fire assignment at his residence for a motorhome on fire. Crews from Valley Lee, Bay District, Leonardtown, NAS Patuxent River, and Hollywood responded to 45000 block of Lillian Lane in Callaway, bringing over 30...
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UPDATE 9/23/2020: Daniel John Burridge, 37 of Bowie was found guilty of Vehicular Manslaughter – Gross Negligence, and sentenced to 15 years in prison. The court determined Burridge caused the death of Oriana Sherezade Motta Gaitan while driving in a grossly negligent manner. UPDATE 7/24/2019: Daniel John Burridge, 36 of Bowie was issued the...
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