Detectives from the Charles County Sheriff’s Office Criminal Investigations Division (CID) arrested John Alan Lynch, 28, of Indian Head, after a Charles County Grand Jury indicted him in connection with charges of sexual abuse of a minor, sexual solicitation of a minor, and solicitation for prostitution. An arrest warrant was issued and Lynch was taken into custody today. The facts of the case are as follows: On January 23, 2025, Lynch, who was a building service worker at Henry...
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On Tuesday, April 1, 2025, at 2:55 a.m., police responded to the Cyreene Pharmacy located at 25805 Point Lookout Road in Leonardtown, for the reported burglary in progress. Deputies arrived at the business at approximately 3 a.m. and discovered that the power to the building had been switched off at a breaker box. Upon further inspection, they found evidence of forced entry into the pharmacy and observed clear signs of theft inside. The Criminal Investigations Division has assumed the...
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State’s Attorney Jaymi Sterling announced that Marvin Orlando Johnson, 39, of Mechanicville, was sentenced to Life, plus an additional 20 years in prison, for the premeditated murder of his stepfather on May 24, 2023 Following a four-day jury trial in July 2024, a St. Mary’s County jury found Johnson guilty of first-degree murder and the use of a firearm in the commission of a crime of violence for shooting and killing his stepfather. On May 24, 2023, deputies from...
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On Monday, March 31, 2025, at approximately 2:57 p.m., Second District Ambulance 68 advised they were involved in a motor vehicle collision at Point Lookout Road and Hollywood Road in Leonardtown. Crews arrived on the scene to find two vehicle collision involving the ambulance and a passenger vehicle. Two occupants in the passenger vehicle were evaluated for injuries, while 3 EMS providers and 1 patient in the ambulance were evaluated. Ambulance 68 was transporting a non-priority patient to the...
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UPDATE 3/31/2025: Newly released court documents provided more information on the ongoing criminal case against Emerson Carl Schaeffer, 27, of St. Inigoes, who is now facing multiple charges in two separate incidents involving alleged assaults—including one case of felony child abuse. According to the documents, the alleged child abuse occurred nearly two years ago, on April 27, 2023, but was not reported until March 28, 2025. The delay stemmed from a lost video that was originally captured by a...
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On Saturday, March 29, 2025, at approximately 6:03 a.m., firefighters from Charles County responded to 3755 Opals Place in White Plains, for the reported house on fire. Crews arrived on the scene to find fire showing from the first floor of the two-story residence, with an elderly male suffering from smoke inhalation. Shortly after their arrival, crews reported the fire had spread to the basement, first and second floors. During firefighting operations, a Waldorf firefighter fell through the first...
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On Sunday, March 30, 2025, at approximately 11:03 a.m., police, firefighters and emergency medical services responded to the area of All Faith Church Road and New Market Turner Road in Mechanicsville, for the motor vehicle collision involving a motorcycle. Crews arrived on the scene to find a single motorcyclist off the roadway, with the operator conscious and alert. A short time later, Maryland State Police Helicopter Trooper 7 was requested to land nearby due to the patients injuries. Flight medics were...
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On Sunday, March 30, 2025, at approximately 3:57 p.m., police, firefighters and emergency medical services responded to the 2300 block of Dunkirk Drive in Owings, for the reported ATV accident. 911 callers reported a pediatric operator on an ATV was ejected after striking a tree. A helicopter was placed on standby. Crews arrived on the scene to find two patients suffering from serious injuries and requested an additional ambulance, and confirmed a helicopter was needed. Maryland State Police Aviation...
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UPDATE 3/28/2025: State’s Attorney Jaymi Sterling announced today that Michael Anthony Carlucci, 50, of Waldorf, Maryland, has been sentenced to serve seven years in prison in connection with a multi-vehicle high-speed crash that claimed the life of a mother of four, Jaleisa Wilcox, 33, and injured another individual. During the sentencing hearing, the State requested the maximum penalty of ten years in prison, despite the Maryland sentencing guideline range only calling for a sentence between three months and four...
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On Tuesday, March 25, 2025, at approximately 9:24 p.m., police responded to the 21400 block of Exquisite Court in Lexington Park, for the reported domestic involving a knife. Multiple 911 callers reported a domestic disturbance involving a knife with the suspect attempting to kill the dog. According to court records from the District Court for St. Mary’s County, Corey A. McDowney, 46, of Lexington Park, has been formally charged with aggravated animal cruelty, multiple counts of animal cruelty, and...
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UPDATE 3/26/2025 @ 1:00 P.M.: On Wednesday, March 26, 2025, shortly after 9 a.m., deputies from the Calvert County Sheriff’s Office Patrol responded to a report of a serious motor vehicle collision involving a school bus on Rt. 231 near Sea Gull Beach Road in Prince Frederick. Upon arrival, deputies found that the school bus was occupied by 12 students and a driver. Emergency response crews promptly assessed the individuals on board, resulting in two (2) students being transported...
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UPDATE 3/26/2025: The St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office is seeking the whereabouts of Britny Lee Blankenship, 35, of Lexington Park, for escape. On March 22, 2025, Deputies responded to the 21000 block of Liberty Street in Lexington Park for the report of tampering on Blankenship’s ankle monitor. The monitoring device was found to have damage to the band, indicating that it had been cut. Blankenship is a white female, 5’5”, 205 pounds, with blue eyes and strawberry blonde hair....
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UPDATE 3/26/25: The St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a fatal single-vehicle collision that occurred Tuesday afternoon. On March 25, 2025, at around 1:15 p.m., First Responders responded to the 44000 block of St. Andrews Church Road and Pops Way in California, MD, for a report of a crash. A preliminary investigation determined that a 2018 Hyundai Elantra left the roadway and struck a concrete barrier. The driver, Calvin Coolidge Edwards Jr., 76, of Lexington Park, was found unresponsive...
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UPDATE 3/26/2025: On Tuesday, March 25, 2025, at approximately 5:13 p.m., Troopers from Maryland State Police La Plata Barrack along with deputies from the Charles County Sheriff’s Office responded to United States Route 301 (Crain Hwy) at Holly Lane for a report of a serious motor vehicle collision. Due to the circumstances, the Maryland State Police CRASH Team responded to assume the investigation. A preliminary investigation conducted by Troopers from the MSP La Plata Barrack and the MSP CRASH...
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A Hollywood woman is facing multiple traffic charges following a late-night incident along Three Notch Road in St. Mary’s County. According to court documents filed on March 25, 2025, Kaylee Alyssa Burnett, 26, of Hollywood, was cited by the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office after being stopped near the intersection of Three Notch Road and Airport View Drive at approximately 10:59 p.m. on March 24, 2025. Burnett has been charged with driving or attempting to drive under the influence...
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Amber Michelle Hardesty, 41, of Mechanicsville, has been sentenced following her conviction for embezzlement and financial misconduct involving a vulnerable adult, according to court documents filed in the St. Mary’s County Circuit Court. Hardesty, was convicted on two misdemeanor counts of embezzlement. The offenses occurred in January 2023 and involved her misuse of funds...
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Wendell Giovanni Estes, 49, of Waldorf, is facing a wide array of criminal and traffic charges following an early morning incident on March 28, 2025, that began at a hotel in La Plata and ended in a high-speed pursuit spanning multiple jurisdictions. According to court documents, officers with the La Plata Police Department were...
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Hospice of the Chesapeake is pleased to announce that Christine Wilson, current Director of Advancement, will step into the new role of Executive Director of the Hospice of the Chesapeake Foundation. This position was created following the announcement of Shauna Chabot’s retirement as Chief Advancement Officer. Chabot will retire on April 15 after 14...
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On March 28, 2025, a Charles County Grand Jury indicted Kolbey Cooper, age 22, a Charles County corrections officer, with two counts of sexual contact with an incarcerated individual, two counts of 4th-degree sex offense, and delivering contraband (an e-cigarette) to a person detained in a place of confinement. In early February, correctional officers...
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On Monday, March 31, 2025, at approximately 1:25 p.m., firefighters and emergency medical services responded to the 7200 block of Hawthorne Road in La Plata, for the reported structure fire. Multiple 911 callers, involving one member of the Bryans Road Volunteer Fire Department reported a large woods fire involving a shed and multiple vehicles. Crews...
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Governor Wes Moore released the following statement regarding President Trump’s executive order ending federal workers’ collective bargaining rights. “Maryland will always have the backs of working people and organized labor. And amid the draconian federal cuts impacting public servants across our state, our partnership with organized labor has become more important than ever. In...
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On Saturday, March 29, 2025, at approximately 9:30 p.m., firefighters from Charles and Prince George’s County responded to the 2200 block of Bridle Path Drive in Waldorf, for the reported house on fire with animals possibly trapped. Crews arrived on the scene to find fire showing from the first and second floor of a...
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A routine traffic stop in Chesapeake Beach led to the arrest of a Virginia man on multiple charges after authorities allegedly discovered a loaded firearm and suspected drugs inside his vehicle. On the evening of March 19, 2025, a deputy from the Calvert County Sheriff’s Office conducted a traffic stop in the parking lot...
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On Sunday, March 30, 2025, at approximately 8:32 a.m., police, firefighters and emergency medical services responded to the area of Three Notch Road and Traveled Lane in Charlotte Hall, for the serious motor vehicle collision with rollover. Crews arrived on the scene to find two-vehicles involved in a rear-end style collision with no entrapment...
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On Friday, March 21, 2025, at 1:34 p.m., patrol officers initiated a traffic stop in the area of Western Parkway near Acton Lane in Waldorf on a vehicle that had been reported stolen. The driver refused to pull over and fled from officers where they later struck a curb in the area of Crain...
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On Sunday, March 30, 2025, at approximately 4:10 p.m., firefighters responded to the 14000 block of Oaks Road in Hughesville, for the reported unknown fire. 911 callers reported a large amount of smoke coming from the woods in the area of the given address. Additional callers then reported a fire in the woods near...
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A federal grand jury has indicted Sarah Maud Jess, 61, of Capitol Heights, Maryland. Jess is charged with conspiracy to distribute fentanyl, two counts of distribution of fentanyl, one count of possession with intent to distribute fentanyl, possession of a firearm and ammunition by an illegal alien, and reentry of an alien removed after...
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Troopers from the Maryland State Police Leonardtown Barrack are actively searching for a critically missing person, 51-year-old Joseph Herbert Swann, who was last seen on the morning of Wednesday, March 26, 2025. Swann reportedly left his residence on Gunnell Drive in Leonardtown at approximately 11:03 a.m. and was observed getting into a black Nissan...
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UPDATE 3/27/2025: On March 27, 2025, at approximately 2:00 p.m., Charles County Sheriff’s detectives were notified by the Prince George’s County Police Department that Richard Wilson, Jr., age 86, who had been reported missing from his Waldorf home on January 25, 2025, was located deceased in the water near Mariner Drive in Fort Washington,...
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The Maryland Department of Transportation State Highway Administration will resurface southbound MD 2/4 (Solomons Island Road) between Cox Road and MD 263 (Plum Point Road) starting Thursday night, March 27. The work is expected to be completed by mid-summer, weather permitting. Drivers can expect overnight single-lane closures Sundays through Thursdays from 9 p.m. to...
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On Thursday, March 27, 2025, at approximately 6:14 p.m., firefighters from the Bay District Volunteer Fire Department responded to Lexington Park Ford, located on Three Notch Road in California, for a vehicle fire reported to be threatening nearby vehicles. Crews arrived on the scene within two minutes of dispatch and found a single vehicle...
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Special Weather Statement issued March 27th, 2025, by NWS Baltimore MD/Washington DC. The combination of recent dry weather, relative humidity falling to 15 to 25 percent, and sustained west to northwesterly winds around 10 mph with gusts to around 20 mph may result in an elevated threat for the rapid spread of fires today,...
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