Montgomery Community Media

Police charged a Silver Spring man after an five-hour standoff that left his 72-year-old grandfather injured, a Montgomery County police statement said. Jalen Christopher Marshall, 25, of the 13500 block of Montvale Drive in Silver Spring, barricaded himself inside the family home, police said. Emergency Response Team (ERT) officers forced entry into the home and […]

Detectives from the Montgomery County Police Department are asking for the public’s help with identifying the person they said is responsible for robbing a CVS Pharmacy in Wheaton. Police said that on Oct. 21, the store’s location at 2321 University Boulevard West, for the report of an armed robbery. An investigation by detectives revealed that the suspect […]

Update, Wednesday: Montgomery County police said Valentino Pritchett, 18, shot himself as officers tried to arrest him for the Oct. 23 killing of 20-year-old Stephen Frazier of Germantown. Pritchett, of an unconfirmed address, was developed as a suspect during the investigation, police said. About 7 p.m. Tuesday, officers found Pritchett traveling in a vehicle in the area […]

A 21-year-old Rockville man is behind bars, charged with the rape of a 17-year-old girl near the Twinbrook Metro, police said.  Malachi Peter Raymond of Autumn Wind Way in Rockville has been charged with the second-degree rape of the teenager, police said.  The two met on a Metrobus Monday, police said.  When the bus stopped […]

Montgomery County police have released a surveillance video hoping someone can identify the men involved in an altercation that took place before 5:30 a.m. Sept. 15 in the 900 block of Bonifant Street in Silver Spring. Silver Spring police district officers responded to a call for an assault in progress. The preliminary investigation revealed that […]

Saturday, Oct. 27, law enforcement agencies will be collecting unwanted, unneeded or expired prescription drugs for the National Prescription Drug Take Back Day. Gaithersburg Police accepts unwanted prescriptions at its police station year round. And all 23 Maryland State Police barracks will accept unwanted prescriptions from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. Sponsored by the […]

The Montgomery County Council hosts its eighth annual youth town hall meeting Wednesday, Oct. 24 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the Council Office Building in Rockville. The meeting will be held in the Council’s third floor hearing room. A reception before the meeting will start at 6 p.m. where students can talk with councilmembers […]

Police are investigating a rape of a 16-year-old girl that occurred near the Twinbrook Metro station on Monday. According to a Montgomery County police statement, the girl said she boarded a bus at Randolph and Selfridge roads in Wheaton. She and a male passenger, who was on the bus when she boarded, both left the bus […]

Montgomery County Council President Hans Riemer meets the media and discusses Metro, the threat to Walter Johnson High School, small cell towers and a proposed outdoor smoking ban.

Casey Aiken if the host for the latest episode of 21 This Week. On this week’s show, Aiken and the panel discuss Ike Leggett’s endorsement of Ben Jealous, the Democratic nominee in the Maryland Governor’s race, the 6th District Congressional race and David Trone, parents complain about class sizes, and Montgomery County upgrades vocational training. This […]