Montgomery Community Media

Here are five things to know today, August 12, in Montgomery County: 1. Grizzly bears make their debut at the Montgomery County Agricultural Fair. 2. Montgomery County Police are investigating multiple reports of vehicle vandalism in Olney. 3. A rising freshman at Montgomery Blair High School , Katherine Wu has been named a national finalist […]

Detectives from the Montgomery County Police –Major Crimes Division have arrested and charged Morris Kenneth Thweatt, age 46, of Takoma Park, for the robberies of three banks in Silver Spring. According to police, the bank robbery suspect would enter the bank and pass a note to the teller stating that he had a bomb. Police […]

Detectives from the Montgomery County Police Department are investigating a bank robbery that occurred on July 22 at 2:52 p.m. at the Bank of America, located at 10151 Colesville Road in Silver Spring. Detectives learned that a man walked into the bank, produced a note and displayed an unknown type of potentially-explosive device. Police said […]

Montgomery County Police are on the scene of an alleged bank robbery reported at the Bank of America on Colesville Road in Silver Spring. Cpl. Rebecca Innocenti said the call for a robbery came in at about 2:52 p.m. Tuesday. No additional information was immediately available.

Montgomery County police are investigating a bank robbery at M & T Bank at 10420 Montgomery Avenue that occurred around 4:30 p.m. on June 23 in Kensington. According to police, the suspect obtained cash and fled on foot. After an extensive search, police said a suspect is in custody. 4:39 P.M. Bank robbery at M&T […]

Montgomery County police are investigating a bank robbery that occurred around noon on May 29 at the Bank of America, 8511 Georgia Avenue. According to the police investigation, the suspect entered the bank, approached the bank teller, and passed a note and bag through the teller window announcing a robbery. The suspect then fled the […]

UPDATED Montgomery County police are investigating an armed bank robbery that occurred at 10:02 a.m on March 11 at the Wells Fargo bank at 404 King Farm Boulevard in Rockville. According to police, two male suspects entered the bank armed with handguns and demanded money. Police said the suspects obtained an undisclosed amount of cash […]

Detectives from the Montgomery County Police Department, Major Crimes Division, continue to investigate two bank robberies that police believe were committed by the same suspect. Both robberies took place at the same Wells Fargo bank, at 8701 Georgia Avenue in Silver Spring. According to police, on Jan. 21, police responded to the Wells Fargo bank […]

Detectives from the Montgomery County Police, Major Crimes Division, have arrested and charged a suspect for the robbery of the Capital One bank in Olney that occurred on Feb. 20. Michael Williamson, age 29, of the 3300 block of Buehler Court in Olney, was arrested on the evening of Feb. 20 and charged with one […]

Detectives from the Montgomery County Police Department continue to investigate a bank robbery that occurred on Feb. 12 at a HSBC bank in Bethesda.  On Feb. 13, detectives released surveillance photographs of the suspect and police are asking for the public’s assistance in identifying him. Here’s a police account of what happened: “On Wednesday, February […]