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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 […]

A man who pointed a rifle at another man at a Poolesville house has been charged with assault, a Montgomery County police spokesman said Thursday. Fernando Flores-Sandoval, 47, of the 15800 block of Budd Road, Officer Rick Goodale said. Quoting the charging documents, Goodale said Flores-Sandoval was recently fired from a landscaping company. The victim, […]

UPDATE: The man was taken into custody at 5:40 p.m., a police spokeswoman said. Original post: A man pointed a gun at another man and then barricaded himself inside a house in Poolesville, Montgomery County police said Wednesday. Police spent three hours negotiating with the man, who was holed up inside a house in the […]

UPDATED Montgomery County police officers are investigating a carjacking that occurred on Tuesday afternoon. According to police, the armed carjacking took place around 2:40 p.m. on Sept. 27th, in the 7200 block of Honeywell Lane in Bethesda. Police said the preliminary investigation indicates that a woman was in her 2010 black BMW on Honeywell Lane when she […]

UPDATED, Feb. 9, 2:37 p.m. Police said the man fatally shot himself. The situation is over, according to police. UPDATED, Feb. 9, 11 a.m. – Montgomery County Police say the man who barricaded himself on the property of  a landscaping company in Silver Spring is an employee of that company, Brookeville Landscape Supply. Police report that […]

The man who barricaded himself in his home on Sunday evening told police he had wanted to force officers to shoot him, according to a release from Montgomery County Police. Jeffrey Allan Flaherty is being held on $250,000 bond charged with four counts of first-degree assault. Police said the man barricaded himself in his Gaithersburg […]

UPDATED: A barricade situation ended peacefully when a Gaithersburg man surrendered after a three-hour standoff with police. Montgomery County Police report that a 53-year-old Jeffrey Allan Flaherty finally surrendered to police after initial reports he threatened a woman and her family and then barricaded himself in his home off Maryland Avenue. Police worked from about 7:15 p.m. […]

UPDATED Montgomery County police were called to the scene of the 17000 block of Hughes Road in Poolesville today where a man had reportedly barricaded himself in a house. Police Spokesperson Angela Cruz said the call came into dispatch at 9:17 a.m. today. According to Cruz, adjacent neighbors were evacuated as a precaution during the […]