Montgomery Community Media

The family of Bradley Colmes, who  was beaten outside his Montgomery Village home in June, are pleading for help from the public to identify the attacker(s).  Colmes was brutally beaten on the night of June 12 as he was taking out his trash.  He died in the hospital a few days later.  At this point, police […]

Montgomery County Police executed another search warrant Tuesday at the Hyattsville home of Richard Welch looking for more clues to solve the missing Lyon sisters case. Capt. Darren Francke, commander of Montgomery County Police Major Crimes Division,  said officers conducted the search today and recovered a “few items of significance.” “We seized some items that were […]

As the family marks six months this weekend since toddlers Sarah and Jacob Hoggle have been missing, their mother charged in their disappearance continues to be found incompetent by the mental health hospital where she is being treated, according to her latest evaluation. Catherine Hoggle is a patient at the Clifton T. Perkins Hospital Center, where […]

As the Maryland General Assembly heads into session in Annapolis Jan. 14, Governor-elect Larry Hogan has said he plans to put resources statewide into battling what he has called a “heroin epidemic.” Montgomery County Police Capt. Darren Francke spoke to MyMCMedia about the incidences of heroin use in Montgomery County. Francke said the county is […]

Montgomery County has had than double the number of reported homicides in 2014 than in 2013. Last year, there were 19 homicides. That compares to 8 in 2013. But, Capt. Darren Francke, director of the department’s Major Crimes Division, said the number is not alarming. He talks about the county’s homicide rate in this MyMcMedia […]

Tips from people who believe they may have seen the missing Hoggle toddlers are “slowing,” according to Montgomery County Police Capt. Darren Francke. Francke, director of the department’s Major Crimes Division, said his officers run out every tip and most recently have gone to investigate sightings in Frederick County’s Costco and Olive Garden restaurant. None […]

Searchers are scouring Taylor’s Mountain in Bedford County, Va. as new leads point them to an area police say might contain the remains of the missing Lyon sisters. Montgomery County Police have eight investigators participating in that search this week, according to Montgomery County Police Capt. Darren Francke, director of the department’s Division of Major […]

The New Jersey video that one woman said might have included the missing Hoggle toddlers from Clarksburg did not include any images of the children, according to Montgomery County Police. Capt. Darren Francke, director of the department’s Major Crimes Division, told MyMCMedia Thursday that the department reviewed the video sent from the Joyce Kilmer Service Area off […]

Montgomery County Police are waiting on a video they say is on its way from New Jersey and on it one woman claims may be images of missing Sarah and Jacob Hoggle. Laura Penny of Shoreham, Long Island, N.Y. told MyMCMedia Monday that she thinks she may have spotted the toddlers who have been missing from Montgomery […]

Montgomery County Police Capt. Darren Francke says the police continue to dedicate resources to the Hoggle case in the search for the missing toddlers, Sarah and Jacob. He is requesting the community recheck their properties for signs of the children that might have been uncovered with the change of the season. In this MyMcMedia Extra […]