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Police Release Surveillance Video to Help Nab Would-Be Thieves A stick shift prevented potential carjackers from taking a car from a Westfield Montgomery parking garage last week, police said. Now police are releasing surveillance video in hopes the would-be thieves can be identified. About 9:15 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 2, a man was returning to his […]

Montgomery County police have released the surveillance video from an armed robbery at a Silver Spring ice cream shop in hopes the public can help identify the culprit. The robbery occurred about 9:50 p.m. July 31 at Moorenko’s Ice Cream, at 8030 Georgia Ave., according to a police statement. Police said a man entered the […]

Montgomery County police believe the same man committed a series of burglaries on the same street in Bethesda the same night, according to the latest police crime summary. The three burglaries took place in the 10500 block of Meredith Avenue. Two occurred between about 1 a.m. and 7 a.m. June 1. The third occurred about […]

The Montgomery County police crime summary shows several commercial burglaries targeting restaurants. A commercial burglary occurred at the Five Guys restaurant at 12238 Rockville Pike, Rockville, in the early morning hours of March 20. Forced entry; cash and property were taken. Police seek three men. A commercial burglary occurred at Siena’s Restaurant at 12303 Twinbrook […]

Montgomery County police charged a 27-year-old Bethesda man for an armed carjacking and an armed robbery. Michael Gainer Rothenberg, 27, of Buxton Terrace was charged in the carjacking, which occurred March 1, and the robbery, which occurred March 4, a police statement said. The carjacking occurred about 5 p.m., in the parking lot of 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 […]

Montgomery County police officers are investigating an armed carjacking that occurred Thursday night at the Episcopal Church of our Savior in Hillandale. Police said on April 14 at approximately 9:10 p.m., 3rd District officers responded to 1700 Powder Mill Road for the report of an armed carjacking. According to police, the investigation indicates that the […]

UPDATE Detectives of the Montgomery County Police Department-Major Crimes Division have charged Wanya Simms, of Chesapeake Street SE in Washington, DC with armed carjacking. The carjacking happened on Nov. 5, 2014. According to a news release, police are still investigating the identities of two other suspects involved in the crime. Investigators found DNA evidence from the […]

Two brothers who police said used a handgun to carjack a woman and then returned to the scene of the crime a few hours later are under arrest. Antonio Knox, 20 of Sligo Avenue in Silver Spring and his brother Anthony Knox, 21 of the 11800 block of Old Columbia Pike in Silver Spring are […]