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Julia Birch, 26, last week admitted to killing her roommate, 92-year-old Nancy Ann Frankel, according to Montgomery County Police (MCPD). Frankel’s cause of death was asphyxiation, Officer Carlos Cortes, with the police department’s Public Information Division, told MyMCM in an email Tuesday. According to police, officers and fire/rescue personnel responded to a home on Spruell […]

A woman has been arrested and charged with killing her roommate in Kensington, Montgomery County Police (MCPD) wrote in a release. Julia Birch, 26, admitted to killing 92-year-old Nancy Ann Frankel, police said. MCPD said that around 8:20 a.m. July 28, officers and fire/rescue personnel responded to a home on Spruell Drive in Kensington for […]

Update (July 22): A Damascus man has been arrested and charged for fatally shooting his father Tuesday morning. Montgomery County Police Department issued a statement Wednesday afternoon saying 24-year-old Jesse Jimenez of Damascus has been charged “with the first-degree murder of his father, 46-year-old Macklin Jimenez.” Both men lived in the same household on Gue […]

A Silver Spring woman has been arrested and charged with first-degree murder in the death of her infant daughter. The Montgomery County Police Department (MCPD) said Kiearra Tolson, 23, was arrested and charged for the death of her daughter, Blair Niles, about 15 months old. The infant’s body has not been found. On Wednesday, Tolson’s […]

Update (Sept. 18): Court records show that the student who hit a classmate with a frying pan at Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda faces first-degree assault charges. Police identified the student who was arrested at Whitman Monday morning as 19-year-old Prince Cutchember of Bethesda. Cutchember is being held without bail at the Montgomery County […]

A Montgomery County Circuit Court judge has sentenced a North Potomac man to life in prison for the murder of a Gaithersburg resident, according to Montgomery County State’s Attorney John McCarthy. Pavel Ivanov was found guilty of first degree murder on June 5 in the death of 22-year-old Bryan Robert Hall who was stabbed on […]

Montgomery County police have arrested and charged Ndokey Peter Enow, age 37, of Swan Stream Court in Gaithersburg, with solicitation to commit first-degree murder. Police said the intended victim of the crime was Enow’s ex-wife. Here’s an account of what happened from police: “On the evening of June 3, Major Crimes detectives received information that Enow […]

UPDATED Detectives from the Montgomery County Police Fifth and Sixth District Investigative Sections have arrested two Germantown brothers in connection with a shooting that occurred at 10:30 p.m. in Gaithersburg on October 19. According to police, one victim was located in the 7700 block of Prince Hall Court and another victim was found in the […]