Montgomery Community Media

A Gaithersburg man has been sentenced to more than 12 years in prison on drug charges, selling the potent addictive chemical fentanyl that led to at least one death, according to a statement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Greenbelt. Leandro Acevedo Lozada, 34, received 150 months in federal prison from U.S. District Judge Paul […]

Opioid addiction has reached crisis levels across the nation, including the local community. Carin Miller with the Maryland Heroin Awareness Advocates says she’s fighting against the epidemic mainly because it has affected her family directly. Then there’s Montgomery County resident, Vicki Bishop who lost her son to opioid addiction in 2017. With the epidemic claiming […]

A 42-year-old Takoma Park man received a 14½-year prison sentence Thursday for heroin and firearms possession charges in U.S. District Court, the Justice Department said Thursday. U.S. District Judge George J. Hazel also sentenced Stanley Eugene Green Jr. to supervised release after his imprisonment, according to the Justice Department statement. Green pleaded guilty to the […]

A 24-year-old West Virginia man has been charged in connection with the shooting deaths of two people whose bodies were found in a Burtonsville parking lot, a Montgomery County police statement said. Gregory Terrell Jones, of Raphael Court in Martinsburg, West Virginia, has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the slayings of […]

Montgomery County has filed its suit against opioid manufacturers, an effort to get the pharmaceutical companies to change how they market the painkillers and report suspicious sales. “To understand the magnitude of our challenge, all you have to do is simply ask our first responders, fire and rescue and police, ask our front-line personnel in […]

A 42-year-old Takoma Park man pleaded guilty to heroin and firearms charges in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt, according to a statement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office. U.S. District Judge George J. Hazel has scheduled the sentencing for April 5. According to the plea agreement, Stanley Eugene Green Jr. and others sold and possessed heroin […]

Montgomery County needs to start a conversation about the next steps in combating the opioid epidemic, a conversation that includes needle exchanges and “safe houses” where addicts can take drugs under supervision. The comment comes from the point person on the opioid epidemic in the county health department. Dr. Raymond Crowel said he knew the […]

Your daily rundown of five stories and events happening today, Aug. 31, in Montgomery County, Maryland: 1. Hoggle Case: It’s been almost three years since siblings Sarah (6) and Jacob (5) Hoggle disappeared from their Clarksburg home in Sept. of 2014. Their mother, Catherine Hoggle, is the last known person to have seen them, and […]

New data from the state health department show the opioid crisis continues in Montgomery County and Maryland. In the first quarter of 2017, Montgomery County had 27 overdose deaths compared with 21 in the same period in 2016, the Maryland Department of Health reported. Across the state, 550 overdoses were recorded in the first quarter, […]

Here are five things to know today, July 24, in Montgomery County: 1. Meet the Media: Council President Roger Berliner meets with reporters at 11:30 a.m. 2. County Agenda: The County Council’s Public Safety and Health and Human Services committee meet at 10:45 a.m. to receive an update on heroin, opioid and Narcan use in […]