Montgomery Community Media

Update (Aug. 30): The pedestrian struck by a vehicle on Randolph Road at Glenmont Circle on Tuesday has died from his injuries, police announced Friday evening. Police identified the pedestrian as 24-year-old Roger Odin Martinez-Mejia of Wheaton. The investigation for this collision is ongoing, police say. Original Post (Aug. 28): Montgomery County detectives from the Collision […]

El Departamento de Policía del Condado de Montgomery ha publicado fotografías del vehículo involucrado en un accidente que involucra a un peatón, en Rockville. La policía está pidiendo la ayuda del público para obtener información sobre el vehículo que huyó de la escena o del incidente. Alrededor de las 6:26 a.m. del 3 de julio, […]

Montgomery County Police Department has released photos of a vehicle involved in a pedestrian hit-and-run collision in Rockville from July 3. Police are asking the public’s help in coming forward with information about the vehicle or the incident. The incident occurred at around 6:26 a.m. July 3. A pedestrian—identified by police as 60-year-old Jose Reyes […]

A dispute broke out in Rothbury Drive, Gaithersburg, Thursday afternoon. There were four victims involved, two were taken to the hospital. One suffered cuts and minor injuries, another was punched. The other two refused treatment. The suspect is in custody and police are investigating, according to MCPD. Police investigating assault on Rothbury Drive in Gaithersburg. […]

A Montgomery County police officer remains hospitalized in stable condition after he tried to pull over an automobile on Interstate 270 and was struck by another automobile, a police statement said Thursday afternoon. Officer Robert Sagona, a four-year veteran of the force, was traveling north in his cruiser on I-270 near the Montgomery Village Avenue […]

Montgomery County police officers are investigating a fatal collision that occurred on Dec. 9 in Chevy Chase. It happened at Wisconsin Avenue and Somerset Terrace around 2:30 p.m. The police department’s preliminary investigation indicates that a 2002 Toyota Camry and a 2017 Toyota RAV4 were both traveling southbound on Wisconsin Avenue at Somerset Terrace, when […]

Montgomery County police officers are investigating a serious pedestrian collision that occurred last night in Rockville near the Twinbrook Metro. Police said the collision occurred shortly after 5:30 p.m. at Chapman Avenue and Bouic Avenue. According to the police department’s preliminary investigation, 63-year-old Esther Contreras was crossing Chapman Avenue in an eastern direction in the […]

UPDATED A pick-up truck through a restaurant in Silver Spring, Monday morning, according to Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Services Spokesperson Pete Piringer. A pick-up truck drove into La Frontera Restaurant and caused moderate structural damage, Piringer said. Emergency responders extricated the the driver of the car and transported the driver to the hospital. Randolph Road […]

UPDATED A Gaithersburg family is displaced from their Washingtonian Woods home after a lightning bolt ignited a fire at the three-level house Wednesday evening, according to a Montgomery County fire official. Fire and Rescue Spokesperson Pete Piringer said the Sept. 7th blaze occurred around 6 p.m. in the 200 block of Midsummer Drive, and it […]

UPDATED Montgomery County Fire and Rescue crews responded to what they are calling a “mass casualty” incident involving a two-van collision on Columbia Pike near Musgrove Road Thursday morning. According to Fire and Rescue Spokesperson Pete Piringer, 23 children, age 12 to 14, and two adults were transported to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. The accident caused multiple lane […]