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It’s been over a month now since Catherine Hoggle, the mother suspected in the 2014 disappearance of her young children, Sarah and Jacob, appeared in District Court at a hearing on her competency. For 18 months, Hoggle has been treated for mental health issues at Clifton T. Perkins state hospital. In this MyMCMedia Extra video, […]

MyMCMedia has obtained copies of three statements that are now part of the court record in the case of Catherine Hoggle, the Clarksburg mom who is suspected in the 2014 disappearance of her children, Sarah and Jacob. Hoggle’s mother, the father of her children, and her aunt all contend in affadavits that the 29-year-old mother […]

Susan Kenedy hosts the latest episode of Council in Brief, which begins with an update on the county’s BELL program, a summer academic and enrichment support program for students that do not have grade level skills in math and reading. Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) would bring bus routes on some of the county’s busiest roads […]

Montgomery County prosecutors are applauding the sentencing of a 20-year-old Suitland man. Judge Steven Salant sentenced Quinton Battle to 30 years, with 12 years suspended, for armed robbery and first degree burglary on Feb. 25th. Battle was charged with several crimes that occurred in Takoma Park in 2014. “Mr. Battle will have 18 years to […]

Doctors say Catherine Hoggle is mentally incompetent to stand trial. But some of her family members disagree. Now prosecutors want to challenge the doctors at a state hospital where Hoggle has been undergoing treatment for over a year, and they want to hire their own doctor to evaluate her. MyMCMedia’s Sonya Burke reports a judge […]

Siblings Sarah (5) and Jacob (3) Hoggle disappeared from their Clarksburg home in Sept. of 2014. Their mother, Catherine Hoggle, is the last known person to have seen them and she continues to be treated for mental health issues at a state hospital. In this MyMCMedia Extra video, State’s Attorney John McCarthy says the investigation […]

Handcuffed, in leg shackles, wearing eyeglasses and with her hair pulled back, a thinner Catherine Hoggle appeared in a Rockville district courtroom on Feb. 22 in front of Judge John Moffett. It was her fifth court hearing since she was ordered to undergo treatment for mental health issues at Clifton T. Perkins Hospital in Jessup […]

Catherine Hoggle is due back in a Montgomery County courtroom on Monday, Feb. 22nd. Hoggle, who has been treated for mental health issues at Clifton T. Perkins Hospital for over a year now, is the last known person to have seen her young children Sarah (5) and Jacob (3) before they disappeared in September of […]

A Montgomery County grand jury has indicted Luis Gustavo Reluzco for the Dec. 3rd collision that resulted in the death of Police Officer Noah Leotta. MyMCMedia’s Sonya Burke reports. Reluzco’s next court date is Feb. 19th.

In this MyMCMedia Extra video, State’s Attorney John McCarthy formally announces the indictment of Luis Reluzco, who is charged with manslaughter by motor vehicle and failure to avoid an emergency vehicle in the Dec. 3rd collision that resulted in the death of Montgomery County police officer Noah Leotta. Judge Robert Greenberg ordered Reluzco held on […]