Montgomery Community Media

Drive Continues Through Oct. 10 The Montgomery County Police Department (MCPD) is collecting items to send to the Bahamas to assist with hurricane recovery efforts. Hurricane Dorian struck the Bahamas on Sept. 1 as a Category 5 hurricane. Damage estimates are over $7 billion and so far the death count is at 51, however many […]

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 […]

Update: Montgomery County Police continue to investigate a body found in Germantown on Sunday. Police responded to a report Sunday evening at about 6:20 p.m. of an injured person in the field behind the Germantown Extended Stay Hotel, according to a press release. Officers located a deceased man with trauma; the body was transported to the […]

The Montgomery County Police Department (MCPD) and the FBI are still investigating the disappearance of Ronal Giovani Vasquez-Flores in 2016, the MCPD said in a statement Monday.  Vasquez-Flores is from Gaithersburg and was 23 when he disappeared on July 16, 2016. Investigators think he was a victim of foul play and that his disappearance is […]

Montgomery County police are continuing to investigate a fatal collision in Olney that occurred on Georgia Avenue near the Intercounty Connector on Sept. 6. The collision occurred at 8:56 p.m. on a Friday night and involved four vehicles, according to police. Police say, a 2014 Infinity Q50S was heading North on Georgia Avenue and a […]

Update (Sept. 12, 10 a.m.): Montgomery County police say the victim in Monday’s homicide is 39-year old Jennifer Sparks.   Montgomery County police say a body found along Great Seneca Highway last month belonged to a 57-year-old Gaithersburg man. Montgomery County police arrested and charged a Germantown man with first-degree murder Monday night. Police responded to a […]

Police have made it clear that passing a stopped MCPS school bus while it’s loading and unloading students is against the law. New this year, all county school buses are equipped with enforcement cameras. Violators will get fined $250 for each violation, and if challenged in court, the fine can go up to $500. Motorists […]

Montgomery County police are searching for a suspect on foot following a car chase that ended in a crash.  This happened in the area of the Beltway (I 495) and Wisconsin Avenue (Rt 355) Monday morning before 5 a.m. The car driven by the suspect was stolen, according to the police. MCPD on scene of […]

A 69-year old Colesville man was killed Saturday afternoon in a single-car crash, according to the police. They say 69-year old Sommai Tangchaiburana, of Princeville Court in Colesville, was driving a 1984 Mercedes south on Hawkesbury Lane shortly before 5 p.m. when the vehicle left the roadway and struck several trees. The wreck happened near […]

Detectives del Departamento de Policía del Condado de Montgomery, Unidad de Reconstrucción de Colisiones, están investigando una seria colisión de peatones que ocurrió anoche en Wheaton. El 27 de agosto, aproximadamente a las 9:09 p.m., los oficiales del 4to Distrito respondieron al llamado de una colisión entre un vehículo y un peatón en Randolph Road […]