Montgomery Community Media

Two men have been charged in a homicide that took place in Montgomery Village on Feb. 10, Montgomery County police said. Samuel Fayomi Brown, 20, of the 7000 block of Highview Terrace in Hyattsville and Tierek Ty Jay Thomas, 20, of the 1300 block of 5th Street NW, Washington, have been charged in the death […]

Montgomery County police charged a 27-year-old Bethesda man for an armed carjacking and an armed robbery. Michael Gainer Rothenberg, 27, of Buxton Terrace was charged in the carjacking, which occurred March 1, and the robbery, which occurred March 4, a police statement said. The carjacking occurred about 5 p.m., in the parking lot of the […]

Montgomery County police are asking the public to help identify an armed man who robbed a Silver Spring Exxon station. The robbery took place about 12:30 a.m. Jan. 25 at 8384 Colesville Road, police said. Police said an unknown man entered the gas station, brandished a knife and approached the employee working behind the counter. […]

A 35-year-old Gaithersburg man has been charged with impersonating a police officer, a police statement said. Itai Ozderman of the 100 block of Elmira Lane in Gaithersburg also faces a charge of transporting a handgun in a vehicle, police said. After obtaining a search warrant of Ozderman’s home, police found seven handguns, two assault rifles, […]

A 49-year-old Washington, D.C. man was struck and killed crossing Colesville Road in Silver Spring early Saturday morning, Montgomery County police said. The driver left the scene of the collision and was found by a county police officer, a police statement said. The driver, a 30-year-old woman from Laurel, was arrested for suspicion of driving under […]

A 27-year-old woman from the District has been charged in the Dec. 5 robbery that occurred at the ILORI store in Friendship Heights and the Jan. 5 armed robbery of the “Specs New York” store inside the Westfield Montgomery mall in Bethesda, Montgomery County police said. Stephan Simms of the 3500 block of 19th Street SE was […]

Rockville:  An attempted commercial burglary occurred at the Diamond Nails at 905 Rockville Pike in the early morning hours of Feb. 16. A 26-year-old man who has an unconfirmed address and a 28-year-old man from Silver Spring were arrested. A commercial burglary occurred at the La Mexicana restaurant at 16143 Shady Grove Road in the […]

Montgomery County police spokesman Capt. Paul Starks provides an update on the incident that closed Falls Road at I-270 on  Thursday. A tweet from police says the man threatened to harm a county judge. WJLA is reporting that a man was arrested for making threats against several locations, including a day care center. .@mcfrs just drove robot down […]

A 62-year-old Wheaton woman was the victim of a home invasion Friday, Montgomery County police said Wednesday. The woman, who lives in the 1700 block of Windham Lane, told police that about 12:45 p.m., she was in her kitchen when she heard a noise in the basement. The woman went to investigate the noise and […]

Montgomery County police officers were called to the Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School in Rockville on Monday morning to investigate a bomb threat. Police spokesperson Rick Goodale said police received the report at 9:37 a.m. and, he said, officers swept the school but found nothing. He said police officers are now trying to determine […]