Montgomery Community Media

Update (Oct. 1): Montgomery County Police Department released the name of the motorcyclist who died in a crash on Sept. 26. MCPD said in a news release, the “Collision Reconstruction Unit have identified the victim in Sunday’s fatality as 40-year-old Ernesto Abel Blanco Rodriguez of Havre De Grace.” Havre De Grace is located in Hartford County, Md. […]

Montgomery County police arrested the suspect of an armed robbery at a White Oak gas station, according to a press release. At 3:45 a.m. on Friday, police responded to a report of an armed robbery at a Shell Gas Station at 11150 New Hampshire Avenue. The suspect, Spiro Stafilatos, 33, entered the gas station and attempted to […]

A 33-year-old man was arrested Friday after police were notified of a burglary at the Starbucks in the Hillandale Shopping Center off New Hampshire Avenue. Police say Matias Concha, of Leisure World Boulevard, was observed by an officer walking in the area with items in his hands. In a press release, police added that “the […]

One person was transported to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries after a two-vehicle collision in the Brookeville area on Sunday evening. Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service officials responded to the 21700 block of New Hampshire Avenue near Gaithers Meadow Lane around 10:30 p.m. The crash caused one of the vehicles to flip over, […]

El peatón que fue atropellado por un automóvil en el área de White Oak, el jueves por la tarde, murió. David Rafael Velásquez de Silver Spring, de 65 años, sucumbió a sus heridas el jueves por la noche en un hospital local. Según un comunicado de prensa del Departamento de Policía del Condado de Montgomery, […]

The pedestrian who was hit by a car in the White Oak area on Thursday afternoon has died. 65-year-old David Rafael Velasquez of Silver Spring succumbed to his injuries on Thursday evening at a local hospital. According to a Montgomery County Police Department press release, an investigation revealed that a car that was traveling south […]

The Maryland Transportation Authority (MDTA) is in the process of upgrading the tolling system on the Intercounty Connector (ICC). A section of the the ICC in Montgomery County is scheduled to be closed Jan. 24-27 and Jan. 31-Feb. 3. The tolling hardware and software at all the toll facilities will be replaced as part of […]

Dos Oficiales de Montgomery, que se encontraban fuera de servicio, salvan a una pareja de Colesville que estaba atrapada dentro de su casa en las llamas Dos rescatistas, que no estaban en servicio, un oficial de policía y un teniente de bomberos, rescataron a una pareja de su casa en en llamas ubicada en Colesville, […]

Off-Duty Montgomery County Officers Saved Colesville Couple From Fire Two off-duty first responders — a police officer and a fire lieutenant — rescued a couple from a Colesville house fire on Tuesday morning. Sgt. Scott Brooks, a patrol sergeant for the Silver Spring police district, was driving to work on New Hampshire Avenue at around […]

Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Services are continuing to work on extinguishing a mulch fire, which began over the weekend at the Aspen Landscape Contractors, Inc.  located on the 15700 block of New Hampshire Ave. The right lane at Southbound New Hampshire Ave. at McNeil Lane is blocked due to fire department operations. According to […]