Montgomery Community Media

Safe Silver Spring, a community civic group, hosted a conversation on Jan. 12 at the Silver Spring Civic Building about legislative priorities to ensure public safety in Montgomery County. Body cameras on police officers, what happens after police confiscates assets, wiretapping laws, independent prosecutors when there is police involved in a shooting, and sex crime […]

Who would abandon a seven-week-old pit bull puppy in a parking lot in Burtonsville during one of the coldest months of the year? That’s what investigators with the Montgomery County Police Department’s Animal Services Division want to know. Animal Services officers found the puppy in the 4200 block of Tazewell Terrace in Burtonsville on Jan. […]

Safe Silver Spring, a community civic group, is scheduled to host a meeting tonight to discuss police body cameras, what happens after police confiscates assets, wiretapping laws, sex crime reporting, among others. Montgomery County Police Chief Tom Manger, Montgomery County Councilmembers Tom Hucker and Marc Elrich, and State Senator Jamie Raskin are scheduled to speak […]

A small group braved the cold weather Friday afternoon in Rockville to show their support for law enforcement officers on National Law Enforcement Appreciation Day. The group of about a dozen people walked several blocks in downtown Rockville holding signs of support for the police. Allie Frishkorn organized the rally she said was to counter […]

The New Jersey video that one woman said might have included the missing Hoggle toddlers from Clarksburg did not include any images of the children, according to Montgomery County Police. Capt. Darren Francke, director of the department’s Major Crimes Division, told MyMCMedia Thursday that the department reviewed the video sent from the Joyce Kilmer Service Area off […]

UPDATED Dec. 29- Police have located Claire Duffy safe and unharmed. ORIGINAL POST Montgomery County police officers are asking for the public’s assistance in locating a missing Silver Spring woman. According to police, Claire Duffy, age 48, of the 1200 block of East-West Highway in Silver Spring, was last seen in the area of Carroll Avenue […]

Montgomery County police officers are asking the public for help in locating a missing Montgomery Village teen. According to police, Daniela Carmen Quintanilla, age 15, of the 18000 block of Lost Knife Circle in Montgomery Village was last seen on December 12. Daniela is described by police as a Hispanic female, 5’05” tall, 145 pounds, […]

Santa traded his sleigh for a Montgomery County Police Department motorcycle Wednesday, Dec. 17. The Annual Police Santa Ride began in Germantown and made many stops along the way including Wegmans’ Food Market in Germantown, Public Safety Headquarters in Gaithersburg, Mama Lucia in Rockville, downtown Silver Spring on Ellsworth Street, and finally The Children’s Inn […]

UPDATED: Police are investigating the death of a man in the Bel Pre area of Silver Spring now considered a homicide. Montgomery County Police responded to the 14600 block of King Lear Court at about 3:36 p.m. were they say a relative found a man in his 30s dead inside the home. Police say the […]

Montgomery College hosted a People of Color and U.S Criminal Justice Forum to talk about race relations and the county’s police force. Aline Barros has the report.