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Germantown District police released surveillance photographs Thursday of the four people believed to have committed an assault and robbery asking for the public’s help in identifying them. About 10:32 p.m. July 19, Germantown District officers responded to the area of the 19700 block of Crystal Rock Drive in Germantown for the report of a robbery […]

Sunflowers, politics, shopping and, of course, public safety were among our top stories for last week.

A man told Rockville city police he was struck from behind and robbed, according to the latest city police crime summary. The man was walking down Baltimore Road and Charles Street when he was approached from behind by three other men. The incident occurred between 12:35 a.m. and 1 a.m. July 12, police said. One […]

Montgomery County police are investigating two unrelated robberies that started as online sales, and officers are encouraging residents to use “safe exchange zones” to conduct such transactions. Here’s a MyMCMedia video of Germantown District Capt. Mark Plazinski describing the safe exchange zone at the district’s station at 20000 Aircraft Drive. Both robberies took place in […]

Montgomery County police believe the same man committed a series of burglaries on the same street in Bethesda the same night, according to the latest police crime summary. The three burglaries took place in the 10500 block of Meredith Avenue. Two occurred between about 1 a.m. and 7 a.m. June 1. The third occurred about […]

A Verizon Wireless store in Olney was robbed by two men in April, and Montgomery County police are asking for the public’s help in identifying them. The robbers entered the store, at 18130 Georgia Ave., about 9 p.m. with their faces concealed as two employees were closing the business for the evening, according to a police […]

Fourteen burglaries reported in the Montgomery County police crime summary for May 15 to May 23. Rockville: A residential burglary occurred in the 1300 block of Darnestown Road between about 12 a.m. and about 7 a.m. on May 21. Forced entry; nothing was taken. Bethesda: Two commercial burglaries occurred at the following locations: At Saul […]

A 23-year-old Clarksburg man has been arrested in the April 29 shooting death of 19-year-old Amaru Amir Santos Johnson, a Montgomery County police statement said. Eric Anthony Lee of the 13500 block of Wood Crest Manor Way in Clarksburg faces first-degree murder and home invasion charges, police said. He is being held in lieu of […]

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 […]