Montgomery Community Media

A Silver Spring man was convicted of second degree murder Wednesday in the stabbing death of Jose Augusto Ruiz on June 14, 2020. Denzel Kasaka, 23, will be sentenced Feb. 18 in connection with Ruiz’s death. Kasaka faces a maximum of 40 years. During prosecution, Assistant State’s Attorney Donna Fenton said Kasaka used Instagram to […]

The Montgomery County Police Department (MCPD) arrested an Anne Arundel County man and charged him with the January second-degree murder of a Germantown man, police said in a statement Wednesday. On Tuesday, MCPD arrested Jakel Delante Stone, 31, of Glen Burnie on the strength of a criminal warrant for killing 25-year-old Darius Cooper, police said. […]

The off-duty Pentagon Force Protection Agency Police Officer who was involved in the fatal shooting of two men in Takoma Park April 7 was charged with two counts of second degree murder Friday morning. Besides second degree murder, David Hall Dixon, who lives in the 7300 block of New Hampshire Avenue in Takoma Park, was […]

A Montgomery Village man is charged with shooting and killing a man in Hagerstown, according to the Washington County Sheriff’s Office. Lauron Zacherie Hoyle, 35, is charged with first-degree and second-degree murder and 17 other charges including assault and firearm offenses, online case records show. He is being held without bond. The sheriff’s office says […]

Police are charging a Clarksburg man with murder, assault, and property destruction. Muhammad Taha, 29, is currently at the Prince William County Adult Detention Center “on a no bond status.” Taha is bus attendant for Montgomery County Public Schools, who is currently on unpaid, administrative leave. Police say Taha was charged in connection “with crimes […]

A 31-year-old Rockville woman has been charged in connection with the death of her 2-month-old daughter in February, Montgomery County police said in a statement. Rebecca D. Briones of the 200 block of North Adams Street in Rockville has been charged with second-degree murder and child abuse, police said. Her daughter, Lissana Briones died Feb. […]

The man accused of killing a KFC coworker has been denied bail, according to online court records. Elmer Campos-Martinez, 47, of Cove Lane, Rockville, faces a second-degree murder charge in the death of Dania Mendez de Guerra, 21, of Amherst Avenue, Wheaton, according to the records. He also has an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainer, […]

A Wheaton KFC employee was found dead behind a business, and police have charged a coworker. Dania Mendez de Guerra, 21, of Amherst Avenue, Wheaton, had been reported missing on Monday, according to a Montgomery County Police statement. She had not returned home from working the night shift at the KFC restaurant on University Boulevard […]

A 23-year-old Washington, D.C., woman has been charged with attempted second-degree murder, first-degree assault  and malicious destruction of property in connection with a knife-throwing incident in Takoma Park, city police said. Oluwafunmi Gbolade was being held in the District but has waived extradition, according to online D.C. court records. According to a statement from Takoma […]

Larlane Pannell-Brown, 71, and Hussain Ali Zadeh, 50, both of Takoma Park, were sentenced to 30 years each in prison each Wednesday for second-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder in the death of Cecil Brown. Pannell-Brown was the wife of Cecil Brown. Zadeh was Pannell-Brown’s boyfriend, prosecutors said. Cecil Brown, 73, was found dead […]