Montgomery Community Media

The Takoma Park Police Department is urging potential victims that may have been sexually assaulted by a pastor in Takoma Park to come forward. Erick Odir Vidal Fuentes, 37, of Hyattsville, was charged with second degree rape, fourth degree sex offense and second degree assault. Fuentes is the pastor at Iglesia Pentecostal El Fin Viene […]

Takoma Park Police arrested the pastor at Iglesia Pentecostal El Fin Viene Church and charged him with several sex offenses and seek information on other possible victims. Erick Odir Vidal Fuentes, 37, of Hyattsville, was charged with second degree rape, fourth degree sex offense and second degree assault. According to Police Chief Antonio DeVaul, police […]

Metro is considering suspending access to service for people arrested for sex and weapons-related offenses on the system, according to a statement from Metro. The Board of Directors Safety and Operations Committee approved the proposal Thursday, the statement said. A full board vote is expected during a future meeting. If passed, the proposal would ban […]

A Virginia man has been charged with a rape that occurred Aug, 24 in Silver Spring, according to Montgomery County police. Oluwakayode Adewole Adebusuyi of Fairfax, Virginia, allegedly assaulted and raped a 28-year old woman, police said. Police received a report of a woman crying in the middle of the 6900 block of Clarendon Road […]

A North Bethesda man has been charged with multiple sex offenses for incidents that police say occurred in October 2017 and January 2019. Austin Blaine Vann of North Bethesda, 29, allegedly committed sexual offenses against two women that police are aware of. Vann met the first woman in July 2017 at a party, police say. […]

A Bladensburg man has a March 8 date for a preliminary hearing for sex offenses Montgomery County police say he committed six years ago against an 8-year-old girl. Joel A. Sagastume-Gonzalez, 40, lived in the 1700 block of Hampshire Green Lane, Silver Spring, between January 2013 and May 2013, according to court records. The records […]

Public safety news dominates our Top 10 for the week. Some politics, and a remembrance of the D.C. snipers. Pedestrian Struck, Killed on Shady Grove Road   Guidance Counselor Charged With Committing Sex Offenses Against Two Women   Man, Woman Killed in Single-Car Wreck   Police Release Surveillance Video of Kensington Burglary   Bethesda Apartment […]

Public safety news once again dominated our Top 10 stories, based on web traffic, for the past week. But we also have a football game, Montgomery County Board of Education mulling a new calendar, gubernatorial candidates and the County Council’s thoughts on the merger of two gas companies. Guidance Counselor Charged With Committing Sex Offenses […]

Montgomery County police officers have charged a masseur with sex offenses and detectives believe there may be more victims. Police said on July 7, a 32-year-old woman reported that she received a massage by Gavin Otto at the Red Door Spa in the Kentlands community of Gaithersburg and that she was sexually assaulted during the […]