Montgomery Community Media

UPDATED 9.24.14 Police have located Shirley Dowrich safe and unharmed. ORIGINAL POST Montgomery County police need your help to find a missing woman from Wheaton. Police are concerned for the emotional and physical welfare of Shirley Catherine Dowrich, age 77. Police said Dowrich was last seen at 9 a.m. on September 22 at her home […]

UPDATED, Sept. 4, 9:30 a.m. – The fire that caused the death of an 81-year-old Aspen Hill woman appears to have started in the basement, according to Fire and Rescue Spokesperson Pete Piringer. Piringer said firefighters believe the home at 4610 Iris Street in Aspen Hill  did not have working smoke detectors. UPDATED, Sept. 4, 8:40 a.m- The elderly woman […]

UPDATED, July 28 at 3:30 p.m.: Police have arrested a 51-year-old man for the slaying of his wife in their Gaithersburg home Sunday. Cola Winbone Beale is being held in Norfolk, Va. on the strength of a Montgomery County warrant charging him with the murder of his wife, 47-year-old June Carlita Beale, according to police. […]

UPDATED at 10 a.m. on 4/7  Felicita Siddique has been located safe and unharmed. ORIGINAL POST Montgomery County police are asking for the public’s help in locating a missing woman from Wheaton. According to police, Felicita Siddique, age 44, of the 2800 block of Lindell Street in Wheaton, was last seen by roommates on Wednesday, […]

UPDATED This just in: Monali Parikh, age 24, of the 18000 block of Cottage Garden Drive has been located. She was reported missing on Nov. 20. Police and family thank those who publicized this case. ORIGINAL POST Montgomery County police are asking for the public’s assistance in locating a missing Germantown woman. Monali Parikh, age […]

Detectives from the Montgomery County Police Major Crimes Division have made two arrests in the Oct. 12 murder of Preeta Paul Gabba that occurred on Crystal Rock Drive in Germantown. Patrol officers found Gabba, aged 49, in the roadway with at least one gunshot wound to the leg. She was transported to the hospital where […]

UPDATED Montgomery County police are investigating a fatal shooting that was reported at approximately 7:46 a.m. on Oct. 12 in the  19700 block of Crystal Rock Drive, just south of Route 118 in Germantown. According to police, a 49-year-old Germantown woman was transported from the scene to the hospital where she was pronounced dead from her […]