Friday, March 22, 2013
The Gazette newspaper reports that Ray Alfred Young was convicted in the stabbing of a man outside of a post office.
A White Oak man accused of stabbing another man outside of the Colesville post office was convicted of assault and attempted voluntary manslaughter in Montgomery County court on Thursday, the Gazette reported. Police said that Ray Alfred Young, 67, was waiting in line last July when he observed the victim step in front of him to complete his business. The victim had previously been working with a postal service employee and had stepped aside to finish some paperwork. He was motioned back to the counter by an employee, police said. Young interpreted the action as cutting in line, police said, and waited outside of the post office under the vestibule for the victim to come outside. When the suspect spotted the victim, he attacked him, …
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Chief J. Thomas Manger said McSwain and Reynolds would expand his team of assistant chiefs from three to four.
Montgomery County Council confirmed on Tuesday County Executive Isiah Leggett’s Montgomery County Police appointments for assistant chiefs: Cmd. Luther Reynolds, and Capt. McSwain. McSwain, director of the Special Operations Division, will be assigned to head the newly created Patrol Services Bureau. Reynolds, who led the 5th District, will head the Management Services Bureau, a Montgomery County police spokeswoman told Patch. According to county records, the appointees will be paid $159,000 salaries. Chief J. Thomas Manger said McSwain and Reynolds would expand his team of assistant chiefs from three to four. “This is a tremendously strong team,” Manger said ahead of the County council’s vote, referring to the assistant managers as “the …
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Police said a transgendered individual and a friend were beat up in downtown Silver Spring by a group of students.
Hate crime charges are pending on three men who are accused of beating and kicking a transgendered person and a friend, according to a report from Montgomery County police's 3rd District. The victim told police that he and a friend were followed by a group of four people while walking near the intersection of Colesville Road and Ramsey Avenue in downtown Silver Spring around 2:35 p.m. on Tuesday, March 5. The suspects made comments about the victims' sexuality before assaulting the two, according to police. The suspects ran away when a bystander tried to help the victims, police said. Preliminary charges include three counts of assault and two counts of discriminatory harassment. A 21-year-old male from Baltimore and two men from …
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Thursday, March 7, 2013
Police: Woman was barricaded in a nearby home.
Update, 6:52 p.m.: Police confirm that the suicidal subject is in police custody. Despite original reports that the subject was a man, a woman is being taken to a local hospital for evaluation, said Officer Britta Thomas, spokesperson for Montgomery County police. The police monitoring ended peacefully and no one was injured. It's not clear whether criminal charges are pending. Original story, 1:48 p.m.: Two Silver Spring schools took security precautions Thursday afternoon as Montgomery County police monitored a suicidal man barricaded inside a nearby home. Sligo Creek Elementary and Silver Spring International Middle Schools are in "Shelter in Place," which means that no one comes in or out of the building until the measure is lifted, …
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Wednesday, February 27, 2013
The following arrest information was supplied by the Montgomery County Police Department. It does not indicate a conviction. This is not an all-encompassing list. Please click map markers, color coded by police district, for incident details.
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Monday, February 25, 2013
Police say the man got her attention by asking for directions.
A 28-year-old man from the Briggs Chaney neighborhood was charged with a sex offense for allegedly masturbating in front of a woman on Tuesday, Feb. 12. Montgomery County police said the suspect drove up to the victim in the 11600 block of Lockwood Drive in White Oak and asked for directions. The women said she then saw that the man was masturbating and moved away from his car. The man left the area, police said, but patrol officers spotted him a few minutes later and detained him after "a brief pursuit."
Monday, February 11, 2013
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Saturday, February 9, 2013
A 14-year-old is facing charges as an adult.
A 14-year-old male has been arrested and charged in the death of his 7-month-old sister. The 14-year-old, of the White Oak neighborhood of Silver Spring, has been jailed and charged as an adult with first-degree murder, according to a Montgomery County Police report. Police said the teen was babysitting his sister when he beat and suffocated the child. Police and fire rescue personnel responded to calls of a pediatric injury just before 6:30 a.m. Friday. As officers arrived on the scene, the 7-month-old girl of Lockwood Drive in White Oak, was being transported to Holy Cross Hospital, where she died of her injuries at 6:54 a.m., police said. According to the police report, the baby's mother had left the home to go to work around 10:30 p.m…
Thursday, January 17, 2013
Wednesday's community action forum on school safety draws crowd.
Dozens of concerned parents packed the Montgomery County Public Schools headquarters in Rockville Wednesday night to hear police, County Council members and school officials pledge efforts to make schools safer, including increasing police presence. County Councilman Craig Rice (D-Dist. 2) of Germantown, a vocal advocate of school resource officers stationed in schools, told the meeting, "We are going to double the number of school resource officers from 6 to 12." The school resource officer, or SRO, program historically has stationed police officers in schools as an added safety boost. In recent years budget cuts have limited the SRO program to one officer per police district, in addition to one Gaithersburg City SRO. Now county …
Monday, January 14, 2013
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Ray Hammond
9:43 pm on Wednesday, April 10, 2013
I worked with Ray Young for many years. He was one of the nicest people you could ever hope to meet. All of us at work were deeply shocked by this news. I believe in being tough on crime, but given this man led his whole life without any incidents of crime whatsoever, I hope they check him for physical conditions that could have been a contributing factor. more ›