Category: Breaking News

Breaking News, Drugs and trafficking, Heroin overdose deaths and murders, Police Beat

Cain vs. Able: State Police find guns and drugs in search of residence after charging James Pascuzzi with shooting his brother

Posted on

STATE POLICE CONTINUE INVESTIGATION INTO A CECIL COUNTY SHOOTING

(COLORA, MD) – Maryland State Police investigators from the Criminal Enforcement Division, Northern Region, continue to investigate a shooting on July 1, 2014 of a Cecil County man.

The victim is identified as Jonathan Pascuzzi, 23, of the unit block of Liddell Road in Colora. Pascuzzi was transported by medevac to the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center for the treatment of his injuries.

As a result of the ongoing investigation, State Police have charged Pascuzzi’s younger brother, James Pascuzzi, 21, of the same address with manufacturing and possession of marijuana, drug trafficking and other firearm and drug related charges. He is being held at the Cecil County Detention Center.

Breaking News, Drugs and trafficking, Heroin overdose deaths and murders, Police Beat

DIRTBAG ROUND-UP VIDEO: Armed robbery lookout with a wig as pals clean out drug store in Upper Marlboro

Posted on

Prince Georges County Police ask that readers to please take a moment to watch this brazen armed robbery caught on surveillance video. It shows two suspects walk into a pharmacy on South Osborne Road in Upper Marlboro on June 28, 2014.

They jumped the counter and demand cash and medication. The frightened employees complied.

Breaking News, Drugs and trafficking, Police Beat

Inmate charged with running drug ring while in St. Mary’s County jail; Buckler and Meador popped with pills

Posted on

According to St. Mary’s Sheriff Tim Cameron, the inmates are running a drug ring from inside his jail.

Detectives received information that an inmate at the St. Mary’s County Detention Center was distributing pills while out on work release. The investigation led detectives to Charles County, where detectives partnered with members of the Charles County Sheriff’s Office Narcotics Division. The two agencies worked together as the investigation continued, it was discovered that the inmate was operating a drug distribution network from his place of employment in the Hughesville area.

Breaking News, DWI Hit Parade, Police Beat

Maryland’s DUI cops put a dent in death machines of impaired drivers

Posted on

Since the targeted enforcement program was launched last May, SPIDRE teams have made 6,384 traffic stops resulting in 1,052 Driving Under the Influence (DUI) arrests and 211 criminal arrests. Funded by the Maryland Department of Transportation’s Highway Safety Office, SPIDRE focuses on reducing alcohol related crashes in Maryland by targeting areas across the state with high crash rates involving impaired drivers.

Breaking News, Police Beat, This Just In!

Robert Edward Bailey III dead after hitting curb and guardrail with his motorcycle

Posted on

LANHAM, MD. — 07/02/2014 — The Prince George’s County Police Department’s Collision Analysis and Reconstruction Unit is investigating a fatal motorcycle collision in Lanham.

The victim is 56-year-old Robert Edward Bailey, III, of Cambridge Park Court in Silver Spring.

On July 1, 2014, at about 10:50 pm, patrol officers were called to the intersection of Greenbelt Road near Good Luck Road for a crash involving a motorcycle

Breaking News, Police Beat

Fatal Pedestrian Collision at Soccer Game in Silver Spring

Posted on

Detectives from the Montgomery County Police Department – Collision Reconstruction Unit continue to investigate a fatal pedestrian collision that occurred last night (Tuesday, July 1) at approximately 8:32 p.m.

On June 30, 2014 at approximately 8:32 p.m., officers responded to the parking lot of Eastern Middle School, located at 300 University Boulevard E. in Silver Spring, for a pedestrian collision. Preliminary investigation has revealed that the operator of a 2008 Ford Focus was driving in the rear parking lot of the school. For reasons still under investigation, the vehicle left the parking lot.

Breaking News, Drugs and trafficking, Entertainment, Land of Pleasant Living, Police Beat, Remember when, This Just In!

Where will the Bachelorette parties go now that the cops shuttered Hangar Club after shooting?

Posted on

Prince George Police report that they have issued a violation notice to the owners of Hangar Club ordering their business closed on June 27, 2014.

The Hangar Club is in the 6400 block of Old Branch Avenue in Temple Hills. The business was found operating without the required use and occupancy permit.

Breaking News, Court News, Fraud, Gov't Waste, Police Beat

Mortgage fraud: Rhonda Scott and Niesha Williams will be filing their phony deals on a prison computer for next two years

Posted on

According to their plea agreements, beginning in 2008, Scott participated in several fraudulent real estate transactions that settled at M&R Title, Inc. located in Alexandria, Virginia, and at Sanford Title Services, located in Columbia, Maryland. The fraudulent transactions at each title company were part of different conspiracies. In both schemes, Scott facilitated deals between her co-conspirators, recruited individuals that could be parties to the real estate transactions, received proceeds of the fraudulent transactions through a shell company designed to hide her receipt of the funds, sent money to co-conspirators and identified mortgage transactions that the co-conspirators could use to enrich themselves.

As part of the M&R Title conspiracy, Scott, Demetrius Peete and others deceived buyers, sellers and lenders to make it appear to sellers that they were selling their property at a low price, and to buyers and lenders that the property was being sold at a higher price. The co-conspirators created paperwork for two different sales of the property at the same time. The first sale was fraudulent because it was backdated, the buyer planned to immediately flip the property in a subsequent sale and the settlement statement listed a fake loan. In the second sale, the sales price was significantly increased and the settlement statement showed a large sum being disbursed to the lender to payoff an existing lien. In fact, those funds were improperly disbursed to the co-conspirators.