Category: Police Beat

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Police Beat: Punk left basketball camp in Pittsburgh with a stolen cell phone; owner tracked it down to Calvert County residence

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PRINCE FREDERICK, MD. — A local heathen got a lesson in hi-tech theft prevention over his recent illegal acquisition of a cell phone when away at basketball camp. On 6/22/14 at 11:33 pm, Trooper First Class Matthews and Trooper Rowe responded to the 800 block of Calvert Towne Dr. in Prince Frederick in an attempt to locate a cell phone previously reported missing from a basketball camp in Pittsburg. The complainant tracked it to this location with the “Track my Iphone” application. A fourteen year old juvenile, who had attended the camp, was found to be in possession of the missing Iphone. He was arrested and released to his parent.

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Public Corruption Update: FBI Continues Efforts to Root Out Crooked Officials

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To uncover secretive activities like bribery, embezzlement, racketeering, kickbacks, and money laundering, we use sophisticated investigative techniques that can give us a front row seat to handshakes, money exchanges, or descriptions of corrupt schemes directly from the mouths of the officials involved. These techniques—which we’ve been using successfully for years against organized crime—include electronic surveillance, undercover operations, and informants/cooperating witnesses.

Breaking News, Court News, Fraud, Police Beat

Rameesha Smith Sentenced for Role in Credit Card Fraud Scheme Targeting Accountholders and Area Retailers

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Smith pleaded guilty on March 10, 2014. According to court documents, from at least as early as September 2010 through at least October 2012, Smith conspired with others to purchase stolen credit card data on the Internet or through other means. This stolen data was then unlawfully loaded onto gift cards or unlawfully encoded onto other credit or debit cards through the use of device-making equipment, such as credit card encoders. The counterfeit credit cards often were embossed with aliases belonging to the members of the conspiracy.

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The Oak Tree Always Wins

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Preliminary investigation revealed the vehicle was traveling at a high rate of speed and the driver failed to negotiate a curve in the roadway. The vehicle spun out of control and left the roadway where it ultimately struck a tree. The driver was pronounced dead at University of Maryland Shock Trauma at 10:26 p.m. Excessive speed is the main contributing factor in this collision. Alcohol usage and is unknown at this time. The investigation is ongoing.

Breaking News, Land of Pleasant Living, Outdoor Life, poaching, Police Beat, Reach the Beach, Travel, Welcome

Hola Hombres! This ain’t a free beach for fishing from…freeloaders carted off by cops

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ST. GEORGE ISLAND — According to St. Mary’s Sheriff Tim Cameron on June 17, 2014 at 12:04 AM, while conducting a premise check, Deputy A. Cole and Deputy L. Johnson located Yoni A Alvarez Granados, 37, of Bryans Road, and Arturo Ernesto Rosa-Lopez, 33, of Woodbridge, Virginia, on the property of Camp Merryelande located in Piney Point, likely to get in some free fishing. The investigation revealed Rosa-Lopez and Granados had walked across another property owned by a citizen to get to the Camp Merryelande property and were fishing when they were found by deputies. “No Trespassing” signs were clearly posted on both properties. Both suspects were charged with Trespass: Private Property by criminal citation.

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Chaptico: Joseph Burkhard III wound up on all flats in roundabout after chase

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Mechanicsville, Maryland — 06/21/2014- After a evening of ‘Dukes of Hazard’-type cops and rednecks chases on local roads, one bozo was in jail and another St. Mary’s Sheriff’s car was wrecked.

According to St. Mary’s Sheriff Tim Cameron, on June 19, 2014, at 6:48 PM, St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Deputy David Lawrence responded to a residence in the area of Wainwright Road and Thompson Corner Road to check the welfare of a suspicious white male subject operating a white Ford Ranger pick-up truck.

Breaking News, Drugs and trafficking, Murder USA, Police Beat

Police seek two gunmen who stuck-up Pizza joint in Crownsville; fled in Honda…at least they get it about being green when going for the dough!

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CROWNSVILLE, MD. Anne Arundel County Police report that two black males struck out for more dough, the kind they don’t have to work for and can’t eat, when they robbed a pizza joint.

On June 19, 2014, at approximately 2:24 p.m., officers from the Western District responded to the S&K Pizza & Subs located in the 1300 block of Generals Highway in Crownsville for a report of an armed robbery of the business.

Breaking News, Murder USA, Police Beat, Terrorists

Stagecoaches in the Wild West had a man riding “shotgun”; will it be long before every C-store in PG (Pretty Gory) County has a guard with a shotgun?

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The Prince George’s County Police Department is asking for our community’s help in identifying two suspects captured on surveillance camera robbing a convenience store in Oxon Hill.

On June 18, 2014, at about 5:00 am, the suspects walked into the store in the 6800 block of Livingston Road. One of the suspects pulled out a gun. They forced employees to open the cash registers. The masked suspects then grabbed cash and ran from the store.

Breaking News, Editorials, Election 2014, Land of Pleasant Living, Opinion, Police Beat, Politics, Really stupid ideas from politicians

Editorial and Endorsement: Paying for Police and Getting Old Time Political Patronage

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Now is the time for the voters to consider all that they have learned from presentations in this publication of the candidates’ debate; from other news sources, from the candidate’s websites and particularly from viewing the photo of Captain Wide-load blocking whatever Sheriff Coffey was doing. What was Sheriff Coffey doing? We couldn’t see due to the wide-load rear end of Captain Rackey, who could see what the Sheriff was doing, and believed the better part of his ample rear end was just the valor that was called for to protect his boss.

A vote for Troy Berry for Sheriff of Charles County is recommended to our readers and it is high time that the old days of Sheriff’s making political decisions about law enforcement needs to end. It is time to move on to professional police departments.