GERMANTOWN — A Maryland police officer is accused of stealing several items including instant oatmeal and two boxes of condoms during his off-duty security job at a Walmart. News outlets report Montgomery County Police Officer 25-year-old Jose A. Barahona was ...

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GAITHERSBURG — Three people have been charged with killing two Maryland teens who were found dead the night before their high school graduation, and police said they believe the slayings were revenge for a robbery that one of the teens ...

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A Montgomery County police officer facing a civil suit for issuing a no-trespass order to Legal Aid employees who attempted to visit migrant farmworkers at a local farm is appealing a federal judge’s denial of qualified immunity protection. The county and officer ...

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The family of a Montgomery County man who died after police deployed stun guns to subdue him filed suit in federal court Thursday, alleging the officers acted improperly as part of a larger pattern of misuse of the weapon within ...

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ROCKVILLE — Montgomery County police say wearing body cameras has been beneficial despite some challenges. WTOP Radio reports that Capt. Paul Liquorie says the cameras tend to de-escalate situations. Liquorie told the County Council’s Public Safety Committee that the cameras ...

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ROCKVILLE — Montgomery County Police have arrested a corrections officer they say tried to rape a pre-trial services inmate on a work detail. Thirty-two-year-old Jereme Simmons of Laurel was arrested Tuesday and charged with attempted second-degree rape and other offenses. ...

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Montgomery County has asked a judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by a police officer who claims it mishandled his military leave time, noting that it has taken the actions he requested in the six weeks since the suit was filed.

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ROCKVILLE — Montgomery County Police say a Mississippi woman has been charged with 1st-degree murder in the shooting of a man in his Silver Spring apartment. Law enforcement officers arrested 35-year-old Katrina Renee Ben Friday at her home in Silver ...

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ROCKVILLE — A Virginia man is accused of ripping off several Maryland homeowners by falsely promising home improvement work. Montgomery County Police say Karl Leroy Davis, of Alexandria, would meet with homeowners, promise to make home improvements and then cash ...

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ROCKVILLE — Montgomery County police have identified a husband and wife who died in an apparent murder-suicide at an assisted-living community. Police say 80-year-old Albert Ballard of Rockville came to visit his 74-year-old wife, Sandra Ballard, Monday morning at the ...

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