Thursday, December 27, 2012
Gaithersburg Patch counts down the top 30 stories from 2012, continuing with No. 25-21.
What was the top story for Gaithersburg in 2012? We're counting down the year's top 30 stories on Gaithersburg Patch as 2012 comes to a close. Interested in more top stories? Check out the top 24 stories from across all Maryland Patch sites in 2012 on Gaithersburg Patch. No. 30-26 in the Gaithersburg Top 30 countdown were revealed Wednesday. 25. Report: Crown Farm Site Sold for $28M (July 18, 2012) -- A 20-acre section of Gaithersburg's Crown Farm has been sold for $28 million to developers JBG Rosenfeld Retail and the Bozzuto Group. 24. City, County Police Arrest 13 In Holiday Sting at Lakeforest Mall (Nov. 26, 2012) -- Plain clothes officers from Gaithersburg and Montgomery County police departments arrested 13 people during a two day "…
Friday, September 28, 2012
Two men arrested after breaking into a vacant home in the 100 block of Duvall Lane.
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- Greg Cohen
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Friday, September 28, 2012
Two men were arrested on burglary and drug charges Wednesday after allegedly breaking into a vacant home in the 100 block of Duvall Lane in Gaithersburg, according to police. Kenny Lee Austin, 53, and Eddie Nathaniel Green, 32, neither with a fixed address, were charged with 4th degree burglary, trespassing and possession of drug paraphernalia, Gaithersburg Police Department spokesperson Dan Lane said. The burglary happened at 1:47 a.m. Wednesday, according to police.
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Two drug-related search and seizure warrants throughout the city led to six arrests and the seizure of marijuana, ecstasy and paraphernalia.
Six people have been charged in a drug bust in which police seized marijuana, ecstasy, drug paraphernalia and cash, Gaithersburg police announced Tuesday. Detectives received complaints from citizens and tips from officers in early August about drug activity in the Muddy Branch Road and South Frederick Avenue areas, police said. Gaithersburg police's investigation led to search warrants issued and executed on Aug. 16 in the 100 block of Garth Terrace and Aug. 23 in the 400 block of Muddy Branch Road. The Aug. 16 warrant resulted in the seizure of distribution amounts of marijuana and MDMA (Ecstasy), along with several paraphernalia items and approximately $1,300, police said. Several weapons were also found in the residence and officers …
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Court records say that Alex Nando Roman was lured to farm in Brookeville and shot in the head.
On a cold winter night fifteen months ago, two acquaintances of Alex Nando Roman drove the 18-year-old to a vacant farm in Brookeville, shot him in the head and left him to die on a long driveway leading to an empty farmhouse—all because one of the two shooters, a reputed member of the Bloods gang, believed Roman had disrespected him. That’s the picture that Montgomery County gang prosecutors are laying out as they begin to make their cases against the two 21-year-olds charged last week with the January 2010 murder. County police arrested David James Wilson, Jr. and Timothy Daryl Jackson on Friday after an anonymous source provided information over the past three weeks naming them as the gunmen in Roman’s death. When police found Roman’s …
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9:42 am on Sunday, September 2, 2012
Montgomery County should stop prosecuting drug dealers. Drug abuse should be treated as the medical and spiritual problem that it is - not as a criminal matter. The headline of this story says that these arrests resulted from a "sting" operation. We do not need to have County employees acting as spies on the citizenry. If you are called to serve on a jury in a drug-related case - refuse to … more ›