Members of the Charles County Sheriff’s Office Traffic Operations Unit and members of the Charles County Fair Board have met and discussed traffic plans for the 2015 Charles County Fair, which will take place September 17-20 at 8440 Fairgrounds Road, La Plata. All traffic for the 2015 Charles County Fair will move North on Fairgrounds Road. Incoming traffic will enter [...]
CRITICAL MISSING PERSON: The Charles County Sheriff’s Office is seeking the public’s help in locating Ernest Courtland Freeman, Jr., 78, who is missing from his home on Annabelle Drive in Swan Point, MD. Freeman, who has Alzheimer’s disease, was last seen at his home by a relative at 9:15 this morning. He was discovered missing at about 11 a.m. Freeman [...]
The following is a sample of recent Charles County Sheriff’s Office investigations. For information about crimes not included in this report, visit CrimeReports.com and search by county, city, zip code or street address. BURGLARY: Between August 17 and August 20, an 18" Stihl brand chainsaw was stolen from an unlocked shed in the 9300 block of Goose Bay Lane in [...]
Members of the Charles County Sheriff’s Office Traffic Operations Unit will conduct a sobriety checkpoint on Saturday, August 22 from 8:30 p.m. until 12:30 a.m. Special patrols and enforcement focused on impaired driving are conducted year round. The CCSO is reminding drivers who might become impaired to always designate a sober driver. Charles County Crime Solvers offers rewards of up [...]
The following is a sample of recent Charles County Sheriff’s Office investigations. For information about crimes not included in this report, visit CrimeReports.com and search by county, city, zip code or street address. DETECTIVES SEEK LEADS IN FIRST-DEGREE ASSAULT/CRIME SOLVERS OFFERING CASH REWARD: On August 16 at 12:05 a.m., officers responded to a playground near the lake behind Light Arms [...]
The following is a sample of recent Charles County Sheriff’s Office investigations. For information about crimes not included in this report, visit CrimeReports.com and search by county, city, zip code or street address. DETECTIVES CHARGE SUSPECT IN MULTIPLE SCHOOL AND CHURCH BURGLARIES: On July 30, detectives assigned to the CCSO Criminal Investigations Division arrested Mortimer Mumpford Wade, 19, of Accokeek, [...]
The Charles County Sheriff’s Office (CCSO) hosted the 27th Annual Just Say No Camp from August 3-6 at the College of Southern Maryland La Plata campus. More than 40 children between the ages of 10 and 13 years old attended the camp, making it one of the program’s largest turnouts. The students, who were selected by their teachers, demonstrated good [...]
The following is a sample of recent Charles County Sheriff’s Office investigations. For information about crimes not included in this report, visit CrimeReports.com and search by county, city, zip code or street address. THEFT OF ATV AND DIRT BIKE: On August 10 at 4 p.m., unknown suspect(s) entered an unlocked garage in the 10500 block of Shore Acres Road in [...]
On Friday, August 14, Sheriff Troy D. Berry and members of the Charles County Sheriff’s Office will join community activists and members of the NAACP for a workshop on “Building Relationships of Trust—Community Policing.” The training is taught by Dr. Melanye Smith, a retired commander of the Metropolitan Police Department with more than 20 years’ experience and a contributing faculty [...]
Officer Helps Rescue Infant with Distressed Breathing 911 Audio Recording: On Friday, July 31 at 11:16 a.m., officers and paramedics were dispatched to the 400 block of Trefoil Place in Waldorf for the report of a 10-day-old girl not breathing. Public safety dispatcher, Kelly Wilson, stayed on the phone with the mother of the baby and began to [...]