DATE: September 17, 2021                  CONTACT: Diane RichardsonMedia Relations Office(301) 609-6557 or (240) 682-1658 On September 16, at approximately 4:14 pm., patrol officers responded to the 6300 block of Grant Chapman Drive in La Plata for the report of a motor vehicle collision involving a child. Upon arrival, officers located a child who had been struck by a [...]

DATE: September 15, 2021                  CONTACT: Diane RichardsonMedia Relations Office(301) 609-6557 or (240) 682-1658 On September 14 at 1:30 a.m., a patrol officer was in the area of Smallwood Drive at St. Charles Parkway when a computer check alerted him that the registration plate on a Nissan sedan that was being operated in front of him did not [...]

DATE: September 14, 2021                  CONTACT: Diane RichardsonMedia Relations Office(301) 609-6557 or (240) 682-1658 On September 11 at 3:30 p.m., officers responded to the parking lot of a business in the 10100 block of Berry Road in Waldorf for the report of a dispute involving a group of people in which at least one person was holding a [...]

DATE: September 13, 2021                  CONTACT: Diane RichardsonMedia Relations Office(301) 609-6557 or (240) 682-1658 Update: A District Court Commissioner issued a criminal warrant for the driver charging her with unlawful taking of a motor vehicle. On September 13, at 12:35 a.m., an officer patrolling the area of Crain Highway and Heritage Green Parkway observed a vehicle speed past [...]

                                                                                 UPDATE September 14: Officers located and arrested Smothers in Waldorf. A firearm was also recovered. DATE: September 13, 2021                  CONTACT: Diane RichardsonMedia Relations Office(301) 609-6557 or (240) 682-1658         On September 10 at 3:09 p.m., officers responded to the 100 block of Jefferson Road in Waldorf for the report of a shooting involving people who were [...]

DATE: September 11, 2021                  CONTACT: Diane RichardsonMedia Relations Office(301) 609-6557 or (240) 682-1658 On September 10 at 11:48 p.m., officers responded to the 12100 block of Ell Lane in Waldorf for the report of a shooting. Upon arrival, officers located Arick Jordan Jackson, 25, of Washington, D.C., outside of the apartment building with a gunshot wound; he [...]

DATE: September 10, 2021                  CONTACT: Diane RichardsonMedia Relations Office(301) 609-6557 or (240) 682-1658 On September 6 at 7:02 p.m., officers responded to a wooded area in the 7900 block of Gilroy Road in Nanjemoy for what appeared to be an unconscious male. Upon arrival, officers discovered the male was deceased. On September 9, an autopsy was performed [...]

DATE: September 9, 2021                  CONTACT: Diane RichardsonMedia Relations Office(301) 609-6557 or (240) 682-1658 On September 8, Eugene Emanuel Hardy, 31, of Waldorf, was arrested in connection with four armed robberies of convenience stores in the county. In each case, Hardy entered a store, displayed a handgun, demanded money and fled. As a result of the investigation, detectives [...]

DATE: September 9, 2021                  CONTACT: Diane RichardsonMedia Relations Office(301) 609-6557 or (240) 682-1658 On September 6 at 2:31 p.m., a patrol officer initiated a traffic stop on Popes Creek Court near Piscataway Court in La Plata for an equipment violation. During the stop, the officer located a fully loaded handgun, with the serial number filed off, and [...]

DATE: September 8, 2021                   CONTACT: Diane RichardsonMedia Relations Office(301) 609-6557 or (240) 682-1658 Charles County, MD…On September 3, members of the Charles County Sheriff’s Office and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Tactical Diversion Squad arrested Vincent Ippolito, 62, of Waldorf and Denise Marie Shifflett, 45, of La Plata in connection with illegally distributing drugs and narcotics.   [...]