Rockville Criminal Defense Blog

Several men from Maryland and Washington, D.C., are suspected of playing a part in a multi-state car theft ring. Authorities believe that four men were involved in the heist, which left a car dealership in a nearby state without three of its vehicles that had a combined value of $84,977.

In addition, 20-inch tires and rims were allegedly removed from four vehicles during the theft. The 16 rims and tires were valued at $14,349. The heist occurred in August 2011, and one of the men allegedly involved will soon be heading to jail.

At Morrell Park Elementary in Baltimore, fighting between students has become an issue. Police officials have led two different seminars on anti-bullying at the school, but the fighting continued. After a recent spat that occurred in a park near the school, police took harsher measures.

According to authorities, one child held another child's head underwater. In another moment, a boy's head was allegedly being held on a railroad track. Due to these actions, four children were arrested. An 8-year-old boy and three 9-year-old girls were taken into custody by police during school hours, and they have been charged with aggravated assault.

St. Patrick's Day is a holiday that is well-known for the amount of drinking that goes on during the day. Some celebrate it by drinking Irish beer, others dye their favorite brands green with food coloring. With alcohol being such a large factor in the holiday, it should be no surprise that the Maryland State Police were out in force, performing a crackdown throughout the weekend.

According to authorities, troopers in Bel Air, Maryland, arrested seven individuals who had allegedly been driving drunk at the time of their traffic stops. Those arrested varied in age from 23 to 42 years old. Three of them were from Baltimore, while two of them were from Bel Air. The remaining duo was from Edgewood, Maryland, and White Hall, Maryland.

According to reports, a man is in police custody after a shootout ensued with a police task force hoping to arrest him. Wanted on two warrants from the Cambridge Police Department and a third from Dorchester County, Maryland, the man had allegedly been involved in crimes involving theft, forgery, possession of a firearm and first- and second-degree assault.

The 22-year-old man is being held at the Dorchester County Detention Center. A task force known as the United States Marshals Service Capital Area Regional Fugitive Task Force was searching for the man. Earlier this month, the task force had been informed that the man was in a residence somewhere in the 800-block of Hubbard Street in Cambridge, Maryland, and decided to head to the scene.