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The gun owner next door
Montgomery County residents applied for nearly twice as many handgun licenses in 2020 than the year before and the surge in demand isn’t slowing down By Amy Halpern |
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Jay Guan, a longtime gun owner, at his home in Clarksburg. Photo by Erick Gibson
On election night last November, Mike (not his real name) was sitting in his convertible at a traffic light near the Connie Morella Library in downtown Bethesda when he heard a loud crash. Then another. And another. “What’s going on, Dad?” his teenage daughter asked. He was on the phone with her at the time and she heard the commotion in the background.
Officer Glenn Altshuler
The lawsuit states that 28 other officers were involved in the raid, but the plaintiffs haven’t yet identified them.
Montgomery County spokesman Scott Peterson wrote in an email to Bethesda Beat on Thursday that the county can’t comment on the lawsuit “due to pending litigation.”
The Palmas rented out their basement as an apartment to a woman in her 50s in 2019. The woman’s son, David Zelaya, a college student in his 20s, sometimes stayed there, too, according to court documents.
Starting in May 2019, Montgomery County police started investigating Zelaya for possession of firearms and distribution of controlled dangerous substances.
Greenbelt, MD (STL.News) U.S. District Judge Peter J. Messitte sentenced
Jose Luiz Suarez, age 30, a Honduran citizen residing in Germantown, Maryland, to 21 months in prison for illegal reentry after being removed from the United States as a result of a previous felony conviction.
The sentence was announced by Acting United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Jonathan F. Lenzner Field Office Director Francisco Madrigal of Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Baltimore; and Chief Marcus Jones of the Montgomery County Police Department.
According to his guilty plea, Suarez unlawfully entered the United States on July 5, 1999. On September 27, 2012, Suarez was sentenced to five years of imprisonment with all but three years suspended after being convicted of accessory after the fact. On March 14, 2014, the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a removal order. Suarez was removed to Honduras from the United States on April 4, 2014. On June 2
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Carjackings skyrocket during pandemic in troubling nationwide trend
Last Updated Apr 8, 2021 7:05 PM EDT
The number of carjackings has exploded during the pandemic. Carjackings have increased by more than 100% in Chicago, New York, Philadelphia and Minneapolis. They are up more than 343% in Washington, D.C.
In Washington, D.C., cellphone video showed Uber driver Mohammad Anwar trying to regain control of his Honda Accord after two teenage girls carjacked him and assaulted him with a Taser. The incident ended with Anwar s car on its side and the 66-year-old Pakistani immigrant and father of three dead.
Mohammad Anwar was remembered by his family as a beloved grandfather, father, husband, brother and uncle.