Gaithersburg police received bomb threat to police station
Message made threat of ‘explosive device’; turned out to be unfounded By Dan Schere |
January 21, 2021
Gaithersburg police say they received a bomb threat to their police station, which is on Fulks Corner Avenue near the Olde Towne area.
Officer Dan Lane, a Gaithersburg police spokesman, told Bethesda Beat Thursday afternoon that the station received a call with a recorded message at 1:36 p.m., which said there was “an explosive device near the building.”
Lane said the station was evacuated and the Montgomery County Fire & Explosive Investigations unit sent officers to check the building, as well as bomb-sniffing dogs.
Police identify man fatally shot by Gaithersburg officers Rebecca Tan, Martin Weil A man fatally shot by Gaithersburg police Friday evening after a foot chase has been identified as Kwamena Ocran, 24, and the officers involved in the incident have been placed on administrative leave, authorities said. On Sunday night, a man was fatally shot near where a candlelight vigil was being held for Ocran. No connection between that shooting and the vigil for Ocran could be learned immediately. On Friday, before the shooting in which Ocran died, officers with the street crimes unit of the Gaithersburg police received information that he was armed with a handgun, Montgomery County police said in a news release. The county police are investigating Ocran’s shooting.