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On Monday, July 27, 2026, at approximately 10:30 p.m., police, firefighters and emergency medical services responded to a single vehicle collision on Baltimore Annapolis Boulevard west of Governor Ritchie Highway. Crews arrived on the scene and pronounced the operator of the vehicle deceased at the scene by members of the Anne Arundel County Fire Department. The Crash Reconst...

On Tuesday, July 28, 2026, around 1:10 a.m., deputies from the Calvert County Sheriff’s Office Patrol Bureau responded to a vape store in Dunkirk, for the reported burglary in progress. 911 callers reported they were watching the suspects break into the business on camera, with the suspects Hyundai vehicle sitting in the parking lot. As deputies arrived, a vehicle matching th...

Brian Scott Michaud, 57, of Waldorf, has been charged with two counts of indecent exposure and one count of indecent exposure to a minor following allegations that he repeatedly exposed himself from a second-floor window of his home. An officer responded to Sprague Drive in Waldorf at approximately 4:24 p.m. on July 18, 2026, after receiving a report of indecent exposure. An ...

Manolo Calderon, 66, of Huntingtown, has been charged with second-degree assault and a fourth-degree sex offense involving alleged sexual contact with a 17-year-old female employee at a La Plata restaurant. The misdemeanor charges stem from allegations that Calderon repeatedly hugged, kissed and touched the teen while the two worked together at the Greene Turtle restaurant in...

UPDATE 7/28/2026: State’s Attorney Jaymi Sterling announced today that Peyton James Robert Curtis, 22, of Lexington Park, Maryland, was sentenced to LIFE plus LIFE plus 20 years in prison, with 29 years of active incarceration, for his role in the 2025 attempted murders of four St. Mary’s County men. On May 3, 2025, deputies with the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office respond...