Montgomery County Police say that an 18-year-old male is in custody following a January 19 armed carjacking at the Summit Hills Apartments in Silver Spring, and another suspect is in custody in Prince George’s County on additional charges.
Metro yesterday announced that Metrobus will return to regular weekday service on Monday, February 7, as the agency recovers from reduced staffing levels due to COVID-19 infections among its workers.
A 31-year-old Germantown man, already in custody for a string of bank robberies in Montgomery County, now has additional charges after fighting with county officers in a bathroom Tuesday evening at Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring.
Brentwood, Tenn.-based GBT Realty has officially announced the addition of DSW Designer Shoe Warehouse to Ellsworth Place. According to a press release, the discount shoe retailer signed the lease in late 2021 with construction to renovate the former Guitar Center storefront, which is currently underway.
The state’s Board of Public Works unanimously approved a modified Purple Line Public-Private Partnership Agreement yesterday that will allow the project’s new design-build team to complete the line.
The U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland Erek L. Barron last week announced the unsealing of a federal complaint charging six men, including two from Silver Spring, for a drug trafficking conspiracy that allegedly distributed cocaine and other drugs in Montgomery and Prince George’s Counties, as well as the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.
Two new restaurants — Valenciana Wine Garden and Guavaberry Dominican Restaurant — will be opening in recently-vacated locations in downtown Silver Spring.
Downtown Silver Spring-based United Therapeutics has reached two historic achievements in its xenotransplantation programs, the company announced.
Detectives from the county’s Special Victims Investigations Division (SVID) have released a sketch of a male suspect in a Silver Spring residential burglary and are asking for the public’s assistance in identifying him.