District 6 this week reports (PDF format) two robberies, one aggravated assault, three commercial burglaries, six residential burglaries, eleven thefts from vehicles, and eight stolen vehicles. A few incidents of note:
A car-jacking occurred at the loading dock of the Rio Grande, 231 Rio Boulevard, on Wednesday 2/7 at 2117 hours. The victim was loading her vehicle when the suspects approached and told her to get in her vehicle. The victim believed they were intoxicated and thought they were kidding until they displayed knives. They attempted to push her inside her vehicle and the victim told them to just take it.
Suspect: Possibly Middle -Eastern M, 21-23 yrs. old, 5’8”-5’9”, black hat, black bandana, grey pullover shirt
Suspect: Possibly Middle -Eastern M, black bandana, cream colored shirt, jeans
Two Honda Civics were taken from parking lots on Medical Center Drive. Additionally, there was another Honda taken on Washingtonian Boulevard. [See detail in original PDF]
An aggravated assault occurred in the woods near 18500 N. Frederick Avenue on Wednesday 2/7 at 1835 hours. Both the suspect and the victim are homeless and they were sitting around a fire that they had built. They got into an argument and the suspect pushed the victim to the ground. When the victim fell, she struck a large tree branch, which caused a severe laceration to her neck. The suspect was arrested on the scene.
Defendant: Timothy Keith, 2/M, 40 yrs. old, 5’11”/245 lbs., goatee, has priors for robbery, burglary, theft, assaulting police and concealed weapon
18500 N Frederick would be on the west side of MD355, just opposite where Watkins Mill Road intersects — Great Beginnings Furniture (where the Hechinger’s use to be) is at 18501 N. Frederick.
Two Brown Station Elementary students were chased by subjects in two different events.
2/6 1515 hrs. 800 block of Quince Orchard Boulevard The 10-year-old victim was walking home from school when the suspects chased him for a short distance. The suspects never said anything nor did they catch up to the suspect. He fled home and told his mother, but she did not call the police until 2/12.
2/9 (?) Rabbit Road & Quince Orchard Boulevard The 11-year-old victim was walking home from school when the suspects chased him for a short distance. The victim said one suspect took an unknown object from his pocket and described the object as having a black handle and a silver part, possibly a knife. Again, nothing was said and the suspects did not catch up to the victim. This event is believed to have occurred on 2/9, when this victim’s mother told the first victim’s mother, but the report was not clear.
Suspects: two B/M’s, 12-17 yrs. old, both with black ski masks and black puffy jackets
A strong-armed robbery occurred in the food court at Lakeforest Mall on Wednesday 2/7 at 1844 hours. The suspects took the victim’s cell phone and fled on a Metrobus. The victim went home before calling the police.
Suspects: five B/M’s, in their 20’s, all in dark jackets, one wearing a hat
A distraction-type theft occurred at the Bloom Grocery Store, 833 Russell Avenue, on Thursday 2/8 at 0000 hours. The suspects stopped the victim in the store and distracted her while one of the suspects took $85 from her purse. While the call was being dispatched, an officer found the suspects in the vehicle at Montgomery Village Avenue and Route 355, where they had run out of gas. The victim identified the first two suspects as being in thestore. A second stolen purse was also in the vehicle. Marijuana was also found in the vehicle.
Defendant: Rodney Cotton, AKA Deandre Wilson, B/M, 21 yrs. old, 6’5”/205 lbs., has priors for armed robbery, burglary, theft, CDS and carrying a gun
Defendant: George Picket, B/M, 19 yrs. old, 6’/180 lbs.
Defendant: T. (IO) Martin, B/M, 19 yrs. old, 6’1”/200 lbs., has priors for stolen vehicle
Vehicle: red Jeep Cherokee, MD/tags
A theft from a vehicle occurred at the McDonalds at Goshen Road and Rothbury Drive on Wednesday 2/1. The victim had given the suspect a ride earlier in the day and did not realize he had taken her purse. The victim’s purse was recovered after arrests were made in another theft.
Defendant: Rodney Cotton, AKA Deandre Wilson, BM, 21 yrs. old, 6’5”/205 lb.s, has priors for armed robbery, burglary, theft, CDS and carrying a gun
There were several thefts in and around Lost Knife Circle. In all of the thefts a window was broken; the stereo was taken in all but one theft. [See detail in original PDF]
There were three thefts on Portside Court on the night of Thursday 2/8 to Friday 2/9; two were from Toyota Corollas. Two of them had the window broken and all had the stereo taken. [See PDF for detail]
All three stolen vehicles were taken while the victims had left them running unattended. Two of them occurred on Topfield Drive, although at different times, and an arrest was made in one of them. One of the suspects in the secon theft was arrested again in the third theft. [See PDF for details]