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Investigators believe the Clarksburg man charged last week in the stabbing death of one man and a violent carjacking and kidnapping spree involving three other victims was wearing shoes stained with the dead man’s blood when he was arrested, according to charging documents.

The final incident occurred on Feb. 19 and involved a 22-year-old woman who was able to fend off the knife-wielding suspects and escape a carjacking attempt in a neighborhood near the Washingtonian Center in Gaithersburg.

A woman was grabbed from behind and robbed by two men in Olde Towne Gaithersburg last week as she exited her car in a parking lot on the 200 block of East Diamond Avenue.

Two men armed with a handgun robbed a driving school instructor and his class in Gaithersburg Monday night, police reported.

A drug deal gone wrong ended in a stabbing in Gaithersburg on Saturday afternoon.

Robert Jesse Hartman, 20, and Robert Wayne Earl Joshua King, 22, both of Gaithersburg planned to meet Matthew Doyne Cantrell, 27, of Damascus to buy marijuana from him on Saturday, said Sgt. Rudy Wagner, a spokesman for Gaithersburg Police.

A former Gaithersburg High School student who was indicted last year on multiple counts of robbery and sex offenses of 11 women is standing trial this week.

Dion Harvey Montgomery, 18, of the unit block of Duvall Lane in Gaithersburg was indicted Sept. 13 on 20 counts including robbery with a dangerous weapon, attempt to commit robbery, second-degree assault, third- and fourth-degree sexual offense and indecent exposure.

The brutal deaths of two Latino men in less than two weeks have flamed worries that immigrants are being targeted because of their community’s acknowledged reluctance to report crimes to police.

The Gaithersburg Police Department is reaching beyond city coffers for money for officer training and high-tech equipment.

Gaithersburg’s election board has ruled that City Councilman Ryan A. Spiegel and two other candidates did not break city election rules during the November election, and some are unhappy, saying the spirit of the law was ignored.

In its opinion, the board wrote: ‘‘While candidates cannot be expected to disclose unknown in-kind contributions, the Board is troubled by the lack of due diligence to ascertain and disclose an in-kind contribution that was billed as early as October 17, 2007. However, the Code is silent on what efforts need to be made to discover and confirm in-kind contributions.”

Ten of the 20 remaining structures on the 182-acre former Crown Farm property in Gaithersburg received historic designation from the city last week.

County planners have devised a possible timetable to begin moving some facilities out of a county industrial park in Derwood to a 96-acre property on Route 28 in Gaithersburg.

The recruiting firm hired to help Gaithersburg find its new city manager, Alliance Resources Consulting LLC, is holding an open house this week.

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