The Takoma Park Police Department has issued a community advisory warning residents about a Medicaid scam. In this case, a caller cloned a phone number that showed the call purportedly coming from the police and pretended to be a Medicaid employee.
Takoma Park police are investigating three more thefts of catalytic converter units from Toyota Prius vehicles, according to an emailed community advisory.
Montgomery County police say they have recovered a food truck that was stolen earlier this week in Silver Spring.
Takoma Park police are investigating two thefts of catalytic converters that occurred last month, according to an emailed community advisory.
Detectives from the Montgomery County Police Department’s 2nd District Investigative Section are investigating the theft of a food truck taken from the 8800 block of Brookville Road in Silver Spring.
Detectives from the county’s police department are asking for the public’s assistance in locating a Silver Spring woman who has been missing since Sunday. Sandra Lee Bender, age 51, was last leaving the Regency Care of Silver Spring facility (located at 9101 Second Avenue) in the company of a friend at approximately 1:30 pm. [Sunday, May 16].
County detectives from the 4th District have arrested two people in a scam involving purchasing cars with fraudulent cashier’s checks, and believe that there may be more victims. Papa Sissoko, age 25, of Weeping Willow Court, and Alyssa Hernandez, age 24, of Bakersfield Court, both of Aspen Hill, have been charged with vehicle theft and forgery in the case.
Takoma Park police are investigating an armed robbery that occurred at about 10:45 p.m on Saturday, April 24 near the intersection of Carroll and Tulip avenues. Police responded to a report and victim said as she stood at the intersection, a black sedan of unknown make and model stopped nearby.
DNA evidence from a sock has led to the arrest by county police of a suspect in a 2003 home invasion robbery in Silver Spring. Officers with the Major Crimes Division arrested and charged Stacy Howard Moore, age 48, of the 3400 block of 55th Avenue in Hyattsville in connection with the incident, which occurred on January 22, 2003 in an apartment in the 9100 block of Piney Branch Road.