Thursday, January 3, 2013
Girl, missing since New Year's Day, last seen in Mount Rainier.
Prince George's County Police are investigating the disappearance of a 13-year-old girl from Mount Rainier. Police do not believe the girl was kidnapped, and said that she had a history of running away from home. The girl, named Citalli Yamileth Colon-Ventura, was last seen near her home in the 3300 block of Buchanan Street in Mount Rainier at approximately 2 p.m. on Jan. 1, 2013. The girl, described by police as Hispanic, stands about five feet tall, with brown eyes and black hair. She was wearing a brown shirt and blue pants. Anyone with information about the whereabouts of this girl are encouraged to call detectives with the Prince George's County Police Department's District I Investigative Section at 301-699-2601.
County police deploying extra forces to five neighborhoods throughout January.
The Prince George's County Police Department will be deploying extra officers in some areas of the county as part of an effort to continue a trend of crime reductions. Each night throughout the month of January, there will be up to 125 extra police working the beat in select neighborhoods where criminal activity has historically been an inssue. The officers will be deployed to five Prince George's County neighborhoods: Langley Park, Riverdale, Suitland, Hillcrest Heights and Glassmanor. Those areas are part of the county's Transforming Neighborhoods initiative, plan to reduce crime through interagency cooperation designed to address the root causes of criminal activity in those neighborhoods. The program has been credited with a sharp …
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Officials say the county has seen a 35 percent drop in homicides over the past year.
When it comes to crime in Prince George's County, the 1980s are coming back. At a standing-room only news conference at the county's District III police station in Palmer Park, Prince George's County police and government officials announced a year of historically low crime statistics, including drastic reductions in the homicide rate and the residential burglary rate. The last time crime was this low, Ronald Reagan was president and Doug Williams was the Redskins' quarterback. Prince George's County Police Chief Mark Magaw highlighted improved inter-agency cooperation among county departments with a focus on reducing crime as a critical element in the decline. Dubbed the Transforming Neighborhoods Initiative, the program sees the heads …
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Boy was one of two victims, police say.
A 14-year-old boy has died after being shot in what police believe was a gang-related shooting in Lewisdale early Wednesday. At 12:15 a.m. on Dec. 5, police were called to the 2200 block of Sheridan Street for a report of a shooting. Officers arriving on the scene discovered two males suffering from gunshot wounds. One adult male was transported to a local hospital and is in stable condition. The second victim, 14-year-old Eliezer Benjamin Reyes of Lewisdale, was transported to the hospital where he was later pronounced dead. Police said that the preliminary investigation indicates that the shots were fired from a car as the victims and two other witnesses walked down the street together. Police said that two of the people in the group …
Friday, November 16, 2012
Officers appeared in uniform in "spoof" video parodying notion of "driving while black", according to Prince George's Police Chief.
Two Prince George's County Police Department officers have been suspended today for acting in a video posted to YouTube which county Police Chief Mark Magaw described as racially insensitive. According to Magaw, speaking to reporters during a press conference at Prince George's County police headquarters in Palmer Park, the officers could be fired for taking part in the video, which he said was supposed to "spoof" the idea of "driving while black", the idea that African-American's are treated with more scrutiny by police officers patrolling the streets, roads and highways. "A profane and racially insensitive video including two Prince George's County Police Department officers was circulated on the internet," said Magaw to reporters. "The…
Police chief to address reporters over suspensions during Friday night press conference.
The Prince George's County Police Department has suspended two police officers for "creating a video that is inconsistent with the values" of the community, according to a press release issued by the department late in the day on Friday. In just an hour— at 6:30 p.m.—Prince George's County Police Chief Mark Magaw will be addressing reporters about the suspension of the two officers during a press conference at police headquarters in Palmer Park. What exactly a "video inconsistent with the values of our community" means was not addressed in the press release. Prince George's County Police Department Media Relations Division spokesperson Cpl. Larry Johnson declined to comment further on the matter, saying that questions would be answered at…
Sunday, November 11, 2012
Local man fatally shot early Sunday morning.
County police are trying to figure out who shot and killed a 20-year-old Lewisdale man early Sunday morning two blocks from his home. According to the Prince George's County Police Department, at 1:25 a.m. on Nov. 11, officers were dispatched to the intersection of Charleston Place and Drexel Street in the Chillum neighborhood of Lewisdale to investigate a reported shooting. When they arrived on the scene, police discovered Edwin Alexander Lainez-Noyola suffering from a fatal gunshot wound. Lainez-Noyola, a resident of the 7300 block of 23rd Avenue, was pronounced dead at a local hospital. Police are asking anyone with information which could help identify a suspect in Lainez-Noyola's murder to contact the Prince George's County Police …
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Edwin Alexander Lainez-Noyola was found with a fatal gunshot wound here early on Sunday, Nov. 11, 2012.
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Tuesday, November 6, 2012
If Edwin Rivas had not pled guilty, prosecutors had evidence to connect him to one attack.
As part of a plea bargain, prosecutors are asking a judge to sentence 24-year-old Edwin Rivas to 18 years in prison for raping one woman in Mount Rainier and sexually assaulting a second woman in Hyattsville earlier this year. Rivas pled guilty last week to one count of first degree rape, admitting that he attacked a woman in a Mount Rainier apartment complex on Buchanan Street, forced her into the bushes and raped her at knifepoint during an attack on Jan. 28. On Oct. 26, Rivas also pled guilty to a second degree assault charge and a fourth degree sex offense for a Feb. 23 attack which saw him try to pull a woman into a wooded area near Jamestown Road. She was able to escape after shouting and getting the attention of passerby. In …
Monday, November 5, 2012
Edwin Rivas, who police said was a suspect in multiple sexual assaults, pleads guilty to charges from incidents in Hyattsville, Mount Rainier.
Edwin Xavier Rivas, the 24-year-old Hyattsville resident charged in two sexual assaults in Hyattsville and Mount Rainier, has pleaded guilty to charges of first-degree rape, a fourth-degree sex offense and second-degree assault in two cases before the Prince George's County Circuit Court. Rivas' first-degree rape guilty plea stems from a Jan. 28 attack at the 3300 block of Buchannan Street. Mount Rainier Police, who first responded to the report, said the victim was walking through the Queenstown Apartments when she was approached from behind, attacked and forced at knifepoint into nearby bushes where she was then raped. The case was taken over by the Prince George's County Police Department's Special Crimes detectives. Their investigation…
Friday, October 26, 2012
Kevon Neal and Kenneth Mitchell are accused of leading a car chase that sent Officer Adrian Morris's cruiser into a ditch off of I-95.
A grand jury indicted two men on Thursday for their alleged role in an Aug. 20 pursuit that ended in the death of Prince George's County police Officer Adrian Morris. Kevon Neal, 23, of Fort Washington was charged with motor vehicle manslaughter, fleeing and eluding police, and theft greater than $10,000. Kenneth Mitchell, 25, of Washington, DC was charged with theft greater than $10,000. Neal faces up to 35 years in prison if convicted, while Mitchell faces up to 15. Morris, 23, was killed when his cruiser careened off I-95 near Powder Mill Road. According to police, he had been pursuing a silver Acura thought to contain two suspects who stole a purse at a Shell gas station in Laurel. The car reportedly cut across multiple lanes quickly, …
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