Two men are charged in connection with an attempted daytime burglary of a home in the 1500 block of West Kersey Lane on Tuesday. 

Joshua R. Evans, 18, of Gaithersburg, and Alexander Patrick Jeffrey, 24, of Germantown, are charged with attempted first-degree burglary and conspiracy to commit first-degree burglary, according to a city news release. Evans also is charged with malicious destruction of property, the release said.

Evans is being held in the county jail in Rockville on $25,000 bond, according to online court records. Jeffrey was released Wednesday on $5,000 bond. Both men are scheduled to appear in Montgomery County District Court in Rockville at 8:30 a.m. on June 18.

City police responded to a call of a burglary in progress at 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday at the home, just off Falls Road in the city’s southwestern corner.

An investigation revealed that someone had attempted to break a rear window of the home, the release said.

Officers found Jeffrey sitting in a vehicle near the home and took him in to custody, the release said. Evans fled on foot, the release said.

Police established a perimeter and searched the area with K-9s, the release said. Evans was taken into custody without incident near the intersection of Dunster and Falls roads, near Ritchie Park Elementary School, the release said,

Anyone who may have witnessed, or has information about the incident, is asked to call the Rockville City Police Criminal Investigations Unit at 240-314-8938.