Monday, April 15, 2013
Glenn V. Rhodes, 34, was charged with carjacking, assault and resisting arrest.
A police chase that ended with a carjacking in Rockville injured two police officers and sent one unsuspecting motorist to the hospital on Wednesday, according to the statement of charges filed in Montgomery County District Court. Glenn V. Rhodes, 34, who has no fixed address, was charged with carjacking, assault and resisting arrest. The charges stem from a string of incidents that began with a traffic stop in White Oak, the court records show. Police said they tried to stop Rhodes at an off ramp on Columbia Pike in White Oak after they discovered the car he was driving had stolen tags. Rhodes refused to stop and turned left onto Randolph Road, police said in the statement of charges. As he drove on, police said, Rhodes struck a Toyota …
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Police say the suspects were foiled by an inability to drive 'stick.'
Two men have been arrested in connection with a Sunday night armed carjacking in Rockville's College Gardens neighborhood. Jose Maria Deduque, 20, of the 8500 block of Victory Lane in Potomac, and Kwajo Oteng-Agipong, 21, of Washington, DC, have been charged with armed carjacking, conspiracy to commit armed carjacking and motor vehicle theft after police say they threatened a food delivery worker and attempted to steal his car. A food delivery driver and his passenger were making a delivery stop in the 1600 block of Yale Place in Rockville around 8:50 p.m. Sunday, according to a Montgomery County police report. As the driver returned to his vehicle, two suspects demanded the car at gunpoint, police said. One of the victims fled as the …
Thursday, November 15, 2012
Police: Byron Deshane Govan also is suspected of robbery in Alexandria, VA.
Montgomery County police have arrested a 27-year-old man from White Plains in connection with carjackings at Congressional Plaza in Rockville and near White Flint Mall in North Bethesda. Byron Deshane Govan was arrested earlier this month at his home in the 10000 block of Wamsley Court. He is charged with several counts of auto theft, carjacking, robbery and using a firearm during the commission of a crime. The first incident occurred just before 10 p.m. on Sept. 27. A 69-year-old woman returned to her 2012 Toyota Prius after making a transaction at the Wells Fargo bank ATM at 110 Congressional Lane in Congressional Plaza in Rockville. She found a man sitting in the driver’s seat, police said in a news release. As the woman attempted to …
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Police release surveillance video and ask for the public's help identifying the suspect.
Police believe a suspect wanted for a Sept. 27 carjacking in Rockville is the same person wanted for an Oct. 11 robbery in Alexandria, VA. Montgomery County police are asking for the public’s help to identify the suspect, seen in a surveillance video posted to YouTube by the Alexandria Police Department. (View the video above.) A 69-year-old woman returned to her 2012 Toyota Prius after making a transaction at the Wells Fargo bank ATM at 110 Congressional Lane in Congressional Plaza in Rockville just before 10 p.m. on Sept. 27 to find a man sitting in the driver’s seat, police said in a news release. As the woman attempted to open the driver’s side door, the man said that he had a gun, pushed the keyless start button on the vehicle and …
Sunday, January 15, 2012
Two armed, masked men carjacked a Lexus at gunpoint on Sunday evening, Jan. 15, in the 10500 block of Weymouth Street, near the Rockville-Bethesda border, police said.
A carjacking occurred in the 10500 block of Weymouth Street, near the Bethesda-Rockville border, on Sunday evening, Jan. 15, according to the Montgomery County Police Department. The car—a black Lexus SUV with Maryland license plate No. 2MD2633—was taken at gunpoint from its driver—a commercial delivery driver—by two black men in their 20s. Both men were about 5 feet, 8 inches tall and 160 pounds, and both wore masks and dark clothing, according to police. In addition to the SUV, the men took the commercial proceeds (an undetermined amount of money, police said) of the delivery driver's workday. The delivery driver was not harmed, police added. Anyone with information about this incident is asked to call county police at 301-279-8000, and …
Pepito
12:05 am on Monday, January 28, 2013
And to think Jose Deduque doesn't really need to steal anything. This guy is rich!!! Father works at the World Bank, Uncle an anchor/newscaster at BBC Asia, family in his native country is filthy rich!!! I wonder what happened to this young man, he had so much potential when he was young more ›