Friday, April 19, 2013
USA Today: Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the 26-year-old identified by police as the dead Boston bombing suspect, called his uncle Thursday night and asked for forgiveness.
One of the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings called one of his uncles in Montgomery Village on Thursday night to ask forgiveness, USA Today reported. Tamerlan Tsarnaev—the 26-year-old identified by police as the dead Boston bombing suspect—spoke with his uncle, Alvi Tsarni, for the first time in more than two years, according to the report. "He said, 'I love you and forgive me,'" Alvi Tsarni said, according to the report. On Friday morning, FBI agents and Montgomery County police went to the Montgomery Village home of Ruslan Tsarni, another uncle of the suspects. Ruslan Tsarni urged his surviving nephew to surrender to police and ask for forgiveness. He said he had not been in touch with the suspect's family for many years. Read …
The uncle of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects is from Montgomery County and says he is "devastated" by developments.
Update (2 p.m.) The uncle of the two Boston Marathon bombing suspects told CBS that his nephews "do not deserve to live on this earth," The Huffington Post reports. In what was described as an emotional interview with the Boston TV station, Ruslan Tsarni said he was shocked but "not sympathetic" to learn that his 26-year-old nephew Tamerlan had been killed. "Unbelievable—he absolutely deserved this," Tsarni said between heavy breaths. "I always told those two, Islam has always been there, just do your business. Work, go to school, be useful. Know why you came to America ... I am not sympathizing with them." Tsarni said he hasn't been in touch with the brothers since about 2009, and believes their parents moved back to Russia, according to …
Thursday, April 18, 2013
Alyona Joy Mayo and her 2-week-old daughter were reported missing Wednesday.
Updated 7:14 p.m.: A missing Gaithersburg woman and her 2-week-old daughter were located Thursday, a Montgomery County police spokeswoman said. Alyona Joy Mayo, 20, and daughter, Syrena Mayo, were reported missing by family members who said they hadn’t seen Mayo since Wednesday night. Police said in a news release that Mayo functioned at the level of an 11-year-old. Montgomery County police Officer Janelle Smith said the missing person alert was cancelled at 5:30 p.m. A representative from Lakeforest Mall said in an email that Mayo was found at the shopping center. Original post, 3:13 p.m. Thursday, April 18: Montgomery County police are asking for help from the public in locating a missing 20-year-old Gaithersburg woman and her two-week-…
North Potomac: 'All of my neighbors were outside last night watching the flames which were huge.'
A fire in a vacant North Potomac home Wednesday night took more than 55 firefighters to put out, a Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service spokesperson told Patch. Firefighters were dispatched to the 14900 block of Talking Rock Court around 8 p.m., MCFRS spokesperson Beth Anne Nesselt said. First reponders reported a large fire in a vacant single-family home that is under construction. Firefighters took a defensive approach, controlling and extinguishing the fire quickly, Nesselt said. "All of my neighbors were outside last night watching the flames, which were huge," Robyn Rutland of North Potomac told Patch in an email. Rutland is a resident of the Mills Farm neighborhood, which is off Quince Orchard Road. "We were amazed at how high …
No one was injured in either fire, a Montgomery County Fire and Rescue spokesperson said.
Firefighters doused two fires in Gaithersburg apartment complexes Wednesday, according to a Montgomery County Fire and Rescue spokesperson. Around 3:30 p.m., MCFR officials were dispatched to the 9900 block of Shelburne Terrace for the report of a building fire, MCFR spokesperson Beth Anne Nesselt said. Four hours later, they were sent to the 400 block of Christopher Avenue for a similar report. Firefighters arriving at the Shelburne Terrace location reported a fire in the "breezeway/first floor" entranceway to the apartment complex, Nesselt said. Residents of the building were sheltered in place and the fire was put out at 3:40 p.m. without any injuries. MCFR officials dispatched to the Christopher Avenue location found a fire in a third …
Scott Richard Swirling was the head of a non-profit.
Gaithersburg resident and former non-profit head Scott Richard Swirling pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on Tuesday to charges stemming from a child-sex sting, The Washington Examiner reports. Swirling pleaded guilty to traveling interstate to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a minorand faces a maximum sentence of 30 years as well as a fine of up to $250,000, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia. Swirling, 62, previously served as the executive director of the American School Counselor Association and the National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association. Swirling was charged in January after he was caught in a sting run by a task force of …
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-MD, calls Maryland postal workers selfless for the risks they sometimes face in national letter threats.
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Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-MD, (Dist. 5) Wednesday thanked Maryland postal workers, some of whom may face increased risk in cases of dangerous substances being mailed in threats against Washington officials. Federal investigators searched a mail sorting facility in Prince George's County Tuesday night for clues to the origins of a ricin-laced letter sent to Mississippi Sen. Roger Wicker, according to The Washington Post. The U.S. Senate's mail sorting operation is located at 6330 Columbia Park Road in Landover. An FBI spokesperson would not divulge the location of the bureau's investigation, but several outlets published images of hazmat trucks parked outside of the Landover facility on Tuesday. Hoyer issued the following statement thanking …
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
The circumstances behind his marriage might have violated Army policy, an Army spokeswoman told The Gazette.
The U.S. Army staff sergeant involved in the Germantown murder-suicide was already under investigation for marrying a former recruit, an Army spokeswoman told The Gazette. An investigation of Staff Sgt. Adam Ardnt began in March after discovering Ardnt had married Kaitlyn Amy Schum Ardnt, who was recruited at the Gaithersburg Army recruiting center, The Gazette reports. Recruiters are not supposed to have personal relationships with recruits. On April 8, Montgomery County police found the bodies of Ardnt and 17-year-old Michelle Miller in Ardnt’s Germantown home. Miller, a senior at Rockville High School, had enlisted in the Army reserves, Patch has reported. The deaths are being investigated as a murder-suicide. A private mass for …
Damage estimates were $120,000, a Montgomery County Fire and Rescue spokesperson told Patch.
Four people—two adults, two children—and a dog were displaced from a Gaithersburg home that was severely damaged in a fire Monday evening, a Montgomery County Fire and Rescue spokesperson told Patch. MCFRS was dispatched to the 8800 block of Welbeck Way in the Montgomery Village area of Gaithersburg about 8:15 p.m. Monday for the report of a fire in the laundry room, Beth Anne Nesselt said. Units arrived on the scene with smoke showing from the first and second floors of a three-story townhouse and requested additional resources. Firefighters extinguished the fire that had extended through the second and third floors, Nesselt told Patch. An origin and cause investigation determined that the fire originated in the dryer. The Red Cross was …
17 runners from Gaithersburg were registered to participate in the race.
Of the 17 runners from Gaithersburg registered for the Boston Marathon, 13 finished the race before two explosions near the finish line of Monday's race, according to race results posted online. The blasts killed three people and injured as many as 100, according to multiple media reports. Click here for Patch coverage from Boston. The runners who finished the race are listed below, according to the Boston Marathon website: Also registered for the race from Gaithersburg were 23-year-old Amy Bortnick, 75-year-old Tom Cowley, 41-year-old Mimi Dacy, and 46-year-old Susan Lynch, according to the Boston Marathon website's list of entrants. The list does not confirm participation in the race, or even travel to Boston. Bortnick did not make the …
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