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May 16, 2013
Hagerstown Police Department detectives would be allowed to drive their unmarked police vehicles home under a proposal Chief Mark Holtzman made during a Tuesday work session of the City Council. Each of the department's six detectives get called in while off duty an average of 21 times a year, Holtzman told the council. Allowing them to drive the unmarked vehicles home would mean they could respond to a crime scene without first having to switch their personal vehicles for a police car at headquarters, he said.
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By DAN DEARTH | dan.dearth@herald-mail.com | March 27, 2013
Maryland State Police have released the name of an inmate who died after a correctional officer discovered him bleeding Tuesday night at Maryland Correctional Institution-Hagerstown. Deavel M. Johnson, 22, was noticed standing near a bunk bed with blood on him at about 10:30 p.m. Tuesday during a head count in a dormitory unit at the prison, according to a state police news release. Troopers said correctional officers gave Johnson first aid after he collapsed and took him to the MCI-H dispensary.
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July 24, 2012
A man charged in the shooting last month of a Martinsburg resident was picked up Tuesday in Delaware, police said. Desmond Lamont Davis, 23, no fixed address, was arrested Tuesday at 2 p.m. by police in New Castle, Del., according to a news release from the Martinsburg Police Department. Davis, aka Desi and Desert Eagle, is charged in warrants with malicious wonding and wanton endandagerment in the June 16 shooting of Zebudia Pitters in the 300 block of Chestnut Street in Martinsburg, police said.
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By DON AINES | dona@herald-mail.com | February 15, 2012
Crime-scene photographs of Carol Brown's body and other forensic evidence were shown to the jury Wednesday in Washington County Circuit Court in the second day of trial for a Hagerstown man accused of killing her nearly four years ago. Darrol Chris Sands, 44, is serving a 15-year state prison sentence on a 2011 drug-trafficking conviction. He was indicted in 2010 with the April 19, 2008, murder of Brown, a 22-year-old mother of two found dead in the bathtub of her Mitchell Avenue apartment in Hagerstown.
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By HEATHER KEELS | January 30, 2008
Within four minutes of an armed robbery Tuesday night at Freddie's Sub Shop, Hagerstown Police arrested a man seen running from the scene, Sgt. Johnny L. Murray said. Michael Charles Harbaugh, 40, of Lynnehaven Drive in Hagerstown, was charged with armed robbery, theft and two counts of second-degree assault, Murray said. No one was injured in the 5:37 p.m. robbery at the restaurant at 520 Park Lane, Murray said. There were two employees, but no customers, in the shop when a man entered, showed a gun and demanded cash, Murray said.
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HEATHER KEELS | January 29, 2008
HAGERSTOWN -- Within four minutes of an armed robbery Tuesday night at Freddie's Sub Shop, Hagerstown Police arrested a man seen running from the scene, Sgt. Johnny L. Murray said. Michael Charles Harbaugh, 40, of Lynnehaven Drive in Hagerstown, was charged with armed robbery, theft and two counts of second-degree assault, Murray said. No one was injured in the 5:37 p.m. robbery at the restaurant at 520 Park Lane, Murray said. There were two employees, but no customers, in the shop when a man entered, showed a gun and demanded cash, Murray said.
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By ERIN JULIUS | October 23, 2007
Click here to view more robbery photos. HAGERSTOWN ? One of two masked men who robbed an M&T Bank branch at 930 Dual Highway on Monday shot at a Washington County Sheriff's Department cruiser and took a deputy's service weapon before getting away, police said. Police believe a shotgun was used during the robbery, and a robber pointed the gun at the first deputy who arrived on scene and demanded the officer give his weapon to the robbers, Sgt. Paul Kifer of the Hagerstown Police Department said.
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By ERIN JULIUS | October 12, 2007
HAGERSTOWN - A 29-year-old man was shot in the back Thursday morning as he walked in the area of North Mulberry Street, according to Sgt. Paul Kifer of the Hagerstown Police Department. Police were called to Washington County Hospital at 3:43 a.m. Thursday for a report of a gunshot victim. The man's injuries were not life-threatening and he was expected to be released from the hospital Thursday, Kifer said. Police did not release the victim's name. According to the victim, he was walking in the area of North Mulberry Street and East Avenue when a burgundy sedan traveling west on East Avenue passed him, Kifer said.
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By ERIN JULIUS | October 11, 2007
A 29-year-old man was shot in the back Thursday morning as he walked in the area of North Mulberry Street, according to Sgt. Paul Kifer of the Hagerstown Police Department. Police were called to Washington County Hospital at 3:43 a.m. Thursday for a report of a gunshot victim. The man's injuries were not life-threatening and he was expected to be released from the hospital Thursday, Kifer said. Police did not release the victim's name. According to the victim, he was walking in the area of North Mulberry Street and East Avenue when a burgundy sedan traveling west on East Avenue passed him, Kifer said.
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By DON AINES | June 27, 2007
CHAMBERSBURG, PA. - Chambersburg police and the Franklin County Coroner's Office were investigating the death and identity of a man whose body was discovered on a South Main Street sidewalk Tuesday morning. The man, described as being approximately 60 years old, was found by a delivery person at 3:28 a.m. outside 259 S. Main St., Detective Sgt. Dianne Kelso said. "There were no signs of trauma," Coroner Jeffrey R. Conner said Tuesday afternoon. An autopsy was performed Tuesday morning at Lehigh Valley Medical Center in Allentown, Pa., he said.