The Washington Times

County Sheriff'S Office

Latest County Sheriff'S Office Items
  • 2 off-duty Fla. officers fatally shoot naked woman

    Two off-duty Florida law-enforcement officers fatally shot an armed, naked woman who confronted them at a social gathering Saturday, authorities said.


  • Discarded filled-out voter forms in Virginia spur probe

    Virginia officials are probing a case in which completed voter-registration forms were said to have been tossed into a trash bin outside of a store in the Shenandoah Valley just before Monday's 5 p.m. registration deadline — the latest incident in what's already been a rather eventful election year in the Old Dominion.


  • Hodgepodge of older driving rules across nation

    A 50-state look at the varying rules across the nation governing drivers' licenses for older adults. ___


  • Md. man, woman and child dead in murder-suicide

    Calvert County officials say a man, woman and a 2-year-old child are dead following an apparent murder-suicide.


  • Jakadrien Turner, age 15, center, walks with her grandmother Lorene Turner, left, and mother Johnisa Turner, right, all of Dallas, at DFW Airport in Fort Worth, Texas, on Friday Jan. 6, 2012. Jakadrien Turner was mistakenly deported to Colombia after Immigration and Customs Enforcement say she claimed to be Colombian woman named Tika Lanay Cortez. (AP Photo/Mike Fuentes)

    Texas teen deported to Colombia reunites with mom

    A Texas teenager who was deported to Colombia in May after claiming to be an illegal immigrant was returned to the United States and remains at the center of an international mystery over how a minor could be sent to a country where she is not a citizen.


  • Mizzou suspends Pinkel 1 game after DWI arrest

    Missouri suspended football coach Gary Pinkel without pay for the final home game of the season Thursday and froze his salary for a year following his overnight arrest on suspicion of drunken driving.


  • Lt. Richard Ko sifts through marijuana plants in a field on Wednesday in Sanger, Calif. California narcotics officers have pulled millions fewer pot plants from remote forests than in past years. (Associated Press)

    California's illegal pot growers move to farmland

    California's drug traffickers have come down from the mountains to plant pot in plain sight in backyards and on prime farmland, where the state's medical marijuana law makes them tougher to bust.


  • Walker

    Parents of slain P.G. teen angered by latest mishandled warrant

    The parents of a teenage girl slain by her ex-boyfriend after the Prince George's County Sheriff's Office failed to arrest the man on an open warrant are angered that the agency has again mishandled an arrest warrant for another man now accused of murder.


  • Deangelo Walker, 25, is charged with killing his neighbor, William Albert Nelson, in Capitol Heights last month. (Prince George's County Police)

    P.G. warrant foul-up under scrutiny

    A Capitol Heights man with an open warrant out for his arrest was not taken into custody when he was served a peace order last month - the same day he is accused of fatally shooting his neighbor, the Prince George's County Sheriff's Office said Tuesday.


Happening Now