
Montgomery County officials are exploring ways to stem a troubling trend of juvenile flash-mob thefts, including by drafting a bill specifically tailored to prosecute mob-related crime.

More than a dozen teens who were part of a mob that descended en masse on a Germantown 7-Eleven and were captured on surveillance videos brazenly raiding the store's shelves and refrigerators of candy, chips and sodas have been criminally charged, police said Friday.

The signs at the entrance to Americana Centre Condominiums in Rockville reads: "No skateboarding, no roller blading, no roller skates."