Officer stops bank heist
An off-duty Prince George’s police officer was shot and wounded after interrupting a bank robbery in Bowie. The officer arrested one robber, but a second suspect fled in a green four-door sedan, Cpl. Clinton Copeland said. The incident happened shortly after 10 a.m. Monday at the BB&T bank at Old Chapel Road and Laurel Bowie Road. The officer and a robber struggled with the officer’s gun, and the weapon fired, grazing the officer in the leg and striking the suspect in the hand.
Boy, 3, found in bottom of pool
A 3-year-old boy is in critical condition after he wandered away from his older brother and was found in the bottom of a nearby pool in Burtonsville, Montgomery County police said. Lifeguards found the child around 10:30 a.m. Sunday, shortly before they were to open the pool. Police are investigating how he got into the water.
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Va. police find goat in trunk
A District woman was charged with cruelty to an animal after she was found driving with a bound goat in the trunk of a car. Sheriff’s deputies in Bedford County, Va., heard noises coming from the trunk after Fiona Ann Enderdy, 32, drove up to a sobriety checkpoint Friday night. The goat was panting heavily, and the temperature in the trunk was 94 degrees, police said. The driver said she was from the United Kingdom, where transporting goats in the back of cars was acceptable.
Student admits to selling
guns, drugs out of Metro
A Montgomery College student pleaded guilty to selling drugs and guns outside the Bethesda Metro station. David Bonett, 23, of Mt. Airy, Md., faces up to 20 years for the drug charge and five years for the firearms charge. Prosecutors said Bonett sold an undercover police officer four guns, OxyContin pills and marijuana.
Compiled by Scott McCabe
