Crash leaves two women critical as they fled from foot patrolTwo women who were in a car that fled a police officer on foot were hospitalized after crashing the vehicle, Prince George’s County Police said.
Cpl. Clinton Copeland said the crash occurred about 2 a.m. Monday in Riverdale Park. Both women were ejected from the vehicle. They were taken to a hospital, where they remained in critical condition, police said.
The officer was responding to a call about a suspicious vehicle in the shopping center parking lot in the 5500 block of Kenilworth Ave., police said.
When the officer walked up to the vehicle, the car sped off at a high rate of speed.
Va. man convicted of transfer of stolen radioactive material
A Virginia man was convicted of illegally transferring radioactive material without a license, the attorney general for Maryland announced.
Jack H. Poore, Jr., 50, of Palmyra, was convicted in the Circuit Court for Calvert County last week. He was sentenced to 62 days in jail.
The investigation revealed that in June 2008, Poore sold a lead paint analyzer to One Source Environmental LLC for $2,000. The analyzer contains Cobalt-57, which requires a radioactive material license from the Maryland Department of the Environment. One Source discovered that in 2006 ALC Environmental Inc. had reported the theft of the analyzer to the Philadelphia Police. Poore was a former employee of ALC Environmental, prosecutors said.
Teen struck by police car
A Gaithersburg police vehicle struck a teenage boy Monday afternoon.
Shortly after 3 p.m., a 14-year-old male was in the median crossing the street on Darnestown Road at Quince Orchard Road when he was struck by the police car. The boy was outside the crosswalk when he was struck by the vehicle, police said. He suffered minor injuries.
– Scott McCabe
