Calvert County Sheriff's Reports

PRINCE FREDERICK, Md. (August 22, 2011)—The Calvert County Sheriff's Office today released the following incident and arrest reports.

WEEKLY SUMMARY: During the week of August 15-21, deputies responded to 1,619 calls for service throughout the community.

ATTEMPTED BURGLARY: Unknown suspect(s) attempted to gain entry to the Town & Country Liquor store located at 2701 St. Leonard Road in Port Republic on August 16 at about 10:44 p.m. by smashing the front window more than once with a rock. The window did not completely break and entry was not made inside the store. The damage is estimated at $3000. DFC R. Weems is investigating.

THEFT FROM VEHICLE: Sometime between 11:00 p.m. on August 16 and 10:00 a.m. on August 17, someone entered an unlocked vehicle parked outside a home on Eucalyptus Street in St. Leonard and stole two Hewlett Packard laptop computers together valued at $1900. Dep. Y. Bortchevsky is investigating.

DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY: One fourteen-year-old male and two fifteen-year-old males, all three from Owings, were charged with destruction of property on youth reports and released to a parent on August 19 at about 4:00 in the morning when they were found to have thrown large rocks into the roadway on Md. Rt. 260 near E Street in Chesapeake Beach about an hour earlier. A victim advised DFC Kreps that she had run over the rocks which caused approximately $500 in damage to her vehicle.

THEFT: A set of 20 inch wheels with tires and 18 inch wheel with tires together valued at $600 were stolen from the yard of a home on Rawhide Road in Lusby around midnight on August 19. DFC Harms is continuing the investigation.


DRUG ARREST: On August 19 at about 7:45 p.m. deputies noticed a man inside a vehicle parked in the rear parking lot of the Apex Theater in Prince Frederick who appeared to be asleep. After making contact with the man, they found him to appear to be under the influence of an unknown substance and observed a Ziploc bag containing suspected drugs and drug paraphernalia. Dep. Y. Bortchevsky arrested Anthony Harris Fowler, 24 of Prince Frederick and charged him with possession of marijuana, possession of Heroin and two counts of possession of drug paraphernalia with intent to use; a smoking device and a hypodermic syringe and needle.

DRUG ARREST:On August 20 at 12:35 a.m. DFC R. Kreps conducted a traffic stop on a vehicle on Md. Rt. 261 in Chesapeake Beach. He found the driver to be in possession of suspected drug paraphernalia. Rachel Lynn Baden, 19 of Sunderland, was charged with possession with intent to use drug paraphernalia, a plastic straw with a white powdery residue used to inhale a controlled dangerous substance, Percocet.


DRUG ARREST: Due to the recent high occurrence of thefts from vehicles in the area, on August 20 at 2:35 a.m. DFC Kreps stopped two young males who appeared to be acting suspiciously in the area of David Lane in Chesapeake Beach. He found one of them, Ryan Joseph McCauley, 22 of Chesapeake Beach, to be in possession of suspected drugs and charged him with possession of cocaine and possession of heroin and use of drug paraphernalia, a cigarette box used to store heroin.


THEFT: On August 20 at 1:00 p.m. Dep. J. Hardesty responded to the Calvert County Detention Center on Stafford Road in Prince Frederick for the report of a theft from vehicle. It was determined that a woman hanging around the parking area had broken into two vehicles that same day between 7:00 a.m. and the time Dep. Hardesty responded. She had stolen cell phones, a GPS unit, jewelry and some money; all valued about $1700 from the two vehicles. She had also caused significant damage to one of the vehicles breaking into it. Dep. Hardesty arrested Sharlene Agnes Hager, 28 of Prince Frederick, and charged her with two counts of theft, two counts of intent to commit theft and false statement to a peace officer.