Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Police closed Chevy Chase Circle and surrounding streets early Sunday morning after a suspect crashed a reportedly stolen vehicle in the circle and fled on foot, news outlets reported.
Police closed Chevy Chase Circle and surrounding streets early Sunday morning—from about 5 to 7:30 a.m.—after a suspect crashed a reportedly stolen vehicle in the circle and fled on foot, NBC Washington reported. "The accident happened near the intersection of Connecticut and Western Avenues at around 4:45 a.m. [on Jan. 6] and resulted in one vehicle being overturned. Only minor injuries were reported at the scene," NBC Washington added. The vehicle—an Acura—had been carjacked at Kalorama Circle in Washington, DC, earlier that Sunday morning, DC police told NBC Washington. A brief pursuit began when DC police spotted the vehicle near the circle, and ended with the vehicle crashing into another vehicle in the circle. The suspect fled on …
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Reeco Richardson, 19, received 18 months of probation for his role in the theft and high-speed police chase of a car that crashed into a tree in Chevy Chase Circle last March, The Gazette reported.
The only survivor of a fiery car crash in Chevy Chase last March received 18 months of probation for his role in the theft and high-speed police chase—which ended in the crash—of the car, The Gazette reported. The sentence could have been much worse, The Gazette added: [Reeco] Richardson was convicted of the unlawful taking of a motor vehicle and one count of rogue and vagabond after an October trial, and faced a maximum sentence of eight years in jail and a $5,000 fine at his sentencing before Montgomery County Circuit Court Judge Nelson Rupp Wednesday [Dec. 12, 2012]. Richardson—19 and of Washington, DC—will have an unsupervised probation, and is unlikely to have a criminal conviction on his record if he does not face another criminal …
Thursday, October 18, 2012
"A District of Columbia man’s defense attorneys are requesting a new trial in their client’s stolen vehicle case, claiming prosecutors withheld evidence from them before trial and violated court rules on discovery," The Gazette reported.
Thursday, October 11, 2012
The National Park Service has the final say on whether or not traffic signals will be added to the Western Avenue approaches to Chevy Chase Circle.
Signalization of Chevy Chase Circle at the roundabout's Western Avenue approaches isn't likely to happen soon, Chevy Chase Village Manager Shana Davis-Cook reported at a village board meeting on Monday. Both the DC Department of Transportation and the advisory neighborhood commission for the Chevy Chase neighborhood in Washington, DC, have been in favor of adding traffic signals to the Western Avenue approaches to Chevy Chase Circle, according to a letter written by the Chevy Chase, DC, advisory neighborhood commission to the National Park Service. But the Chevy Chase Village Board of Managers has been less enthusiastic about adding traffic signals to Chevy Chase Circle—a historic landmark under the jurisdiction of the National Park …
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Reeco Richardson was "convicted of unauthorized use of a motor vehicle and rogue and vagabond," NBC Washington reports.
In last week's criminal trial for Reeco Richardson—the sole survivor of a fiery car crash at Chevy Chase Circle on March 23, 2012—Richardson was "convicted of unauthorized use of a motor vehicle and rogue and vagabond," NBC Washington reported. The other charges—theft and motor vehicle theft—against Richardson, who was 18 at the time of the crash, resulted in a hung jury, NBC added. Richardson was riding in the front passenger seat of a vehicle, which police say was stolen, when it crashed into a tree at around 1 a.m. on March 23, Chevy Chase Patch reported. The burnt tree later was removed from the circle. The driver of the car, Reynard Osman—16, of Washington, DC—died on March 28. Rear passengers Emanuel Demitrius Nelson, 16, and Tyree …
Friday, October 5, 2012
The assistant state's attorney's attempt to shut down a website promoting a defendant's innocence in a car crash was denied, and police refuted the defense attorneys' claims.
A defendant's website that prosecutors wanted shut down remains on the Internet following a judge's decision last week denying the State's Attorney's request to have it removed, The Gazette reported. Reeco Richardson is currently on trial on charges of car theft, rogue and vagabond. Meanwhile, Richarson is suing Montgomery County Police contending that they rammed the car in which he was riding during a pursuit on March 23. The crash killed three other occupants of the car that police allege was stolen. Richarson's attorneys created a website, Justice for Reeco, in support of Richardson's innocence. At Richardson's criminal trial on Wednesday, his attorneys' argument that police rammed the car in which he was riding was refuted by …
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
The sole survivor of the car crash at Chevy Chase Circle on March 23, 2012, has been charged with stealing the car. He's suing the police for crashing it, and his website has been threatened with a shutdown.
Update (Thursday, Oct. 4, 2012): Assistant State’s Attorney Stephen Chaikin's request to shut down the website promoting Reeco Richardson's innocence was denied, The Gazette reported. Original post (Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2012): If you believed yourself to be wrongly accused of a crime, what would you do? Perhaps you might set up a website to tell your side of the story, like Reeco Richardson and his attorneys have done. Richardson—of Washington, DC—is the only survivor of a March 23, 2012, car crash at Chevy Chase Circle that killed three young men from Washington, DC: the driver of the vehicle and the two rear-seat passengers. The car crashed into a tree at Chevy Chase Circle and burst into flames, according to the Montgomery County Police …
Monday, July 16, 2012
High-voltage anti-Pepco madness, looking for a mystery man in Bethesda and even dogs in Montgomery County turn political. Oh, and a bunch of fifth graders call out The Washington Post. All this stuff really happened in Montgomery County last week.
Montgomery County might be known for its calm reserve but it turns out residents get outraged when they learn that under state law they have to help compensate for losses by one of the most hated companies in America—Pepco. Montgomery County Council President Roger Berliner said residents had had enough and held a press conference to call for improvements. Maryland's county executives, including Montgomery's Ike Leggett, blasted Pepco for failing to to provide specific addresses with outages so elderly residents could be helped during the heat wave. State senators Brian Frosh (D-Montgomery) and James Rosapepe (D-Prince George's) suggested Pepco and BGE should have to pay their own fines reaching more than $100 million for their response to…
Friday, July 13, 2012
A former Chevy Chase Village police officer shares a memory of Chevy Chase Circle from the 1990s.
Chevy Chase Circle—currently the center of controversy over whether traffic signals should be added—has had an interesting history with vehicles. Earlier this year, a stolen car crashed into a tree, ending a high-speed police chase. Three of the four people in the car died, and the tree had to be taken down. In the 1990s, though, a car actually ended up inside the fountain. Former Chevy Chase Village police officer John Hoffmann was at the scene of the incident, and recently reminisced about it in an article for the Chesterfield, MO, Patch: One summer Friday night a county police officer was assisting me while I handled a serious auto accident—a car ended up inside the landmark Chevy Chase Circle against the basin of the fountain. A number…
Thursday, July 12, 2012
Chevy Chase, DC, is pushing for traffic signals for Chevy Chase Circle, and Chevy Chase Village is feeling left out of the conversation.
Chevy Chase Village and the Chevy Chase neighborhood of Washington, DC, share more than just a name. They also share access to a traffic circle. And, while the neighborhood commission of Chevy Chase, DC, is in favor of installing traffic signals at the circle, Chevy Chase Village is more skeptical. Chevy Chase Circle sits on the boundary of Chevy Chase, MD, and DC. Connecticut Avenue (Maryland state Route 185) and Western Avenue (the DC-Maryland border) both run around the circle, as does smaller Grafton Street. Magnolia Parkway also connects to the circle on the Maryland side. The circle—with its wide and graceful water fountain—is owned by the National Park Service. Both the DC Department of Transportation and the advisory neighborhood …
Patricia J. Kelly
11:23 am on Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Another idiot!!! more ›