Montgomery Community Media

A 71-year-old man was arrested and charged with committing six armed bank robberies throughout Montgomery County during the past eight-and-a-half years. James Wersick, of Germantown, was arrested Aug. 4 as he exited PNC Bank in Potomac, which Montgomery County Police Department said he had just robbed. He is charged with six counts of armed robbery. […]

Surveillance cameras helped Montgomery County detectives identify a suspect involved in two bank robberies earlier this month in Rockville. Asa Wilson Brown, 34, of the 2300 block of McAuliffe Drive, is charged with two counts of armed robbery and two counts of theft, police said. On Oct. 9, Brown entered the Old Line Bank at […]

Montgomery County Police arrested a man who allegedly robbed a SunTrust bank in Rockville last week.  Police say Jason Kenneth Rollins, 34, of Montgomery Village was arrested on October 16 for robbing the bank on the 100 black of Gibbs Street in Rockville. Rollins entered the bank at 2:28 p.m. and approached the teller with a note demanding money and stating that he […]

Montgomery County Police are searching for a man believed to have robbed two Rockville banks in less than a week. On October  9 around 10:00 a.m., a man entered the Old Line Bank at 1801 Rockville Pike and passed a note announcing a robbery. The suspect demanded money and implied that he had a weapon. […]

The Montgomery County Police Department is investigating a robbery that took place Monday at the Navy Federal Credit Union in Gaithersburg. Officers responded to the bank located on the 100 block of Ellington Boulevard, and after further investigation found that the suspect approached a teller with a note announcing the robbery. After demanding cash and […]

A 28-year-old Rockville man was sentenced to 10 years in prison for a bank robbery in January, according to a statement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Greenbelt. U.S. District Judge Peter J. Messitte on Monday also sentenced Jerail Melik Netcliff to five years of supervised release. According to his guilty plea, Netcliff robbed a […]

A Kentucky man has been charged in the June 8 armed robbery of a TD Bank on Shady Grove Road, a Montgomery County police statement said. The man, Jonathan David Goff, does not appear in online court records yet. Police say he is 36 and lives on the 16500 block of St. John Road in […]

Detectives from Montgomery County Police’s Major Crimes Division have arrested a man in connection with an armed robbery that occurred in Montgomery Village in June 2017. Police say information from a tipster was essential in leading to this arrest. Police say Raul G. Castro, 32, of Gaithersburg, was arrested Friday near his home in Olde […]

The man detectives believe robbed several Suntrust banks was found dead in a Hagerstown motel room, a Montgomery County police statement said. Shivi Brian Mohanani-Neil, 28, of Pottstown, Pennsylvania, is believed to be responsible for several Suntrust bank robberies in Montgomery County as well as committing other robberies in Northern Virginia, police said. Mohnani-Neil entered […]

A man that Montgomery County police had previously wanted for two bank robberies inside a grocery store is now wanted for a third, according to a police statement released Monday. That’s right, police believe the same man has robbed the same grocery store bank branch — three times. The Safeway grocery store, at 14939 Shady […]