Carroll County Crime

The Carroll County legal community is reeling over a June decision by the county’s four circuit court judges to refuse to hear cases presented by Acting State’s Attorney Allan Culver and Deputy State’s Attorney Edward Coyne.

A West Virginia man was charged with murdering three co-workers at a Maryland machine shop as well as attempted murder and other charges, authorities said late Friday. The name of the alleged shooter, Joe Louis Esquivel, 23, of Hedgesville, West Virginia, was also released by the Washington County sheriff’s office on Friday.

Carroll County Emergency Operations received a call Monday afternoon for an airplane crash at the Clearview Airpark in Westminster.

Rodney Milstreed of Finksburg is accused of throwing a flagpole and a smoke grenade at police and assaulting an Associated Press photographer during the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, according to court documents released Tuesday.

The trial of Michael Anthony Brown, a Mount Airy man accused of murdering his stepfather-in-law and business partner Robert Gurecki in Eldersburg in 2019, ended in a hung jury Monday afternoon following two days of deliberations.

A man is facing charges after he allegedly struck and killed a woman Thursday while he was driving while intoxicated on Maryland Route 10.

A substitute teacher and head volleyball coach at a Carroll County high school was charged with distributing child pornography through Snapchat, law enforcement officials said.

The court battle, preceded by two days of arguments between the two jurisdictions, could be an early test for a Maryland law passed in 2021 that gave the attorney general’s office the power to investigate such incidents.

The 12-year-old boy who had been missing since Friday has been found safe with his father, state police said.

One person was flown to Shock Trauma in Baltimore Monday evening after a shooting at Westminster’s Boston Inn, police say.

On Wednesday, mourners will pay respects and share stories about 15-year-old Tom Pfoff, a Westminster High School freshman who died Jan. 17 from a gunshot wound sustained in a Dundalk home. Funeral services will be held at the Connelly Funeral Home of Essex in Baltimore.

After a Westminster teen died from a gunshot wound sustained in a Dundalk home Monday, police are charging a man who they say failed to secure his gun — and wasn’t supposed to have firearms in the first place.

Officers from the Maryland State Police and Carroll County Sheriff’s Office gave chase Thursday afternoon to a Baltimore County ambulance reportedly stolen from the emergency department at Carroll Hospital, ultimately crashing with the vehicle in Finksburg. Police then apprehended the driver.

A Westminster High School English teacher who was sentenced to 90 days in prison in 2018 after she stole thousands of dollars from a Baltimore high school where she was principal, has been placed on administrative leave by the Carroll County public school system.

Maryland State Police arrested a woman in North Carolina on Monday in connection with the 2014 murder of Prakash Rampatsingh in Carroll County, according to a news release.

A Carroll County judge handed down a life sentence on Tuesday in relation to a 2020 stabbing in Westminster.

A Sykesville woman is facing multiple charges of torturing horses and depriving them of food and veterinary care at the Marriottsville riding stable she owned, according to court documents.

Twin brothers from Hampstead were each sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for the possession of child pornography.

The Westminster Police Department responded to a reported bank robbery Thursday afternoon at Farmers and Merchants Bank on Clifton Boulevard.

A Pennsylvania man was charged last week with negligent manslaughter after an October 2020 collision in Westminster killed a Baltimore woman, according to indictment documents.

Jason Bryant Nelson, 35, plead not guilty to, and later found not guilty of, second-degree rape and assault after a May 10 hearing.