A crime wave of thefts from autos parked in the same commercial garage in the Westbard area of Bethesda continues. Montgomery County police responded to a report of a theft from a vehicle inside the Westbard Square parking garage in the 5300 block of Zenith Overlook on Sunday afternoon, May 11, 2025 at 3:05 PM. This was the 13th theft reported in the garage since February, and once again, it was a daytime crime.
No surveillance camera footage of the crimes, nor any suspect descriptions, have been released by police in these cases. Therefore, we don't have any clue as to who these thieves are, or where they are coming from. A shooting that wounded two people across the street from the garage over six weeks ago also remains unsolved. This previously low-crime area is going to acquire a bad reputation, if property owner Regency Centers and Montgomery County officials fail to nip this crime spike in the bud pretty soon.
19 comments:
Westbard, where for decades, there was no issue. I don't recall ever hearing about petty crime, vehicle larceny or anything untoward and image there. Ever. Just because they blew up a 50 year old center and made it nice and modern, that brings out the crooks? Huh? I guess a surface lot is way riskier because everything is in the open? I don't know but this is nuts. Not reported anywhere else. Bring back News Channel 8 at least. Where do all the Kenwood residents shop now? Not at Westbard at just not any more. What a joke. Elrich to the rescue.
I bet the thieves are coming from Westland Middle School. Occurring just after the bell.
No consequences from MD/MC leadership which does the same thing over and over expecting different results.
The most recent theft occurred on Sun. at 3:05 pm.
NIMBY leadership.
The parking garage is crime friendly by sheer design.
You really sound stupid. Elrich, Elrich, Elrich, try listening to yourself. He cannot prevent any landowner from developing their property to the best financial conditions allowed by law. You want to point fingers and poor your whine, that's turned to vinegar over something, write the property owner. I doubt this will happen for fear of being banned from the site for insurrection.
Can’t we all just get along ? Facts are facts, Elrich is by far the worst CE in the last 25 years. His only accomplishment is raising taxes.
Which is more dangerous - the thefts in the garage or trying to drive up a level on the poorly designed ramps?
What can one say about people like 2:23? Product of mainstream media where 1+1=5. We get it, why ruffle feathers of the people responsible for crime by imposing ZERO consequences on those committing these acts because you love what they stand for, (funding & heathcare for illegals, gas blower bans, road diets etc). I would use the word moron but that's putting it a little too lightly.
List one or two low-level crimes reacted to by MD/MC in the manner you desire.
2:35 - perfectly stated.
And dumping the collected taxes into a black hole aka MCPS.
Drive up is easy compared to drive down in that labyrinth.
Thank you for posting this information. It’s not available anywhere else.
Very unlikely to be those young middle school students. They hang out at Starbucks after school and are well behaved.
1:56, when the simple solution may be just we stop fighting truancy and remove the disruptors who don't want to learn anyhow. Even good teachers can't deal with today's incorrigible youth. And, of course, gut the worthless teachers' unions. Another topic for another day.
No cash bail essentially removes the consequence of the crime committed for a "promise" to appear. When they don't appear, it gets put as a FTA in their record which MC/MD classifies as a non-extraditable warrant. Thus a crime committed with no consequences.
Children raised this way become useless adults as this is a fundamental lesson never learned. Sad that 7:11 needed an explanation that should have been taught before entering 1st grade.
SCOTUS judge KBJ recently made the case for alternatives to public school, (notably MCPS), in the religious opt-out case. Let's give ALL parents school choice!
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