Montgomery County police responded to a report of an armed robbery at a downtown Bethesda store Tuesday afternoon, July 8, 2025. The robbery was reported at a store in the 4800 block of Edgemoor Lane at 4:47 PM. Police did not identify the business, but Geste Beer & Wine is located on that block. The store has been a target of gun-wielding robbers several times in the past.
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No cash bail policies coming home to roost. Just get used to it and concentrate on calling police on important things like your neighbors violating the blower ban.
That's a block from the Metro station.
I've had the hair on my neck stand up a few times early in the morning when I absolutely could tell when a guy was 'up to no good,' looking around for opportunity. I'd be happy to volunteer a few days a month to be in, maybe, a bike patrol where we stay on top of these situations. I did a similar thing in Sacramento CA. When you ride around about a block from these guys for while and they notice you and get belligerent, you know you're being effective. It's really the only practical way of mitigating this opportunistic crime.
That’s what makes it so brazen.
A Shooter not afraid to strike in Daylight Hours and next to METRO !
So (even assuming your Spidey-sense is correct), if "up to no good" includes (as happened here) armed robbery--in which the weapon might well have been a gun--you think it'll be "effective" to have them notice you and "get belligerent"??
Start shootin' back, people, McCarthy be damned!! --"I'd rather be judged by 12 than carried by 6."
I'll repeat what I said decades ago when METRO arrived and the pearl clutchers were shaking in their shoes, no sane or insane crook will use metro as a getaway source. This crime had to have a waiting accomplice with a car, stolen more than likely, as the escape source. Just run the crime through your own head. You commit the crime, bolt from the site, dash into the metro (w/w/o a farecard), then wait......wait......wait. Nah! Too damn risky.
Noticing them? Targets in motion.
7:59 you must have missed the crime that happened within days of your first posting re no using the metro. Of course they use the Metro.. they really don't figure on getting caught, tats what you fail to realize.
7:59 naive and wrong
All store owners would do well to get trained and get armed. The bad guys have guns and know that the store employees most likely don't. Escape by METRO? How bout not letting them escape at all? Shoot to kill if necessary. That will stop this nonsense quick. If the news we're ever honest and did a report on a justified shooting, that would send an awfully strong message to the pipe hitting thugs robbing places with impunity.
JAC, I suspect they're operating under the same knowledge police officers are post-2020, that law enforcement or self-defense actions legal under the Constitution (and under laws in other states like Florida or Texas) can get you locked up as a political prisoner in Maryland, even as the victim and party in the right.
How do you know that even a "justified" shooting by an employee/owner wouldn't encourage (a) subsequent reprisal attack(s) on that person (or, anyone who happened to be behind that store's counter), and (b) thieves to be even more likely to have, and faster to use, their own guns? Maybe some criminals might be discouraged; but those who started, or persisted, might then be even more dangerous.
Robert, sadly, that's probably true. I think commerical properties are a little different but the fear of getting locked up for defending your business is still real.
Shills like 7:59 is why Bethesda is going the way of DTSS. They vote for idiots that prioritize wishful thinking versus actual results. As an owner of a business in Bethesda the exit signs are flashing. Sad times.
Interesting idea for folks to consider
4:44 not all are armed. The bike patrols could call police. I think the idea has merit.
Reasonable point Robert.
And I really don’t want to be in the midst of a gun battle as a pedestrian or shopper. No see a gun-holding do-holder get shot by police when they arrive.
My fantasy involves catching one in a hone invasion sort of scenario and then wondering what his friiends are thinking.when he never returns. I'm not into 'catch and release, and repeat.' Nor am I into giving them the opportunity to return. Some fantasies do come true!!
4:44. I used to live not far from Tenleytown metro, now more than 25 years ago when I was more active a bicycle rider, when I'd see a guy or even a few lurking g and looking in cars etc, I'd just 'hover' maybe half a block away. If they're 'up to no good,' as one poster put it, they'd see you and first try to evade, but then start 'acting out.' Eventually they'd return to the Metro and probably go elsewhere. I had quite a few such encounters. On a bike with some distance one is pretty safe, I think. If they weren't up to no good, they'd never even notice me.
All the more reason to incarcerate... another reason we are, in fact, put in real danger by our liberal crime policies AND denied the God given AND Constitutional Right to self protection. Elrich hides behind his laptop and never ventures out, McCarthy and Brown hide behind cameras and microphones. We swim with opportunistic sharks in hoodies.
Love it, more posts like this please...
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