The Montgomery County Police Department has released a few details on last month's aggravated assault in the exclusive Kenwood neighborhood in Chevy Chase. According to police, two suspects were attempting to steal items from inside a vehicle parked in the 6400 block of Garnett Drive at 3:49 PM on December 17, 2025. The vehicle's adult male owner spotted the suspects and, accompanied by a second individual, confronted them. Both victims were then physically assaulted by the alleged thieves, who fled the scene.
Police describe the suspects only as a Middle Eastern male and a Hispanic male, both of unknown age. They did not indicate whether the suspects fled on foot, or in a getaway car. If you have any information that could assist detectives in closing this case, call police at (301) 279-8000.
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Say it isn't so! We've been lectured in another thread that this is normal and has been happening for as long as Bethesda has kept records. Other strawman arguments about "a crisp $100 dollar bill" and other mental gymnastics using doctored raw data is the councils attempt to distract from their blatant incompetence.
All citizens should seriously consider getting a Bryna non-lethal self-protection system. Even in crazy MD, which does not have a Stand your Ground law, which means when you perceive a threat, you must retreat instead of defend yourself, this weapon does not apply because it's not a lethal firearm and is legal to carry anywhere and anytime. It fires chemical balls or polymer projectiles and will put an end to the threat. Getting hit by either is not fun.
Leave crook-catching to professional law enforcement. If you're successful enough to live in Kenwood, you are 98% probably insufficiently fit or properly trained to confront adrenaline-pumping criminals, no matter how much tennis or jogging you get in. Aggravated assault is a felony, and involves "serious bodily injury, use of a deadly weapon (like a firearm)" (It can also be charged if *any* assault, aggravated or simple, like pushing someone, takes place during, or while attempting to commit a felony, which theft from a motor vehicle is.) Still, even if the bad guys just shoved the homeowners while trying to escape, the two well-intentioned residents turned two crimes --stealing from a car-- into four, thus driving up crime figures in the neighborhood. The citizens are lucky they didn't get themselves killed in the process. Seriously, if you see a crime being committed, call 911 and don't confront the suspect. Keep an eye on them, but keep a safe distance. Anyone who is bold enough to attempt a crime is someone thinking with a different set of values from yours, and may well respond completely unexpectedly to being confronted --potentially wildly more violently-- than you anticipated in your Walter Mitty/John McCain fantasy.
Either both the victims, or the reporting police, have detail oriented memory defiencies. I'd have to think there's some stonewalling involved in all this at some juncture.
In the [formerly ] exclusive neighborhood.
This is roo much for me to process right now.
This is the kind of commentary we expect from a council mouthpiece. Unfortunately citizens can't depend on you and your council masters to enforce laws already on the books.
When seconds matter, the police will be there in minutes.
What’s been happening since God’s grandmother was a girl, @5:19, is your tossing around unsubstantiated claims of MCPD stats being doctored. Since you steadfastly refuse to provide any evidence to back up your [endlessly repeated] claim, your argument carries no more weight than does a toddler’s assertion he is a dinosaur. Saying something repeatedly does not magically summon it into reality.
And saying that everything is well over and over again doesn't make that so. Ask the outgoing DC police chief about data manipulation. If Trump had access to actual MC crime data, we would all be able to see what all the residents can already see.
The off duty po-po is ever present, moonlighting in the
adjacent shopping center during certain holidays. . .
@6:13, by all means, rush out and confront some a guy who's bold enough to break into cars in a swish neighborhood in the middle of the day. But don't be surprised if he pulls a weapon and delivers a penetrating, trauma-level wound when you two meet. "When seconds count" is something better reserved for lives being at stake, not property. Of course, each of us makes that call for himself. But, as the toughest guy of them all said, "A man's got to know his limitations." Mine is to not confront a criminal, who might have a gun or knife beneath his shirt he's possibly willing to use.
"Saying something repeatedly does not magically summon it into reality." Unless you're Trump spewing it to the MAGA followers.
By all means, accept the fact that you and the people that you voted for refuse to enforce laws already on the books and as crime becomes more rampant, the lawless become home invaders which has already happened. FYI, MD is a duty-to-retreat state but even this state has a castle doctrine.
People like 6:30 would post the "no guns" symbol on their homes & cars if they were living their values and are the type of person to pull out their phones to video instead of helping someone in trouble.
So, you think weaponizing will solve the problem. Did you forget that like rats most of these perps can't and don't read?
It was my understanding that this and Somerset were environments with private security forces.
Thank You 6:30! JAC are you listening??
You know folks, nothing anywhere is shocking anymore.
A secure Bethesda condo garage was accessed by perpetrators on Thursday and cars were broken into. Don't know what 6:30 would do as walking into the garage from the elevators, one might be faced with two armed progressives looking just to feed their family.
Thanks to democrats, this area is going to hell in a hand basket.
Oh dear, another specimen of our failed education system. Poor @10:57 never got the reading comprehension instruction in school that could have served him so well in these later years. Your response to my 6:30 post is rather akin to replying "ice cream" when asked what time it is. FYI, I am well aware of the state's Castle Doctrine. That does not mean it's necessarily prudent or safe, to use an easy-to-comprehend word, for someone to confront a bad guy who's in the middle of criming on/with/at your property. As I wrote @6:30, "each of us makes that call for himself." If you feel brave and impervious to serious or possibly fatal injury you might receive if the bad guy gets the upper hand, then go for it --Castle Doctrine to your heart's content. But, from the scant description Robert was able to glean from the opaque MCPD missive, the Kenwood resident and his friend tried that and wound up getting themselves assaulted for their efforts. If your golf clubs or laptop are that important to you, go wild and tangle with the punk who's trying to steal them. Personally, I'm going to dial 911, keep an eye on the bad guy, get a good, descriptive photo if I can, and keep myself out of harm's way, since I value my welfare more than I do my Macbook. But what do I know? I just lived in New York City for 31 years.
What a surprise despite living in the liberal NYC for 31 years and learned nothing. Actually explains quite a bit as many of your neighbors are busy being victims. Hiding inside under your covers is better than the rest of your ilk protesting federal officers actually enforcing laws.
@7:59, seek help.
Me "too!"
I wonder where do "democrats" actually reside. It must be safe there. . .
5:29 illustratrates the progressive mindset which is why criminals have migrated to MD from DC. Cause & effect obviously wasn't taught in grade school replaced by social justice & appeasement. Trump fixed the crime problem in DC overnight, (along with the border which you guys said required a bill that funneled more money to liberal causes). The root of the problem is one of enforcement of laws already on the books so one doesn't need to confront anyone but the people you vote for simply won't do their job.
You must be a recent graduate of "Desensitization Therapy!"
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