Charles County Sheriff's Office

September is Suicide Prevention Awareness Month. In Charles County, the Sheriff’s Office is highlighting mental health support with the release of a new app for its officers and their families. News4’s Tracee Wilkins spoke with deputies about the new resource.

A man who admitted to stabbing the deputy says authorities aren’t telling the whole story about what happened. Prince George’s County Bureau Chief Tracee Wilkins reports.

Two Charles County Sheriff’s deputies were in good condition one day after being shot while trying to serve a warrant in Waldorf, Maryland.

The man who shot at deputies was found dead inside the home where they arrived after a 911 call. News4’s Jackie Bensen reports.

The suspect is currently barricaded inside a home. As seen on NBC Washington on May 17, 2021.

Two Charles County Sheriff’s deputies were shot Monday in Waldorf, a spokesperson for the department confirmed.

A birthday party took a tragic turn after a 7-year-old girl and her father drowned in a pool in Waldorf. News4’s Derrick Ward reports.

A 7-year-old girl and her father drowned and three other people are hurt after the child struggled in a pool at a party in Maryland on Saturday and others tried to help.

Someone fired shots at sheriff’s deputies looking for a suspect in Maryland Tuesday, according to the Calvert County Sheriff’s Office. As of 10:30 p.m., the Sheriff’s Office confirmed the situation was resolved with no arrests. Calvert County deputies went to a home in the 2900 block of Brickhouse Road in Dunkirk looking for a suspect in an earlier shooting...

Burglars rammed a truck into a Waldorf gun store early Tuesday and fled with weapons. News4’s Justin Finch reports.

Burglars rammed down the doors of a Waldorf, Maryland, gun shop early Tuesday and stole several firearms in less than two minutes, authorities say. The burglars drove a pickup truck into the doors of Fred’s Outdoors at 2895 Crain Highway about 1:20 a.m. The suspects used a tool to mangle the doors and bypassed several layers of security to get…

A man from D.C. is suspected of killing two women he knew. As seen on NBC Washington on Jan. 24, 2021.

Detectives from the Charles County Sheriff’s Office arrested a man Saturday suspected of shooting and killing two women in Waldorf.

A Charles County sheriff’s master corporal died from COVID-19 complications early Saturday evening. Master Cpl. Robert Cadrette was 51 and a 22-year veteran of the Charles County Sheriff’s Office. He was assigned to the Special Services Division, Property Management Section. He joined the sheriff’s office in January 1998. Cadrette served in the U.S. Army for two years and the Army...

A 12-year-old boy was shot and killed while playing with a gun in Charles County, Maryland, Friday night, authorities say. The boy and a 13-year-old relative were in a downstairs bedroom playing with the handgun when it went off and struck him, the Charles County Sheriff’s Office said. Officers responded to the home in the 100 block of Riverwatch Drive…

When Charles County Sheriff Troy Berry was first sworn into office in 2014, he pledged to build trust between law officers and the community. Following the death of George Floyd and protests with calls to defund the police, Berry says he is at a crossroad. “The police and community relations are hemorrhaging and moving towards life support,” Berry said. He…

Three D.C. teens tried to rob a CVS in Charles County, Maryland, Friday, but were thwarted thanks in part to an off-duty federal police officer, authorities say. At 4:41 p.m., 18-year-old Alonzo Lamont Gholston, 17-year-old Barry Tyson and 18-year-old Blake Joshua Isiah McKinney went into a CVS on Indian Head Highway in Bryans Road, the Charles County Sheriff’s Office...

The principal and vice principal of an elementary school in Charles County, Maryland, have been reassigned after parents voiced their disdain with the school’s response to a reported sexual assault incident on the playground.

The parents of three fourth-grade girls who say a group of boys attacked and sexually assaulted them on the playground last month have come forward to demand that the Charles County superintendent and other school officials step down for their “botched” response to the incident.

A 10-year-old has been charged with fourth-degree sex offense and second-degree assault for an incident at an elementary school, the Charles County Sheriff’s Office confirmed.