Israeli burger chain Burgerim to open at Wheaton Plaza

Burgerim is coming to Wheaton. The restaurant will be location in Wheaton Plaza, on Level 2, next to Panera Bread. An Israeli burger chain, Burgerim serves mini-burgers - - bigger than sliders, but small enough that you're meant to order several at a time. With many burger and topping options, the concept lends itself to ordering two, three or (in the case of their Party Box) sixteen hamburgers.

The international nature of the chain is reflected in the many options on the menu. Your burger can be made of beef, Dry Aged Beef, Wagyu Beef (+ $1), Merguez (Spicy Beef), turkey, lamb, chicken, salmon, veggie burger, Spanish Beef, or falafel. Toppings are bit more conventional, with choices you won't find at McDonald's like bleu cheese and a fried egg. They have their own "house sauce," as well as ketchup, mustard, mayonnaise and BBQ sauce.

Sub-style sandwiches, chicken wings, potato-chip-shaped Burgerim Fries, and a trio of dessert options (including New York-style cheesecake, flourless chocolate cake, and "Marshmallow Dream") round out the menu.

Aldi to open Thursday, Nov. 30 in Montgomery Hills area of Silver Spring

The new Aldi grocery store at 9440 Georgia Avenue in Montgomery Hills will hold its grand opening tomorrow morning, Thursday, November 30, 2017. Their third Silver Spring-area store comes just a day short of a year since they cut the ribbon on an Aspen Hill location, at the beautiful Plaza Del Mercado shopping center. There is a third Aldi in equally-beautiful Takoma Park.

Aldi will be open daily in Montgomery Hills at 8:00 AM, and close ridiculously-early at 9:00 PM, according to the Aldi website for the new store. That is easily the earliest closing time I've ever heard of for a major supermarket chain in the modern era.

If you are one of the first 100 Aldi customers in line Thursday, you'll get a golden ticket that gives you a chance to win up to $100 in Aldi prizes. Even if you aren't, you'll still have a shot at winning produce for a year. They'll also be handing out free reusable Aldi bags, while supplies last.

Planning to attend the grand opening tomorrow? Don't forget to drop a quarter in your pocket or purse. You'll need it to operate their shopping carts; the 25 cents is refunded to you upon your return of the cart.

Veirs Mill Corridor master plan meeting December 13, 7:00 PM

The next Veirs Mill Corridor master plan public meeting will be held on December 13, 2017, at 7:00 PM at Albert Einstein High School, located at 11135 Newport Mill Road in Kensington (note the venue change). Montgomery County planners will present their preliminary recommendations for land use and zoning; urban design; transportation; parks, trails and open spaces; sustainability and community facilities. They will also take your feedback on those recommendations.

Lindsay Ford proposes move to Aspen Hill, setting up major redevelopment project in Wheaton

A major redevelopment opportunity at the edge of downtown Wheaton will open up in the near future, as Lindsay Ford is planning a move to Aspen Hill. While the dealership has made no public announcement, and remains in full operation at its current location, the proposed move has been discussed at two community meetings in recent weeks.

The new dealership site would be at the vacant BAE Systems property, located at 4115 Aspen Hill Road. If approved, the dealership would be a win for businesses in the nearby commerical area of Aspen Hill, which the BAE site is right on the border of behind Home Depot and Dunkin' Donuts. Anyone who has bought a car, or had their car serviced at a dealership, knows there can be quite a bit of downtime in either situation. Walking less than a block to buy a donut or hamburger is a likely move for many such customers.

A dealership would also be a satisfying short-term defeat for the Montgomery County political cartel, which imagined multi-family housing for this site. They utilized the interest of Walmart in the property as a poison pill, to convince residents to endorse mixed-use or multi-family housing from a favored developer, who just might have made a political contribution or two. Instead, the property will now revert to a very traditional Aspen Hill commercial use, recalling the vintage dealerships located along Georgia Avenue during the golden age of Aspen Hill and Glenmont.

Current site of Lindsay Ford in
purple on left side of
Veirs Mill Road, with maximum
height of 100' in sector plan

The Lindsay Ford move would leave another shoe to drop - - the future redevelopment of the current dealership site, located at 11250 Veirs Mill Road in Wheaton. That property was given a maximum height of 100' and a Floor Area Ratio of 3.0 in the Wheaton sector plan approved by the Montgomery County Council in 2012.

More lighting added in Wheaton Triangle as excavation continues

Montgomery County has installed additional lighting along Reedie Drive and Triangle Lane, in response to complaints by Wheaton Triangle businesses that shadowy conditions were hampering safety and business in the area. The loss of light was due to the destruction of part of Parking Lot 13 for the new County office building and Town Square construction.

Excavation continues at the future office building site. Construction crews report they have reached a depth of 40 feet near Reedie Drive. The County reports that it will bring in a street sweeper to provide additional control of dust and dirt beyond the borders of the site. As I reported last time, excavation is expected to be complete by mid-January, weather-permitting.

MS-13 member charged in Wheaton Regional Park homicide; was in MoCo police custody in 2016

An MS-13 gang member has been charged with first degree murder, in the case of an unidentified homicide victim found in Wheaton Regional Park on September 5. And once again, this may have been a preventable homicide - the man charged had a previous run-in with Montgomery County police in 2016, when he was cited for theft of under $100, according to Maryland court records.

Miguel Angel Lopez-Abrego, 19, had no address then, and still had no confirmed address when he was located in North Carolina by police on November 11, 2017. He has been extradited to Montgomery County, and is due in court today in Rockville for a bond hearing. A preliminary court hearing for Lopez-Abrego has been set for December 22.

Once again, we find the inability of police to check immigration status may have led to the death of a man in Wheaton Regional Park. If Lopez-Abrego had been determined to be in the country illegally while in police custody on October 24, 2016, he would have been deported long before killing the man found in the park this year - a man who police say was stabbed more than 100 times. Instead of ICE taking him into custody for deportation, Lopez-Abrego was let go, and a warrant was issued for his arrest on December 6, 2016.

In just the past two weeks, Montgomery County has seen first-hand that the current policy has led to two preventable homicides. The first was that of a young mother, also in Wheaton. Like her, the victim in this case - while unidentified - was also Latino. In fact, it is the Latino and immigrant communities which are being victimized the most by gangs in Montgomery County. Just ask the Watkins Mill High School mother who buried her 15-year-old daughter (stripped and executed by MS-13) this year, surrounded by undercover police officers in case MS-13 raided the funeral or graveside ceremony.

Ironically, our elected officials hide behind the race card in defending their indefensible sanctuary policies. Of course, they're finding it harder and harder to defend the indefensible. Last Friday, WMAL radio host Larry O'Connor asked every single member of the Montgomery County Council to come on-the-air to defend their sanctuary policies, after it was found that those policies may have directly led to the death of Dania Mendez de Guerra. Not a single councilmember had the guts, confidence or conviction to come on the program and debate O'Connor.

Silver Spring construction update: Bombay Gaylord restaurant (Photos)

It's been two-and-a-half years since the Bombay Gaylord restaurant at 8401 Georgia Avenue in downtown Silver Spring was heavily-damaged by fire. About six months ago, the popular Indian restaurant began to renovate the space. What's the current status of the construction? Here's a look.

Construction begins at Astro Lab brewery in Silver Spring

Construction is now underway inside the future Astro Lab Brewing at 8216 Georgia Avenue in downtown Silver Spring. One thing longtime residents might find interesting - you can see the old Joe's Record Paradise (the former tenant of this building) signs in there.

Montgomery County Council clueless in meeting with Maryland transportation official

Another clueless performance by the Montgomery County Council in a transportation meeting yesterday has some in the business community questioning their fitness for office. In a failed attempt to dress down Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan's transportation secretary Pete Rahn, their politically-motivated meeting ended up instead exposing how poorly-informed the Council is on the basics of modern infrastructure, its operation, and financing.

Councilmembers repeatedly demanded "transit" be part of Hogan's massive Express Lanes plan for the Capital Beltway, I-270 and the Baltimore-Washington Parkway. They were unaware that it is standard practice for regular and rapid buses to use Express Lanes on highways.

Council President Roger Berliner asked Rahn if he could "fold in" the stalled Corridor Cities Transitway BRT project into the $9 billion dollar Express Lanes project. This was patently absurd for two reasons: The CCT runs on a completely different route than I-270, for starters. And the CCT, like all bus and rail service, will be a money-loser; transit does not generate profits like Express Lanes. What sane private corporation would try to combine the potentially-narrow profit margin of these particular Express Lanes with a surefire money drain like the CCT?

Finally, Councilmember George Leventhal showed how out of touch he is with his constituents when he advised Rahn that the more transit is part of the Express Lanes plan, "the more it will be easier (sic) to assuage our constituents." Huh? His constituents, tired of being stuck in traffic, want the popular Express Lanes plan proposed by Hogan. Leventhal should listen to voices beyond the yes-men in his office before daring to speak on behalf of his constituents.

Rahn, in contrast, demonstrated he has his finger on the pulse of frustrated Maryland drivers. His only misstep was waffling on how much the project might end up costing taxpayers, off-message with Hogan's promise that private companies would take on the financial burden.

Business leaders watching the hearing - and Montgomery's moribund private-sector economy and plunging wealth numbers - were reminded of a similar amateur-hour performance by the Council earlier this fall. In a worksession on autonomous vehicles, councilmembers showed a laughable lack-of-knowledge of the basic nuts-and-bolts of this now-arriving technology.  Many referred to autonomous vehicles as a futuristic fantasy, apparently unaware that Tesla vehicles on the road right now have fully-autonomous capability. The Council also didn't know how the cars might be insured. As more evidence that the Council hadn't even done the most basic research ahead of the session, they didn't know Volvo had just announced it would take on drivers' insurance liability itself.

Clueless.

Bank inside Wheaton Plaza Giant robbed (Photo)

The PNC Bank inside the Giant grocery store at Wheaton Plaza was robbed Tuesday around 2:18 PM. Montgomery County police say the suspect entered the bank, and handed a note to the teller. The teller gave him an undisclosed amount of cash, and the suspect fled. He was last spotted running in the 11100 block of Veirs Mill Road.

Anyone with information about the suspect or this bank robbery is asked to contact the Montgomery County Police Department – Major Crimes Division at 240-773-5100.  To be eligible for a reward, tipsters may call Crime Solvers of Montgomery County toll-free at 1-866-411-TIPS (8477).  Crime Solvers will pay a cash reward of up to $10,000 for information provided to them that leads to the arrest and/or indictment of this suspect.  Tipsters will remain anonymous.

Wheaton murder suspect was detained by police twice before allegedly killing woman

A Wheaton woman might still be alive today, but for Montgomery County's sanctuary county immigration policies. According to Maryland court records, Elmer Marilan Campos-Martinez - who has been charged with second-degree murder in the death of Wheaton mother and KFC employee Dania Mendez de Guerra - was detained in traffic stops twice by police since 2012. Because officers are forbidden to ask about the immigration status of those they stop, Campos-Martinez was put back on the streets, despite being in the country illegally.

Case records indicate that Campos-Martinez was pulled over by Montgomery County police on October 7, 2012 at 11:46 PM. He was cited for operating a motor scooter without a license on Veirs Mill Road at Parkland Drive. On April 23, 2013, Campos-Martinez paid a $50 fine and $33 in court fees. Without a check of his citizenship status, he was a free man.

While still living on N. Horners Lane in Rockville, Campos-Martinez was pulled over yet again by Rockville City police on April 20, 2014 at 11:13 PM. Driving an actual car this time, he was cited for driving without a license on Veirs Mill Road at First Street in Rockville.  Once again, the officer was not allowed to check his immigration status. In this case, Campos-Martinez did not even have to pay a fine or court fees. The prosecutor entered a nolle prosequi, meaning the State would not pursue the case, and the charges were thereby dropped.

Three-and-a-half years later, Campos-Martinez - now living in the Woods Edge Apartments on Cove Lane in Rockville - was working alongside de Guerra at the KFC at 2119 University Boulevard West in Wheaton. Leaving work, he laid in wait for the 21-year-old de Guerra to walk home to her husband and child on Amherst Avenue, police allege. Four days later, her body was found behind the CVS Pharmacy across a parking lot from her apartment.

Of course, he wouldn't have been there to lay in wait, had he been deported in 2012 after his first scooter misadventure (by the way, do you believe you would have avoided a fine and court fees if you were caught driving without a license? Is there now a separate law for non-citizens?). In fact, Campos-Martinez was deported in 1994. But the sanctuary policies of Montgomery County kept him coming back.

The victim, Dania Mendez de Guerra

If the murder allegations by police are true, those policies cost Dania Mendez de Guerra her life, and her family a wife and mother.

Wheaton Library furniture survey to begin this Sunday, November 19

Current progress on construction of
the new Wheaton Library and
Recreation Center

The long-delayed public input process on furniture for the future Wheaton Library and Recreation Center is now scheduled to launch this Sunday, November 19, 2017, at the Wheaton Interim Library. However, the community has not been properly notified of the event.

Kimblyn Persaud, President of the Wheaton Regional Park Neighborhood Association, has written to Montgomery County Department of General Services Director David Dise to remind him he had promised to post signs at the interim library, which is located in the ballroom of the Wheaton Volunteer Rescue Squad at 2400 Arcola Avenue. Those signs have never appeared.

Traffic at the interim library is down, Persaud reports. Therefore, she suggests the County quickly take additional steps to alert the community of the furniture test before the weekend. Her public information request from July 1, 2017 also remains to be fully responded to under the legal criteria set by the Maryland Public Information Act. Persaud is now requesting Dise comply with that MPIA request by this Friday, November 17.

Suspect in Wheaton homicide was deported in 1994, returned to Rockville

Elmer Marilan Campos-Martinez, who has been charged with second-degree murder in the death of Wheaton mother and KFC employee Dania Mendez de Guerra, is in the country illegally, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency has confirmed. ICE issued a detainer against Campos-Martinez Saturday.

In a statement, ICE also confirmed that Campos-Martinez was already deported once to his native El Salvador, in 1994. They say he illegally crossed the border again, and made his way to Rockville.

Campos-Martinez continues to be held without bond, as the District Court judge in his case declared him a flight risk, due to his immigration status.

Downtown Silver Spring has a Christmas, er, bike tree (Video + Photos)

The Christmas tree at Downtown Silver Spring this year swaps out traditional Christmas ornaments for those of the Montgomery County political cartel's state religion: bicycles. There's also a chalkboard where you can color bikes, and smaller-scale holiday decorations around the property.

Pepco work closes one lane on Wayne Ave. at Georgia Ave. in Silver Spring (Photos)

Pepco is working on Wayne Avenue in downtown Silver Spring. Utility vehicles are blocking one lane of Wayne at Georgia Avenue. The Pepco outage map shows no power outages in the area at this time.

Homicide victim found behind Wheaton CVS identified as missing woman, suspect arrested

Elmer Marilan Campos-Martinez has been charged
with second degree murder

Maryland's Chief Medical Examiner has identified the deceased person found behind CVS Pharmacy at 2321 University Boulevard West on Friday as Dania Mendez de Guerra, 21, of Amherst Avenue in Wheaton. De Guerra had been missing since leaving her shift at the nearby KFC restaurant at 12:30 AM last Monday, November 6.

Elmer Marilan Campos-Martinez, 47, of Cove Lane in Rockville, has been arrested for the homicide of de Guerra, and has been charged with second-degree murder. Detectives say Campos-Martinez was in a romantic relationship with de Guerra, whose husband was the one who reported her missing. The suspect and victim both worked at the KFC, and Campos Martinez left early that night to confront de Guerra when she left the restaurant around 12:30 AM.

Campos-Martinez acknowledged assaulting de Guerra, but not killing her. He punched her three times after she told him she wanted out of the relationship, he told detectives, and threw her to the ground. De Guerra struck her head on the ground, Campos-Martinez claimed, and was unresponsive. He said he then stole her cellphone and purse, and fled in a taxi. He later discarded the phone and purse in a dumpster, the location of which was not disclosed by police.

On Friday, November 10, de Guerra’s body was located behind the CVS. Her cell phone and purse were missing. There appeared to be trauma to her body.  The victim’s body was transported to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, who ruled that the death was a homicide by multiple blunt force trauma and asphyxia.

Campos-Martinez remains in Montgomery County jail, and is being held without bond. Police did not comment on his immigration status. Other missing details raise additional questions.

A substantial portion of the police account sounds like the what the defendant's attorney might argue in court, and it's notable that in a he-said-she-said situation where only the suspect can testify, a lesser charge of second-degree murder is being entered. How could it be established on simply the suspect's account that it was not premeditated murder? Furthermore, the official account does not explain why, if the victim fell in a different (and yet-unidentified) location during the alleged argument and assault, she was not found until Friday afternoon.

Hopefully the answers will become clear as the investigation continues. Anyone with information regarding this homicide is asked to call the Major Crimes Division at 240-773-5070.

Woman's body found behind Wheaton CVS days after nearby resident disappeared

MoCo gang horror

reaches new heights

Residents in the Amherst Avenue area of Wheaton are anxiously awaiting the identification of a woman's body, which was found behind dumpsters in back of the CVS Pharmacy at 2321 University Boulevard West Friday afternoon. That's because one of their own neighbors, Dania Suyapa Mendez de Guerra, 21, disappeared after midnight Monday, after leaving the nearby KFC restaurant to walk to her home in the 11500 block of Amherst. Montgomery County police said they cannot rule out that the body is De Guerra's, but have transported the unidentified woman to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Baltimore.

Paramedics were called to the scene at 3:29 PM yesterday, after the body was found behind CVS. An East MoCo reader reports that De Guerra's apartment is in the building directly across the parking lot from where the body was discovered. If it is determined that the body had been there prior to Friday afternoon, it would raise serious questions as to why investigators would not have searched the Wheaton Manor Shopping Center property days ago - as well as all nearby properties, given that a missing woman had disappeared on such a short walk home.

Whoever the deceased person was, and if she was indeed the victim of a homicide, there clearly was no significant attempt by the perpetrator(s) involved to cover-up their crime. Only someone who doesn't fear getting caught would put a body behind CVS.

The horrifying discovery Friday has many nearby residents more concerned than ever about gang activity in Wheaton. Impotent Montgomery County elected officials, who have actively given safe harbor to MS-13 and other dangerous gangs for years, like to say the record homicide numbers in the County are simply "gang-on-gang violence," and pose no danger to the community. Should an innocent woman have been victimized by one or more gang members in this case, it would signify the coming turf war between MS-13 and a new spin-off rival may already have arrived. MS-13 capos in El Salvador recently told recruits to head to Montgomery County, the Washington Post reported, as the County's sanctuary policies make it the ideal place to make their stand against the new rival gang.

Businesses near Wheaton redevelopment project cite parking, poor lighting as issues

Businesses in the Wheaton Triangle met with Montgomery County officials last week regarding the now-underway construction of the future County office building and Town Square on Parking Lot 13. Business owners expressed concerns about parking, traffic and poor lighting. Lighting has become an issue with the construction site and shuttered Midcounty Regional Services Center. County officials say they will address that issue with additional lighting along Triangle Lane and by the darkened Services Center. The latter is now due for demolition in about a month.

Meanwhile, excavation for the office building has reached as deep as 40' in some spots. Around 40 dump trucks are entering and exiting the site on a daily basis to haul away all that soil. They expect to hit maximum depth in early-to-mid-January, according to the County. Tie-back anchors continue to be installed, and those are being tested with a hydraulic jack to ensure safety.

Silver Spring construction update: Edible Arrangements (Photos)

Not much progress at the future Edible Arrangements in the The Bonifant, at 929 Bonifant Street in downtown Silver Spring. A fresh coat of red paint, and tile on the floor. Even so, they are soliciting Christmas gift orders, which they say will be delivered from their Rockville store.

Jobocalypse ahead after Montgomery County Council approves $15 minimum wage

"That's a lot of extra

Slurpees to sell"

The potentially-devastating impact of a $15 minimum wage was evident moments after it was unanimously passed by the Montgomery County Council yesterday. A Bethesda restaurant owner observing the proceedings, who had been planning two additional ventures in the county, declared he would never open another restaurant in the jurisdiction. He said his existing downtown Bethesda restaurant might even have to close in the coming years, as a result of the new financial burden in a razor-thin-profit-margin industry.

Just consider the impact of two full restaurant operations, with all of the employees those would entail, now never existing. All of those jobs just vanished, and the economic impact of that unemployment far outweighs the slight cash boost to workers in existing restaurants - assuming they don't lose their jobs, or get replaced by touchscreen kiosks. Now multiply that among other entrepreneurs deciding to take their dreams - and jobs - elsewhere. Montgomery County's outlay of services, required by those unemployed folks, will increase, not decrease. Taxpayers will pick up that bill, along with the increased prices of food and merchandise. Heckuva job, Brownie!

Of course, this is exactly what the Council wants. The more unemployed people, the more people who have to crawl on their knees to the Council for "services." Dependency on government is the aim, and that involves keeping those at the bottom of the ladder from climbing the rungs.

Councilmember Hans Riemer and his colleagues effectively terminated the middle-class business opportunity of Airbnb a few weeks ago. Up until that point, a modest real estate investor could have bought a few small homes and condo units, and generated a good cash flow from Airbnb rentals.

Without the same level of tenant damage concerns, or having to seek evictions of problem tenants, a middle-class County resident could have more-easily generated money for larger investments and ventures than with traditional renting. Now, you can only rent out your own current place of residence - just one unit - and you have to be on the property during the rental. Nothing makes an Airbnb more appealing than a hotel room than a landlord sitting on your couch, right? Thanks, Hans!

Imagine, initiative and some work allowing County residents to attain upper class status - status the County Council enjoys now, as they work a few hours a week for $137,000 a year. Notice they don't consider you deserving that amount, too. $15 isn't even close to a living wage in Montgomery County, and they know it.

Increasingly moribund Montgomery County has suffered a net loss of over 2000 retail jobs since 2000, according to the Maryland Retailers Association. We've had a net loss in jobs since 2005, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows. Montgomery County's restaurant sector has "slowed since 2012, and remains flat," according to Melvin Thompson of the Restaurant Association of Maryland. 

Surprisingly, Councilmember Craig Rice also voted for the bill, despite his previous and correct concerns about the impact on African-American job-seekers, young workers in particular. According to a 2015 survey by The Community Foundation for the National Capital Region, BETAH Associates, Inc. and Montgomery College,  only 8.7% of black high school students surveyed in the County are employed, and only 30.7% of black high school dropouts have been able to obtain employment. Among Montgomery County's young black high school graduates, only 39.7% of those surveyed are currently employed. 

The hits just keep on coming from the most anti-business elected officials in the region. A Council that has done literally nothing to improve traffic congestion, or to provide direct access to in-demand Dulles International Airport for international businesspeople, is spending most of its time criticizing Gov. Larry Hogan - - who is actually doing something in proposing Express Lanes for I-495 and I-270, and funding Metro. And that's when they're not telling us which snacks to buy from vending machines, or banning circuses.

Reaction to the $15 wage vote by local Chambers and business organizations was muted yesterday. In the next few days, we'll find out if those leaders are ready to "get dangerous" and challenge the MoCo cartel, as former Gov. Bob Ehrlich exhorted them to do in 2004. Or go quietly into the good night, in the most moribund private sector economy in the D.C. region.

Police identify victim and suspect in White Oak homicide

Anthony Michael Strong was
arrested Tuesday morning

The White Oak homicide victim and her alleged killer shared the Bradbury Manor Court home where police found her body Tuesday morning. Victim Chaunya Michalyn Blackwell, 43, and suspect Anthony Miguel Strong, 50, were dating, police said. The relationship ended with Strong phoning police yesterday morning to report he had just killed his girlfriend.

Officers arrived at the scene to find Strong standing outside the home. He cooperated with police, and was arrested without incident. Inside, officers found Blackwell deceased. Detectives noted trauma to her body, which was transported to Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Baltimore, who will determine the cause of her death.

The Department urges anyone with information about this homicide to contact the Major Crimes Division at 240-773-5070.

Wheaton KFC employee missing/Wheaton mujer desaparecida

A Wheaton woman is missing, having disappeared after her shift ended at the KFC at 2119 University Boulevard West at midnight on Monday. Dania Suyapa Mendez de Guerra, 21, usually walked home after work to her nearby residence in the 11500 block of Amherst Avenue. But this time, she did not show up at home.

De Guerra is described as a Latina, 5’4”, and weighing 185 pounds. She has brown hair and brown eyes.  She was last seen wearing a KFC uniform: black pants, a red polo shirt with KFC insignia, a black hat with KFC insignia, and black shoes.

Police say de Guerra does not speak English, and does not have access to a vehicle.  She is not familiar with public transportation.

Anyone with information in regard to the whereabouts of Dania Suyapa Mendez de Guerra is asked to call the police non-emergency number at 301-279-8000 (available 24 hours).

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Una mujer de Wheaton está desaparecida y desapareció después de que su turno terminara en el KFC en 2119 University Boulevard West a la medianoche del lunes. Dania Suyapa Méndez de Guerra, de 21 años, por lo general caminaba a casa después del trabajo a su residencia cercana en la cuadra 11500 de Amherst Avenue. Pero esta vez, ella no apareció en casa.

De Guerra es descrito como una latina de 5'4 "y pesa 185 libras. Ella tiene el pelo castaño y ojos marrones. La vieron por última vez con un uniforme de KFC: pantalón negro, polo rojo con la insignia de KFC, un sombrero negro con la insignia de KFC y zapatos negros.

La policía dice que de Guerra no habla inglés y que no tiene acceso a un vehículo. Ella no está familiarizada con el transporte público.

Se solicita a cualquier persona que tenga información con respecto al paradero de Dania Suyapa Mendez De Guerra que llame al número de la policía que no es de emergencia al 301-279-8000 (disponible las 24 horas).

House fire in Burtonsville

Montgomery County firefighters are battling a house fire on multiple floors of a home in the 3000 block of Schubert Drive in Burtonsville. A hole has opened in one of the floors, according to scanner reports, and there is concern about animals in the home. The fire was reported at 9:33 AM this morning.

Assault reported at Albert Einstein High School

Paramedics responded to the health room at Albert Einstein High School in Kensington for a reported assault just after 9:15 this morning. The dispatcher requested an Advanced Life Support paramedic unit, according to scanner transmissions (that does not necessarily mean the injuries are life-threatening, however). No further details are available at this time, including whether or not the victim was a student.