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Prince George’s County Police have arrested a suspect connected to a Jan. 30, 2019, murder in Hyattsville. This is the sixth homicide to be reported in Prince George’s County since the start of 2019. According to a notice from the Hyattsville City Police Department, officers responded to a call for a possible fight at 3700 Hamilton Street around 1:35 a.m. on Jan. 30, 2018.
From Covington, Virginia, by way of Kalamazoo, Michigan, Mount Rainier has a new chief of police in one Anthony Morgan.
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University Park has a new chief of police in Harvey Baker. Baker is University Park’s ninth chief of police and the first African-American to lead the department. He succeeds former chief Michael Wynnyk, who retired at the end of 2018 after leading University Park Police Department for 16 years.
Baker was sworn in Jan. 7, 2019 at a small ceremony at the start of University Park’s regular Town Council meeting at University Park Elementary Scbhool. Baker most-recently served as the chief of police for the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission, a position he held from August 2015 through March 2017.
In our Jan. 7, 2019 edition: Prince George’s County Police Department has more troubling news as an officer is suspended over an allegation of inappropriate touching. We also have an update on the opening of a hotly-anticipated Mount Rainier restaurant, and a preview of the upcoming legislative session.
Edmonston’s Town Council remains gridlocked in a debate over who will be its next chief of police. “We remain at an impasse,” said Ward Two Councilor Sarah Turberville after the meeting. “It should be first noted that the opposition is coming from the very same Council members who scored the candidate that the mayor recommended the highest.” Per the municipality’s charter, Edmonston Mayor Tracy Gant has the exclusive right to nominate a police chief candidate for approval by Town Council. But the charter is unclear on how to proceed if Council rejects the mayor’s nominee.