{"id":26112,"date":"2022-10-28T13:04:27","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T17:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/?p=26112"},"modified":"2022-10-28T13:35:45","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T17:35:45","slug":"maryland-state-police-arrest-men-on-gun-charges-following-two-traffic-stops-in-montgomery-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/2022\/10\/28\/maryland-state-police-arrest-men-on-gun-charges-following-two-traffic-stops-in-montgomery-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland State Police Arrest Men On Gun Charges Following Two Traffic Stops In Montgomery County"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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(ROCKVILLE, MD) \u2013 Troopers from the Maryland State Police Rockville Barrack arrested two men on gun charges following separate traffic stops this week in Montgomery County.<\/p>\n

At about 9:40 a.m. on Thursday, troopers responded to a single-vehicle crash on the inner loop of I-495 at University Boulevard. According to a preliminary investigation, during the course of the crash investigation, troopers conducted a probable cause search of the vehicle and located a ghost gun.<\/p>\n

The driver of the vehicle, Devin Jones, 21, of Germantown, Maryland, was arrested at the scene. He is charged with illegal possession of a handgun, illegal possession of a handgun in a vehicle and related charges. Jones was transported to the Montgomery County Detention Center before being released after posting $16,000 bond.<\/p>\n

At about 3:45 p.m. on Wednesday, troopers from the Rockville Barrack conducted a traffic stop on Piney Branch Road south of Ray Drive in Silver Spring, Maryland. Troopers observed suspected illegal drugs in the vehicle. This led to a probable cause search, which yielded a handgun that had been reported stolen in South Carolina.<\/p>\n

The driver of the vehicle, Robel Habtu, 20, of Silver Spring, Maryland was arrested at the scene. He is charged with possession of a stolen firearm, illegal possession of a loaded firearm in a vehicle, illegal possession of a firearm, illegal possession of ammunition and possession of a firearm while underage.<\/p>\n

Habtu was transported to the Montgomery County Detention Center. He was released after posting $7,500 bond.<\/p>\n

The cases remain under investigation\u2026<\/p>\n

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Robel Habtu<\/strong><\/p>\n

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CONTACT: \u00a0\u00a0 Office of Media Communications, msp.media@maryland.gov<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(ROCKVILLE, MD) \u2013 Troopers from the Maryland State Police Rockville Barrack arrested two men on gun charges following separate traffic stops this week in Montgomery County. At about 9:40 a.m. on Thursday, troopers responded to a single-vehicle crash on the inner loop of I-495 at University Boulevard. According to a preliminary investigation, during the course  Read the Rest…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":162,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,28,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barracksn-rockville","category-press-releases","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/162"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26112"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26120,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26112\/revisions\/26120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}