Wednesday, March 1, 2023

Richard Montgomery High School student arrested in armed robbery of gas station in Gaithersburg


Rockville City police officers converged on Richard Montgomery High School Monday, and arrested a student in connection with the February 20, 2023 armed robbery of a Gaithersburg gas station. Jeffrey Gabriel Johnson, 18, of Rockville was taken into custody at the school without incident. Johnson has been charged with armed robbery, first-degree assault, and second-degree assault. He is being held at the County's Central Processing Unit.

Detectives allege that Johnson and an accomplice entered the convenience store at the Summit Shell gas station at 15 South Summit Avenue at 9:52 AM on February 20, which was a school holiday. One of the two - police have not said which one - pulled a knife from his waistband. He allegedly ran behind the counter, threatened the cashier with the knife, and demanded he open the cash register. 

The clerk opened the cash drawer, and the armed suspect grabbed an unspecified amount of cash. Both suspects then ran out of the store. The second suspect, also an African-American male, has not been publicly identified by police and remains at large. Given that the police statement does not ask for the public's help in finding him, it's likely detectives know who they are looking for.

10 comments:

  1. Richard Montgomery sure has changed alot.My Mom graduated there in 1953.

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  2. So sad to see so much negative news about Montgomery County schools, I was a 1984 graduate without all the crime.

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  3. The "negative news" has nothing to do with school (though it is somewhat surprising he actually attends classes) and if you think 18 year old criminals didn't exist in the 80s - a time of far higher crime rates - then I'm not sure what to tell you.

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    1. You must be referring to higher crime rates on a nationwide level in 1980s.Rockville,MD certainly has never before in its history witnessed the kind of crime we are now seeing in Rockville and Montgomery County. Are you comparing Rockville to much larger crime ridden cities like New York or Los Angeles or Washington DC?Certainly those cities has really bad crime in 1980s, Rockville, no.

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    2. Are you joking? MoCo isn't some magical place where crime didn't exist until this one teenager decided to be a f-up. MoCo crime has always followed US trends because we're, you know, part of the US. MoCo crime rate in the 80s (and 90s) was triple what it is today: https://opendata.maryland.gov/widgets/7gn9-cnj3?mobile_redirect=true

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    3. Give me a break. Im talking predominantly about Rockville and the immediate surrounding area when I say Rockville never ever had multiple carjackings and armed robberies and killings on Hungerford Dr in 1980s. Get your facts straight.

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    4. Hate facts all you want, but that doesn't change reality. I moved to Rockville in 1984 and you're insane for thinking the area was some magical place immune to crime back then - as MCPD statistics prove. Not to mention you're commenting on an article about a crime that occurred in Gaithersburg, Einstein.

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    5. I challenge you to show me where Rockville had multiple carjackings,armed robberies and killings on Hungerford Dr in the 1980s. Also please take down your fake open Data chart. Is it called "open data" because you can openly manipulate the data?

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  4. lm sorry about your loss

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  5. I wonder if he has got any college acceptance letters recently from some top tier colleges. They may have to rescind his offers now

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