Rockville sanctuary city push likely dead-on-arrival after brutal Rockville HS gang rape

Henry Sanchez, 18, had an
"active alien removal" case
pending against him - but was
allowed to enroll as a
freshman(!!) at
Rockville High School, where he is
accused of raping a 14-year-old girl

The alleged brutal gang rape of a 14-year-old girl at Rockville High School by two immigrant classmates last Thursday has likely doomed legislative efforts to formalize the existing sanctuary policies of Montgomery County and the City of Rockville. It's inconceivable that any elected official could press forward with that agenda item, now that the horrific details of that sexual assault were followed by word that at least one of the accused is an illegal immigrant who should have been deported - but mysteriously wasn't (shockingly, as of press time, the Maryland House of Delegates is expected to vote today on a similar statewide sanctuary measure).

But beyond the always-controversial immigration issue, the rape incident has exposed two additional security flaws at Montgomery County Public Schools. First is the question people across America have been asking on social media since the rape story went viral Friday: How did a 17 and 18 year old manage to get enrolled as "freshmen" at Rockville High School? And, second, how could Rockville High School and MCPS not have a home address on-file for one of its students?

So far, MCPS is not revealing the details of how adults can enroll in regular 9th grade classes. Most illegal immigrants are working during school hours, so clearly neither of these gentlemen came here to work. Stunningly, MCPS and its bumbling superintendent were completely silent on a gang rape that occurred in their school four days ago until yesterday. But don't expect any answers, according to said-bumbling superintendent Jack Smith, who arrogantly wrote that "I know community members have many questions about this serious incident. To ensure we do not unintentionally prejudice an ongoing investigation, MCPS cannot provide any additional details about this specific case at this time." And we pay this guy's salary? There is no reference to the bathroom assault on the system's Twitter feed, even as parents have pressed for answers on social media all weekend.

Equally troubling is the fact that Rockville High School and MCPS could not provide Montgomery County police detectives with the home address of Jose Montano. The official police press release described Montano's residence as an "unconfirmed address." Yet a home address was readily available for Henry Sanchez, the 18-year-old illegal immigrant who has only been in the country for seven months.

How can you enroll at MCPS without a home address? How would they have confirmed Montano's identity? How would they know he lived in the Rockville High School cluster?

How many other students does MCPS not have a home address for? How many students are illegally attending schools outside of their actual school cluster, because MCPS is not verifying their home address? Is this part of an exceptional process that applies to undocumented immigrant students? Because I have a hard time believing that an actual legal resident living in Aspen Hill would be able to enroll at Walt Whitman High School without proof of a current address in the Whitman cluster area.

So many questions, for a school system already found to have extremely-lax cybersecurity (including personal student information), and - as we found during recent vandalism incidents - a lack of security cameras on its campuses.

So many questions about how this devastating crime was allowed to happen, yet none of them are being asked by the elected officials whose policies actually did allow this rape to occur - the Montgomery County Council. Constituents took County and Rockville City Council members to task for their silence, which was deafening this past weekend.

Just this morning, the Washington Post is reporting that MS-13 gang kingpins in El Salvador are sending additional gang members north, specifically to Montgomery County, with orders to increase the gang's power in our county. This is serious business, especially in a county where our political leaders have so far claimed we don't have a gang problem. And Montgomery County has now earned the dubious distinction of being the only jurisdiction in our area where two underage girls have been gang-raped by illegal immigrants in a single year. Last April, two illegal immigrants living at taxpayer expense in Montgomery County public housing in Wheaton were arrested for kidnapping and gang-raping a 12-year-old girl.

Both of these girls were let down by our elected officials, and our school system. It's a disgrace. Silence is not the answer.

Female student gang-raped at Rockville High School

Henry Sanchez

A juvenile female student was raped by two male students in a boys' bathroom at Rockville High School yesterday, according to Montgomery County Police. Jose O. Montano, 17, of an unconfirmed address, and Henry E. Sanchez, 18, of Bel Pre Road in Aspen Hill were arrested by Montgomery County Police Special Victims Investigation Division detectives at the school. They were called by school administrators, police said.

The female student told administrators that she was approached by Montano and Sanchez in a hallway at the school around 9:00 AM Thursday. Montano asked her to walk with them. He then allegedly asked her to engage in sexual intercourse. She declined. After asking her again, detectives said, Montano forced her into a boys' bathroom. Inside a stall in the bathroom, she was allegedly raped by both Montano and Sanchez.

Montano and Sanchez have been charged with first-degree rape, and two counts of first-degree sexual offense.  They were held without bond, and will have bond review today.

Detectives said they are withholding Montano's mugshot because he is a juvenile.

Rockville construction update: Metropolitan at Rockville Town Center (Photos)

The Metropolitan at Rockville Town Center apartments are actually starting to look like a full building at the corner of N. Washington Street and Beall Avenue. You'll also notice a lot of windows are now in place.

Expected to deliver in the 4th Quarter of 2017, the building will house 275 apartments, and 6033 SF of retail space. It stands on the former site of the Suburban Trust Building, also known as the Pink Bank.

The death of hh gregg in Rockville (Photos)

hh gregg, the upper-case-challenged (and bankrupt) big box electronics store is liquidating more than just gadgets, computers and TVs. You can also get lighting fixtures, furniture, beds - and even the store's official wheelchair.

The chain wasn't old enough to generate nostalgia, but as big boxes struggle, one has to wonder who could take over this former Circuit City space. A new, urban-format Walmart like they have in Tysons? Yet another furniture store?

Rockville's hh gregg is one of the 40% of their stores the chain is closing as part of its Chapter 11 reorganization. Everything must go!!! hh gregg is located at 1501 Rockville Pike.

Even the store's wheelchair
is being liquidated

I assume this was used
by disabled shoppers - and
kept standing by for
hh gregg stockholders who
looked at the latest share price

Looks like four TVs
were snapped up here

Residents pan new Montgomery County snow plow tracker, fake news on sidewalks

The new Montgomery County "snow portal" touted by County Councilmember Hans Riemer and other officials got a failing grade from residents I spoke to, and on social media, after yesterday's storm. Not only is there no longer a map to view snow operations countywide, or even in your area, but the consensus opinion was that the time estimates were no more useful than the old map. Not to mention that switching to a primitive text format, instead of a graphic map, was like going from iPhone to DOS.

Constituent gives Councilmembers
Hans Riemer and Roger Berliner his
blunt assessment of their new "snow portal"
on Facebook

Riemer provided some additional fake news about his sidewalk shoveling bill, which cost taxpayers $6,458,000, but came up even shorter than the snow portal. In a blog post, he boasted that since the bill passed two years ago, "I find that the County is doing a much better job clearing snow from sidewalks where the County (or Parks) is the responsible party as well as helping clear snow from sidewalks where there may be a public safety concern."

"It's just as useless

as past versions. #FAIL"

This is simply not true, as I well-documented last winter. On Westbard Avenue alone, sidewalks fronting both Montgomery County (Little Falls Library) and Montgomery County Public Schools (Westland Middle School) property remained unshoveled a full month after the largest storm. Embarrassingly, Riemer himself passed by these very sidewalks after the storm on a carpetbagger's bus tour for the Westbard sector plan, and took no action to get them cleared.

What happened?

Riemer's claim earns him the Four Pinocchios/Pants-on-Fire awards.