Crime & Safety
Police Seek Help for Thursday Morning Burglary
Riverdale Park police look for getaway car.
Riverdale Park police are hoping someone can help them find identify a getaway car that is connected with a Thursday morning burglary.
Sometime after 10 a.m. a small, white, 4-door vehicle with Maryland tags was parked in the 4900 block of Queensbury Road. Sargent Andrew Powell, of the Riverdale Park Police Department, said this vehicle is affiliated with a burglary which occurred during the same time frame on the block as well.
"Someone saw the partial tag of the getaway vehicle," Powell said.
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He put out a Nixle alert Thursday in order to notify residents.
Powell said a rash of burglaries in town two weeks ago, when seven cars and two homes were burglarized are unrelated.
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"We caught that suspect," he said.
Police are asking anyone with information about this vehicle or its occupants please contact the Riverdale Park Police at 301-927-4343.
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