Detectives from the 1st District Special Assignment Team and 1st District Investigative Section have been investigating a series of residential burglaries in Potomac.  Fairfax County has also experienced a series of residential burglaries and detectives from their agency recently contacted 1st District investigators identifying the suspect as Brad Edmonds.

            On November 16 at approximately 12:15 a.m., Fairfax County Police detectives and 1st District investigators were conducting a joint surveillance on Edmonds in the area of Evening Ride Drive in Potomac.  After several hours, this surveillance was concluded when Edmonds departed from the area.

(AP)- A 16-year-old Potomac resident faces 25 years in prison after pleading guilty in the 2009 death of a 57-year-old car salesman.

Montgomery County Circuit Court Judge Joseph Dugan sentenced Artie Ellis to life in prison on Wednesday, with all but 25 years of the sentence suspended. Ellis pleaded guilty to murder in March.

Prosecutors say Ellis and another Potomac teen, Emily Geller, met car salesman Ali Zare when he offered her a ride and that she had sex with him in her basement for $60 several days before he was killed. They say Geller used sex to lure Zare down a darkened path near Bells Mill Elementary School in Potomac where Ellis hit him in the head with a shovel.

Attorneys for Ellis and Geller say neither intended to kill Zare. Geller will be sentenced in late October.

POTOMAC, MD. (AP) — Montgomery County police are investigating a shooting that occurred outside a party in affluent Potomac, Md.

Police say a 22-year-old man was shot in the arm early Saturday morning after a dispute between a group of people at a party. The victim had just left the event with friends, but was approached in the street by another group of people believed to have been involved in the earlier dispute.

The two groups exchanged words and someone threw a bottle, according to police, before the victim was shot. He was taken to a local hospital for treatment.