NEWS RELEASE
City of Takoma Park Police Department
• 7500 Maple Avenue • Takoma Park, Md 20912
For more information contact:
Police Information Officer (PIO)
Catherine Plevy, 301/891.7142 or 240/338.2901
February 18, 2008 (12:15 p.m.)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Chief Ronald A. Ricucci from the Takoma Park Police Department announces the arrest of Earl Clayton Lowe, 51, of Washington, D.C.
On February 17, 2008, as a result of a Commercial Burglary detail conducted by the Takoma Park Police Department’s Tactical Enforcement Unit (TEU), in the 7600 block of New Hampshire Avenue at approximately 4:32 a.m., detectives observed Lowe place a suspicious looking package underneath a vehicle in a parking lot. He was later seen tampering with the passenger side window of a white commercial vehicle parked in an adjacent lot. Lowe was stopped by patrol officers. Lowe gave conflicting stories to the patrol officers from what detectives had previously observed. Detectives responded back to the parking lot and discovered Lowe had hidden a set of Dewalt Drill bits and a Stanley socket wrench under a vehicle in the parking lot that was facing New Hampshire Avenue. The passenger side vent window of the white commercial vehicle had been shattered. Lowe was arrested and charged with Possession of Burglary Tools, Rogue Vagabond, Attempted Theft, and Malicious destruction of property. He was taken to the Montgomery County Central Processing Unit pending a hearing before the District Court Commissioner.
Posted by Plevy at February 18, 2008 12:24 PM