Can you solve the case of a waterslide stolen from a Make-A-Wish kid?

By Michelle Basch
July 9, 2021 | 10:52 PM

Police in Prince George’s County, Maryland, want to know who went slip-sliding away with a really big inflatable waterslide. The red, blue and yellow inflatable — which has three slides — disappeared June 30 from a home in Clinton. The Mid-Atlantic chapter of the Make-A-Wish Foundation had just given it to 7-year-old Jacob, who has sickle cell disease.

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According to a social media post, when Prince George’s County police Lt. Jakob Wolford found out what happened, it made him and other detectives angry. He contacted Make-A-Wish, and they agreed to buy Jacob another slide. On Friday, a bunch of officers showed up at Jacob’s house to help inflate it. Wolford now has one more wish of his own: “My wish now is that we make an arrest in this case.”

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Anyone with information about the stolen slide is asked to call police at 301-749-5064.

Bowie mother shot in the head while holding her baby, another child tried to intervene, police say

By Thomas Robertson
August 21, 2026 | 8:29 PM

The Bowie, Maryland, mother who was shot in the head by her romantic partner Thursday was holding the couple’s 2-month-old baby as they argued about school supplies, according to charging documents. The woman was rushed into surgery and, as of Friday afternoon, remained in critical condition, police said. Her partner, Kimball Hinton Jr., 41, has been charged with first- and second-degree attempted murder, first- and second-degree assault, three counts of reckless endangerment and other firearm-related charges in connection with the shooting. One of the couple’s six children, who were all in the house on Myrtle Avenue in Bowie when the shooting happened, called police at 4:16 p.m. Thursday and said her mother had just been shot by her father, the documents state. Hinton himself called police two minutes later, according to the documents, and admitted shooting her.

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