Teen charged in violent Montgomery County robbery and assault spree

Gaithersburg, MD — An 18-year-old from Saint Leonard is being held without bond after detectives linked him to a string of armed robberies, assaults, and thefts across Montgomery County spanning late 2023 into mid-2024, police announced Friday.

The Montgomery County Department of Police Major Crimes Division charged Joseph Tyler Jhingory IV with home invasion, armed robbery, false imprisonment, sexual assault, assault, vehicle theft, and related offenses.

Investigators said the crime spree began on December 1, 2023, when Jhingory allegedly broke into a Rockville home with a gun, tied up the residents, sexually assaulted a female victim, and fled in the family’s Volvo CX-40.

On February 8, 2024, two Bethesda homes were

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