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MCPS press release via Connected Communities:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 13, 2008
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Media Services Division, 240-773-5030

Critically Missing Rockville Man

Detectives from the Montgomery County Police 1st District Investigative Section are seeking the public’s help in locating a critically missing Rockville man. Patrick Joseph Carew was last seen in the Bethesda area yesterday at approximately 7:00 p.m. Officers had contact with him attempting to locate his vehicle in a parking garage. He was last seen when police helped him find his vehicle, a dark-green 1996 Honda four door with Maryland registration 6AND73.

Mr. Carew is described as an 84-year-old white male, 5’09” tall, weighing approximately 160 pounds. He has balding grey/brown hair and brown eyes.

While there is no evidence of foul play, there is concern because Mr. Carew is diabetic and takes medication that he does not have with him.

Anyone who has information about Mr. Carew’s whereabouts is asked to call the police non-emergency number at 301-279-8000.

Ann E. Marimow and Dan Morse write:

Federal investigators are probing the disability retirement packages of two former assistant police chiefs in Montgomery County and appear keenly interested in how one of them was able to secure a subsequent job heading the Gaithersburg police department, according to subpoenas reviewed yesterday.

As part of what federal authorities described in the subpoenas to the county and city as a “criminal investigation of a suspected felony,” the investigators are seeking information about William C. O’Toole and John A. King, both of whom receive tax-free disability payments because of back injuries suffered while on the Montgomery force. King is now Gaithersburg’s chief, and O’Toole is executive director of the Northern Virginia Criminal Justice Training Academy.