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Week In Review: Details Emerge about Child Porn Case, Cancer Treatment Center Opens, ICC Traffic Drops
Check out the top local headlines that made news over the past week.
In one of the top this week, Montgomery County Police discovered more than 80 files containing child pornography on a former Montgomery County school bus driver's personal computer.
Patch obtained court documents that detail the charges against Charles Acker, who was arrested on Feb. 10 for one count of promoting or distributing child pornography and possessing child pornography.
Acker drove school bus routes in Gaithersburg and North Potomac.
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According to the that ran earlier this week on Germantown Patch,
"Online court record indicate he was released the same day on $80,000 bond. At the time of arrest, Acker lived at 11000 block of Grassy Knoll Terrace in Germantown. His address is now listed as 8415 Foresight Lane in Walkersville, MD."
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Acker will appear in court on April 15.
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In other local news, Germantown's opened recently. The new outpatient care facility by Adventist HealthCare opened at 20330 Seneca Meadows Parkway on March 25. According to the hospital, 4,000 new cases of cancer are diagnosed in Montgomery County every year.
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Guest Editor Matt Papuchis reported a story this week on across the street from a local doctor's clinic that performs abortions.
"The Christian-based Operation Rescue and the Maryland Coalition for Life, also the creators of the website KickOutCarhart.com, have signed a lease to open up offices beginning in early April," Papuchis wrote.
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The number of commuters using the has declined substantially - approximatley 62 percent - now that tolls fee are being enforced.
Opponents of the road said they expected that many drivers, faced with toll charges, would go back to their old commuting habits.
"High tolls will drive many drivers off the road," said Councilman Philip M. Andrews, D-Dist. 3 of Gaithersburg. "Some can’t afford it, others will choose to avoid it. It’s not a bridge, it’s not a tunnel, people can choose to avoid it."
A spokeswoman for the Maryland Transportation Authority said the agency expected this decline in traffic.
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