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Police Arrest Jose Nolasco in Fatal Wrong-Way I-270 Crash

8/31/2026

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Police arrested Jose Nolasco for causing a fatal wrong-way crash on I-270 in Maryland.
The Saturday crash at about 6:46 p.m. closed I-270 lanes for five hours.
A Ford Mustang traveling the wrong way collided head-on with a Toyota sedan.
Shamima Begum, 46, and Areebah Jahin, 23, were pronounced dead.
Nolasco faces manslaughter, impaired homicide and life-threatening injury charges and was taken to Montgomery County Detention Center.

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Police arrested Jose Nolasco for causing a fatal wrong-way crash on I-270 in Maryland.
The Saturday crash at about 6:46 p.m. closed I-270 lanes for five hours.
A Ford Mustang traveling the wrong way collided head-on with a Toyota sedan.
Shamima Begum, 46, and Areebah Jahin, 23, were pronounced dead.
Nolasco faces manslaughter, impaired homicide and life-threatening injury charges and was taken to Montgomery County Detention Center.