Jackie Bensen is a general assignment reporter for News4. She specializes in reporting breaking news, mostly for News4 at 11.
Bensen joined News4 in 1999 after spending 12 years at WTTG-TV in a variety of roles including news writer, special projects producer and, for the last few years, general assignment reporter. She has also worked for Media General's cable channel and in the Washington Bureau of Outlet Communications.
Bensen is frequently called upon to speak at community and public safety events. She has been a guest lecturer at the FBI's National Training Academy in Quantico. She has also served as grand marshal of the Montgomery County Humane Society's Walk in the Park and the City of Rockville Memorial Day Parade.
A Philadelphia native, Bensen came to Washington to attend American University where she earned a Master's Degree in Journalism and Public Affairs. She has an undergraduate degree in English Literature from Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pa.
Bensen and her family live in Montgomery County.
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‘Shocking and devastating': Parents sue for failed cremation of 2-month-old son
Some of the details included in this story may be disturbing to soome readers. As Maryland State Police investigators continue to unravel what one attorney called a “house of horrors” at a now-closed crematorium in Charles County, Maryland, another family is coming forward saying that Heaven Bound Crematory failed to cremate their 2-month-old son. Coi’seir Parham was able to...
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Hyattstown Volunteer Fire Dept. faces staffing crisis
They help the public, but they’re now asking the public to help them. A Montgomery County Council budget vote Wednesday could result in the Hyattstown Volunteer Fire Department having less staff and longer response times. “We have a petition out, we’ve got over the weekend we had about 200 people that have signed the petition, we need emails sent...
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Ex-federal worker fired twice describes having insurance canceled, backdated after surgery
A former federal employee who was fired, rehired after a judge’s order and then fired a second time says her health insurance coverage was canceled and backdated after she had surgery, leaving her with the bill.
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Fast-thinking officer stopped woman driving through 10K race route in Maryland, police say
A woman tried to drive through a 10K race route in Montgomery County, but a fast-thinking officer was able to stop her by pulling in front of her and slamming on his brakes, authorities say. Police body camera video shows how county officers stopped the driver. “She’s on the course,” an official can be heard saying on a radio...
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2 officers shot, suspect killed during traffic stop in Fairfax County, Virginia
Two Fairfax County police officers were shot while conducting a traffic stop Wednesday afternoon in Northern Virginia, law enforcement officials confirmed. The officers’ injuries are not life-threatening, police said. They were taken to a nearby hospital. The suspect who shot at the officers was killed when police opened fire in return, Fairfax County Police said during a 4:45 p.m. press…
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Maryland mail thief with USPS gear accused of stealing almost $500K in checks
A woman has been charged with stealing checks from mailboxes, altering and cashing them for nearly a half-million dollars, police say. A car stopped for speeding on Colesville Road in Silver Spring turned out to hold a portable check fraud operation, authorities say. Hundreds of business and personal checks belonging to different people, thousands in cash, a printer and blank…
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Court documents released in Kilmar Abrego Garcia deportation case
The Department of Justice has released a document in the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was wrongfully deported to El Salvador. The Trump administration has repeatedly claimed Abrego Garcia was a member of MS-13 and recently included an allegation, without providing evidence, that the 29-year-old was also involved in human trafficking. But in court documents examined by News4, the…
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Driver acquitted of most serious charges for running over officer on I-270
A jury convicted a driver on more than a dozen charges for running over a Maryland police officer who lost both legs, but the defendant’s acquittal on the most serious charges left police and the prosecution extremely disappointed. Raphael Mayorga was found guilty of second-degree assault and 12 other charges, but the jury acquitted him of first-degree assault, attempted murder…
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DOJ dropping charge against Virginia man they called top MS-13 leader
The U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia filed a motion to drop a charge against a man arrested last month, who top federal officials accused of being one of the U.S. leaders of the gang MS-13.
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Drug dealer sentenced in fentanyl overdose death of Chevy Chase teen
Friends and family of Aiden Vining got a chance to speak for him, and about him, at Monday’s sentencing for Cesar Alexander Lopez, 26, of Hyattsville, Maryland. Last November, Lopez pleaded guilty to Involuntary Manslaughter for selling counterfeit Percocet found to be laced with deadly amounts of fentanyl. Aiden Vining, who was 17, was found unresponsive in his family’s Chevy…
