Police briefs

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Peacemaker attacked

A Waldorf teenager who stopped an argument May 14 between four teens and another person was allegedly attacked by the teens following the initial dispute.

According to police, the incident took place at 7:04 p.m. in the 4400 block of Eagle Court in Waldorf.

A 17-year-old boy helped resolve the initial fight, but the four other Waldorf boys — ages 12, 14, 16 and 17 — allegedly beat the teen a few minutes after he walked away.

Police charged the four juveniles with first- and second-degree assault. The 17-year-old victim was taken to Prince George’s Hospital Center in Cheverly shock trauma unit with serious injuries that were not considered life-threatening.

Officer C. Barrows investigated.

Latter-day Houdiniin drug arrest

A 22-year-old woman in custody for marijuana possession on May 13 managed to slip out of her handcuffs and attempted to flee from police.

According to reports, officer J. Clagett was patrolling White Plains Regional Park at 1015 St. Charles Parkway around 6 p.m. when he noticed a parked car and smelled marijuana. One of the car’s occupants gave a false name when Clagett spoke to her, but he soon identified her as Jessica Lynn Lembach.

According to police, Lembach was in possession of about $20 worth of marijuana and was charged with possession. However, she was able to escape the handcuffs, allegedly pushed Clagett and started to run away. After a brief struggle, Lembach was subdued and taken into custody without further incident. Lembach was charged with possession of marijuana, assaulting a police officer, second-degree assault, escape, providing a false statement to a police officer and resisting arrest. She was held at the county jail to wait for an appearance before a district court commissioner.

Chase leadsto drug arrest

Sheriff’s officer Sgt. C. Schmidt was led on a chase by a fleeing driver May 13. It all began around 11:22 p.m. when Schmidt attempted to pull over a car for speeding in the 12000 block of Crain Highway in Newburg. Instead of stopping, the car fled south with Schmidt noticing that the driver allegedly threw something out of the window.

The car was intercepted by the Maryland Transportation Authority Police about 25 yards from the toll plaza at the Gov. Harry W. Nice Memorial Bridge and the driver, Darnell Jeffrey Daniels, 35, of Waldorf was immediately arrested.

Police discovered that Daniels was allegedly under the influence of cocaine and marijuana, some of which, police report, he threw from the car while Schmidt was chasing him. During a scan of Daniels’s car by a drug-detecting police dog, more drugs were discovered in the wheel wells. Officers found cocaine and marijuana inside the vehicle, according to reports.

Daniels was arrested and charged with driving while intoxicated, driving under the influence, fleeing and eluding police, possession of cocaine, possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia and speeding. He was held at the county jail pending an appearance before a district court commissioner.

Thief caughtwith help of citizen

A 21-year-old La Plata man was arrested in the early morning hours of May 12 after police found several stolen items in his car.

Around 4:54 a.m. sheriff’s officer J.A. Riffle was patrolling Acton Lane in Waldorf when he noticed a Chevrolet Malibu closely following a speeding Ford Mustang. The Malibu’s driver signaled Riffle for help and filled the officer in on the situation. The Mustang’s driver had allegedly just broken into the Malibu.

Riffle was able to locate the Mustang on Acton Lane near Skyview Lane, but the driver — later identified as Justin Mandell Wade — fled the car but was quickly caught.

When Riffle first looked in the Mustang he allegedly saw a power washer that had been reported stolen just a few hours earlier from a nearby home.

A search of the Mustang revealed that Wade had several other items that had been reported stolen earlier that night.

Among the booty were power tools, a laptop computer, a GPS receiver, hand tools, a car DVD system and car stereo equipment.

Wade was arrested and charged with theft valued at more than $500, theft valued at less than $500, rogue and vagabond and possession of burglar tools.

He was held at the county jail pending an appearance before the district court commissioner.

Tires slashed

Sometime between 9 p.m. May 9 and 7 a.m. May 10, someone slashed the tires of a 2005 Chrysler Town & Country parked at a home in the 13900 block of Poplar Hill Road in Waldorf.

Officer G. Barnhart is investigating.

Waldorf man arrested

A Waldorf man was arrested on May 13 in Hanover for possession of marijuana.

According to Anne Arundel County police reports, Waldorf resident Antonio Lamont Preston, 21, was in possession of a handgun and was allegedly selling marijuana along with a Washington, D.C., man from a vehicle parked at Arbor Grove Drive and Dorchester Boulevard in Hanover.

At 4:06 p.m., police arrived on the scene and approached the vehicle, but Preston and Shawn Marcus Wooden, 26, got out of the car and attempted to walk away.

Police stopped the men and started an investigation. When one of the men attempted to run away, he was arrested after a brief foot chase.

Preston and Wooden were arrested for marijuana possession, possession of PCP and possession of a stolen, loaded, 9mm handgun.

The two had $2,000 and the Dodge Stratus they were allegedly dealing from seized by police.