From the Harford County Sheriff’s Office:
[September 4, 2014, Bel Air, MD] Updated details are being provided by the Harford County Sheriff’s Office, pertaining to the pursuit on August 20, 2104.
The deceased, Arvel Douglas Williams, 30, of the 800 block of Mangold St., 21230, was the subject of a police pursuit initiated at approximately 8:02 pm in the area of Rt. 7 and Rt. 152, in Harford County. Deputies in the area observed suspected drug activity that involved the suspect and the vehicle. When deputies attempted to stop Williams, he refused to stop his vehicle and lead multiple deputies on a pursuit down Rt 7, into Baltimore County, and onto Cowenten Avenue.
After the suspect crashed his Ford Ranger pick-up truck into an assisting Baltimore County Police Department patrol vehicle he tried to put the truck in reverse several times, in an apparent attempt to continue to elude deputies. When he exited the vehicle, deputies on scene report, he was shuffling around, darting back and forth, looking for a direction to run. He was asked several times to get on the ground, but refused. The totality of the incident, and his body language at the scene indicated his intent to flee. Dep. Anthony Dix, a two year veteran and Sr. DFC Keith Jackson , a fourteen year veteran of the HCSO, both assigned to the Police Services Bureau, were forced to deploy their TASERS in an effort to safely place Williams under arrest.
At the time of the incident, Williams had a white powdery substance on his person and the inside of his vehicle. He indicated to responding deputies that he had just ingested a large amount of CDS. The substance was field tested and reacted positively for cocaine.
At this time, based on initial information received from Baltimore County Detectives, there is no indication that the deputies’ actions contributed to Mr. Williams’ death. Deputies involved in the incident have returned to work.
Great job Deputy Dix and Sr Deputy First Class Jackson.
Seriously, there is a cop named Deputy Dix! Wow, sounds like a good name for a male stripper or something…….
What exactly is shuffling around and darting back and forth? How is one to dart and shuffle at the same time was he darting in a sideways shuffle? Are deputies so scared that they will use a taser over just physically grabbing the guy? Sounds like HCSO playing damage control if you ask me.
It’s like when they teach them at the academy to scream out “stop resisting” while they break your arm and smash your face.
Just like NATGEO’s Drug Inc, prime example of the drug trade from Baltimore all the way up to the burbs in Harford County. Yet you’ll hear folks on Dagger quick to put down other communities meanwhile little johnny is a drug peddling lowlife in an Aeropostle hoodie.
It was funny to see all the heroin and dope fiends up in Fallston and Bel Air. Not so fancy now are you?!?!
Exactly…it’s been going on for years up there and it won’t change anytime soon as long as addicts have the money or get it from their family to buy it, yet so many are quick to condemn the Route 40 corridor because of a bigger population of low-income residents. Drugs happen everywhere and it affects people from all backgrounds.
No matter your color, race, sex, age, religious background, whatever…if you act like a thug, you will be treated as such and suffer the related consequences.
Don’t act like a thug and you won’t suffer like one.
You’re exactly wrong, congratulations! Cops aren’t supposed to punish anyone. That mindset, and cops trying to out-thug the thugs is why lots of good people ( like myself ) don’t particularly care to support the cops any more.
Clean your house, guys.
We don’t care what you support.
Won’t speak or comment on the Sheriff’s Office behavior or methods used to “capture” the alleged drug dealer, but I do question Harford County Sheriffs responding into Baltimore County.
1. Does Baltimore County not have a nationally accredited Police Department? Are or, were they incapable of picking up the pursuit and affecting an arrest? Did they request Harford County continue the pursuit?
2. When the Harford County Sherrifs left their post in Harford County to chase an alleged drug peddler into Baltimore County, were units re-positioned to cover their absence, and where did these units come from? If so, what was the effect on the communities they were removed from and what criminal activity occured in their absence?
3. Who, from Harford County, authorized the pursuit into another jurisdiction, and what regulation or requirement allows that individual that largess?
4.Where or to whom at the Harford County Sheriff’s Office do I send my FOI request for this information?
Thank and,
MYOB
Are you as dumb as your questions? Try their website or maybe their Facebook page. After you pay the fee, check back with us after the waiting period and let us know what you found, if anything at all.
It would seem I am as dumb as my questions, asking for an intelligent reply from single celled entities who cannot answer honest questions, but also need only send one greeting card to the same “woman” for Mother’s Day, Wedding Anniversary, Sister’s Birthday, Wife’s Birthday, Shag a Sheep Day and Happy Inbred’s Day.
I will speak as plainly as possible, in language understood by monkeys, apes and baboons and hopefully you, Slick Bill from hickville, (here is your chance to have an adult get on your magic box, and not embarrass acknowledged members of your close knit family any further). Please follow the bouncing ball……….
At a personal level, I am not socially needy, and as such do not have any interest in Facebook that beings like you cannot seem to live without. From a practical point, I believe nothing written on any Harford County Government web site. I only need to point out the “success” of our County Council (how much has the budget increased, and what benefit has the average taxpayer reaped?) and the Harford County Delegation to the state. Reckon they spend a lot of time on Facebook. (You’re not a council member,are you?)
Having said so much (with apologies to readers with multiple brain cells) Slickster, I asked straight up questions to which you had no answer. To show there are no hard feelings, I have hand written your nomination as a potential Darwin Award nominee.
Thanks Slicky and
MYOB .
Slick Bill +1
MYOB -1
I thought you would have been a more worthy target, rather, you inhaled my troll bait. Sometimes it’s like fishing with dynamite. Thanks for your emotionally immature, non specific rant.
HCSO did not respond to Baltimore County as Md 152 and Rt 7 is in Harford County. HCSO attempted to pull over this guy in Harford County and he fled. Baltimore County Police Department responded to help. You do not stop a pursuit at the county line, city line or even state line. To keep going into other counties is not a call made by a person so much as governed by mutual aid or cross-jurisdictional agreements, though you coordinate with all officers/deputies to force a stop. The HCSO deputies did not leave their post to pursuit, this was there post; to stop crime and to serve and protect.
For most all government offices the office of communications handles requests, but if I were you I would take a class at HCC or study a bit about the basic of how police departments work before you waste the more of the poor communication departments time then the deputies were out of the county.