DUNKIRK, Md. – On Monday, May 1, 2023, around 1:30 p.m., deputies from the Calvert County Sheriff’s Office Patrol Bureau responded to an armed bank robbery at the M&T Bank located at 10090 Southern Maryland Blvd. in Dunkirk, MD.
Preliminary investigation revealed a male suspect approached the counter and passed the teller a note, then displayed a handgun demanding money. The suspect fled with an undisclosed amount of cash.
Witnesses observed the suspect enter a brown Kia with no front tag fleeing SB on Rt. 4. Detectives with the Criminal Investigation Bureau located a vehicle matching the description provided by witnesses at Rt. 4 and Dares Beach Road in Prince Frederick. Detectives initiated a traffic stop where the suspect vehicle fled through a red light causing several property damage accidents along northbound Rt. 4. A pursuit ensued along Rt. 2 and Rt. 260 in Owings, where the suspect vehicle struck an uninvolved citizen’s vehicle leaving both vehicles disabled ending the pursuit.
Two occupants in the suspect vehicle were transported to area hospitals with minor injuries. Two additional occupants in the suspect vehicle were apprehended and transported to the Calvert County Detention Center.
The uninvolved citizen was flown to an area trauma center with serious injuries and remains in critical condition.
Anyone with additional information about this incident is asked to contact Detective W. Wells at wayne.wells@calvertcountymd.gov or 410-535-2800 ext. 2595.
In accordance with Maryland State Law, The Maryland Attorney General’s Independent Investigations Division (IID) was contacted, but based on a lack of qualifying factors, declined to handle the investigation. The Calvert County Sheriff’s Office continues to investigate.
Additional details will be released as they become available.
Innocent people have to deal with life threatening/property damage consequences because of a police chase over $. Yes, it would have been nice if the perps had stopped, but could the perp’s vehicle have been stopped in another way?
How about the innocent bank employees held up at gun point? My goodness you’re ignorant.
No, innocent people have to deal with the consequences because 4 violent criminals robbed a bank with a gun then decided to continue to put the public’s lives in jeopardy by fleeing the scene then running into an innocent persons vehicle. Stop blaming the police for the actions caused by criminals.
Sam, you should be very happy that the cops didn’t give up the chase because the perps would have continued their crimes. There are many new police “vehicle stopping” tactics out there today. The problem is that none of the southern Maryland police departments have them.
Stinger, until Marylanders stop electing dems and bring back the best deterrent ever created (the death penalty) these crimes will not stop.
And notice the other problem: The “site coordinator” has gone “woke” on hiding the identity of the perps and their ages…
Every news outlet that has covered this story has the same lack of identifying information, because they only have access to what CCSO has chosen to release at this time… is law enforcement “woke” now too? Is the “woke” with us in the room right now?
Didn’t know that bank robbery was a death penalty offense.
Should be
This sure isn’t the quiet safe place to raise your kids as it was in the past. We have to start getting tough on crime, and stop the revolving door mentality southern Maryland has adopted. Get tough on crime Robert Harvey, send criminals to prison and get them off our streets.
I agree with you, Sam. I have seen a police car in a chase jumping a sidewalk on Washington Street in Alexandria and almost mowing down a group of people waiting at a bus stop. I also was nearly hit head-on on Croom Road in Upper Marlboro by someone in a stolen car being pursued by police.
You and Sam should probably move to Portland or one of the other cities that apparently allow criminals to take over. You blame the police for attempting to hold criminals accountable for the crimes they commit yet you have nothing to say about the criminals that stole someone’s car and caused the police to chase them. If your car was stolen you’d be pissed if the police didn’t catch them. Get a life!
the Law breakers cannot be allowed to do as they want to with no one stopping them. The law breakers, broke the law, not the innocent’ people or the police officers. the law breakers have to get their punishment, when they dont, the law breakers keep on repeating the pattern and causing more and more harm. robbing banks or people. stabbing people, shooting people, stop making the police out to be the bad guys, stop making the rest of the people the bad guys.
Well said