On March 5, 2013 at approximately 8:50 p.m. deputies responded to the area of Chancellors Run Road and Fox Chase Drive in Lexington Park, Maryland for numerous destructions of property reports. Several motorists reported their vehicles were struck by a projectile as they travelled along Chancellors Run Road. The projectiles which were later identified as pellets shattered windows of the victim’s vehicles.
As deputies were investigating and interviewing the victims, they noticed two individuals standing in the immediate area of where the projectile had come from. The two subjects later identified as Curtis William Richardson 19 of Lexington Park, Maryland and Anthony Michael Owens, 18 of Lexington Park, Maryland. Richardson and Owens were the only two people in the area, on foot, on a cold, sleeting and raining night. The deputies interviewed Richardson and Owens separately and discovered inconsistencies in their statements. Further investigation lead to the discovery and seizure of a pellet riled.
Richardson and Owens were arrest and charged with 3 counts of destruction of property and 3 counts of reckless endangerment.
