3 January 2008:  Update – 2nd Carjacker Identified, Found

The Charles County Sheriff’s Office has identified the second suspect involved in an armed carjacking in La Plata on Dec. 27.

Major Crimes Unit detectives have an arrest warrant for Delante Jerome Arrington, 17, of Washington, D.C. The warrant was obtained on Saturday, Dec. 29, charging Arrington as an adult with armed carjacking and other felonies. CCSO officers will serve the warrant once Arrington is released from a facility in another jurisdiction, where he is being held as a juvenile for an unrelated incident.

The investigation began last Thursday at 4:45 a.m., when Charles County Sheriff’s officers responded to the Dash In convenience store on Crain Highway in La Plata after the report of the armed carjacking. Two male suspects approached a 46-year-old Hughesville woman, brandished a handgun and demanded her property. The suspects then stole her vehicle and fled the scene.

Officers found the vehicle and attempted to stop it. The suspects, however, fled at a high rate of speed, until shortly after three of the vehicle’s tires were deflated by stop sticks. Both suspects then fled on foot into nearby woods. Sheriff’s officers, a K9 team and a Maryland State Police helicopter searched the area but located only one of the suspects, the passenger, Dujuan Terez Hailstocks, 19, of Washington, D.C.

Hailstocks was arrested last Thursday. He faces charges of armed robbery, armed carjacking, first-degree assault, theft and unauthorized use of a motor vehicle. He is being held at the Charles County Detention Center on a $500,000 bond. The weapon was also recovered in the area where the suspects fled. Detectives continued the investigation and identified the driver of the vehicle as Arrington. Det. J. Elliott investigated.

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27 December 2007:  Arrest Made After Carjacking, Chase

On Dec. 27 at 4:45 a.m., Charles County Sheriff’s officers responded to Dash In located at 6305 Crain Highway in La Plata for the report of an armed carjacking.

Investigation revealed two male suspects drove to the store in a Honda Odyssey minivan, which officers discovered was stolen from Montgomery County. One suspect approached a 46-year-old Hughesville woman, who drove up in a Toyota Avalon, brandished a handgun and demanded her property.

 

Hailstocks

The victim gave her purse to the gunman and then surrendered her keys after he demanded them. The gunman got in the driver’s seat of the Avalon and the other suspect got into the passenger seat and they fled the scene. The victim ran into the store, called 9-1-1 and the Sheriff’s Office was notified.

A lookout was broadcast for the vehicle and it was located traveling north on Crain Highway near Plaza Drive in Waldorf. One officer initiated a traffic stop but the suspects fled at a high rate of speed. Three other officers set up stop sticks on Route 301 at the county line. As the suspects crossed the county line, the stop sticks deflated