{"id":28809,"date":"2024-06-13T13:17:03","date_gmt":"2024-06-13T17:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/?p=28809"},"modified":"2024-06-13T13:20:42","modified_gmt":"2024-06-13T17:20:42","slug":"state-police-arrest-ohio-man-after-brandishing-paintball-pistol-in-apparent-road-rage-incident-in-howard-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/2024\/06\/13\/state-police-arrest-ohio-man-after-brandishing-paintball-pistol-in-apparent-road-rage-incident-in-howard-county\/","title":{"rendered":"State Police Arrest Ohio Man After Brandishing Paintball Pistol In Apparent Road Rage Incident In Howard County"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(WEST FRIENDSHIP, MD) \u2014 Maryland State Police arrested an Ohio man this morning after brandishing a paintball pistol during an alleged road rage incident on I-70 in Howard County.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The accused is identified as James Wells, 39, of Ohio.\u00a0 After consultation with the Howard County State\u2019s Attorney\u2019s Office, Wells was arrested on site and charged with first-degree assault.\u00a0 He was transported to the Howard County Department of Corrections for processing.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The victim told Maryland State Police from the Waterloo Barrack that at 9:30 a.m. today, he was traveling on I-70 West, west of the West Friendship Scale House. He called 9-1-1 and reported the driver of a blue Chevrolet passenger car pointed a firearm in his direction during a road rage incident. The victim was also able to provide police with a license plate number. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Troopers from the Frederick Barrack located the suspect vehicle on westbound I-70 at MD-15 in Frederick where they conducted a subsequent traffic stop. During the course of the traffic stop, the driver, later identified as Wells, informed police that he pointed a paintball pistol (pictured below) at the victim.\u00a0 Wells provided the loaded paintball pistol to police. He was arrested on the scene.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/06\/Wells-paintball-gun-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"722\" src=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/06\/Wells-paintball-gun-1024x722.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28814\" style=\"width:841px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/06\/Wells-paintball-gun-1024x722.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/06\/Wells-paintball-gun-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/06\/Wells-paintball-gun-768x541.jpg 768w, https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/06\/Wells-paintball-gun-1536x1083.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/06\/Wells-paintball-gun-2048x1444.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(WEST FRIENDSHIP, MD) \u2014 Maryland State Police arrested an Ohio man this morning after brandishing a paintball pistol during an alleged road rage incident on I-70 in Howard County.\u00a0 The accused is identified as James Wells, 39, of Ohio.\u00a0 After consultation with the Howard County State\u2019s Attorney\u2019s Office, Wells was arrested on site and charged<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/2024\/06\/13\/state-police-arrest-ohio-man-after-brandishing-paintball-pistol-in-apparent-road-rage-incident-in-howard-county\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,28,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barracksa-waterloo","category-press-releases","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28809"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28820,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28809\/revisions\/28820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}