{"id":30124,"date":"2025-08-06T12:15:39","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T16:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/?p=30124"},"modified":"2025-08-06T12:15:39","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T16:15:39","slug":"investigators-seek-additional-information-after-wicomico-man-charged-with-impersonating-a-police-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/2025\/08\/06\/investigators-seek-additional-information-after-wicomico-man-charged-with-impersonating-a-police-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigators Seek Additional Information After Wicomico Man Charged With Impersonating A Police Officer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(SALISBURY, MD) \u2013 Maryland State Police seek public assistance while continuing an investigation into an alleged police impersonator who was served a criminal summons in February.<\/p>\n<p>The accused is identified as Jayden Ballard, 19, of Salisbury.\u00a0 Ballard was served a criminal summons on February 12, 2025. He was charged with impersonating a police officer and unlawful taking of a motor vehicle.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In February 2025 the Maryland State Police received information alleging that Ballard had gained access to a marked Maryland State Police vehicle. Investigators believe he was operating the patrol vehicle while wearing a Maryland State Police uniform throughout Wicomico County and conducting unlawful traffic stops.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police are asking anyone who may have interacted with Ballard while he was impersonating a Maryland State Trooper, to contact the Maryland State Police Criminal Enforcement Division. Contact Senior Trooper Dick by email at <a href=\"mailto:Garrett.Dick@Maryland.gov\">Garrett.Dick@Maryland.gov<\/a> or by phone at 410-749-3101.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation continues.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/08\/Ballard1-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-30126\" src=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/08\/Ballard1-1-259x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/08\/Ballard1-1-259x300.jpg 259w, https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/08\/Ballard1-1.jpg 325w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 259px) 100vw, 259px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/08\/Ballard2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30127 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/08\/Ballard2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"284\" height=\"198\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/08\/Ballard3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-30128 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/08\/Ballard3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"164\" height=\"206\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">###<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>CONTACT:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Office of Media Communications, msp.media@maryland.gov<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(SALISBURY, MD) \u2013 Maryland State Police seek public assistance while continuing an investigation into an alleged police impersonator who was served a criminal summons in February. The accused is identified as Jayden Ballard, 19, of Salisbury.\u00a0 Ballard was served a criminal summons on February 12, 2025. He was charged with impersonating a police officer and<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/2025\/08\/06\/investigators-seek-additional-information-after-wicomico-man-charged-with-impersonating-a-police-officer\/\">&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":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-releases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30124","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=30124"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31059,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30124\/revisions\/31059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}