{"id":30209,"date":"2025-08-27T14:34:03","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T18:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/?p=30209"},"modified":"2025-08-27T14:34:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T18:34:03","slug":"maryland-state-police-arrest-prince-georges-county-man-following-alleged-armed-road-rage-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/2025\/08\/27\/maryland-state-police-arrest-prince-georges-county-man-following-alleged-armed-road-rage-incident\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland State Police Arrest Prince George’s County Man Following Alleged Armed Road Rage Incident"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

(COLLEGE PARK, MD) \u2013 Maryland State Police arrested a Bowie man and seized multiple firearms following an alleged felony assault with a firearm on Central Avenue in Prince George\u2019s County.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The accused is identified as Justus McDougal, 24, of Bowie, Maryland.\u00a0 McDougal was arrested yesterday and criminally charged with first- and second-degree assault, using a firearm during a felony crime, loaded handgun in a vehicle and other related charges.\u00a0 McDougal was transported to the Prince George\u2019s County Division of Corrections where he was released on bond.<\/p>\n

At approximately 3:25 p.m. on August 7, 2025, the Maryland State Police College Park Barrack received an emergency call from a motorist who advised another motorist pointed a firearm at them while traveling on Central Avenue in the area of Landover Road in Prince George\u2019s County. \u00a0Troopers from the Maryland State Police Highway Gun Crimes Initiative initiated an investigation and identified McDougal as the suspect.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Yesterday, the Maryland State Police served a search warrant at McDougal\u2019s residence in Bowie.\u00a0 A handgun, AR-pistol without serial numbers, high-capacity magazines, and additional evidence were seized during the authorized search.\u00a0 McDougal attempted to destroy his phone during the execution of the search warrant and was arrested without further incident.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Maryland Department of State Police is dedicated to creating safer communities within Maryland, including actively addressing all reported incidents of gun violence on our highways. Police continue to seek information in the investigations into the murders of Delonte Hicks, Charles Marks, and Nyah Hairston. Police urge anyone with information relating to these investigations or other highway gun crimes, to contact investigators by calling 410-538-1887. Callers may remain anonymous.<\/p>\n

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CONTACT:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Office of Media Communications, msp.media@maryland.gov<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(COLLEGE PARK, MD) \u2013 Maryland State Police arrested a Bowie man and seized multiple firearms following an alleged felony assault with a firearm on Central Avenue in Prince George\u2019s County.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 The accused is identified as Justus McDougal, 24, of Bowie, Maryland.\u00a0 McDougal was arrested yesterday and criminally charged with first- and second-degree assault, using  Read the Rest…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30209","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\/30209","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\/260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30212,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30209\/revisions\/30212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}