MAN CHARGED IN ASSAULT ON TANEYTOWN OFFICER

(Baltimore, MD) – Maryland State Police investigators went to a Baltimore hospital today and served a warrant on the Carroll County man who is accused of assaulting a police officer and a woman when he attempted to run them down in Taneytown two nights ago.

Gary D. Wolfe, 37, of the 300-block of East Main Street, Westminster, Md., was served with a warrant today charging him with two counts of first degree assault and two counts of second degree assault. Maryland State Police homicide investigators served the warrant on Wolfe today at 2:00 p.m., at the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center where he is a patient. Wolfe remains hospitalized for treatment of a gunshot wound he sustained when a Taneytown police officer defended himself and a woman who was lying in a roadway when Wolfe attempted to run them down with his car at about 10:15 p.m. on July 8, 2009.

After troopers served the warrant, a court commissioner held a bond hearing and ordered Wolfe held without bond. Wolfe remains under guard at the hospital.