ATTEMPTED MURDER SUSPECT IN CUSTODY

(New Windsor, MD) -- Maryland State Police have canceled the lookout for a Carroll County man wanted for assaulting his wife with a hammer last night, after he was stopped and arrested this afternoon by deputies in Georgia.

Anthony T. Soligny, 33, of the unit-block of Grapes View Drive, New Windsor, Md., was arrested in Georgia shortly before 3:00 p.m. today. He is facing charges in Maryland that include attempted murder, first and second degree assault, and reckless endangerment. The charges were obtained after a State Police investigation revealed Soligny used a hammer to assault his wife, Dr. Michelle Nanda, 35, at their home late last night.

Maryland State Police had issued a lookout for Soligny and the vehicle he was thought to be driving. Just before 3:00 p.m. today, a deputy from the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office spotted Soligny in his truck headed south on Interstate 85 in Georgia. While the deputy was following Soligny, the accused pulled to the side of the road, called 9-1-1 and told dispatchers he was going to surrender. He was taken into custody without incident.

Soligny will be held as a fugitive, while Maryland State Police investigators initiate extradition proceedings to return him to Maryland. Soligny’s truck was transported to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, where investigators there will work in coordination with Maryland State Police to process it for evidence.