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Saturday, August 01, 2015

Accident involving Worcester County Deputy investigated.

On 07/30/2015 at approximately 8:54 p.m, a Deputy with the Worcester County Sheriff's Office was parked in the rear parking lot of the White Marlin Mall, West Ocean City, Worcester County, MD. As the deputy was seated in his patrol Tahoe, they observed a vehicle traveling in the parking lot towards the patrol unit. The vehicle then drove head on into the patrol vehicle. The Deputy who was uninjured, exited his vehicle and confronted the driver of the vehicle. The deputy noted that the driver was acting irrationally and was yelling at the deputy. Additional deputies were requested and with the assistance of the responding units including a Natural Resource Police unit, the subject was taken into custody without incident. They identified the suspect as Antonio Larry Hayward, 28 of Bishopville, Maryland.

Mr. Hayward was Suspended and Revoked through the State of Maryland .Mr. Hayward admitted to using CDS, specifically LSD, before operating the motor vehicle. The vehicle Hayward was operating was searched and multiple blue packages of suspected Heroin were located. Mr. Hayward was placed under arrest. Mr. Hayward was transported to the Maryland State Police Barrack in Berlin where he submitted to a breath test. Subsequently, a D.R.E unit(Drug Recognition Expert) was contacted and Mr. Hayward submitted to preliminary drug testing. Mr.Hayward was transported to the Worcester County Sheriff's Office where he was processed and charged. Mr. Hayward was charged with Possession of CDS: Not Marijuana and eight traffic citations. Mr. Hayward was then taken to the District Court Commissioner where he was released on his personal recognizance pending a trial date. The patrol vehicle suffered front end damage and will need repairs.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

clearly an assault.

Anonymous said...

HMMM, the Officer should be charged with:

AWN= Accident While Napping...


Should not been sleeping behind the mall deputy dude!!!

Anonymous said...

I jump all over cops. but I can say that a lot of Deputies do a lot of paperwork and get caught up behind that mall

Anonymous said...

asleep? how did he see him coming? Magic I guess. Cops spend more time doing paperwork than anything.

Anonymous said...


Isn't 8 traffic violations somewhat excessive?

Anonymous said...

So the guy is released on ROR'd after using LSD and most likely heroin, then getting behind the wheel of a vehicle and driving head on into a marked Chevy Tahoe? Makes a lot of since because im sure he won't go,right back out there, but some more heroin and drive again.