Traffic Stop Results in Two Criminal Arrests After Interstate Pursuit

(Glen Burnie, MD) – An attempted traffic stop led to the criminal arrests of two Talbot County men in connection with stealing a truck and burglary after an early morning police pursuit ensued on the interstate in Anne Arundel County.

The suspects are identified as Aaron Logan Jordan, 27, of Easton and Daniel Dylan Hicks, 23, of St. Michaels. After consultation with the Anne Arundel County State’s Attorney’s Office, both were charged with second degree burglary, theft over $1,000, motor vehicle theft, fleeing and eluding, and other pending criminal and traffic charges. Both are currently at the Glen Burnie Barrack waiting to be seen by a court commissioner.

At 2:45 a.m. this morning, a trooper from the Glen Burnie Barrack initiated a traffic stop for a speed violation on a white 1996 Dodge Ram pickup truck traveling northbound on Route 10 at Route 170. As the trooper exited his patrol car and approached the truck, the driver accelerated and fled the scene. The trooper ran back to his vehicle and a police pursuit ensued.

Hicks, the alleged driver of the truck, continued northbound on Route 10 to northbound I-695 and attempted to take the ramp to northbound Route 295, but swerved on the approach. The truck hit the guardrail, flipped and came to rest on it’s roof. Moments later, the two occupants escaped and continued to flee on foot in two different directions.

Troopers were able to apprehend both occupants a short distance away from the crash. They were transported by ambulance: one occupant was transported to the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center and the other was transported to Baltimore Washington Medical Center. Both were examined and released and transported to the Glen Burnie Barrack for processing.

Troopers on the scene noticed a large number of power tools and farm equipment that was ejected from the truck as a result of the crash. Items included chain and circular saws, nail guns, a sander and an air compressor, among other tools and equipment.

A cooperative investigation between the Criminal Enforcement Division in Easton and troopers from the Glen Burnie and Easton Barracks, led to the identification of the truck’s owner which Hicks and Jordan were driving at the time of the crash. The truck was registered to an owner in St. Michaels, Maryland.

When investigators from the Easton Barrack attempted to locate the owner at his home in the 9,000 block of North Claiborne Road in St. Michaels, they noticed his detached garage appeared to have been burglarized. Crime scene technicians from the Maryland State Police Forensics Division immediately responded to process the scene for evidence.

Once the owner was contacted by investigators, he advised the items found at the crash scene were stored in his detached garage and in his truck. The owner advised police he had not known his truck had been stolen nor his garage burglarized.

No police officers or other citizens were injured during the incident. The investigation continues.