Thai Seafood Once Again Scene of Melee

WALDORF ---  Once again the Thai Seafood proves to be a late night gathering place for those who want to fight, raise hell and defy police.   On May 4 at 1:50 a.m., Charles County Sheriff’s Lt. R. Acquaviva and Sgt. S. Stoddard were off-duty working a part-time assignment at Thai Seafood, located at 2732 Crain Highway in Waldorf, when a fight between 25 people occurred in the parking lot. The officers and additional on-duty officers responded to the fight and ordered the crowd to disperse. As the fight continued, Sgt. Stoddard deployed pepper spray. A 17-year-old Washington, D.C., boy was arrested for being disorderly and failing to obey a lawful order. Shortly thereafter, Kevin Casey, 18, of Washington, D.C., began attacking another male. When Sgt. Stoddard attempted to arrest Casey, Casey punched him in the chest and attempted to flee. Sgt. Stoddard deployed his Taser, subduing Casey. Casey was subsequently arrested and charged with assaulting a police officer, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. He was being held at the Charles County Detention Center pending an appearance before a district court commissioner. The juvenile was charged as such and was released to his mother.

Punks Prey on Man Who Stopped to Help Them; Arrested for Carjacking

NANJEMOY --- Charles County Sheriff’s spokesman Kristen Timko reports that on May 5 at 2:28 a.m., Charles County Sheriff’s officers responded to the report of a carjacking that occurred on Jacksontown Road in Nanjemoy. The investigation revealed the victim, a 40-year-old man, stopped to help the occupants of a disabled vehicle. Two of the occupants pushed the victim to the ground, entered his vehicle and fled. They were followed by another vehicle, a white Pontiac. Police communications officers broadcast a lookout for the two vehicles. Shortly thereafter, Sgt. C. Schmidt observed the victim’s vehicle on Port Tobacco Road near Guy Place. Officers stopped the vehicle and arrested the two occupants, who were identified as Justin Thomas Smoot, 19, of La Plata and a 15-year-old Newburg boy. Smooth and the juvenile were charged with carjacking. Smoot was being held at the Charles County Detention Center pending an appearance before a district court commissioner. The juvenile was held at the Charles County Sheriff’s Office’s court holding facility for a juvenile court hearing. Officers were unable to locate the white Pontiac. Officer K. Burger investigated.

Passenger in Late Night Crash Dies of Injuries

WALDORF --- Police report that the passenger involved in a single-vehicle crash on April 27 has died of his injuries. Charles County Sheriff’s Officers responded to the crash in the 1100 block of St. Paul’s Drive in Waldorf at 12:51 a.m. The investigation revealed a 1994 Honda Civic was traveling south on St. Paul’s Drive when the driver lost control of the vehicle on the wet roadway, skidded across the double yellow lines and struck a parked vehicle. The driver, Christopher Rodney Griswold, 24, of Waldorf, was transported by ambulance to Civista Medical Center and the passenger, Joseph Anthony Adroved, Jr., 24, of Waldorf, was flown by a Maryland State Police helicopter to Prince George’s Hospital Center, where he died on May 4 about 5:30 p.m. Griswold was later transported to Washington Hospital Center, where he remains in critical condition with life-threatening injures. Neither Griswold nor Adroved were wearing seatbelts. The cause of the collision remains under investigation by Officer R. E. Glover, Jr., of the Traffic Operations Unit.