Anonymous wrote:This is where the death penalty would come in handy.

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Anonymous wrote:This story is insane, and the reason 270 was a mess this morning.

Raphael Mayorga (19), of Frederick, Maryland, was charged with attempted first-degree murder. Before the crash, officers clocked him speeding at 110 mph. He has previously faced multiple charges for speeding and reckless driving.

Mayorga was well known to the officer and had a history of high speeds and leading officers on chases. The officer has loss use of both legs, and remains in critical condition. Why wasn't this adult in jail for his previous violations? How does he still have access to a vehicle. Surely his license was at least suspended.


https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/montgomery-county-officer-critically-hurt-in-i-270-crash-drivers-told-to-expect-delays/3446928/

He actually hasn't gone to court on any of them, from what I can see in Case Search. He's got a WILD number of tickets (76 if I'm excluding AKAs correctly; he's slight variations of his name listed as AKAs on all of them), but they're all from this year. He wasn't arrested on any of them, just given citations. Some are incarcerable, like knowingly driving without insurance and fleeing and eluding, but I guess the police in those incidents elected to give him a ticket rather than arrest him. I know that it at least used to be possible (and common) to arrest someone for fleeing and eluding, but I haven't done criminal law in Montgomery County in ages.

Has Council member Jawando said anything about this? He submitted a bill a while back that would make it tougher to be pulled over. Sounds like we need the opposite! obviously the police didn’t feel they had enough support/political coverage to put this guy in jail before now…..

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Anonymous wrote:This story is insane, and the reason 270 was a mess this morning.

Raphael Mayorga (19), of Frederick, Maryland, was charged with attempted first-degree murder. Before the crash, officers clocked him speeding at 110 mph. He has previously faced multiple charges for speeding and reckless driving.

Mayorga was well known to the officer and had a history of high speeds and leading officers on chases. The officer has loss use of both legs, and remains in critical condition. Why wasn't this adult in jail for his previous violations? How does he still have access to a vehicle. Surely his license was at least suspended.


https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/montgomery-county-officer-critically-hurt-in-i-270-crash-drivers-told-to-expect-delays/3446928/

He actually hasn't gone to court on any of them, from what I can see in Case Search. He's got a WILD number of tickets (76 if I'm excluding AKAs correctly; he's slight variations of his name listed as AKAs on all of them), but they're all from this year. He wasn't arrested on any of them, just given citations. Some are incarcerable, like knowingly driving without insurance and fleeing and eluding, but I guess the police in those incidents elected to give him a ticket rather than arrest him. I know that it at least used to be possible (and common) to arrest someone for fleeing and eluding, but I haven't done criminal law in Montgomery County in ages.

Anonymous wrote:This story is insane, and the reason 270 was a mess this morning.

Raphael Mayorga (19), of Frederick, Maryland, was charged with attempted first-degree murder. Before the crash, officers clocked him speeding at 110 mph. He has previously faced multiple charges for speeding and reckless driving.

Mayorga was well known to the officer and had a history of high speeds and leading officers on chases. The officer has loss use of both legs, and remains in critical condition. Why wasn't this adult in jail for his previous violations? How does he still have access to a vehicle. Surely his license was at least suspended.


https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/montgomery-county-officer-critically-hurt-in-i-270-crash-drivers-told-to-expect-delays/3446928/

Anonymous wrote:This story is insane, and the reason 270 was a mess this morning.

Raphael Mayorga (19), of Frederick, Maryland, was charged with attempted first-degree murder. Before the crash, officers clocked him speeding at 110 mph. He has previously faced multiple charges for speeding and reckless driving.

Mayorga was well known to the officer and had a history of high speeds and leading officers on chases. The officer has loss use of both legs, and remains in critical condition. Why wasn't this adult in jail for his previous violations? How does he still have access to a vehicle. Surely his license was at least suspended.


https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/montgomery-county-officer-critically-hurt-in-i-270-crash-drivers-told-to-expect-delays/3446928/

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Anonymous wrote:This is where the death penalty would come in handy.

Truly awful new! I wonder what the CE has in mind.


At a joint news conference with police on Wednesday afternoon, County Executive Marc Elrich called for action to stop repeat reckless drivers and pursue “criminalizing this in a different way.”

Anonymous wrote:This is where the death penalty would come in handy.

Raphael Mayorga (19), of Frederick, Maryland, was charged with attempted first-degree murder. Before the crash, officers clocked him speeding at 110 mph. He has previously faced multiple charges for speeding and reckless driving.