Prince George’s County Sheriff’s deputies arrested Rashun Proctor in Temple Hills on Monday, September 21, on a warrant for violating his probation out of Washington, D.C. The arrest came after new allegations that Proctor had physically assaulted and threatened a woman with a firearm, prompting authorities to serve him with an Emergency Risk Protective Order on top of the fugitive warrant.
According to the Prince George’s County Office of the Sheriff, deputies located Proctor in Temple Hills and took him into custody before serving him with the protective order tied to the new allegations. Proctor remains held at the Prince George’s County Department of Corrections in Upper Marlboro, and his custody is pending his return to the District of Columbia.
A Documented History of Domestic Violence and Firearms
Proctor’s arrest comes with a paper trail. In September 2023, a D.C. Superior Court judge sentenced him to prison followed by three years of supervised probation after he pleaded guilty to charges from two early-2023 domestic violence incidents in Washington, according to DC Witness. Court records cited by the outlet state that the plea agreement said prosecutors would have proved Proctor threatened his girlfriend and pointed a firearm at her. That conviction is the same probation Proctor was allegedly violating when deputies caught up with him in Temple Hills.
His record with firearms goes back further still. D.C. Metropolitan Police arrested a then-21-year-old Proctor in Northeast Washington in May 2020, charging him with carrying a pistol without a license, felon in possession of a firearm, and burglary, per the Metropolitan Police Department. MPD’s report covering April 27 through May 4 describes the department’s ongoing firearm recovery work.
How Maryland’s Red Flag Law Applies
The protective order served on Proctor draws its authority from Maryland’s Extreme Risk Protective Order law, which took effect in October 2018 and allows law enforcement, family members, and intimate partners to petition a court to temporarily disarm someone deemed an immediate danger to themselves or others. Under the statute, respondents must surrender all firearms and ammunition and are barred from buying new weapons, according to The Maryland People’s Law Library…