A 23-year-old Dallas man walked out of a house on Hollywood Avenue in Silver Spring, Maryland, carrying a “privately manufactured firearm” and hit a plainclothes officer in the head with it, Montgomery County police said, according to NBC4 Washington. The officer had approached a Corvette that was reported stolen in Anne Arundel County on Oct. 1, 32 days before the confrontation, police said. The man, Isaiah Armstrong-Smith, is charged with first-degree assault, possession of a stolen vehicle and multiple firearms offenses, and is held without bond. Those are police allegations, and no court has ruled on them.
A stolen Corvette, a drone and a driveway on Hollywood Avenue
A Montgomery County 4th District officer spotted the Corvette southbound on New Hampshire Avenue at about 10:45 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 2, according to police accounts reported by NBC4 and The MoCo Show. Fox 5 DC reported that a drone followed the car into a driveway in the 900 block of Hollywood Avenue, where two people got out and went into the house.
A plainclothes officer then approached the car. Police say Armstrong-Smith came out of the house and struck the officer in the head with the firearm, then ran as more officers arrived. They caught him in the 900 block of Winhall Way with a K-9 unit and a Prince George’s County police helicopter, The MoCo Show reported. He had already thrown the gun away, police said, and detectives found it later in the 1000 block of Hollywood Avenue. Fox 5 and The MoCo Show both described it as an AR-style pistol.
A 22-year-old Silver Spring man, whom police believe was driving the Corvette, was arrested at the first scene and released pending further investigation. He has not been named and, in the reports I reviewed, has not been charged…