Ex-Hyattsville Police Officer Gets Jail Time For Flashing Gun At Teens

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — A erstwhile Hyattsville constabulary serviceman was sentenced to jailhouse clip Friday for flashing a weapon astatine a radical of teens during a confrontation successful Columbia past year.

Mitchell Joseph Lowry, 30, volition service 30 days successful jailhouse aft pleading blameworthy successful July to a number of first-degree assault, according to the State’s Attorney’s Office for Howard County.

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The condemnation handed down by Howard County Circuit Judge Timothy McCrone was importantly lighter than the year-long condemnation sought by prosecutors.

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The complaint stems from an incidental that occurred July 13, 2020, astatine an flat assemblage disconnected Little Patuxent Parkway. Authorities said an statement betwixt Lowry and respective teens escalated erstwhile the off-duty serviceman displayed a handgun.

Lowry, who was suspended without wage erstwhile the Hyattsville Police Department learned helium was the taxable of a transgression investigation, resigned from the constabulary section successful July 2021.

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“Our bureau takes immoderate allegations of misconduct by a instrumentality enforcement official, whether connected work oregon disconnected duty, seriously,” State’s Attorney Rich Gibson said. “Mr. Lowery misused his presumption of powerfulness to instrumentality unjust vantage of individuals simply playing astatine a excavation and volition present person to wage a precocious terms for his actions by ne'er being allowed to enactment arsenic a constabulary serviceman and unrecorded beingness arsenic a convicted felon.”