MUGSHOTS: Columbia Carjacking Suspects

After two men were charged in connection with recent carjackings in Columbia, the Howard County Police Department on Thursday released their booking photos.

Ledell Padmore, 38, of Green Meadow Drive, has been charged in the carjacking and abduction of a woman on Cedar Lane and in an Oct. 9 robbery on Little Patuxent Parkway, according to the Howard County Police Department. He is being held without bail at the Howard County Detention Center, police reported.

Taylor James Pugh, 25, who lives in a neighboring apartment to Padmore, was also charged in the Oct. 6 carjacking and abduction and in an Oct. 11 carjacking on Blue February Way, according to police. Pugh is being on $500,000 bond, police reported.

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The carjacking and abduction of a woman on Cedar Lane Tuesday, Oct. 6, was the first of four incidents last week—three carjackings and one robbery—that detectives are investigating as potentially related, officials said.

Two carjackings were reported in Columbia on Sunday, Oct. 11, police said: one on Blue February Way and another in the 10200 block of Hickory Ridge Road.

On Friday, Oct. 9, a woman was robbed at gunpoint in her vehicle in the 12200 block of Little Patuxent Parkway, police reported.

“Due to the similarities in the crimes and the suspect descriptions, police are investigating the possibility that both Padmore and Pugh may have been involved in as many as a total of four incidents,” police reported. “Additional information will be released if more charges are filed.”

Photo Credit: Howard County Police Department. Left, Ledell Maxwell; right, Taylor James Pugh.