Police Chase, Crash Ends with Talbot County Men's Arrests

GLEN BURNIE, MD – An attempted traffic stop and police chase on the interstate in Anne Arundel Countyled to the arrest of two Talbot County men in connection with stealing a truck and a burglary in St. Michaels.

The suspects are identified as Aaron Logan Jordan, 27, of Easton and Daniel Dylan Hicks, 23, of St. Michaels, according to Maryland State Police. Police charged both men with second-degree burglary, theft over $1,000, motor vehicle theft, fleeing and eluding, and other pending criminal and traffic charges.

At 2:45 a.m. Friday, a trooper from the Glen Burnie Barrack tried to stop a white 1996 Dodge Ram pickup truck traveling northbound on Route 10 at Route 170 for a speeding violation. As the trooper got out of his patrol car and approached the truck, the driver reportedly accelerated and fled the scene. The trooper ran back to his vehicle and a police pursuit began.

Hicks, the alleged driver of the truck, continued northbound on Route 10 to northbound I-695 and attempted to take the ramp to northbound Route 295, but swerved on the approach. The truck hit the guardrail, flipped and landed on its roof. The men escaped and ran on foot in different directions.

Troopers caught both suspects a short distance away from the crash. They were taken by ambulance: one man was taken to the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center and the other was taken to Baltimore Washington Medical Center. Both were treated and released and taken to the Glen Burnie Barrack for processing.

Troopers on the scene found a large number of power tools and farm equipment that was thrown from the truck by the crash. Items included chain and circular saws, nail guns, a sander and an air compressor, among other tools and equipment.

When state police went to home of the truck’s owner in St. Michaels, they noticed his garage appeared to have been burglarized. The pickup truck owner told investigators the items found at the crash scene were stored in his detached garage and in his truck; he didn't know his truck had been stolen or his garage burglarized.