Sheriff’s Deputies Locate First Degree Assault w/Handgun Suspect

  WARRANT/FUGITIVE DIVISION FELONY ARREST REPORT

Upper Marlboro, MD… The Office of the Sheriff's Warrant/Fugitive Division reported the arrest of Michael Dawodu on May 1, 2019 for a First-Degree Assault warrant obtained by County Police Domestic Violence Division on April 26, 2019.

  According to the warrant, Michael Dawodu entered a home in 10800 block of Kingsmere Court in Upper Marlboro, MD. At the location Dawodu is alleged to have strangled his estranged wife, pointed a handgun at her and left the scene.

Sheriff’s Deputies, assisting county police, investigated several locations and queried multiple criminal databases in search of Dawodu when they learned that, homeless, he had fled the area and was currently in Douglassville, Georgia.

Sheriff’s Deputies then notified the Douglassville Georgia Sheriff’s Office. Dawodu was arrested during a traffic stop by Georgia Deputies and transported to the Douglassville, Georgia County Jail where he will remain in custody awaiting extradition back to Prince George’s County, MD.

Dawodu is also charged with Second- Degree Assault. For more information about this release contact the communications and Public Affairs Division at 301-780-7354.