Deputies Arrest First Degree Assault Suspect

 

Upper Marlboro, MD… The Office of the Sheriff’s Warrant/Fugitive Division reported the arrest of Jeffrey Keith Pfifer on December 16, 2020, on a warrant for First Degree Assault obtained by county police on November 18, 2020.

According to the warrant, on November 10^th, police responded to a call in the 6500 Block of Martin Luther King Jr. Highway in Landover, MD, for an armed person. Officers arrived and learned that Pfifer was at a local mechanic’s shop, where he allegedly pointed a firearm threating to shoot employees after being refused service. Pfifer had already left the scene before the police arrived. Detectives were able to identify Pfifer as the suspect through their investigation.

On December 16^th, deputies spoke with Pfifer by phone, notified him of the warrant, and convinced him to turn himself in. Deputies coordinated a location to meet with him, where he was peacefully served the warrant, taken into custody, and safely transported to the Prince George’s County Department of Corrections in Upper Marlboro, MD, without incident.

Pfifer is also charged with Second Degree Assault Carrying a Handgun on His Person, and Knowingly Transporting a Handgun in a Vehicle

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