Crime & Safety
UPDATED: Police Locate Escaped Prisoner in Baltimore City
Anne Arundel County police worked with Baltimore and Annapolis police to locate Derontay Simms, 20, Wednesday night after he walked away from a work detail in Glen Burnie earlier that day.
UPDATED (9:30 a.m. Thursday): After a little more than 12 hours, police took Derontay Lee Simms, 20, back into custody late Wednesday night and he was served a warrant for second-degree escape.
Simms was located by Anne Arundel County Police officers and Baltimore Police officers in the area of Marbourne Avenue and Hollins Ferry Road in Baltimore and took him into custody without incident.
The two agencies received information from the Annapolis Police Department that Anne Arundel police said played a "pivotal role in assisting for the search," county police said in a press release.
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Simms was being held on $150,000 bail for previous charges as of 9:20 a.m. Thursday.
UPDATED (3:10 p.m. Wednesday): Police released a photograph Wednesday afternoon of Derontay Simms, 20, the inmate who walked away from work detail in Glen Burnie earlier that day.
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"Simms is described as a black male with two teardrop tattoos underneath both of his eyes. He was last seen wearing a white, long sleeve, long john shirt, orange jumpsuit pants and black boots. He is known to frequent Severn and Annapolis City," according to an Anne Arundel County Police press release.
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UPDATED (1:30 p.m. Wednesday): Police continue to search for Derontay Simms, 20, after he walked away from a work detail in Glen Burnie.
He is serving nine months at the Ordnance Road Correctional Center in Glen Burnie on second-degree assault charges, according to online court documents. In records from March 2011 he is described as being 5-foot-8-inches tall and weighing 125 pounds.
Simms had been in custody since May and was scheduled to be discharged in January or February 2012, according to Terry Kokolis, superintendent of Anne Arundel County Department of Detention Facilities.
"Of course that date will change once he's apprehended," he said.
Simms was on work detail from the Ordnance Road Correctional Center working at the Glen Burnie Convenience Center on Dover Road, Kokolis said.
Kokolis said he didn't know what type of additional sentence Simms would receive once caught.
"He didn't escape from security. It was a 'walk-off' so the judge has [leeway] in his sentence," he said. "He's a local resident of Anne Arundel County so hopefully we won't go far."
This is not the first time Simms, who has addresses listed in Severn, Odenton and Annapolis in court documents, has been in trouble with the law. He's previously been arrested for drug and gun charges.
As of 1:30 p.m., Simms still had not been located, Kokolis said.
UPDATED (12:30 p.m. Wednesday): Police say Derontay Simms, who is described as a 20-year-old black man last seen wearing an orange jumpsuit, walked away from a work detail Wednesday morning.
Simms is an inmate at Ordnance Road Correctional Center in Glen Burnie, said Anne Arundel County police spokesman Justin Mulcahy. Officers and K-9 still were searching the area as of 12:20 p.m.
Original article: Anne Arundel County Police officers responded to a call in the 200 block of Dover Road at about 10:35 a.m. for a reported escaped prisoner, according to a police spokesperson.
Maryland State Police (MSP) are assisting the Anne Arundel County officers as they search in Glen Burnie.
MSP received the call for help at about 10:45 a.m., said State Police Sgt. Michael Dornberger. State police were searching in the area of Route 10 and Ordnance Road near Walmart, he said.
This article will be updated as more details become available.
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