A man has been arrested after allegedly ramming an ATV into an officer with Washington, D.C.’s police department earlier this year, according to the U.S. Marshals Service.
The Marshals on Saturday arrested 30-year-old Gerard Stokes in the Maryland city of Greenbelt, the service said in a Sunday press release. D.C’s Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) had wanted Stokes “for one count of felony Assault of a Police Officer that occurred on March 15, 2025,” according to the Marshals.
“On that date, MPD Officers attempted to contact a group of individuals who were operating ATVs and dirt bikes near a gas station in the area of 14th St. and U St. NW,” the Marshals said in their release.
“The individuals on the ATVs were parked next to the gas pumps. As the fully uniformed Officers approached the individuals, one of the individuals, later identified as Stokes accelerated his ATV, raised the front tires in the air and aimed it toward the Officers,” the Marshals added.
According to the Marshals, as Stokes’s ATV came towards the officers, an officer escaped its path and another got hit “and drug approximately 15 feet across the gas station lot by Stokes who then fled the scene without stopping.”
The officer who was hit went to a local hospital and “is still recovering from the injuries and has not returned to full duty,” the Marshals said.
“This apprehension during this public safety surge proves that we are making a difference by getting ruthless and dangerous criminals off the street,” U.S. Marshal Service Director Gadyaces S. Serralta said in the release.
“By increasing the number of law enforcement professionals we are able to carry out the orders of the President and make DC safe and beautiful again,” Serralta added.
In a post on the social platform X Saturday, the Greenbelt Police Department said that “the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force executed a warrant at a home in the 100 block of Ridge Rd” that morning.
“This warrant was connected to a case from Washington, D.C., involving the D.C. Police. No officers from Greenbelt were present during the execution of the warrant,” the Greenbelt police added.
