A 41-year-old woman reported being threatened with guns near Overlea; the public account of the case does not say which, if any, of the three people later arrested were identified as the men involved. According to FOX45 News, Baltimore police arrested three young men and recovered two loaded handguns after a follow-up investigation.
According to WBFF, police responded to the 6700 block of Belair Road on September 19 after receiving a call about an armed person. The woman told officers that two unidentified men in a silver Lexus threw a plastic soda bottle at her car and displayed two handguns.
Detectives Track Down the Silver Lexus
The report says detectives located a silver Lexus matching the vehicle description. On September 20, officers stopped the car in the unit block of Maple Avenue.
Officers searching the car found two loaded handguns and arrested its three occupants, according to the report. The public account does not establish that the occupants were the two men the woman described.
Three Arrests, Multiple Handgun Charges
Police arrested two 19-year-old men and one 20-year-old man in connection with the case, though their identities have not been released. All three were taken to the Central Booking Intake Facility and charged with several handgun violations, the report states.
What citywide gun data can show
According to the Baltimore Police Department’s 2024 year-end report, officers seized more than 2,530 firearms, including 294 ghost guns, across Baltimore City that year. Those citywide figures are separate from the arrests in this case; the reported figures do not provide a comparison with the prior year. The Baltimore Police Department cautions that its Open Baltimore crime data is preliminary and subject to change, so it should not be treated as a definitive count of incidents. That caveat does not provide a case-specific count or further geographic or time-period breakdown.
The public account does not specify which men allegedly displayed the weapons or threw the bottle, or detail the exact charges. It leaves unresolved how investigators connected the occupants of the Lexus to the woman’s report.
