Off-Duty Trooper Helps Apprehend Work Zone Hit-Run Driver In Maryland: State Police

Marion Station resident Jamal Scarborough was driving in front of an off-duty trooper shortly before 10:30 a.m. on March 27 who was in his police cruiser heading south on Airport Road near Salisbury Regional Airport, when he stopped at a work zone where a flagging operation was in effect.

At the time, workers were allowing northbound traffic to proceed in the area.

According to the preliminary investigation, Scarborough was driving a blue Jeep in front of the trooper when he swerved into the northbound lanes in an attempt to bypass the work zone before darting back into the southbound lanes to avoid oncoming traffic, driving off the road and into a ditch.

Investigators said that the 27-year-old then accelerated his Jeep, ran over the orange casings placed on the road by the crew and ran over one of the utility workers, who was on the ground.

The worker, a 64-year-old man, was transported by paramedics to TidalHealth Peninsula Regional Hospital before being flown by private helicopter to Christiana Hospital in Delaware for treatment of his injuries.

Scarborough wasn't done yet.

The off-duty trooper, along with troopers from the Salisbury Barrack and an additional off-duty trooper, pursued him briefly through Airport Road, Maryland Route 12 and Nutters Cross Road before ultimately apprehending Scarborough on a field near Johnson Road in Salisbury.

Scarborough was arrested and charged with:

• First-degree assault;
• Second-degree assault;
• Causing a life-threatening injury while operating a vehicle in a criminally negligent manner;
• Causing serious injury to a vulnerable individual;
• Attempting to elude police and other related offenses.

He is being held without bond at the Wicomico County Detention Center.

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