Driver, Youths Scuffle Over E-Scooter Road Rage: Police

CURTIS BAY, MD — A Curtis Bay man has been charged with robbery after police said he confronted two youths on E-scooters, and hit one of them with a helmet after his vehicle was damaged.

Anne Arundel County Police said the assault happened about 1:10 p.m. Dec. 27 near Hilltop Road and Waterway Court in Curtis Bay. Investigators said the juvenile victim and his 18-year-old brother were riding E-scooters in the road when a driver in a truck behind them began yelling at the pair.

Authorities later identified the driver as Michael Andrew Lentz, 40, of Curtis Bay, a news release said.

As Lentz parked in front of his house, one of the teens on a scooter broke the side-view mirror on Lentz's truck, police said.

He then chased the brothers down to a nearby pier, ripped the helmet off of one individual, and struck him with the helmet. After the suspect assaulted the youth, police said Lentz walked away with the victim’s helmet.

An 18-year-old male from Pasadena on the E-scooter was cited with destruction of property for damage to the suspect’s vehicle and released, according to a police news release.

Lentz was arrested and charged with robbery and assault.