Crime & Safety
Loaded Ghost Guns Tossed Out Window While Officers Arrest Shooting Suspect
Officers executing a search warrant for Koby Allen, a suspect in a shooting outside Bowie H.S., saw a backpack of guns tossed out a window.
BOWIE, MD — An 18-year-old Upper Marlboro man has been arrested in connection to the armed robbery and shooting that happened outside Bowie High School Oct. 13.
Around 6 a.m. Wednesday, Bowie police officers and the U.S. Marshals Service Capital Area Regional Fugitive Task Force served a search warrant at a home located in the 200 block of Harry S. Truman Drive in Upper Marlboro.
Officers arrested Koby Allen in connection to the citizen-armed robbery and non-contact shooting that unfolded in front of Bowie High School Oct. 13. While at the home serving the warrant, law enforcement said they saw a backpack thrown out a bedroom window that contained two loaded semi-automatic polymer handguns, also known as ghost guns. One of these guns matched the weapon used in the robbery, the Bowie Police Department stated.
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While searching the home, officers and marshals also recovered several items, including the victim's Moose Knuckle jacket and shoes, which were collected as evidence, a police report said.
Allen was taken to the Department of Corrections in Upper Marlboro.
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