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ANNAPOLIS, Md. — A 34-year-old man whose dramatic arrest Wednesday in Glen Burnie was captured in a video that went viral has been released from a hospital and formally charged, police said.
Antron Trimitriouss Bulow of Severn has been charged with possession of crack cocaine and possession of crack cocaine with intent to distribute, police said Thursday morning.
Bulow’s bail was reduced Thursday from $125,000 to $25,000 by Anne Arundel County District Court Associate Judge H. Richard Duden III, after public defender William Davis argued it was unfair and should be reduced to $10,000.
Bulow is being held at the Jennifer Road Detention Center. Should he be released on bond, Duden said he will require Bulow to be under pre-trial supervision.
A preliminary hearing has been scheduled for April 20.
After Bulow was taken into custody Wednesday afternoon, he was taken to a local hospital where he was treated for minor abrasions to his forehead, police said.
A video that captured Bulow’s arrest shows the Bulow exiting the car he was driving after police disabled it with stop sticks and attempting to flee on foot.
While running, Bulow appears to push or strike a female Anne Arundel County Police officer before he was taken to the ground by a state trooper. The video shows officers punching and kicking him while attempting to subdue him. Police said the officers’ actions will be reviewed by the department to ensure they were within the agency’s policies. Lt. Ryan Frashure, an agency spokesman, said Wednesday that the none of the officers’ actions on the video appear to be illegal.
“The video speaks for itself,” Frashure said. “It shows how dangerous this guy was.”
Greg Shipley, a Maryland State Police spokesman, said the agency is reviewing the video. As of Thursday he couldn’t say whether any protocol had been violated.
“From what has been initially seen shows this individual had gone to great lengths to resist arrest,” Shipley said.
The pursuit began around 12:13 p.m. in the area of Millersville Road and Waterbury Road. Detectives with the police’s Western District were conducting surveillance on Bulow, whom they identified Thursday morning as a “known suspected drug dealer.”
Bulow drove away from the area in a Chevrolet Cobalt and the detectives followed. The detectives observed Bulow speeding and attempted a traffic stop, but he kept driving toward Interstate 97, police said.
Police said detectives turned off their emergency equipment and continued to pursue Bulow at a safe distance while broadcasting a description and tag of the vehicle to Maryland State Police.
A state trooper saw the vehicle on I-97 and also attempted a traffic stop. Bulow once again continued driving north on I-97 until exiting onto Quarter field Road. Once on Quarterfield Road, Bulow struck another state police vehicle that had responded to assist, police said.
The state trooper in the vehicle suffered minor injuries, police said.
The pursuit continued to Oakwood Road and Aquahart Road, where officers shut down the intersection and used stop sticks to disable the car.
As he approached the intersection, Bulow struck a county police vehicle, police said.
As Bulow fled the car, he ignored multiple commands from officers ordering him to surrender and resisted arrest, police said. Bulow continued to fight officers as they attempted to handcuff him.
After a short time, a state trooper was able to handcuff him, police said.
Police said they found about 2.2 grams of suspected crack cocaine and $555 in cash in the vehicle.
Davis argued that Bulow rents the car he was driving for $250 a week from a neighbor, which is why there was a large amount of cash in the car.
After the bond review hearing, Davis said he isn’t second guessing a police decision to charge Bulow with intent to distribute drugs, but believes prosecutors should consider dropping the intent to distribute charge based on Bulow’s explanation for having a large amount of cash in the car, and the amount of drugs found in the vehicle.
Anne Arundel County State’s Attorney’s Office spokeswoman Heather Epkins said the office can’t comment on ongoing case.
“Our prosecutors consider all evidence when moving forward with a case,” she said.
Sheika Bulow, the 34-year-old’s younger sister, acknowledged in a phone interview Thursday that her brother was wrong to run from the police, but said that the officers went too far.
“I feel they were wrong,” Sheika Bulow said. “They already had him down.”
The younger sister noted that the state trooper didn’t begin punching Bulow until he had fallen to the sidewalk. When the state trooper throws his first punch to the 34-year-old’s body, Bulow’s right hand is shown planted on the sidewalk.
“The video show them slamming his head into the concrete,” she said. “They didn’t have to beat him.”
Sheika Bulow said that she and her older brother grew up in a family of four children in Severn’s Pioneer City. She now lives in Baltimore and still sees and speaks to her brother “on and off,” she said.
The last time she saw him her brother appeared to have been doing well, Sheika said.
The younger sister conceded that her brother had a history with drugs and was known to county police.
“He’s been locked up numerous times for drugs,” Sheika Bulow said.
Police are further investigating the incident before deciding whether to file additional charges for assault and resisting arrest against Bulow, Frashure said.
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