<p><em><strong>SEARCH ENDS WITH ARREST OF WICOMICO COUNTY FUGITIVE</strong></em><br />
(DOVER, DE) – According to the Maryland State Police, the search for a fugitive wanted for an assault that injured three police officers in Wicomico County one week ago has ended with his arrest tonight in Delaware.<br />
Edwin L. Fletcher, 32, of Salisbury, Md., was arrested at about 6:30 p.m. today by members of the Maryland State Apprehension Team, in cooperation with Delaware law enforcement. Fletcher was arrested without incident at a home in the 200-block of Dundee Road, Dover, Delaware. At this time his relationship to others at the residence is unknown.<br />
Fletcher will be taken before a Delaware Justice of the Peace for an extradition hearing. It is not known at this time if he will waive extradition.<br />
Fletcher had been sought by police throughout the Lower Shore region since the evening of March 26, 2014, when he fled after ramming a pickup truck into a police car as a multi-jurisdictional team of police officers was attempting to arrest him on a drug felony warrant in Wicomico County. Fletcher drove up onto and over the police car, inside of which were two state troopers and a sheriff’s deputy, all of whom were injured.<br />
Other details concerning the arrest are not currently known. The investigation is continuing.</p>

Cops nab fugitive Edwin L. Fletcher; wanted for driving over top of police car and injuring three officers
