• Font Size    

WJZ.COM Editor's Picks

Great NFL Hair
E-mail

Close Window E-mail This Page

Drifter Dies After Encounters With Police

Required fields are marked with an asterisk(*)

The information you provide will be used only to send the requested e-mail and will not be used to send any other e-mail communications. Read more in our Privacy Policy

Send E-mail

   Print     Share +   
Jul 24, 2008 10:04 am US/Eastern

Drifter Dies After Encounters With Police

RIDGELY, Md. (AP) ― Maryland State Police are investigating the death of a drifter who died after a series of encounters with police.

State police say 43-year-old Raymond Bartles, whose last address was in Woodbridge, Va., was arrested by troopers Wednesday morning on a trespassing charge in Centreville. Police say troopers attempted to find a homeless shelter for him, but were unable to do so.

About 30 minutes after a court commissioner released Bartles, a Natural Resources Police corporal saw Bartles south of Centreville walking along a highway and posing a traffic hazard. Bartles said he was walking to Easton, and a trooper drove him to the Caroline County line. A short time later, the same corporal saw Bartles acting strangely along Route 312, north of Ridgely.

Police say Bartles ran at the corporal, tried to enter his patrol car, then laid down on the ground on his own. When officers tried to help Bartles off the ground, police say his body went limp. He was pronounced dead at Easton Memorial Hospital.

The medical examiner is conducting an autopsy.

(© 2009 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.)

WJZ.COM's Most Popular Slideshows

© MMIX, CBS Corporation. All Rights Reserved.