UPDATED: Dover PD Make 2nd Arrest in Crash that Left One-Year-Old Critically Injured Tuesday
January 24, 2025/
UPDATED – 01/24/25 – A second arrest has been made by Dover Police in connection with a collision on East Loockerman Street just after 1:30 Tuesday afternoon that left a 1 year old boy in critical condition. After further investigation, police have arrested 21 year old Patience Dodd of Smyrna after learning that she also had a no-contact order with 22 year old Lamar Howard of Dover and was in violation of that order. Dodd was arrested Thursday and charged with endangering the welfare of a child and non-compliance with bond and released on her own recognizance. The child remains in critical condition.
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ORIGINAL STORY – 01/22/25 – Dover Police have arrested a 22-year-old Dover man following a serious motor vehicle collision yesterday, in which a one-year-old boy was critically injured–Tuesday afternoon on East Loockerman Street. According to Dover Police, the child was transported to Bayhealth Kent Campus and later airlifted to a New Castle County Hospital for treatment where he remains in critical condition. An adult woman was a passenger in the vehicle, however she sustained no injuries. No other injuries were reported. Police say that the driver, Lamar Howard, was under the influence of marijuana when the vehicle he was driving–a 2012 Dodge Durango– left the roadway on East Loockerman and struck a tree. The one-year-old was not properly restrained in a car seat which resulted in him being seriously injured. Howard also had a no-contact order with the woman, and officers located 69 grams of marijuana in the vehicle, along with packaging material. Howard is at Sussex Correctional Institution on over $25,500 cash bail and faces several charges that include DUI, Assault First Degree, Endangering the Welfare of a Child, and drug-related offenses.聽
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Howard is presumed innocent until proven guilty.