A Baltimore police officer Sunday evening tracked down and helped arrest a registered sex offender who authorities said tried to abduct a 15-year-old girl on Washington Boulevard.
Michael Leroy Thomas, 44, was arrested at his Baltimore County home on Dalton Drive in Gwynn Oak after Southwest District Matt Dzambo followed him there and alerted county police. Thomas was charged with assault and faces a bail review hearing later today. Thomas is at left in a picture from the Maryland Sex Offense Registry,
Police said Dzambo was on patrol in the 2500 block of Washington Bld. when about 5:15 p.m. a resident flagged him down and told him a man had just grabbed his daughter, who managed to get away.
Dzambo approached the supsect who got away in a four-door Buick. The officer followed the car and got the license plate number, which was traced to the house in Gwynn Oak. Dzambo and Baltimore County police arrested the suspect at that location.
Police said the teen-aged victim picked Thomas out of a photo lineup. Thomas was convicted of a 4th degree sex offense in 2005 and sentenced to probation.
He was found guilty of failing to report a change of address in 2006, as required by registered sex offenders, and was sentenced to the time he had spent in prison awaiting his trial, which was four months. The Maryland Sex Offense registry lists him as compliant.
Thomas has a string arrests in Baltimore City and Baltimore County, mostly for petty offenses such as urinating in public and trespassing. In 1994, he was convicted of battery sentenced to spend eight months in prison.