Ex-Police Chief Charged With Attempted Murder After Arson Spree
Investigators said David M. Crawford, who resigned as the police chief of Laurel, Md., in 2010, had targeted “victims with whom he had previous disagreements.”
An image taken from a surveillance video of one of the fires that the authorities say David M. Crawford, a former police chief in Maryland, set.Credit...Prince George’s County Fire/Emergency Medical Services Department
March 3, 2021
The “target list” found on David M. Crawford’s cellphone pointed to a former police chief consumed with grievances in his personal and professional life, the authorities said.
It named, among others, two doctors who had treated Mr. Crawford for a back injury, a woman who had led a training program for Mr. Crawford’s wife that discussed “white privilege,” and three former police officials who had served with Mr. Crawford during his career of more than three decades in Maryland law enforcement.