A Maryland traffic stop over an expired registration plate led to a new identity fraud charge after deputies say the driver gave them a different name while three outstanding court matters were pending under his own identity.
Anthony Delontia Young, 33, of Lexington Park, was arrested Sept. 24 after a St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office sergeant detective stopped a silver 2018 Hyundai Sonata on Three Notch Road near Pegg Road. A Maryland Judiciary record shows that case D-043-CR-26-001372 was filed that day as an on-view arrest and charges Young with misdemeanor identity fraud under Criminal Law §8-301(c)(1).
Southern Maryland News Net, reporting from information filed in St. Mary’s County District Court, said the Sonata displayed Virginia plates with stickers showing a December 2025 expiration date, while a records check showed the plate had last been registered to a 2004 Dodge Dakota. Investigators allege Young then identified himself as “Antwann Dewayne Young” and supplied a different birth date.
Separate Maryland Judiciary records show what deputies found under Young’s identity: a St. Mary’s County failure-to-appear bench warrant from a traffic case, a St. Mary’s criminal summons involving two assault charges and a Calvert County failure-to-appear arrest warrant tied to three misdemeanor charges.
Deputies Say the Name He Gave Them Did Not Check Out
Southern Maryland News Net reported from the filed court information that the sergeant stopped the Hyundai at about 1:16 p.m. in front of Ledo’s Pizza on Three Notch Road and advised the driver about the registration problem.
When asked for a license, the driver allegedly said he did not have one and identified himself as Antwann Dewayne Young, giving a Nov. 14, 1990, birth date. According to the outlet’s review of the court filing, he struggled while providing the information, and the St. Mary’s County Emergency Communications Center could not locate records matching the name.
Emergency communications instead supplied the name Anthony Delontia Young. The sergeant compared a Maryland identification-card photograph with the driver and determined that the person behind the wheel was Anthony Young, according to the report.
When the sergeant asked his name again, Young allegedly hesitated and continued to maintain that his first name was Antwann.
Deputies then removed Young from the vehicle. Southern Maryland News Net reported that the filed information accused Young of knowingly and willfully assuming a different identity in an effort to avoid identification, apprehension or prosecution connected to his outstanding court matters.
The Maryland Judiciary docket independently confirms that prosecutors charged Young with misdemeanor identity fraud under §8-301(c)(1) for conduct dated Sept. 24. The same record lists a hold-without-bond setting that day, followed by a $10,000 unsecured personal bond on Sept. 25. Court records show the bond was posted.
Court Records Show What the Three Outstanding Matters Were
The first outstanding matter can be traced to St. Mary’s traffic case 0NL0YYJ. Young was cited following a June 10 incident for allegedly driving a motor vehicle on a highway without the required license and authorization.
The case was scheduled for trial on Aug. 25. Maryland Judiciary records list the result as “Defendant / Respondent Failed to Appear.” A failure-to-appear bench warrant was issued that same day. The warrant record shows it was served Sept. 24, the date of the traffic stop that produced the new identity fraud charge.
A separate St. Mary’s criminal case, D-043-CR-26-001008, accounts for the criminal summons mentioned in the arrest information. That case was filed July 20 and contains two misdemeanor second-degree assault charges stemming from an alleged June 27 incident.
The docket shows a summons was issued July 20. On Aug. 25, it was returned not served, and another summons was issued that day. The case remains open.
The third matter appears in Calvert County case D-041-CR-26-000897. The Calvert docket spells Young’s middle name as “Delante,” rather than “Delontia,” but lists the same date of birth found in the St. Mary’s records and identifies him as a Lexington Park resident.
The Calvert case was filed July 20 and alleges malicious destruction of property valued at less than $1,000, disorderly conduct and theft of less than $100 in connection with a July 15 incident.
A preliminary inquiry was scheduled for Sept. 14. The court record says the defendant failed to appear, and an arrest warrant was issued that day. The warrant was served Sept. 24.
The St. Mary’s traffic docket identifies its warrant as a “Bench Warrant – Failure to Appear,” while the Calvert County docket identifies the separate warrant as an “Arrest Warrant – Failure to Appear.”
The Cases Show Different Custody Orders
The new St. Mary’s identity-fraud docket records a hold-without-bond setting on Sept. 24. Southern Maryland News Net reported that the judicial officer found there was a reasonable likelihood Young would fail to appear as required.
A Sept. 25 bond review in the identity-fraud case resulted in a $10,000 unsecured personal bond. The Maryland Judiciary docket confirms that amount, records the bond as posted on Sept. 25 and includes a release-from-commitment entry that day.
The older St. Mary’s traffic docket separately records a Sept. 25 release on recognizance and a release from commitment.
The Calvert County docket records hold-without-bond settings on Sept. 24 and Sept. 25. Its Sept. 25 docket entries also record commitment pending hearing followed by an entry stating that Young was transferred or transported to another jurisdiction.
Maryland Law Covers Using Another Identity to Avoid Apprehension
Maryland’s identity fraud statute prohibits knowingly and willfully assuming another person’s identity, including a fictitious identity, to avoid identification, apprehension or prosecution for a crime.
A violation of that provision is a misdemeanor punishable by up to one year in jail, a fine of up to $500, or both.
As of the Maryland Judiciary records reviewed Sept. 28, the new identity-fraud case remained open. The separate St. Mary’s assault case, St. Mary’s traffic case and Calvert County criminal case also remained pending.