Three men were arrested in Waldorf early Thursday after detectives on an unrelated investigation watched one of them point a sawed-off shotgun at a woman, triggering a chaotic scene that ended with two more armed suspects detained and a stolen, illegally modified handgun recovered, the Charles County Sheriff’s Office said.
Detectives assigned to the Criminal Investigations Division were conducting an investigation near the 3000 block of Gallery Place shortly after 4 a.m. July 31 when they observed several men and a woman arguing. One of the men went into a nearby apartment building and returned with a sawed-off shotgun, then approached the woman — who was standing beside a parked car — and raised the weapon toward her. Detectives called for backup as officers moved in; the man discarded the shotgun into the car before he was taken into custody without further incident. He was identified as Perrie Stephon Wilson, 40, of Waldorf.
As officers arrested Wilson, detectives spotted two more men carrying handguns running from the area and hiding behind a nearby building. When marked patrol vehicles approached, the pair placed their firearms inside an SUV and were detained. One of the men, identified as Curtis Lamont Williams Jr., 24, of Washington, D.C., had an active arrest warrant stemming from a prior handgun-related incident; when he learned of the warrant, Williams attempted to flee before being taken into custody. He was found in possession of oxycodone, cannabis and other drugs. The third suspect, Delvon Jer’ve Tate, 27, of Waldorf, was also detained. While canvassing the area, detectives located a discarded backpack containing roughly $600 worth of cannabis, about $250 worth of crack cocaine and several Xanax pills.
Search warrants for the SUV and the passenger vehicle turned up two loaded handguns fitted with extended magazines, one of which had been modified with a device commonly known as a “Glock switch” that converts the pistol to fire fully automatically — a modification federal and Maryland law both treat as transforming the weapon into an illegal machine gun. That handgun had previously been reported stolen. The shotgun Wilson allegedly brandished was also found loaded when recovered from the car.
All three men were found to be legally prohibited from possessing firearms because of prior arrests and felony convictions. Wilson was charged with first-degree assault and weapons violations; Williams was charged with assault and weapons violations; and Tate was charged with weapons violations. Wilson and Williams are being held without bond at the Charles County Detention Center. Tate was released Aug. 3 on electronic monitoring pending trial. The investigation remains active.
Thursday’s arrests mark at least the third time in roughly seven months that the 3000 block of Gallery Place has drawn a significant law enforcement response. In December, narcotics detectives serving a search warrant at the same block recovered more than $15,000 worth of drugs — including PCP, cocaine and MDMA — along with a ghost gun and an AR-15-style pistol, resulting in two arrests. In July, a 16-year-old was charged as an adult after an armed robbery in the same area. And in August 2025, U.S. Marshals and Charles County deputies arrested a man wanted on attempted murder charges, along with two others with active warrants, at an apartment on the same block, recovering two handguns, counterfeit currency and fentanyl pills.
Glock switches and similar conversion devices have drawn increasing law enforcement attention nationwide in recent years. The ATF has said recoveries of the devices rose more than sevenfold between 2019 and 2023, and Maryland banned possession of the devices outright in 2024, joining more than two dozen other states that have passed similar laws as the small, easily produced parts have proliferated. Devices like the one recovered Thursday allow a standard semi-automatic pistol to empty an entire magazine with a single trigger pull, a capability federal officials have said poses an outsized risk in street-level violence given how easily the parts can be obtained or 3D-printed.
Anyone with information related to the July 31 incident is asked to contact the Charles County Sheriff’s Office.
