Man gets 3 years in prison for hitting, dragging MPD officer with ATV

The man who pleaded guilty last year to running a Metropolitan Police Department officer over with his ATV was sentenced Friday to three years in prison.

Gerard Stokes of Greenbelt, Maryland, was sentenced to 36 months in prison.

The attack happened in March 2025, when MPD officers saw a group of people on ATVs loitering outside a gas station on U Street in Northwest D.C. When the officers tried to approach the people on the ATVs, Stokes, according to police, "popped a wheelie" then drove at the officers, clipping one and hitting the other head-on.

The second officer was dragged under the ATV and pulled for approximately 15 feet, leaving her with a concussion and a fractured jaw.

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Stokes was arrested in August 2025 and pleaded guilty to assault in December 2025.

U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro called the incident a "violent, egregious attack."

"Today, my office held accountable a criminal who attacked two Metropolitan Police Department officers by driving into them with his ATV. He will now spend 3 years behind bars," Pirro said.