Prince George’s County Sheriff’s deputies arrested Rashun Proctor in Temple Hills on Monday, September 21, on a warrant for violating his probation out of Washington, D.C. The arrest followed new charges that Proctor physically assaulted and threatened a woman with a firearm, forcing authorities to serve him with an Emergency Risk Protective Order in addition to the fugitive warrant.
According to the Prince George’s County Sheriff’s Office, deputies spotted Proctor in Temple Hills and arrested him before serving him with the protection order stemming from the new charges. Proctor is still in detention at the Prince George’s County Department of Corrections in Upper Marlboro, awaiting his repatriation to the District of Columbia.
Proctor’s arrest leaves a paper trail. In September 2023, D.C. After pleading guilty to charges stemming from two domestic violence episodes in Washington in early 2023, a Superior Court judge sentenced him to prison and three years of supervised probation, according to DC Witness. According to court papers quoted by the publication, the plea agreement stipulated that prosecutors would have proven Proctor threatened his girlfriend and pointed a pistol at her. When authorities apprehended Proctor in Temple Hills, he was allegedly in violation of his probation.
His history with weaponry goes back even further. D.C. Metropolitan Police arrested a then-21-year-old Proctor in Northeast Washington in May 2020, charging him with carrying a weapon without a license, felon in possession of a firearm, and burglary, according to the Metro Police Department. MPD’s report from April 27 to May 4 highlights the department’s ongoing firearm recovery efforts.
The protective order against Proctor is based on Maryland’s Extreme Risk Protective Order law, which went into effect in October 2018 and allows law enforcement, family members, and intimate partners to petition a court to temporarily disarm someone who is deemed an immediate threat to themselves or others. According to the Maryland People’s Law Library, respondents are required by the act to relinquish all firearms and ammo and are prohibited from purchasing new weapons.
Maryland Public Safety Code Section 5-605 requires a circuit or district court to convene a final hearing within seven days of serving a temporary order on a respondent. This allows them to oppose the long-term order before a judge, as per the Maryland General Assembly’s statutory wording. It is unclear whether firearms were recovered from Proctor during the Temple Hills arrest and whether Prince George’s County prosecutors plan to pursue additional local charges before extraditing him.
Because Proctor’s warrant was issued in Washington, D.C., he is currently being held at the Prince George’s County Department of Corrections in Upper Marlboro until he is sent to the District.
The arrest was made by Prince George’s County Sheriff’s deputies. That division has been notably active this year under Sheriff John D.B. Carr, who took office as the county’s 118th sheriff in December 2022 after more than two decades with the police and suggested a warrant task force to combat gun violence, according to the Greenbelt News Review.
The lawsuit also comes amid a larger local movement for weapon protective orders. According to Prince George’s County Council records, the Governor’s Office of Crime Prevention and Policy supported the Extreme Risk Protective Order Liaison Program, which was launched in May 2025 through the Health Department to provide community outreach and support in such circumstances.
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