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

DC police search for ATV rider who hit 2 police officers

Police in D.C. are searching for the person who allegedly hit two officers with an ATV, sending them to the hospital and leaving one with serious injuries.

WASHINGTON - 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.

What we know:

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.

What they're saying:

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.