A Reisterstown man indicted for stealing cash and luxury sunglasses from the University of Maryland football team’s head coach and a staff member remains on the loose and is facing theft and burglary charges.
Marcus Lennard Trent, 43, was charged with two counts each of theft and burglary after $2,800 cash was stolen from the desk of head coach Mike Locksley and $1,000 and a pair of gray Oakley sunglasses, valued around $300, was taken from the desk of his chief of staff, Brian Griffin, according to charging documents.
Trent entered the private offices of Locksley and Griffin on June 16 after following a couple and a small child who entered the Jones-Hill House on the University of Maryland, College Park campus in Prince George’s County, according to charging documents.
A spokesperson for UMD athletics declined to comment.
The University of Maryland Police Department responded on June 20 to the Jones-Hill complex for a theft that occurred four days prior where Trent was identified, according to a statement from the department.
Trent appeared to be on the phone, while a camera with an extended lens hung around his neck “as if he was there to take photos,” charging documents said. He waited until an employee who assisted the couple and child were out of sight before he went into multiple offices.
Surveillance footage shows Trent left the offices shortly after 11:40 a.m. holding a gray pair of sunglasses before a white Polestar 2, a Swedish electric vehicle, picked him up less than half a mile from the sports complex, according to charging documents.
The vehicle dropped him off in another parking lot on campus, where Trent got into the driver’s seat of a black BMW, the documents said. The Polestar 2 was registered to a rental car company at BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport.
Baltimore Police stopped Trent on June 25 in the same BMW involved in the case, and Prince George’s County investigators matched surveillance footage from the University of Maryland to the body camera footage from the vehicle stop, according to charging documents.
An indictment and warrant were issued for Trent’s arrest on Aug. 20. A spokesperson for the Prince George’s County State’s Attorney’s Office confirmed Trent has not been arrested as of Wednesday.
