Former Prince George's County police chief convicted in fraud conspiracy
A jury said Davion Percy helped stage a Jaguar theft that cost Liberty Mutual $17,585, deepening a public-trust scandal tied to Prince George's law enforcement.
A federal jury’s conviction of Davion Percy turned a car-insurance scam into a public-trust problem for Prince George’s County, because prosecutors said the scheme depended on police authority and false reports. Percy, 40, of Suitland, was found guilty in Greenbelt of conspiring to commit mail and wire fraud over a staged theft involving a 2007 Jaguar XKR.
Prosecutors said Percy was then chief of the Marlow Heights Special Police Department and worked with Prince George’s County Police Department officer Michael Anthony Owen, Jr. and Maryland National Capital Park Police officer Conrad D’Haiti. The conspiracy ran from December 2019 through February 2020 and centered on a Jaguar D’Haiti had bought earlier in 2019, after it developed major mechanical problems and was then falsely reported stolen.
The government said Percy helped arrange for another conspirator to stage the theft and took $350 from D’Haiti on January 4, 2020, at National Harbor. On January 23, a Liberty Mutual special investigator found the vandalized Jaguar in Marlow Heights. Prosecutors said D’Haiti and Owen later made a false theft report to a Prince George’s County Police Department officer, who filed a fictitious police report to support the claim. Liberty Mutual then paid the Jaguar’s lienholder, Navy Federal Credit Union, $17,585 in February 2020.
The case reaches beyond one car and one claim. In related proceedings in June 2025, former Prince George’s County Police Department officer Michael Anthony Owen, Jr. and former Anne Arundel County Police Department officer Jaron Earl Taylor pleaded guilty in a wider insurance-fraud scheme that prosecutors said involved staged vehicle thefts, false police reports and claims for vehicles worth less than what was owed. In one of those cases, USAA paid more than $38,000 on a staged theft of Taylor’s Chevrolet Tahoe. In another, GEICO denied a false stolen-vehicle claim involving an Infiniti sedan.
U.S. Attorney Kelly O. Hayes announced the verdict alongside FBI Baltimore Field Office Special Agent in Charge Jimmy Paul and Prince George’s County Police Chief George Nader. Percy now faces up to 20 years in federal prison, with sentencing to be set by a federal district court judge.
For Prince George’s County, the case cuts to the center of oversight: when senior law-enforcement officials are part of a fraud ring, the damage is not limited to insurers and lienholders. It shakes confidence in the reports, signatures and badges that residents are supposed to trust.
This article was produced by Prism’s automated news system from verified source data, official records, and press releases, then run through automated quality and moderation checks before publishing. The system is built and supervised by the people who set the standards it runs under. Read our full AI policy.
Did this article answer your question?
