UMD police warn of armed attempted carjacking near Campus Drive

A man approached a parked vehicle occupied by three people inside a parking garage in College Park, then police say an attempted armed carjacking unfolded in the 3700 block of Campus Drive just off the University of Maryland campus. The incident was reported at about 1:53 p.m. June 13, and UMD Police said they reached the scene at about 2:11 p.m. to help Prince George’s County Police.

The county police department is handling the case under PGPD case number 26-003151. UMD’s community notice said the incident involved a weapon, and a local TV report described the suspect as a man with a knife. That split response matters: UMD Police issued the warning, but the investigation itself sits with Prince George’s County Police because the reported attack happened off campus in the College Park corridor just beyond university property.

The June 13 case was not the first time the university had warned students and neighbors about a carjacking threat nearby. On September 13, 2025, UMD issued a community notice after an armed carjacking in the 6800 block of Dartmouth Avenue, also off campus in College Park. UMD safety notices also document another attempted carjacking with a weapon on campus in Parking Lot 11 in 2024, showing that this is not an isolated scare but part of an ongoing pattern around the university’s edge.

For students, staff and residents who park, walk or meet rides near Campus Drive, the practical takeaway is that the safety line does not stop at the campus boundary. The garage where this happened, and the block around it, are part of an off-campus area where county police are the lead investigators and where university alerts can only go so far. Prince George’s County Police also distinguish carjackings from other robberies in their crime-information pages and direct users to county open-data resources for statistics, a reminder that this case will be tracked as its own offense, not folded into a broader robbery count.