-MALACHI THE MAD PIPER: DIRTBAG WITH POLE NABBED AFTER MULTIPLE RANDOM ATTACKS

St. Mary’s Sheriff Deputies on Great Mills Road question citizen matching description of suspect cruising Great Mills Road and attacking people at random with a pipe.
Video courtesy of Aye Yung City.

LEXINGTON PARK, MD – A man riding a bicycle and described by police as wielding a pipe attacked three victims on Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024, along Great Mills Road between St. Mary’s Square and Shangri-La Drive in Lexington Park. At least a half dozen St. Mary’s Sheriff’s Department patrol units flooded the area searching for the Mad Piper. The Sheriff’s Department issued a lookout, describing the suspect as a black male, wearing a gray sweatshirt or long-sleeved gray shirt, riding a bicycle, and carrying a metal rod or object.

Out on probation from previous assault and property destruction

St. Mary’s Sheriff Deputy Rodriquez arrested and charged Malachi Alexander Steele, 22, who court records list as a homeless man in the Lexington Park area. Steele formerly lived on First Road in Hermanville at the time of an earlier arrest. The incidents of random assault along Great Mills Road left one victim with minor injuries, requiring hospitalization, say police.

The Sheriff’s Department received the first report at 10:32 a.m., with two additional reports following, indicating that assaults had occurred near Great Mills Road and South Coral Drive in Lexington Park. Deputies responded and searched the area, apprehending Steele at approximately 11:55 a.m.

Steele has been charged with one count of first-degree assault and three counts of second-degree assault. He was also charged with theft of $100 to less than $1500, as the bicycle he was riding had been recently reported stolen.

Steele was ordered held without bond on Nov. 7, 2024, and a free attorney, provided by the taxpayers of Maryland, was assigned to defend him.

Katrina Benson brought a complaint of domestic violence in seeking a protective order against Steele on March 21, 2022, in St. Mary’s District Court, where Judge James Tanavage issued a final order. On August 24, 2024, when Benson brought another domestic violence complaint, she failed to appear in court on August 27, 2024, for the hearing, and Judge Christy Holt Chesser dismissed the complaint against Steele.

Steele brought a complaint in St. Mary’s County Circuit Court for custody against Na’Asia Maggette in 2022, and the case is listed as closed without any action taken. 

STEELE WAS ORDERED TO GET MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENT AS CONDITION OF HIS PROBATION:
Maybe it’s time to strap him down to a table and administer electric shock therapy.

TEMPER TANTRUMS AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ARE HIS STYLE

Steele was charged with STEAL of motorcycle.

Theft/Malicious Destruction of Property—On August 8, 2022, Dep. Wimberly responded to the 21600 block of Liberty Street in Lexington Park for the reported theft. The investigation determined that Malachi Alexander Steele, 20, of Lexington Park, stole the victim’s motorcycle from a parking lot, damaged it by pulling numerous electrical wires, and ultimately crashed the motorcycle into a ditch. Steele was arrested and charged with Theft and Malicious Destruction of Property. 

Armed and Missing

The Sheriff’s Department issued a lookout in 2021 seeking the whereabouts of Malachi Alexander Steele, then 19, of Lexington Park. Steele is a black male, 5’8” and 156 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes. He is possibly in possession of a firearm, and the circumstances are still under investigation.

Assault and Theft in 2021

09/19/21- Malachi Alexander Steele, age 19 of Lexington Park- Assault 2nd Degree and Theft by Dep. Hill