WILMINGTON, DE — A Wilmington man has been arrested following an alleged high-speed pursuit and subsequent drug-related offenses during a police investigation near Edgemoor Gardens, according to the New Castle County Division of Police.
Authorities said that on Friday, October 24, 2025, detectives from the department’s Active Crime Trend Team (ACTT) were conducting proactive patrols in the Edgemoor Gardens area when they observed a silver GMC Terrain committing multiple traffic violations. Detectives attempted a traffic stop, but the vehicle reportedly fled at a high rate of speed toward Wilmington.
Shortly after, detectives located the abandoned vehicle outside a business on Governor Printz Boulevard. Police said they later discovered the driver, identified as 30-year-old Marquis Clark of Wilmington, hiding inside the business.
According to investigators, Clark allegedly attempted to destroy narcotics in his possession as officers took him into custody. Detectives recovered quantities of suspected crack cocaine and amphetamine pills. Further investigation revealed that Clark was wanted on multiple active warrants from the Delaware State Police, Newark Police Department, and law enforcement agencies in Lancaster County and West Chester, Pennsylvania.
Clark was transported to New Castle County Police Headquarters, where he was charged with multiple felony and misdemeanor offenses, including one felony count of obstruction of justice, two felony counts of manufacture, delivery, or possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance, one felony count of possession of a controlled substance in a Tier 1 quantity, one felony count of tampering with physical evidence, and one felony count of disregarding a police officer’s signal. He also faces misdemeanor charges for resisting arrest, possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of a controlled counterfeit substance, and reckless driving, along with multiple fugitive warrants and additional traffic violations.
Clark was arraigned by Justice of the Peace Court 2 and remanded to the Howard R. Young Correctional Institution in lieu of $10,005 secured bail.
All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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