A Washington, D.C., police sergeant is on administrative leave after authorities say he crashed a car into a federal vehicle during a traffic stop and was found with unregistered weapons.
Police Sergeant Montez Clark, 27, and two others were arrested Monday night after Clark allegedly tried to flee from federal agents patrolling on behalf of President Donald Trump’s Make DC Safe and Beautiful Task Force, according to court records and a Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) statement to the Daily Caller News Foundation.
A DC police sergeant is accused of crashing a car into a federal vehicle during a traffic stop and fleeing from agents. He also faces gun charges, MPD tells me. pic.twitter.com/P6CI64Dqad
— Hudson Crozier
(@Hudson_Crozier) October 1, 2025
(@Hudson_Crozier) Clark faces ten charges of assault on a federal officer, fleeing from a law enforcement officer, leaving after colliding, carrying a pistol without a license, possession of an unregistered firearm, possession of unregistered ammunition, possession of a large capacity ammunition feeding device, violating the National Firearms Act and possession of a machine gun, the MPD said. He is being held in jail without bond and is due back in local court Friday, court records show.
An attorney for Clark did not respond to the DCNF’s request for comment.
Clark has worked with the MPD since 2019 and is assigned to the Fifth District, the department told the DCNF. He is on leave pending an MPD investigation and the court case’s outcome.
Police officers were patrolling in partnership with several of Trump’s federal agencies on Bowen Road when they spotted a Chevrolet Camaro that Clark was driving without a front license plate, according to a police affidavit. Federal agents moved in front of the vehicle at an intersection, but Clark attempted to flee and struck one of the agents’ vehicles “with enough force to lift the right side of [Clark’s vehicle] off of the ground,” the document alleges.
After eventually stopping Clark’s car, law enforcement allegedly found loads of illegal weapons inside and arrested Clark and two passengers, according to the affidavit.
The vehicle Clark allegedly crashed into contained three of the State Department’s Diplomatic Security Service (DSS) agents, police said. The DSS did not respond to the DCNF’s request for comment.
Trump temporarily federalized the MPD in August 2025 and began deploying more federal agents to D.C.’s streets and stationed National Guard troops around the district in response to rising violent crime. Some Democrats and liberal media outlets have maintained that Trump is exaggerating D.C.’s crime problem, despite D.C. Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser directing police to continue cooperating with federal law enforcement on Trump’s Safe and Beautiful Task Force on Sept. 2. The Trump administration has begun a similar crime crackdown in Memphis, Tennessee.
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