Baltimore Police officer arrested for allegedly pulling shotgun on woman at his home

A Baltimore Police officer is being held in jail after being arrested for allegedly pulling a shotgun on a woman at his Northeast Baltimore home.

Emmanuel Ricky Alston, 33, was arrested Tuesday and charged with first- and second-degree assault. The former is a felony that carries a maximum penalty of 25 years in prison.

Baltimore District Judge Marnell A. Cooper ordered Alston held without bond Wednesday.

Alston’s attorney Chaz Ball did not immediately return a message requesting comment Thursday.

Hired in 2019, Alston had an annual salary of about $80,000 in 2025 but took home roughly $108,000 that year, according to city salary records.

Baltimore Police spokesperson Lindsey Eldridge said the agency was “aware of” Alston’s arrest.

She said he is suspended without pay. Before his arrest, Alston worked in the Western District, Eldridge said.

Baltimore Police responded around 4 a.m. Tuesday to Alston’s residence in the 6000 block of McClean Boulevard, according to charging documents.

The documents say a woman told officers that a man inside the home had pulled a shotgun on her.

The woman and a friend had been at Alston’s home “having a few drinks,” police wrote. She told officers that Alston objected when she said she wanted to leave and “grabbed a shotgun and began to load the gun with red shells.”

When the woman insisted on going home and said she’d call her parents to come get her, Alston allegedly told her “he would kill anyone who came over,” the charging documents say. When the woman eventually opened the front door, “Alston pushed her out of his home with both hands” against her chest.

Police wrote that the woman told officers Alston pointed the shotgun at her “in an upward direction.”

The woman fled to a gas station because she was unfamiliar with the area, police wrote.

Charging documents say the woman and Alston were not in a relationship.

Officers found a black shotgun leaning against the living room wall when they went to secure the home, according to charging documents. They also discovered a “black compact rifle” on the floor of a bedroom, a handgun on a couch and “a clear shotgun magazine with multiple red shells” underneath the couch.

Three officers arrested Alston and took him to the Northeastern District Station for “further investigation.”