LATOYA FARRARE SENTENCED TO 20 YEARS FOR FIRST DEGREE ASSAULT

On March 31, 2021, the Honorable S. James Sarbanes, Administrative Judge of the Circuit Court for
Wicomico County, sentenced Latoya Rachell Farrare, 37 years of age, of Salisbury, Maryland to fifty (50) years imprisonment, with twenty (20) years active incarceration in the Maryland Division of Corrections
(DOC), followed by a period of five (5) years of supervised probation. Farrare entered guilty pleas to two
counts of Assault First Degree and two counts of Reckless Endangerment immediately preceding her
sentencing. Farrare also entered a guilty plea to one count of Assault Second Degree Assault in a case arising
from a separate incident.
In the late afternoon hours of March 24, 2020, Farrare and at least two co-defendants engaged in a high-speed
chase with another vehicle in the vicinity of Manoa Boulevard and Nokomis Avenue in Salisbury, MD. While
Farrare was driving her vehicle in pursuit of the target vehicle, an occupant of Farrare’s vehicle leaned out of
the rear passenger window and fired several shots, causing the target vehicle to crash into a telephone pole.
At least one stray bullet from the attack entered a nearby residence, nearly striking two occupants of the
home. The entire incident arose over a dispute on Facebook between the occupants of the two vehicles and
their associates.
Wicomico County State’s Attorney (SA) Jamie Dykes commended Det. Jen Hall of the Wicomico County
Sheriff’s Office Criminal Investigation Division, the lead investigator on the case, and other members of the
Sheriff’s Department, for their work in the investigation. SA Dykes also commended Senior Assistant State’s
Attorney D. Scott Messersmith, who prosecuted the cases.