Maryland State Police said Monday that a Carroll County man who was arrested in Georgia on March 3 for allegedly assaulting his wife with a hammer the previous night will be brought back to Maryland today.

Anthony T. Soligny, 33, of the unit-block of Grapes View Drive, New Windsor, is being detained in the Franklin County Detention Center in Carnesville, Ga., charged with attempted murder, first and second-degree assault and reckless endangerment.

In an telephone interview with The Eagle, Franklin County Sheriff Steve D. Thomas said Monday that Soligny “is still in our jail at this point…  GBI (the Georgia Bureau of Investigation) and our officers have interviewed him.”

It was last Wednesday that police issued a description of Soligny and his vehicle. Just before 3 p.m. that day, a deputy from the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office in Georgia spotted Soligny in his silver Dodge truck with Maryland tags, heading south on Interstate 85.

“One of our deputies spotted him. We were happy to get him off the streets,” Thomas said.

In a later e-mail to The Eagle, Thomas wrote that the “officer had only received the lookout ... five to 10 (minutes) before the silver Dodge came by. … Deputy ran the tag and it was the vehicle wanted from Maryland. … Deputy waited for his backup to arrive and officers pulled over vehicle and deputies arrested Soligny without incident."

Maryland State Police say Soligny allegedly assaulted his wife with a steel and rubber hammer, which police said they have taken into evidence. 

At about 11:30 p.m. March 2, State Police at the Westminster Barracks received a 911 call from the victim, who had gone to a neighbor’s home to call police. Troopers found the victim had sustained what appeared to be severe blunt force trauma injuries to her head. She was transported by ambulance to the Carroll Hospital Center, then later to Shock Trauma Center.

Soligny was not at his home when troopers arrived, and the alert was issued, ultimately leading to his arrest.

Sources close to the family reported that at first Soligny was going to fight extradition, but changed his mind.

“Soligny has signed extradition and is waiting in the Franklin County Detention Center in Carnesville ... for Maryland State Police to pick him up some time this week,” Thomas stated in the e-mail.

Westminster Barrack G commander Lt. Andrew Winner said troopers would travel to the Franklin County Detention Center on Tuesday and will bring him back to Maryland to face charges.

Meanwhile, the victim of the attack is still recuperating from serious injuries, according to several family friends.

Check back with www.explorecarroll.com for additional information as it comes available.

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