Trooper First Class
Carey S Poetzman

Date of Appointment: February 11, 1980
Date of Death: January 19, 1986
NLEOM Panel: Panel 19
NLEOM Section: E - 10
Details: Poetzman, Carey S. - Trooper First Class, 28 years old, 5 years and 11 months of service from February 11, 1980 to January 19, 1986. After completing a transport of a patient from Carroll County to the Shock Trauma Center, Poetzman was killed when the medevac equipped Bell Jet Ranger helicopter crashed in southwest Baltimore. Crashed off the 1200 block of North Hilton Parkway in a heavily wooded and elevated section of Leakin Park.