Harford County Sheriff’s Office investigators are working to find the driver of a dark-colored Tesla sedan who struck and killed a family of ten geese in Joppa last week. The Harford County Sherrif’s Office wants to identify the driver, then determine if the act was intentional, said Cri stie Hopkins, the office’s director of media and public relations. The driver could face felony charges in Maryland and potentially federal charges, she said, for the incident that took place on Magnolia Road near Route 40 on Thursday. “There are Maryland laws that are aggravated cruelty to animals that it could fall under, and then additionally geese are federally protected migrant birds, so there would be that to look at as well,” Hopkins said. Investigators will work with the state Department of Natural Resources, the Harford State’s Attorney’s Office and federal partners to review possible charges, she said. Photo of video screenshots via WBAL-TV 11 News Facebook page. WBAL-TV 11 News obtained security video which it deemed too graphic to show in its entirety. It showed the Tesla hitting the birds – 2 adults and 8 goslings – then driving off without stopping or slowing down. CharlesUnique Lomax arrived shortly after and took video of the scene on the road, capturing one of the adult geese before it died. She posted the videos on her Facebook page and thanked a passer-by who also stopped to help remove the creatures from the road. The video obtained by WBAL does not appear to show a license plate because it seems to capture the car from the front, and most Tesla owners do not install front license plates on their vehicles for aesthetic reasons. The state of Maryland requires passenger vehicles to have plates displayed on the front and back of a car unless otherwise authorized. Hopkins told Baltimore Fishbowl that Pennsylvania does not mandate a front license plate. “We get a lot of people in that part of the county that are traveling state-to-state,” she said, noting that several major highways including I-95 are nearby. “We definitely have some work to do… It certainly is a very active investigation. I know that they worked on it all weekend long, and hope that we can come to a resolution soon.” Anyone with information about the incident is asked to contact the Harford County Sheriff’s Office at 410-838-6600. ...read more read less