PRINCE GEORGE’S CO, MD (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) – The man facing charges after allegedly stabbing his estranged wife and her juvenile daughter in Virginia Beach before taking off with their three children before crashing in Maryland appeared in a Maryland courtroom Monday. 36-year old Dana Plummer was released from the hospital and remanded directly to jail before his court appearance, and to the jail he has returned. He faces charges in Virginia Beach involving the stabbings and parental abduction.

Meanwhile, charges are pending in Virginia on the police pursuit, and in Maryland in the crash that killed one of the three children he allegedly abducted and has led to hospitalization of the two others.