City detective, Balto. Co. deputy charged in attack

Pair accused of beating man into unconsciousness in Sept. 2007 outside a barbershop in Govans while they were off duty

Another brother, Patrick Thomas, told The Baltimore Sun that Andre Thomas was first struck and knocked to the ground with a kick to the back. Court records show Andre Thomas told police that Dutton was wearing brass knuckles and that another one of the suspects was wearing a black and yellow "sheriff shirt."

In a brief interview, Dutton accused Andre Thomas of filing a "falsified police report" and said that Thomas had been "apprehended" by the officers. Later asked to clarify, he said his lawyer had instructed him not to talk about the incident.

Love's father, Terry W. Love, has been a Baltimore police officer since 1983 and has worked in the department's intelligence section. Court records indicate that last year the father and son both worked on an investigation of a homicide that occurred on The Block.

Terry Love Jr.'s suspension was mentioned in an unrelated nine-count complaint filed in February with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, in which Sgt. Kelvin Sewell wrote that he and Love had been subjected to unusual treatment after Love was transferred to his homicide squad in 2007.

He wrote that Love had been suspended in September 2007 "for an incident that took place off-duty."

"I was advised ... that Detective Love cannot work on any homicide investigations in or outside the office, and he is not allowed to operate any departmental vehicles while suspended," Sewell wrote. "It was explained to me that, by Detective Love working on these homicide cases, he could compromise the investigation because he's suspended."

Sewell is listed as a police witness in the assault case filed Friday.