Wrzosek was accused of disorderly conduct fueled by excessive drinking, possession of an open container and another alcohol-related charge. All three charges were placed on the city District Court's inactive docket after he completed community service and wrote an apology, according to electronic court records and the city state's attorney's office.
Shipley would not say how Wrzosek was disciplined and said it was a personnel matter at the time. He said that the earlier alcohol-related incident did not involve a state police cruiser and had also occurred off duty.
Cpl. Michael Hill, a Baltimore County police spokesman, would not comment on the more recent incident beyond the information contained in the police charging documents.
Those documents allege that after the trooper kidnapped a 20-year-old man, he was pursued by a county police sergeant in a marked cruiser with lights and sirens activated. While speeding on Taylor Avenue, the trooper activated his emergency lights and drove through a red light at Perring Parkway, documents say.
After entering a nearby neighborhood and making several turns, the trooper stopped his cruiser on Tilmont Avenue, near Taylor Avenue; county police officers then conducted a field sobriety test and the trooper made self-incriminating statements to police, according to charging documents. He was arrested at 3:03 a.m., according to police. He subsequently failed a breath test for measuring the level of alcohol in his body, charging documents say.
No one was hurt in the incident, including the 20-year-old man.
Wrzosek was not carrying his service weapon, but he did have his off-duty pistol in the glove box of the cruiser, according to charging documents.
Wrzosek was charged with kidnapping, second-degree assault, false imprisonment and alcohol-related traffic violations. He was being held on $500,000 bail at the Baltimore County Detention Center.
The attorney who represented Wrzosek in his earlier alcohol-related arrest could not be reached.
