Aggravated Assault

Baltimore police are investigating a non-fatal shooting and an aggravated assault that occurred early Saturday morning downtown. Officers were called at 1:58 a.m. to the 400 block of W. Fayette Street where a man was suffering from a gunshot wound to his arm. He was taken to a local hospital for treatment. Police believe the shooting is related to a prior dispute between the victim and the unknown suspect. Central District are investigating the shooting. Any witnesses are asked to call police 410-396-2240.

Baltimore police are investigating a non-fatal shooting and an aggravated assault that occurred early Saturday morning downtown. Officers were called at 1:58 a.m. to the 400 block of W. Fayette Street where a man was suffering from a gunshot wound to his arm. He was taken to a local hospital for treatment. Police believe the shooting is related to a prior dispute between the victim and the unknown suspect. Central District are investigating the shooting. Any witnesses are asked to call police 410-396-2240.

Howard County police arrested 132 more people in 2004 than in 2003, and people reported about 125 more crimes, according to the county's annual crime report released Wednesday. The changes are so small that they are inconsequential, criminal justice expert Sheldon Greenberg said. "No one feels safe and no one experiences fear based on a blip in crime statistics," said Greenberg, director of the public safety leadership division at the Johns Hopkins University. "People feel safe because of a lot of hard work from a lot of agencies."

Serious crime in Annapolis last year remained at nearly the same level as in 2011 — a low not seen since 1975, officials said — but the number of assaults jumped. Overall, incidents categorized as "major crimes" — homicide, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny and motor vehicle theft — increased less than 1 percent over 2011, or by eight crimes, police said. Police Chief Michael Pristoop credited his officers, as well as prevention and crime-fighting strategies based on intelligence-gathering, community involvement and the department's work with other agencies.

Ravens linebacker Terrell Suggs has been charged with felony aggravated assault in connection with a fight after a March basketball game in Phoenix, the Associated Press reported yesterday. Suggs, 21, is accused of assaulting a man with a reinforced rod and attacking another man in the parking lot of Phoenix Municipal Stadium after a three-on-three basketball tournament. Suggs took a flight to Phoenix on Monday morning but is expected to be back in time for today's practice, team officials confirmed.

A 26-year-old Columbia man wanted in Pennsylvania on charges of aggravated assault and burglary was arrested by Howard County police yesterday morning at his home, police said.About 5: 10 a.m., police raided the home of Michael Paul Puzey in the 4900 block of Columbia Road and seized about 15 rocks of suspected crack cocaine, police said.Puzey, who was being held at the Howard County Detention Center last night, faces charges in Pennsylvania of aggravated assault, burglary, possession of a firearm in commission of a felony and criminal trespassing.

BaseballMilwaukee Brewers -- Agreed to terms with SS Jose Valentin, P Otis Green and P Francisco Gamez on one-year contracts.CollegesMississippi State -- Dismissed redshirt freshman RB Randy Brown from the football team after he was arrested last week in LaPlace, La., on several charges, including aggravated assault.HockeyLos Angeles Kings -- Announced that Gary Shuchuk has a chip fracture and hyperextended right elbow.Quebec Nordiques -- Announced that G Ron Hextall (strained left thigh muscle)

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- Penn State football coach Joe Paterno wasn't talking yesterday about Rashard Casey's arrest over the weekend for allegedly assaulting an off-duty police officer, but plenty of others were. Casey, who was arrested along with another man early Sunday morning outside a nightclub in his hometown of Hoboken, N.J., pleaded not guilty to one charge of aggravated assault yesterday afternoon at his arraignment in Jersey City, N.J. "He's not guilty," said Dennis McAlevy of Mount Union, N.J., the attorney representing Casey.

Carroll County followed the trend of Baltimore City and the entire metropolitan area as crime for the first six months of 1993 showed a decrease from crime reported in 1992.Statistics released by Maryland State Police indicate that crime in the county fell by 9.6 percent in the first half of the year.Murder, rape and breaking and entering incidents increased, as did arson.But robbery, aggravated assault, motor vehicle thefts and larceny showed a decrease.During the period from January through June, 1,558 crimes were reported to police in Carroll County, a decrease of 165 from 1992.

Homicide, rape, burglary and arson increased in 1993 over the previous year, but overall crime in Carroll County decreased 3.6 percent, according to the statewide Uniform Crime Report released Friday.Four murders were reported in the county during 1993, as opposed to one murder in the preceding 12 months.In three of the 1993 homicides, police have arrested and charged suspects. The Feb. 17 fatal shooting of William Charles Prodoehl, 34, a carpenter who lived in Westminster, remains unsolved.

Police reports in Baltimore city and county: Southern Baltimore Shooting: A man was shot in the upper chest in the 3600 block of Ninth St. in Brooklyn about 9:30 p.m. Wednesday and was taken by a city Fire Department ambulance to Maryland Shock Trauma Center. His condition was not available. District detectives are investigating the shooting. Anyone with information is asked to call detectives at 410-396-2499. Eastern Baltimore Assault: One man was arrested and police were seeking two others in the cutting about 9 p.m. Tuesday of a man inside the victim's home in the 700 block of N. Lakewood Ave. Arrested and charged with aggravated assault was Emmanuel Holmes, 22, whose address was not available.

Prosecutors in Baltimore have decided not to charge the nine middle school students accused in the beating of a 26-year-old woman on a city bus with a hate crime as a judge postponed their trial yesterday until Jan. 31. Judge Edward R.K. Hargadon, the head of the city's juvenile judges, granted a request from the state to postpone a Jan. 4 trial date despite objections from the juveniles' attorneys. A hearing on the teenagers' home-detention status will take place Jan. 4.

A Roman Catholic priest and former chaplain at the Naval Academy who is HIV-positive is expected to plead guilty today to exploiting his position of authority to have sexual relations - both forced and consensual - with male service members, according to military officials and sources familiar with the case. Lt. Cmdr. John Thomas Lee, 42, came into contact with some of his alleged victims, including gay midshipmen, after they were referred to him for counseling under the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy on homosexuality, sources said.

After a year with the lowest levels of serious crime in more than two decades, the number of robberies, arson and vehicle theft increased last year in Baltimore County, according to statistics released yesterday by county police. Overall, serious crime was up more than 4 percent in the county last year, with robbery up about 18 percent, arson up nearly 16 percent, and motor vehicle theft up about 13 percent, county police said yesterday. At the same time, those crimes were going down by about 2 percent statewide, according to the 2006 annual preliminary crime figures recorded by the Maryland State Police.

Homicides doubled from three to six and reported incidences of rape rose 16.7 percent, from 24 to 28, in the first three quarters of the year compared with the same period last year, county police said yesterday. The crime statistics from January through September saw declines in some categories. Robberies decreased 37.6 percent in the period, from 178 last year to 111 this year. Motor vehicle thefts also declined, from 533 to 396 - a 25.7 percent drop. The department attributed the decline in robberies partly to the founding about a year ago of a unit dedicated to robbery investigations.

Crime in Howard County increased slightly during the first nine months of this year, compared with the same period last year, according to the quarterly crime report released this week. The number of violent crimes - homicides, robberies, rapes and aggravated assaults - rose by 14, to 451, while property crimes, such as thefts and burglaries, rose by 339, to 5,394. Police stressed, however, that the crime statistics reflect only reported crimes and that small changes in such a short period should not be considered trends.