Anne Arundel Police

Pressure is mounting for Anne Arundel County Police Chief James E. Teare Sr. Weeks after the county executive was indicted on charges he misused his office and ordered his police protective officers to help cover up affairs and liaisons, and help with election duties, the chief is now looking into the actions of his officers. The move, described in a story by The Sun's Nicole Fuller, comes after the county council subpoenaed the chief to testify about how is department was run under the indicted executive, John R. Leopold.

When a police sergeant approached a black Jeep Cherokee parked on the side of Piney Orchard Parkway in Anne Arundel County, its hazard lights blinking, she thought it would be a routine check on a stranded motorist. But the encounter was the first in a series of events that ended with the motorist's death. Police said that when the sergeant approached, 41-year-old Patrick Raphael Toney, an academic adviser at Bowie State University, got out of the vehicle, threw items onto the ground and spat.

The man suspected of fatally shooting two people outside Arundel Mills mall in Hanover late Friday night was shot and killed, and a police officer was wounded, in an exchange of gunfire in a residential area of Prince George's County on Saturday morning, police said. Cpl. Henry Tippett, a spokesman for Prince George's County police, said the suspect, James Coleman, 22, was tracked by Anne Arundel police investigators to his house in the 8100 block of Rydal Road in District Heights.

The union that represents high-ranking police officers in Anne Arundel County has dropped the name of the force's second-in-command from a radio ad that criticizes the county's executive and chief of police. The International Brotherhood of Police Officers, which represents Anne Arundel's police lieutenants and sergeants, originally planned to run an ad that promoted Deputy Police Chief Lt. Col. Emerson C. Davis as having taken a "brave stand" by testifying in front of the County Council about alleged improprieties by his superiors.

Anne Arundel detectives are investigating a sexual assault that occurred early Wednesday morning in the Glen Burnie area. After interviewing the adult female victim at Baltimore Washington Medical Center in Glen Burnie, officers canvassed the Mountain Ridge Drive area, where the woman said she last saw her assailant. They were unable to locate the suspect. Police have extra patrols in the area and are handing out fliers with a composite sketch of the assailant. The assault occurred at about 1:40 a.m., when the woman and the man were walking along the 300 block of Hospital Drive, police said.

Anne Arundel County police have issued warrants for a South Carolina man they suspect has targeted elderly people with a driveway-paving scam. Police are warning residents to watch out for a man making an unsolicited offer of a low price – but no written estimate or contract – on the work. Three open warrants accuse Tommy Edward Clack, 39, of North Myrtle Beach, of theft, operating without a home improvement business license and making false statements to police. Police suspect that on April 20, Clack did not provide a 75-year-old Annapolis man a written estimate, came back with a work crew and demanded to be paid far more than the amount discussed.

Anne Arundel County Police arrested a Laurel man after they responded to a complaint of suspected sales of illegal narcotics from a room at the Knights Inn on Fort Meade Road Friday. Police officers arriving at the hotel around 10:46 a.m. Sept. 9 saw two people flee from room and stopped a third person as he attempted to flee. The hotel management indicated the room was rented to only one individual and that the person stopped was not supposed to be there. Police searched the room and found a plastic bag containing suspected crack cocaine and suspected marijuana.

Police in Anne Arundel County are looking for a man they believe is responsible for a string of home break-ins that occurred early Thursday morning. In the incidents, women reported finding the intruder in their bedrooms or touching them in a sexual manner. Just before 3 a.m. Thursday, officers were called to the 7800 block of Centergate Court in Pasadena for a reported burglary. The victim, a 28-year-old woman, said she awoke to find a man in her bedroom, who left after she yelled for him to get out. At about 3:40 a.m., while police were still searching for the suspect, they were called to the 700 block of 204th Street nearby for report of a burglary and sexual assault.

Anne Arundel County police are still searching for a second man wanted in connection with the murder of a Brooklyn Park man last month. Police charged Rodney Ralph Barnwell, 22, and Ricky Lamont Mason, 21, who has already been detained, in the shooting death of Adam Ray Bucklew. The 21-year-old victim was found shot July 1 in a car in front of his home in the 400 block of Audrey Avenue in Brooklyn Park. Police said the apparent motive was robbery. Witnesses reported two men fleeing from the area, and through the investigation, homicide detectives identified Barnwell and Mason.

Anne Arundel County police are investigating reports that two men were robbed in separate attacks in Brooklyn Park, though it does not appear the two incidents are related. One robbery occurred Christmas Eve but was not reported until Tuesday. Police said the latest robbery occurred Tuesday night about 11:30 p.m. when a 25-year-old man from Pasadena said he had been waiting at a bus stop on Ritchie Highway, near Hammonds Lane, when three men wearing ski masks asked him if he had drugs.

The union that represents Anne Arundel County's upper police ranks plans to run a radio ad beginning Thursday in support of the department's second-in-command, who has called for a federal probe of the department and said the force is "dysfunctional. " The International Brotherhood of Police Officers, which represents Anne Arundel's police lieutenants and sergeants, paid for the ad that trumpets Deputy Police Chief Lt. Col. Emerson C. Davis as having taken a "brave stand" by testifying in front of the County Council about alleged improprieties by his superiors.

Anne Arundel police have arrested a Severn woman on assault and reckless endangerment charges. Tamika Annette Williams, 31, of 8500 block of Pioneer Drive, was also charged with using a firearm in the commission of a felony. Officers were called Thursday evening to the 8500 block of Pioneer Drive for a report of a large neighborhood fight. Williams was armed with a handgun and threatening to shoot another woman, police said. She was waving the gun in the direction of a group of people outside the home at about 8:30 p.m., police said.

The Anne Arundel County Police Department's second in command said Monday night that he has asked the U.S. Justice Department to investigate alleged police misconduct related to a criminal indictment against County Executive John R. Leopold. Deputy Police Chief Lt. Col. Emerson C. Davis testified under oath before the County Council that he requested the probe after last month's indictment. Included in the charges were allegations that Leopold directed his taxpayer-funded security detail to perform personal and political tasks, including compiling dossiers on political enemies.

When the Anne Arundel County Council first subpoenaed Police Chief James E. Teare Sr. to answer questions about police involvement in the allegations described in the indictment of County Executive John Leopold, the chief refused. His grounds were, in part, that the subpoena was not issued after an open, public vote. The council, meeting in public on Monday, will erase that objection. If he ignores the new subpoena, he has no business running the police department. Mr. Teare's attorney, Gerard P. Martin, wrote that it would not be advisable for Mr. Teare, as a law enforcement officer, to provide public testimony on matters that are subject to an impending criminal trial.

Pressure is mounting for Anne Arundel County Police Chief James E. Teare Sr. Weeks after the county executive was indicted on charges he misused his office and ordered his police protective officers to help cover up affairs and liaisons, and help with election duties, the chief is now looking into the actions of his officers. The move, described in a story by The Sun's Nicole Fuller, comes after the county council subpoenaed the chief to testify about how is department was run under the indicted executive, John R. Leopold.

Saying they are stretched too thin and face problems with a new dispatch and reporting system, Anne Arundel County police supervisor unions are blaming the administration for a situation they say is taking a toll on them and public safety. Two supervisors unions released a list of problems Friday that they say are putting the department on "the verge of crisis. " The sergeants and lieutenants groups previously voted no confidence in County Executive John R. Leopold and police Chief James Teare Sr. The unions contend the department's leadership — "especially" Leopold — has led to "a deterioration of public safety," and say that police fear a rise in crime, according to a prepared statement Friday.

Anne Arundel police spent much of Friday morning investigating reports of slashed tires in Brooklyn Park. Neighbors of several streets in the Arundel Village area, near the city line, began realizing their tires had been slashed at about 8 a.m. Officers found more than 30 vehicles damaged during the overnight hours in the 500 block of Taney Avenue, the 5200 block of Kramme Avenue, the 5200 block of Ballman Avenue, the 5000 and 5100 blocks of...

A man trying to throw an intoxicated reveler out of a New Year's party in Odenton was stabbed in the leg early Sunday, according to Anne Arundel County police. Michael A. Daniels, 26, of Washington, was arrested and charged with first- and second-degree assault and reckless endangerment. The victim, who was not identified, was taken to Maryland Shock Trauma Center, but police said his injuries did not appear to be life-threatening. Police said the incident occurred about 3:30 a.m in a house in the 300 block of Cowman Court.