Arrest

Maryland State Police arrested six members of Occupy Baltimore Monday evening for allegedly trespassing on the state-owned site of a proposed juvenile detention center in East Baltimore. The arrests of four men and two women came about two hours after they began erecting a plywood structure — painted red and representing a schoolhouse — inside the fenced site at East Madison and Graves streets near the city's complex of jails and prisons. State police spokesman Greg Shipley said the six individuals were told they were entering private property, which is owned by the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services.

A man wanted for alleged sex abuse of a minor and drug charges stabbed an Anne Arundel County sheriff's deputy in the hand who attempted to arrest him Wednesday, authorities said. The Anne Arundel County sheriff's office said Richard G. Skipper of 200 Arrington Road in Queenstown became combative when Sgt. Chris Rhodes attempted to arrest him for three outstanding warrants. Deputies believed Skipper was staying at a house on Quantico Road in Edgewater. Rhodes saw Skipper walk inside a Royal Farms Store on Londontowne Road and attempted to arrest him. When Rhodes identified himself as a sheriff's deputy, deputies said Skipper became combative and the two fought.

When springtime trends showed that 2011 homicides in Maryland would rise by 7 percent, the governor's office set in motion an intensified effort to arrest violent offenders wanted on warrants in areas where most of the state's violent crime occurs: Baltimore City and Prince George's and Baltimore counties. Local and state agencies worked in three phases from the summer through year's end, with more officers and longer hours paid for with $500,000 in federal grants. When it was over, 2,200 people had been arrested.

About the series: As The Baltimore Sun commemorates its 175th anniversary, we revisit the subjects of our most iconic photographs, describing where their lives have led them since their moments in The Sun. Deborah Tate is often reminded of her son, Lance. His bedroom is the same as it was 15 years ago. Her two grandsons share his name. And she often passes the Southwest Baltimore parking lot where he was shot and killed. And then there is the photograph. It shows her teenage son sprawled on a city sidewalk, head bent upward, his startled expression staring into the muzzle of a semiautomatic handgun pointed at his chest by Baltimore Officer Raymond Cook, who was trying to arrest him on an armed carjacking charge.

The arrest late Wednesday of a suspect in the killing of North Carolina teen Phylicia Barnes is a vindication of the tremendous effort and resources the Baltimore Police Department poured into the case after the 16-year-old disappeared from her older sister's Northwest Baltimore apartment in late 2010. But coming as it does amid a probe into the activities of the lead investigator in the case after his own daughter disappeared this month, the arrest also highlights lingering questions about discipline within the department and raises concern about whether officers' misconduct could jeopardize this or other cases.

City police executing a search warrant seized a semi-automatic rifle and arrested a convicted felon who was using a valid driver's license with a fake name, police said. The Baltimore Police Department's computer crimes division, investigating child pornography, conducted the search Wednesday on a home in the 4900 block of Greencrest Road, in the Frankford neighborhood, about 6:30 p.m., police said. Inside, officers recovered a Hi-Point 9 mm rifle and "various digital media," police said.

City police officers involved in the arrest of a 7-year-old boy for sitting on a dirt bike in 2007 testified Wednesday during a civil trial that they followed proper procedures, denying allegations that they took the boy into custody as retaliation over a complaint filed by his mother. The family of Gerard Mungo Jr. filed a $40 million lawsuit against six Baltimore police officers as part of a case being heard this week in Howard County Circuit Court. Gerard was handcuffed and taken into custody, an incident that drew a rebuke from Mayor Sheila Dixon and then-Police Commissioner Leonard Hamm.

Two Baltimore police officers pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to charges leveled against them in connection with an alleged assault during an arrest. Sgt. Marinos N. Gialamas, 40, and Officer Anthony Williams, 37, are accused of assaulting Antoine Douglas Green at the home of Williams's girlfriend in October, 2011 while Green was in custody. Last April, prosecutors dropped drug, assault and burglary charges filed against Green in connection with his arrest. The two officers entered their pleas in a brief hearing at Baltimore City Circuit Court and are scheduled for trial in March.

Notre Dame men's basketball coach Mike Brey will wait to deal with the arrests of Eric Atkins (Mount St. Joseph) and Tim Abromaitis on charges of underage drinking. "It's handled downtown. It's handled by Student Affairs and then the old coach will handle it," Brey said Tuesday. Atkins, an incoming freshman, and Abromaitis, the Irish's second leading scorer last season, were among 44 people arrested Friday night after police responded to a call about a fight and discovered a party, authorities said.

The defense attorney for 28-year-old Michael Johnson, charged with first-degree murder in the killing of Phylicia Barnes, told reporters on Thursday that his client had been struck and kicked during his arrest. He disputed a statement from the city's top prosecutor that the arrest went down "without incident. " But trying to track down what actually happened has been a frustrating ordeal, not just on the allegations of mistreatment, but the aura of secrecy surrounding this high-profile case.