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By Ian Duncan, The Baltimore Sun | December 7, 2012
A man pulled a shotgun on an Anne Arundel County police officer after officers were called to a neighborhood dispute, police said. Witnesses said that William Wesley Neall III had been acting erratically most of Thursday, banging on doors and yelling profanities in the 600 block of Belle Dora Court in Arnold, police said. As an officer waited for backup outside Neall's home, he came out pointing a loaded Winchester 12-gauge shotgun at the cop. The officer drew his weapon and ordered Neall, 46, to put his gun down, which he did, according to police.
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By Erin Cox, The Baltimore Sun | December 3, 2012
Anne Arundel County councilmen approved on Monday the first raise for county workers in more than four years. The council unanimously granted a 3 percent pay increase for more than 550 officers who belong to the Fraternal Order of Police, as well as for an additional 1,000 employees in another union whose contract included a "me, too" clause entitling its members to raises if another bargaining unit received them. The county was forced to give the $1.6 million worth of raises, retroactive to July 1, after the Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the police union in a labor dispute.
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By Andrea F. Siegel and Erin Cox, The Baltimore Sun | July 18, 2012
In Anne Arundel County, public relations appear to go hand-in-hand with police work. Arrested the nephew of an Annapolis mayoral candidate? Run that up the ranks to the chief. A television producer wants to interview a detective about gangs? “HIGHLY” recommend a public information officer sits in and “ensure he stays on course.” Make sure the chief signs off on that, too. The Anne Arundel County Police Department released hundreds of emails this month detailing interactions with the media.
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By Steve Kilar, The Baltimore Sun | April 12, 2012
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.
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By Dean Jones Jr and The Baltimore Sun | December 15, 2011
A 17-year-old boy walking with his girlfriend Wednesday night in Brooklyn Park reported being robbed by three male suspects, Anne Arundel County police said. Officers in the Northern District received the complaint of the robbery in the area of Belle Grove Road and West Arden Road at approximately 10:40 p.m. Wednesday, according to police. One of the suspects held the victim while the other two assaulted him and took his phone, police said, before all three fled on Belle Grove Road.
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By Hanah Cho, The Baltimore Sun | October 8, 2011
A bicyclist was struck and killed by a vehicle in Millersville, while a police officer was injured in a separate car accident Friday night, Anne Arundel County police said. Matthew Jeffrey Young, 40, who police said did not have a fixed address, was pronounced dead at University of Maryland Hospital. Young was riding his mountain bike north on Veterans Highway, just north of West Benfield Road, when he was struck from behind by a 2000 Buick LeSabre driven by Larry Jay Vespermann of Dunkirk at around 7:30 p.m. Friday.