Assault

Police Blotter is a sampling of crimes from police reports in Baltimore and Baltimore County. Baltimore Northern Assault -- A man in his mid- to late 20s was reported in good condition at Sinai Hospital after he was assaulted about 3 a.m. Saturday by two other males while he walked in the 600 block of Woodbourne Ave. The man sustained injuries to his head and face; he was unable to describe his attackers or provide a reason for the assault. Western Burglary -- Police responding to a burglary call at E-Z Groceries in the 2500 block of Edmondson Ave. about 11 p.m. Friday found the store had been entered through a side door.

WASHINGTON -- In a marathon day in court that foreshadowed the key elements of a former Navy football player's military trial on sexual misconduct charges, prosecution and defense lawyers whittled down a potential jury pool from 15 officers to four yesterday. The Naval Academy officers answered detailed, personal questions on a variety of topics, including Navy football, sexual assault at the academy, the definition of "indecent" sex and the credibility of an alleged victim who admitted to drinking alcohol underage and who did not cry out for help while she was allegedly being assaulted.

A 35-year-old Westminster man received a five-year prison sentence yesterday after admitting that he choked and hit the mother of his baby as she was preparing to move out of their home in September.Kenneth E. Kern of the 600 block of Washington Road pleaded guilty to second-degree assault. Carroll Circuit Judge Raymond E. Beck Sr. suspended half of a 10-year prison term and agreed to allow Kern to surrender April 6 to begin serving the sentence.Beck also ordered five years of supervised probation and told Kern to have no contact with Shelly Lea Shriver, 23, other than arranged visits with their year-old son.Kern and Shriver had been living together for about six weeks when Shriver said she planned to move out Sept.

If they don't go after their jailers with fists, it's with something worse. Much worse.Encouraged by the Anne Arundel County Detention Center administrators and prosecutors, more and more corrections officers are swearing out charges against the inmates who hit, scratch and throw bodily wastes at them. No longer is it a matter of inmates losing the five days a month they accrue toward early release: They now stand to receive extra time for such assaults."We just decided that enough is enough," said Richard Baker, the detention center superintendent.

A Hampstead man was found guilty yesterday of punching his former girlfriend's brother in October during an altercation at her family's home.William W. Swartz, 27, could receive up to 18 months on the conviction for second-degree assault, under an agreement in which he pleaded not guilty to an agreed-upon statement of facts by Assistant State's Attorney Laura Kozlowski.Officers from Hampstead and the Westminster state police barracks responded to the incident at the home in the 4300 block of White Oak Court.

Police Blotter is a sampling of crimes in Baltimore and Baltimore County.Northeastern DistrictEscape: A handcuffed man, left unguarded in the back of a patrol car yesterday, slipped through a Plexiglas shield separating the front and back seats when officers went back into the suspect's residence in the 1500 block of Northwick Road to gather evidence in a domestic assault case. Enoch Burress, 31, of the Northwick Road address, was charged with assaulting a woman, escape and theft of the handcuffs.

Four of five suspects accused of severely beating a teen-age witness Sunday in connection with thefts from more than 200 cars are awaiting trial on other criminal charges, court records show.More than $10,000 in property -- from loose change to laptop computers -- have been taken primarily from unlocked cars between Westminster and Gamber since Jan. 1, said Capt. Greg Shipley, a state police spokesman. Six young adults and a boy have been arrested in the thefts.State police at the Westminster barracks said they believe the 17-year-old witness was assaulted in retaliation for his cooperation in a related arrest that day. Police spent yesterday running down loose ends in a complex investigation.

Police Blotter is a sampling of crimes in Baltimore and Baltimore County.Southwestern DistrictStolen car: A 1994 Hyundai with tags ELF 148 was stolen Sunday in the first block of S. Beechfield Ave.Stolen vehicle: A beige 1992 Plymouth van with tags ABG 38F was stolen Sunday in the 800 block of Glen Allen Drive.Stolen van: A white 1992 Chrysler-product van with handicap tags 48400 was stolen Sunday in the 3000 block of W. Lanvale St.Stolen vehicle: A blue 1988 Chevrolet Blazer with tags 981063M was stolen Sunday in the 1400 block of Bloomfield Ave.Western DistrictOfficer assaulted: Officer Scott J. Stenger was arresting a man accused of threatening a woman with a butcher knife outside a house in the 2400 block of Winchester St. about 7: 30 p.m. Sunday when the man pulled away and allegedly struck him in the chest.

A Springfield Hospital Center patient who was committed there in 1988 after being found not criminally responsible of murder was acquitted yesterday of raping another patient last year at the Sykesville hospital.A Carroll County Circuit Court jury of eight women and four men deliberated about 2 1/2 hours before returning the verdict in the case of Joseph Jones, 40.A defense motion granted Tuesday by the court prevented prosecutor Tracy A. Gilmore from eliciting testimony that would have enabled the jury to hear about the 1988 murder charges or why Jones was a patient at Springfield.

Police Blotter is a sampling of crimes in Baltimore and Baltimore County.Northeastern DistrictStabbing/arrest: A man was stabbed in the right side during an argument with another man about yesterday in a house in the 7600 block of Daniels Ave. The victim was in serious, stable condition at Johns Hopkins Hospital. The suspect was arrested at the scene and was being held at police headquarters pending charges of first-degree assault and deadly weapon charges.Eastern DistrictTheft: A briefcase, jacket, compact discs and a calculator, all valued at more than $900, were stolen Wednesday from a city police officer's personal 1996 Hyundai parked in the 600 block of N. Patterson Park Ave.Southwestern DistrictRobbery: A man was in the 300 block of S. Augusta Ave. about 11 p.m. Wednesday when he was assaulted by two men who robbed him of a pair of leather gloves, soda and a box of popcorn.

State police have charged a 22-year-old Harford County man with attempted murder and assault in connection with a stabbing during what police called a near riot at a crowded Fallston bar early Sunday morning. Security workers at Tully's Bar on Belair Road were escorting Tyrell Lamont Young of Edgewood from the building when police arrived at about 1:22 a.m. Police said they determined that Young had been involved in a stabbing inside the bar and arrested him. He is being held at the Harford County Detention Center without bond.

police reports in baltimore city and county: Central Baltimore Assault A man was arguing over paying a prostitute $20 while the pair sat in his car about 6 a.m. Sunday in the 1300 block of Pennsylvania Ave. when the man pulled out a knife and cut the woman, 26, in the back. The woman was treated at Maryland Shock Trauma Center and was expected to survive. No arrest had been made. Carjacking A man was talking to a woman in the 1200 block of Eutaw Place about 2:30 a.m. Sunday when he was assaulted by four men, one with a handgun, who drove off in his 2002 cream-colored Cadillac with tags 2DC Z99. Stolen vehicle A red two-door 1996 Chevrolet Lumina with tags 9BF H24 was stolen Sunday in the 800 block of N. Calvert St. Theft Someone broke into a 1996 Honda Civic parked in the 1700 block of St. Paul St. Saturday or Sunday and stole three purses containing a total of $175, credit cards and other property.

An FBI employee pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Baltimore to accepting an illegal gratuity from a company seeking to sell high-security paper shredders to the agency, according to the U.S. attorney's office. Curtis Jones, 47, who lives in Annapolis and was a physical security specialist based in the FBI's Washington headquarters, was responsible for negotiating a purchase agreement for up to $2 million worth of shredders that meet new national security standards for classified documents, federal prosecutors said.

Police have arrested two suspects in the stabbing of barber student Shannon L. Dudley, who was assaulted downtown while waiting for a bus Tuesday night at Charles and Baltimore streets. Charles Calloway, 18, of the 1000 block of N. Carey St. and Corey Woodhams, 19, of the 1500 block of E. Federal St. have been charged with attempted murder and armed robbery, among other crimes, according to court records. Dudley, 22, remained in critical condition last night at Maryland Shock Trauma Center, hospital officials said.

A Howard County circuit judge sentenced a Columbia man yesterday to more than 30 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to a 25-day wave of home invasions and robberies, and an assault on a woman whom he choked until she lost consciousness in December 2006. In October, Ronnie Gordon Smith Jr., 40, pleaded guilty in Howard County Circuit Court in Ellicott City to two counts of first-degree burglary and one count each of robbery, first-degree assault and armed robbery. Assistant State's Attorney James Dietrich recommended 65 years for the four break-ins, but Judge Diane O. Leasure sentenced Smith to 33 years.

A Reisterstown man accused of holding a woman against her will for more than a month pleaded guilty yesterday to two of nearly 40 charges against him in Carroll County Circuit Court. Standing in court yesterday in a bright-orange jumpsuit, William Thomas Parrish III, 26, pleaded guilty to one count of first-degree assault and a first-degree sex offense. He had also been charged with first- and second-degree rape, sodomy and false imprisonment. Judge Luke K. Burns Jr. sentenced Parrish to 25 years on the assault conviction and 55 years -- suspending all but 35 -- on the sex offense.

A former Columbia resident accused of raping and assaulting his estranged wife was found not guilty yesterday by a Howard County jury. The jury acquitted David T. McNey, 44, on all six charges he faced -- first- and second-degree rape, a third-degree sex offense, first- and second-degree assault, and false imprisonment. McNey's wife, Michelle McNey, from whom he had been separated since November 2006, reported to police in December of that year that he threatened her with a shotgun and raped her. McNey faced a maximum penalty of life in prison.

A Baltimore jury found a 23-year-old city man guilty of second-degree assault and conspiracy to commit first-degree assault yesterday while clearing him of first-degree murder and some handgun charges in a case in which the victim's body has never been found. The jury deadlocked on numerous other charges, including second-degree murder and conspiracy to commit first-degree murder. Assistant State's Attorney Rita Wisthoff-Ito said she will retry Gary Froneberger on the charges that resulted in a hung jury.

Police Blotter is a sampling of crimes from police reports in Baltimore and Baltimore County. Baltimore Northeastern Shooting -- Zachariah Hallback, 18, of the 3200 block of Noble St. was in critical condition and on life support at Johns Hopkins Hospital after he was shot in the head about 11 p.m. Wednesday during a robbery at a bus stop at The Alameda and East 33rd St. An undisclosed sum of money was taken. Anyone having information about the gunman is asked to call the district at 410-396-2444.

The Maryland Transit Administration has released pictures of five men its police force wants to interview in connection with an assault this week on a Route No. 64 bus. Jawauna Greene, an MTA spokeswoman, said the pictures were captured by a video surveillance camera aboard the bus Monday night and Tuesday morning. The assault follows a high-profile attack that is being investigated as a possible hate crime. Greene said a group of four to six black males boarded the bus at 11:57 p.m. Monday at Sixth and Hanover streets in Brooklyn.