NEWS
By Tricia Bishop | August 7, 2009
Jerrod Rowlett is counted among Baltimore's worst criminals. He's racked up dozens of arrests in his 25 years, including at least four murder charges (one of which is still pending). He has a handful of gun, drug and assault convictions, and he's classified as a "violent repeat offender" by the state. He's also never served any significant time. But he's about to. After cutting Rowlett a generous break in 2007, setting him free under probation via a plea deal on assault and drug charges, Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Lynn Stewart ruled Thursday that he would have to serve the rest of his previously suspended 15-year sentence because he violated probation.
NEWS
BY A SUN STAFF WRITER | October 28, 1999
A 28-year-old Columbia man was convicted yesterday on assault charges in the shooting of two people in a North Laurel mobile home last year.Darrin B. Ridgeway faced charges of attempted murder in the shooting in the first block of Cross St.Three shotgun blasts penetrated the mobile home and hit a man and woman while they slept. The shots missed three young girls sleeping in another bedroom.The man and woman were taken to a hospital, treated and released.Prosecutor I. Matthew Campbell said Ridgeway fired at the mobile home in retaliation for being assaulted by three men. Ridgeway believed that those three men often visited the mobile home.
SPORTS
By Alan Goldstein | February 5, 1999
Less than three weeks after he successfully launched his latest ring comeback by knocking out Francois Botha, former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson is on the ropes again. He faces the possibility of being found guilty of second-degree assault on two Maryland motorists, thus violating his probation on a rape conviction and being sent back to jail for as long as 20 years.Tyson's fate rests in the hands of District Court Judge Stephen Johnson in Rockville this afternoon. The fighter had pleaded "no contest" to the charges of having struck a glancing blow to the jaw of Abimelec Saucedo, of Gaithersburg, and kicking Richard Dale Hardick, of Frederick County, in the groin after the two were involved in a fender-bender with a car driven by Tyson's wife, Monica, near Gaithersburg, last Aug. 31.Tyson, 32, settled the civil suit with both defendants for an undisclosed amount of money, but still must face criminal charges for the alleged assault.
SPORTS
By Candus Thomson | December 2, 1998
ROCKVILLE -- The Mike Tyson traveling legal show and media circus rolled through the stately Montgomery County District Courthouse yesterday so the former boxing champ could enter a plea, talk about his next fight and proclaim his new political awareness.Assuming he can stay out of prison, that is.Tyson pleaded no contest to two misdemeanor assault charges stemming from an Aug. 31 fender bender in Gaithersburg. Judge Stephen P. Johnson accepted the plea and set sentencing for early next year.
NEWS
February 4, 1998
A Laurel man was arrested Monday and accused of raping an Anne Arundel woman in retaliation for assault charges the woman pressed against him last year.Police charged Robert Mason Underwood, 31, of the 13000 block of Old Stagecoach Road with rape, kidnapping, false imprisonment and assaulting a woman at a North Laurel motel Monday night.Underwood was being held yesterday at the Howard County Detention Center, awaiting a bail review hearing today.The suspect ordered the woman into a car, forced her to sign for merchandise bought with a stolen credit card, then took her to a motel in North Laurel, where he raped her, police said.
NEWS
By Mike Farabaugh | June 25, 1998
A third suspect accused in a fatal drag race near Finksburg that killed a Mount Airy Middle School teacher June 1 was arrested yesterday on auto manslaughter and assault charges.Mark E. Eppig, 22, of the first block of Chase St. in Westminster was released on an unsecured $25,000 bond.Eppig was charged with manslaughter in the death of Geraldine Lane "Geri" Wu, 42, of Westminster and with the second-degree assault of Min-li Wu, 14, a passenger in her mother's car. The girl was flown to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, where she was treated and released the next day.Eppig also was charged with two counts of reckless driving, negligent driving, participating in a speed contest, exceeding 85 mph in a posted 55 mph zone, failing to drive in a reasonable and prudent manner, passing unsafely and failing to reduce speed to avoid a collision.
NEWS
By TaNoah Morgan | February 22, 1998
County police arrested an Edgewater man on assault charges Thursday after he allegedly stabbed his roommate during an argument over rent money.Anthony E. Wood, 19, of the 500 block of Fairmount Drive was moving his furniture and clothes out of the house he shared with James E. Melvin, 23, about 8 p.m. when the men started arguing about the money, police said.During the argument, Wood picked up an oar and struck Melvin across the face, breaking his nose and front teeth, police said.As the men wrestled, Wood allegedly pulled out a knife and stabbed Melvin in his back, knee and on his side, then fled in his truck, police said.
NEWS
By Peter Hermann | January 17, 1998
Baltimore police were searching last night for a lieutenant who was charged for the second time with beating his girlfriend and who has threatened to kill anyone who tries to capture him, authorities said yesterday.Police filed an arrest warrant for Lt. Charles Milland, a member of the force for 27 years whose department weapon was taken away after his first arrest in October but who apparently fled his apartment early yesterday with a revolver.Police radio warned officers last night that Milland is to be considered armed and dangerous and has threatened "to kill anyone who attempts to apprehend him."
NEWS
By Mike Farabaugh | September 4, 1998
A Sykesville man accused of shattering the jaw of a sleeping man at a party last month was ordered yesterday to be held without bond at the Carroll County Detention Center.Court records show that George D. Henneman, 19, of the 700 block of Central Ave. was free on $5,000 bail for unrelated assault charges when the recent incident occurred Aug. 23 at a home on Fern Way in Sykesville.According to police, witnesses said a man repeatedly kicked and stomped on the face of John M. Sullivan, dragging him from a bed. Sullivan said he recognized the suspect, police said.
SPORTS
By Christian Ewell | June 2, 1998
HYATTSVILLE -- A Prince George's County District Court judge yesterday dropped assault charges against a former University of Maryland women's basketball player who allegedly attacked a teammate.Judge Josef Brown dropped charges against Kalisa Davis, 21, of Williamstown, N.J., accused of hitting McDonogh grad and former Maryland guard Sonia Chase, 21, during an incident after an Oct. 27 practice.The twice-postponed trial -- for which Davis was charged with second-degree simple assault -- was originally scheduled for Feb. 23, then for March 2 before yesterday.