Assault

Maryland Transit Administration Police have charged an MTA bus driver with assault after an early Saturday morning altercation with a passenger near Eastpoint Mall in Baltimore County, according to a police statement. The passenger, Ricardo Devon Hale, was stabbed with a knife on the bus in the 7800 block of Eastern Avenue, the release said. Hale, who is 44 years old, suffered non-life threatening injuries and was treated at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. The 28-year-old bus driver, Brian Jamal Marshall, was hired by the MTA in 2006.

A former Baltimore police officer received a five-year suspended sentence this week and was ordered to refrain from unsupervised contact with children after pleading guilty in September to second-degree assault. Troy Jaquan Gee Sr., 34, had been charged in Baltimore Circuit Court with child sexual abuse for allegedly fondling a 13-year-old relative in March 2008. The girl reported the incident to police, and Gee was suspended without pay from the Police Department upon his arrest. He has since resigned.

Four men, including two Morgan State University students and the school band's former percussion coordinator, have been arrested after a woman said they held her down and sexually assaulted her in a Northeast Baltimore apartment complex. Renard James, 30, Dante Green, 24, Dale Lawton, 23, and Howard Smith Cook, 21, were each arrested July 12 and charged with eight counts of sex offense, assault, perverted practice and conspiracy charges. They are being held without bail. According to court records, the alleged assault took place June 30 in the 6500 block of McClean Blvd.

Anne Arundel County police have arrested a 44-year-old man and charged him with attempted second-degree rape of a 14-year old girl at his home in Annapolis. Police said Leonard Claude Dilley was arrested at his home Sunday. A District Court judge ordered him jailed in lieu of $300,000 bail, according to court records. The teenager had told police around 2:35 a.m. June 16 that she was assaulted, police said. Witnesses said the girl knew the man and was in a bedroom with him, where he was trying to assault her, according to police.

State officials describe Paula Jordan as a nonviolent inmate at the Maryland Correctional Institution for Women in Jessup. That made her a perfect candidate to work at a Howard County horse farm as part of a rehabilitation program. Here is what the 41-year-old from Baltimore did to get locked up: In January 2005, she chased after her boyfriend swinging a butcher's knife, stabbed him in the leg, mopped up the blood, cleaned the blade and put it back into its holder before police arrived.

A 20-year-old Harford County man accused of striking an off-duty Baltimore police officer in the eye with a glass beer mug was indicted by a county grand jury on hate crime and assault charges, according to the county state's attorney. James Aaron Kimble of Joppa was arrested May 6 after Detective Jerome Cook suffered significant injuries to his eye that doctors feared could cause him to lose his sight. County sheriff's deputies said Cook was returning home when he encountered Kimble and was struck in the eye. Kimble was yelling racial epithets when deputies arrived at the scene, comments which were captured on Cook's 911 call for help.

Anne Arundel police have charged a 34-year-old Glen Burnie man with assault and reckless driving and are seeking a 41-year-old woman in connection with the incident that occurred Wednesday evening in Severn. David Charles Lane of the 200 block Woodhill Drive was arrested at his residence and remains in custody. Officers were called to the Walmart in the 400 block of George Clauss Blvd. at 11:21 p.m. for a report of an intoxicated driver in the parking lot. They were met by three female victims, one 30 years old and the other two both 19. The victims told police that the suspect sped toward them and tried to strike them with his car, as they stood on the lot. Police said the suspect got out of the car and shouted obscenities and racial slurs at the women.

The 22-year-old son of Baltimore's top prosecutor and the young man's roommate were each charged Thursday with misdemeanor assault after police said they cut each other to perform a "blood handshake" and then got into a fight. Both men were treated at Maryland Shock Trauma Center after the Thursday morning incident at their Pigtown rowhouse on Scott Street. State's Attorney Gregg L. Bernstein's son, Owen, required 38 stitches to close the wound on his hand, according to city police.