Campus Police

A University of Maryland student arrested in a December Peeping Tom incident is not suspected in February and April incidents in a College Park dormitory, campus police said.Daniel Benedict Baglio, 19, was arrested April 24 after a woman recognized him while standing in line at the Stamp Student Union's movie theater. Police said she identified him as the man who intruded as she showered in Centreville Hall in December.He was charged with misdemeanor burglary and trespassing and was released on personal recognizance.

Prosecutors on Tuesday filed seven additional charges against the teen who police say threatened to go on a shooting rampage at the University of Maryland, College Park last month. In addition to disturbing the administration of activities and classes at the college, Alexander G. Song 2nd, 19, has been accused of charges including making false statements, misusing university facilities and equipment, sending harassing email and disturbing the peace, according to a statement from campus police.

University of Maryland campus police in College Park alerted students and workers of a possible cougar sighting reported near the wooded areas of the Comcast Center and Arena Drive yesterday. A university police spokesman said the department received a call about 6 a.m. yesterday from a maintenance worker who said he had seen a 4-foot-long, light tan and tawny brown animal with a 4-foot tail. The description of the animal, which would weigh about 50 pounds, fits that of a cougar, according to campus police.

Police at the University of Maryland, College Park are investigating "two incidents of bias and hate," President Wallace Loh said in a Wednesday e-mail to the campus. Loh said an elevator in an academic building was vandalized with anti-Semitic messages and that a campus facilities supervisor found a noose hanging in a space that was being renovated. A spokesman for the campus police said investigators believe the incidents, one discovered Saturday and the other Monday, are unconnected.

The artistic producer of the Maryland Arts Festival at Towson University has been charged with two counts of possessing child pornography and one count of storing child pornography after police discovered the material on one of the school's laptop computers, according to court documents. Michael J. Decker, who also is a professor of fine arts at Towson, was arrested Thursday after he surrendered to campus police. He was released the same day after posting a $15,000 bond. Decker, 50, of Rehoboth Beach, Del., was unavailable for comment yesterday.

COLLEGE PARK - Maryland linebacker E.J. Henderson was indefinitely demoted from his starting position after being cited for a DWI violation by the school's campus police, head coach Ralph Friedgen said yesterday. On Monday, Friedgen took the action on Henderson - a junior and Aberdeen High School grad - after he was cited on early Sunday morning in a parking lot off Chapel Drive, following Maryland's win over West Virginia. According to a campus police spokesman, Henderson took a field sobriety and Breathalyzer test (the results were not released)

University of Maryland officials produced video footage Wednesday from a school-operated camera that had been subpoenaed by attorneys for a student who was beaten by Prince George's County police, images that officials originally said they could not find. Lawyers for the student thought footage could be crucial in filling in the blanks of what happened March 3, when students took to the streets after the university's men's basketball team defeated Duke. More than two dozen people were arrested after confrontations with police.

Prosecutors on Tuesday filed seven additional charges against the teen who police say threatened to go on a shooting rampage at the University of Maryland, College Park last month. In addition to disturbing the administration of activities and classes at the college, Alexander G. Song 2nd, 19, has been accused of charges including making false statements, misusing university facilities and equipment, sending harassing email and disturbing the peace, according to a statement from campus police.

During what was supposed to be a festive homecoming week, the campus of Bowie State University was instead quiet and somber Friday after a student was arrested and charged with killing one of her roommates. According to police, Alexis D. Simpson, 19, fatally stabbed 18-year-old Dominique T. Frazier on Thursday night in the dorm where they both lived. Charging documents show that the confrontation was sparked by a seemingly innocuous act: Simpson turned off Frazier's iPod as they prepared to go out, records show.

University of Maryland officials will install locks on bathroom doors in Centreville Hall after a man twice entered women's showers in the College Park dormitory and groped women within the past two weeks.The combination key-pad locks will be added at the request of building residents who attended meetings conducted by the campus resident life department Wednesday night."That was important to us because that's their home and that's their building," said Patricia Mielke, director of resident life.

Memo to University of Kentucky campus police: get the pepper spray ready, boys. They'll be torching couches and playing "Flip the Toyota" again tonight after the Wildcats get past Kansas and win their eighth NCAAtitle -- although their first since 1998. Kentucky has at least five NBA-ready players and if you don't think Player of the Year Anthony Davis is the real deal, you didn't watch Davis and his famous unibrow dominate in the Wildcats' win over Louisville the other night. He scored "only" 18 points but seemed to be in the right place for every rebound and put-back.

A week ago, authorities were called to the campus dorm room of 19-year-old Alexander G. Song 2nd, who, according to the University of Maryland, College Park police chief, was shouting and acting out. The sophomore who grew up in Howard County told officers he was "very stressed out," the chief said, but "there was nothing that led us to believe he was a threat to himself or to others. " But by Sunday, police had Song in custody, saying he posted messages on the Internet threatening "a shooting rampage on campus.

As a suspected gunman walked across Towson University, officials sent an emergency notification through text alert, email and Twitter to some 25,000 students and faculty, warning them of the man's whereabouts and advising them to "stay in a safe location. " The situation ended peacefully. The "gunman" was a student carrying a theater prop — a university spokeswoman called the incident "much ado about nothing. " But until the circumstances were cleared up, the alert had the campus community on edge.

The attorney for Todd Bozeman said Monday that university administrators violated the Morgan State men's basketball coach's contract and school policy regarding disciplining senior staff members when they placed the 48-year-old coach on paid administrative leave Sunday night. Ricky Lefft, a South Carolina-based attorney, said that neither he nor Bozeman has been made aware by school officials as to why the coach was suspended, and that not being allowed to appeal any action taken against Bozeman was a violation of the contract he signed in 2009.

A woman reported that she was raped near the University of Maryland's Baltimore campus last month after getting off a bus, according to an alert from campus police . In a message sent to students and staff, university police said the woman contacted Baltimore Police on Dec. 1 about a rape that she said occurred Nov. 21 in the 200 block of Pearl St. The woman told police that she got off a bus at the intersection of North Greene and West...

A 21-year-old man has been charged with robbing a student at knifepoint last week on the University of Maryland College Park campus, but a second suspect remains at large, campus police said Sunday. Isaiah Graham of Riverdale in Prince George's County was being held by Washington, D.C., police on unrelated robbery charges when University of Maryland police found evidence linking him to the attack Thursday evening on the College Park campus, according to a university police news release.

Maryland reserve sophomore outside linebacker Tim Fosque was arrested Wednesday night by campus police for allegedly stealing a computer, campus police said last night.Fosque, from Neptune, N.J., allegedly took the computer Sept. 22 from the Lee Building on campus with the help of a friend.He allegedly paid the friend $200 to help remove the computer from a desk. Fosque was charged with theft over $300 and breaking and entering.The computer in question was discovered at his home in Laurel during the execution of a search-and-seizure warrant, said Sgt. Paul Tess of the campus police.

Preliminary autopsy results have yet to pinpoint the cause of LTC death of a University of Maryland student who died on the College Park campus Saturday, but no signs of a communicable disease were found, the state medical examiner's office said yesterday.Donald Gene Castleberry, 21, a junior from Millersville in Anne Arundel County, was found dead in bed at 4 p.m. by his roommate in the Delta Tau Delta house on Fraternity Row, campus police said.Fire officials estimated that Castleberry had been dead about 12 hours.

University of Maryland College Park police are looking for two men who robbed a student at knifepoint Thursday evening. University police said the robbery was the first reported on the campus in the past 12 months. The male student was alone, walking from a parking lot near Cecil Hall, a women's dormitory, at about 11:45 p.m. Two men, dressed in dark clothing and wearing masks, approached and threatened the student with a knife, police said. Police did not disclose what was taken from the student, whose identity and age are not being released.

During what was supposed to be a festive homecoming week, the campus of Bowie State University was instead quiet and somber Friday after a student was arrested and charged with killing one of her roommates. According to police, Alexis D. Simpson, 19, fatally stabbed 18-year-old Dominique T. Frazier on Thursday night in the dorm where they both lived. Charging documents show that the confrontation was sparked by a seemingly innocuous act: Simpson turned off Frazier's iPod as they prepared to go out, records show.