Campus Police

A bail hearing is scheduled today in Upper Marlboro for an 18-year-old Washington man charged with raping a University of Maryland student in her College Park dormitory room, authorities said.The suspect, identified by campus police as David Earl Williams, was arrested before dawn Friday after the student told campus police she had been raped in her room in La Plata Hall.A 16-year-old boy accompanying the suspect also was taken into custody but was later released without being charged. Mr. Williams, who is not a university student, was being held without bond yesterday at the Prince George's County Detention Center, police said.

During a packed town hall meeting at the University of Maryland, Eastern Shore Tuesday, campus police said as many as 30 people may have witnessed the death of student Edmond A. St. Clair over the weekend and asked students with information to come forward. About 3,000 students, faculty and staff gathered in the Hytche Athletic Center on the Princess Anne campus for the meeting, where school officials and campus police attempted to allay concerns about security. The interim police chief, Kenneth Collins, told the audience he was aware of "rumors" about possible suspects in the stabbing and said: "If they have any validity, this investigation may very well be over.

A 21-year-old Towson University student was raped in her off-campus apartment by an intruder, Baltimore County police said yesterday. The woman was sleeping in the bedroom of her apartment in the Fairways at Towson complex when a man broke in just after 5 a.m. Tuesday, police said. The man assaulted and raped her, police said. She was treated at a nearby hospital and released, said Officer Shawn Vinson, a county police spokesman. Police were not disclosing details of how the man broke into the apartment in the 1300 block of Airlie Way, and they did not release a description of the assailant.

The director of Morgan State University's police force said he was investigating how officers handled the melee at Dedication Day ceremonies attended by Gov. William Donald Schaefer yesterday that left at least two students, two officers and a 6-month-old infant injured.But Reese L. Boyd denied charges by some students that his officers used clubs and handcuffs and threw punches to stop a (( student protest inside Murphy Auditorium, where the ceremonies were held."Our officers used very minimum force," said Mr. Boyd, director of the 33-officer force, who said he attended the ceremonies.

Mancel Johnson, a two-year starter at wide receiver, was suspended from the Maryland football team after he was charged with two counts of theft of under $300.Johnson, a junior from Lanham, was suspended by coach Mark Duffner from spring practice and the Terps' first two games next season. Johnson, 20, was arrested by campus police yesterday, and released by a Prince George's County commissioner on personal recognizance to his father. Trial was set for March 18.The misdemeanor charges arose from a series of on-campus incidents early on the morning of Dec. 3.Witnesses told campus police that a group of from 12 to 15 men, several identified as football players and recruits, roamed through several residence halls, created diversions and took items.

COLLEGE PARK -- University of Maryland campus police have charged a member of the university's women's basketball team with the theft of items that had been reported missing from a woman's purse in November.Allene K. Williams, 19, of Brooklyn, N.Y., who is known by her middle name, Kwana, surrendered herself to campus police Thursday night after she was charged with four counts of theft of items of a value less than $300, according to a police press release.Williams, who averaged 10.1 points and three assists a game before she was suspended indefinitely by coach Chris Weller before the Florida State game on Jan. 14, was held on $500 bond, which she paid.

A struggle between a campus police officer and a theft suspect at the University of Maryland, Baltimore ended yesterday when the suspect was shot in the leg, school officials said.University spokesman Chris Hart said veteran Officer Artice Johnson, 40, saw a man breaking the window of a car parked in the 500 block of W. Lombard St. about 6: 22 p.m. The man fled, Johnson gave chase and caught him a short distance away on Paca Street near Cider Alley.The two men struggled, Hart said, and Johnson's gun discharged, wounding the man. Johnson was not hurt.

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 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.

A woman receiving treatment for an infected leg at the University of Maryland Medical Center has alleged that she was sexually assaulted by another patient early Friday, said her husband and a hospital spokeswoman. The 47-year-old woman from Baltimore said that a man staying in a room across the hall entered her room, unfastened her clothes and touched her, her husband said. Ellen Beth Levitt, a hospital spokeswoman, confirmed the husband's report of his wife's assault. "To my knowledge this has never happened before," she added.