Charged With Assault

Two Westminster men were arrested yesterday on assault charges after being accused of chasing a man through the city late Sunday, court records show.Jonathan T. Jarbo of Westminster said two men armed with large knives chased him from Manchester Avenue to the rear of the 200 block of E. Main St. while yelling that they were going to kill him, records show.Jarbo provided descriptions, and police said two suspects were arrested in the vicinity of the 200 block of E. Main St.Michael J. Bryant, 25, of the 300 block of W. Main St. and Michael J. Peery, 19, of the first block of S. Church St. each were charged with first-degree assault and reckless endangerment, according to court records.

County police arrested a Pasadena man on assault charges Wednesday after their third visit to his house in four hours to settle domestic arguments.Police were first called to the house in the 8400 block of Main Ave. shortly before 11 p.m. Tuesday, but when they arrived, Deborah S. Cary, 46, told officers her husband, Joseph, had left in a cab.Mrs. Cary called again about four hours later, saying the fighting had started again, police said. Police tried to calm her and her husband, who eventually asked police to leave.

Howard County police filed assault charges over the weekend after a car chase that started in Ellicott City and ended in east Columbia.According to police, Officer James Marshall attempted to stop a car traveling south at almost 90 mph on U.S. 29 near U.S. 40 in Ellicott City early Saturday, pursuing it when it failed to stop.Police spokesman Sgt. Steven Keller said the car went from U.S. 29 to Route 108 eastbound and then into the Glenmont neighborhood near Columbia's Long Reach village, stopping in RTC the 5900 block of Golden Sky Court.

Poly football coach Augie Waibel and athletic director Mark Schlenoff said yesterday that they were shocked to hear that University of Tennessee wide receiver and Poly graduate Greg Kyler had been charged with assault over the weekend.Kyler, The Sun's 1993 Offensive Player of the Year, and teammate Anthony P. Hampton were charged with assault early Saturday for allegedly beating and kicking a university employee in an off-campus apartment complex courtyard."To hear this news has been devastating.

Former state Sen. Clarence M. Mitchell III, who spent 16 months in federal prison for influence-peddling, was arrested yesterday and charged with assault after an altercation with his wife in their Northwest Baltimore home, according to police and court documents.Mitchell, whose late father and namesake is the civil rights leader after whom Baltimore's Circuit Court building is named, was arrested on a warrant charging him with spousal abuse of his wife, Joyce.The arrest came after an incident yesterday morning at the couple's home in the 6300 block of Wallis Ave., said Sam Ringgold, a Baltimore police spokesman.

An Annapolis man was arrested Wednesday on charges of stabbing a man with whom he had been drinking during an argument over who would buy more beer, county police said.Henry Allan Estep Jr., 23, of the 900 block of Bay Ridge Road was charged with assault with intent to maim, assault with a deadly weapon and battery.Friedhelm Fred Haag, 41, of the 100 block of Gardner Drive in Annapolis was taken to Anne Arundel Medical Center, where he was treated and released.Pub Date: 4/19/96

A Centreville, Va., man was arrested and charged with assault and battery Saturday after the driver of a vehicle was assaulted and an officer was wrestled to the ground.An officer on patrol at 1:56 a.m. saw a car on a curb and three men standing around it. One of the men told the officer that the driver had run away. The officer asked the man for his driver's license, and the man cursed at the officer, picked him up and threw him, police said. The other two men told police that the car's owner had been driving when the same man began hitting him.Police arrested Norman Dan Dixon, 46, of the 6000 block of Westboune Place and charged him, among other things, with two counts of assault and battery, resisting arrest and destruction of property.

A 46-year-old Upperco man charged with raping his step-grandsons will be evaluated to determine whether he is competent to stand trial, a Carroll County Circuit Court judge decided yesterday.The man -- whose name is being withheld to protect the identity of the two children -- also has been charged with assault with intent to murder because he is HIV-positive.The man is the first person Carroll prosecutors have charged with assault with intent to murder in a sexual abuse case. His case is one of a handful of such cases in Maryland.

Police arrested a man Sunday and charged him with assaulting a Severn woman and then struggling with police.Witnesses told police that Debora Ann Darden, 18, of the 1700 block of Meade Circle Road was sitting with a friend in a car parked in her neighborhood shortly before 8 p.m. Sunday when a former boyfriend walked up to the car and began to yelling at her.Police say Ms. Darden opened the window and the man punched her in the right eye, pulled her out...

A Pasadena man was charged with assault with intent to maim after a bar fight about closing time Sunday morning, county police said yesterday.According to police, Heinz Roes was trying to break up an argument between his wife and another woman at the Wooden Nickel Bar in the 8300 block of Baltimore-Annapolis Blvd. in Pasadena. When he stepped between the two women, another man hit him in the chin with broken glass, they said.Mr. Roes was taken to North Arundel Hospital, where he received 26 stitches to close his wound and was released.

A Baltimore City homicide detective and a Baltimore County sheriff's deputy have been charged with assault after a man was beaten until he was unconscious last September outside of a Govans barbershop while off duty. Prosecutors charged Terry W. Love Jr., a nine-year veteran of the Baltimore Police Department, and Deputy Sheriff Michael Herring with second-degree assault, which carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison, as well as reckless endangerment and use of a deadly weapon with intent to injure.

Police Blotter is a sampling of crimes from police reports in Baltimore and Baltimore County. Baltimore Eastern Assault/arrest -- Police responding to a report of a man armed with a gun in a house in the 2300 block of Aiken St. about 11 a.m. Wednesday were told by a female resident that the man had struck and kicked her a few minutes earlier and threatened her with the weapon. Arrested and charged with assault was Derron Burston, 29, of the same address. The woman was not seriously injured.

A 15-year-old Westminster High School student was charged as a juvenile with second-degree assault after punching a fellow student between classes yesterday morning, Maryland State Police and school officials said. The victim, also 15, was taken to Johns Hopkins Children's Center "as a precaution," said Trooper A.J. Hall of the Maryland State Police. "Everything appears to be fine," said Hall, who spoke with the victim's father about her condition. The incident seemed to be part of an ongoing argument, apparently over a boy, Hall said.

Maryland senior basketball forward Travis Garrison appeared before a Prince George's County District Court commissioner yesterday and was formally charged with second-degree assault and a fourth-degree sex offense, according to court documents obtained by The Sun. The incident reportedly occurred at 1:15 a.m. on Oct. 27 at the Cornerstone Grill and Loft in College Park. The victim alleged that Garrison, 21, grabbed her buttocks three times, despite her objections. According to the documents, she was forced to push Garrison away, and he hit her in the face with his hand, causing her lip to bleed.

An Annapolis man was arrested Tuesday morning and charged with assault in connection with the stabbing of a Glen Burnie man, Annapolis police said. Jermaine Donte Mitchell, 22, of the 600 block of Island Creek Court was charged with second-degree assault, reckless endangerment and weapons violations. Mitchell is accused of stabbing a 32-year-old Glen Burnie man who police said was trying to break up a domestic fight Saturday in the 700 block of Newtowne Drive in Annapolis. Police say the victim suffered minor wounds to his back.

State police in Calvert County charged a 16-year-old boy with two counts of first-degree assault last night in two sniper-style shootings in Huntingtown, one of them apparently targeting a school bus. Aaron Daniel Barrett, 16, of Huntingtown was charged as an adult due to the seriousness of the incidents, said Cpl. Rob Moroney. Barrett is accused of using a firearm to shoot at a bus carrying 25 students from Northern High and Northern Middle schools about 3 p.m. Thursday. The bullet did not penetrate the interior of the bus, and no one was hurt.

A Severna Park woman was recovering yesterday and police charged a former boyfriend with breaking into her home on Friday, tying her up and stabbing her, police said. Matthew Erisman was charged with assault with intent to kill, first- and second-degree assault, breaking and entering, and violating a protective order, said Capt. Athena M. Marpel of the Anne Arundel police. Erisman broke into the victim's home while she was walking her dog, Marpel said. When she returned, Erisman attacked her and tied her up, Marpel said.

An Ellicott City dentist has been charged with sexually assaulting a 22-year-old female patient last week by rubbing her inner thighs while she was under the influence of nitrous oxide. Howard County police arrested Evan Carmo DePadua, 37, whose office is in the 10300 block of Baltimore National Pike, Thursday night after a nearly weeklong investigation into the allegations. The police are asking DePadua's patients to contact them if they believe they have been victimized, said county police spokeswoman Sherry Llewellyn.

A 33-year-old Columbia woman accused of intentionally ramming her car into a friend after an argument was arrested yesterday and charged with attempted murder and assault, police said. The friend, Anita Booker, 35, of the 5800 block of Stevens Forest Road, was taken to Maryland Shock Trauma Center by ambulance. She was listed in fair condition last night. Tracy Hinegardner, who lives in the same block of Stevens Forest Road but not in the same building, was at the scene in the 5700 block of Thunder Hill Road when officers arrived about 3 a.m., police said.

Two Westminster men were arrested yesterday on assault charges after being accused of chasing a man through the city late Sunday, court records show.Jonathan T. Jarbo of Westminster said two men armed with large knives chased him from Manchester Avenue to the rear of the 200 block of E. Main St. while yelling that they were going to kill him, records show.Jarbo provided descriptions, and police said two suspects were arrested in the vicinity of the 200 block of E. Main St.Michael J. Bryant, 25, of the 300 block of W. Main St. and Michael J. Peery, 19, of the first block of S. Church St. each were charged with first-degree assault and reckless endangerment, according to court records.