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Harford County sheriff's deputies are investigating a shooting in Edgewood late Wednesday evening. Deputies responded to Edgewater Drive at Fisherman's Lane in Edgewater Village around 10:15 p.m. and found a 22-year-old man lying on the ground, according to a news release from the Harford County Sheriff's Office. Tarez Kwame Williams had been shot in the leg and was taken by ambulance to Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in Baltimore, according to the sheriff's office. He has since been released, from the hospital.

An Edgewood man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to dragging a Harford County Sheriff's Deputy with a vehicle following a traffic stop last December. William Scott Fetzer, 33, of Spring Meadow Court in Edgewood, also pleaded guilty to multiple drug offenses and vehicle theft during an appearance in Harford County Circuit Court Thursday before Judge Emory A. Plitt Sr., Harford County State's Attorney's Joseph Cassilly said. According to a news release announcing the sentence, Fetzer was a passenger in a car that was to be searched by a K-9, when he commandeered the car and fought with Deputy Tyler Vass for control of the vehicle.

Harford County Sheriff's Office deputies have identified a man crushed underneath a Bobcat tractor in Joppa on Thursday. Johnathan David Maxwell, 29, of Watkinsville, Ga., was pronounced dead at the scene after he was caught below the hydraulic lift of his Bobcat skid loader. The man was attempting to make repairs to the equipment. Deputies and emergency workers responded to the call about noon in the 2400 block of Old Mountain Road Central.

Maryland's deputy secretary of labor stepped up Thursday as interim secretary, filling a job emptied when Alexander M. Sanchez left this week to become chief of staff to Baltimore's mayor. Scott R. Jensen worked two stints at the state Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation. From 2007 to 2009, he was a special assistant to the secretary, focusing on expanding unemployment insurance benefits to part-time workers and aligning adult education — including in correctional facilities — with the state's workforce development system.

In the dark VIP parking garage beneath an Annapolis building, a light flickered. A wounded victim cried out for help. The sound of shouting competed with the thunder of gunshots. And people hung around and watched. The drama played out repeatedly Monday afternoon, as the staff of the Anne Arundel County Sheriff's Office spent the day conducting security training in the county courthouse. "Training of this sort can help us fine-tune our tactical response and identify points of weakness and keep our people's skills up," said Sheriff Ronald Bateman.

The Carroll County Sheriff's Office said Monday that a Sykesville man — who had been wanted for allegedly abducting his girlfriend's son before releasing him unharmed — had turned himself in. Michael Andrew Terrell, 31, of Sykesville surrendered Sunday afternoon to sheriff's deputies, who served him with charges for second-degree assault, child abduction and disturbing the peace. Terrell's arrest ended a weeklong investigation into his whereabouts following an altercation between Terrell and his live-in girlfriend.

A Forest Heights woman disputed the official account of the incident in which her dog was shot to death Friday by Prince George's County sheriff's deputies who had gone to her home to serve an eviction notice. In a statement, the sheriff's department said that deputies knocked on the front and back doors of the home and made a commotion, but they received no response indicating that a dog was present. But Donya Williams, 38, said Monday that her 2 1/2-year-old Rottweiler, Kato, barked whenever anyone knocked on the door or walked by outside.

An Abingdon man was found shot after Harford County sheriff's deputies tried to serve a warrant for child support, according to the sheriff's office. On Tuesday afternoon, deputies attempting to serve a $4,000 Bureau of Support Enforcement warrant on Ralph Wayne Beakley, 53, at his home in the 3200 block of Philadelphia Road heard several loud pops similar to gunfire as they approached his home, according to the sheriff's office. There was no response from inside the house, so deputies had to get a search warrant to enter.

County police officers and sheriff's deputies are going to court to seek an hourly pay raise equal to one they say county firefighters received earlier this year.Yesterday in county Circuit Court, the officers and deputies filed an appeal of a March 23 county Personnel Board decision denying their grievance seeking a pay raise.The officers and deputies argue that firefighters received a raise, since more than 80 percent of the firefighters had their hours reduced while their annual salaries remained unchanged.

The increasing number of part-time sheriff's deputies hired to patrol Anne Arundel County's courthouse has full-timers worried about job security and the newcomers' ability to do the work.Their concern is aimed at the part-time deputies hired in recent weeks by Patrick Ogle, Sheriff Robert Pepersack's second-in-command.The deputies say the 26 part-timers lack the training and experience needed to escort prisoners in the courthouse."A lot of the full-time deputies have expressed concerns about the adequacies of their training," said 2nd Lt. Jerry Palazola, training officer for the sheriff's office and president of the 26-member Fraternal Order of Police, Lodge 106. The group represents full-time deputies.

A Harford County Sheriff's Office deputy, who was rushed to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center Thursday night after experiencing a medical emergency, is "improving," a sheriff's office spokesperson said Tuesday. Meanwhile, the sheriff's office is conducting an internal inquiry into what happened to the deputy and the length of time it took to find him, Sheriff Jesse Bane said. Bane identified the deputy Tuesday as Sgt. Noel Raufaste of the agency's Police Services Division. Raufaste, who has been with the agency 10 years, was on duty at the time he became ill, Monica Worrell, spokesperson for the sheriff's office said.

At about 7:15 Monday evening, a 17-year-old male, who was bleeding from multiple stab wounds to his upper torso, flagged down a Harford County Sheriff's Office patrol deputy on Woodbridge Center Way near Acorn Ridge Court in Edgewood. The victim was taken in stable condition by ambulance from Joppa Magnolia Volunteer Fire Company to John Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in Baltimore. A preliminary investigation found that the assault occurred in the 1300 block of Apple Ridge Court in Edgewood.

A man who robbed a PNC Bank in the 2300 block of Rock Spring Road in Forest Hill about 4:40 p.m. Thursday was taken into police custody after fleeing the area, according to the Harford County Sheriff's Office. After leaving the bank, the man drove several miles south to Fallston, where he "bailed out" of his car near the Walmart on Bel Air Road, said Monica Worrell, a sheriff's office spokesman. A Baltimore County Police helicopter unit had been tracking him, and assisted Harford deputies in locating the man in the Walmart parking lot, where he was caught, Worrell said.

The union that represents Anne Arundel County's upper police ranks plans to run a radio ad beginning Thursday in support of the department's second-in-command, who has called for a federal probe of the department and said the force is "dysfunctional. " The International Brotherhood of Police Officers, which represents Anne Arundel's police lieutenants and sergeants, paid for the ad that trumpets Deputy Police Chief Lt. Col. Emerson C. Davis as having taken a "brave stand" by testifying in front of the County Council about alleged improprieties by his superiors.

Harford County sheriff's deputies are investigating a shooting in Edgewood late Wednesday evening. Deputies responded to Edgewater Drive at Fisherman's Lane in Edgewater Village around 10:15 p.m. and found a 22-year-old man lying on the ground, according to a news release from the Harford County Sheriff's Office. Tarez Kwame Williams had been shot in the leg and was taken by ambulance to Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in Baltimore, according to the sheriff's office. He has since been released, from the hospital.

The Anne Arundel County Police Department's second in command has agreed to appear before the County Council on Monday night and answer questions as part of an inquiry into pending criminal charges against County Executive John R. Leopold. Deputy Police Chief Lt. Col. Emerson C. Davis accepted an invitation from Councilman Jamie Benoit, writing to the council in an email Wednesday afternoon. "If it is still your desire for me to appear before the County Council to answer questions regarding the police department ... I will accept your invitation," Davis wrote.

Five young men were stabbed late Saturday in Edgewood, the Harford County sheriff's office said Sunday. Sheriff's deputies were called to the 400 block of Meadowood Drive just before midnight and found two stabbing victims, a 22-year-old with chest injuries trying to help a 19-year-old with multiple wounds, said Monica Worrell, a spokeswoman for the sheriff's office. A third victim, an 18-year-old who also had been stabbed in the chest, then approached the scene, she said. The young men said they were attacked while walking to a friend's house in the Windsor Valley neighborhood from a gas station in the 1700 block of Hanson Road.

Five men between the ages of 17 and 22 told the Harford County Sheriff's Office that they were stabbed by an unknown group of men shortly before midnight Saturday as they were walking in the 1600 block of Meadowood Drive toward a friend's house in Edgewood. Shortly before midnight, deputies responded to the 400 block of Meadowood Drive for a report of a stabbing with multiple victims that had occurred in the 1600 block of Meadowood Court. When deputies arrived, they found a 19-year-old, who had been stabbed multiple times in his torso.