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A Western District officer took time off from fighting crime Wednesday afternoon to help a baby sitter who had been locked out of a house by a toddler, county police said.Officer Howard Brown went to a house in the 2200 block of September Drive about noon and found Julissa Cassidy, 23, and 4-year-old Raleigh O'Conner outside. They had been locked out by Michael O'Conner, age 15 months, police said.It was about noon that Raleigh walked out of the house and wandered down September Drive. Ms. Cassidy chased him, and Raleigh's brother slammed the front door and locked them out. The boy and Ms. Cassidy's 9-month-old daughter, Alison Cassidy, were inside.

The head of the Annapolis Police Department's Black Officer Association charged yesterday that the police chief and his staff tried to set him up in an undercover drug sting because he criticized the department as racist."

Police officer suspended for disobeying ordersA 31-year-old Annapolis police officer has been suspended with pay for allegedly failing to follow his captain's orders, a department spokesman said yesterday.Officer Keith L. Brown was disciplined after he refused to take part in a K-9 police dog training session, said Officer Dermott Hickey, a police spokesman.A departmental hearing board ruled yesterday that Officer Brown should remain suspended until an investigation of the incident is completed.

Undercover Baltimore police officers saturated the Fells Point tourist area Friday night and early yesterday on the second weekend in a row and charged more than 50 people with unruly behavior.Sweeping into the waterfront community of trendy bars, restored 19th-century rowhouses and 4,000 residents, officers continued their new "nobody gets a break" policy, strictly enforcing the laws on alcohol, littering and disorderly conduct.Answering complaints from many of the people arrested or summoned to court, Officer David Brown said even minor offenses such as drinking alcohol and urinating in public contribute to the city's decay.

WASHINGTON -- In one of the largest police corruption cases in Washington's history, a dozen officers have been indicted on charges that they took bribes to protect federal undercover agents who they thought were drug dealers and to help transport cocaine.The indictment was returned by a federal grand jury Tuesday, when the defendants were taken into custody. All 12 pleaded not guilty yesterday and were taken from the courtroom to a local jail, where they will be held pending hearings on whether they should be granted bail.

OCEAN CITY -- In a rare outbreak of deadly violence, a suspect in the robbery and killing of a guest at the Stowaway Motel was shot to death early yesterday by an Ocean City police officer.Authorities said Officer Joseph Brown, patrolling the Boardwalk on horseback, witnessed what he thought was a robbery in an outside corridor of the motel at 22nd Street, heard a shot, and confronted a shotgun-wielding suspect identified as John William Taylor of Salisbury.Mr. Taylor, 38, was pointing a 12-gauge, sawed-off shotgun at Officer Brown when the policeman fired his semiautomatic service pistol and fatally wounded the suspect near the Stowaway's swimming pool, police said.

Officer Tony Brown heard the shots and saw the smoke from the gun. A woman had been wounded. Bleeding, she limped toward the Baltimore policeman, who was patrolling near Market Place at the Inner Harbor.Officer Brown's partner stayed with the woman, but Officer Brown took off after the man with the gun -- not on foot, not in a police car, but on his horse, Sundance.Sundance barreled down Lombard Street, through the Flag House Courts public housing development, along sidewalks, around fences and finally down an alley.

The search for the killers of Baltimore millionaire J. Schuyler "Sky" Alland was at a standstill in the summer of 1992. Whoever executed the businessman for his $80,000 black BMW apparently had gotten away with murder -- not to mention the car.U.S. Park Police Detective Timothy M. Squires was handling the first murder of his career, but he made a bold promise."He promised that he would find these guys," said Dorothy Alland Leighton, Mr. Alland's mother. "He said, 'Even when I retire, I'll continue to work on this case with no pay until I find who killed your son.' "His promise was fulfilled Wednesday when federal prosecutors wrapped up an intricate nationwide investigation into the February 1992 murder with the conviction of the killer, John Graham Bridges, 30, of Norfolk, Va. A co-defendant, Robert Patrick Gray, 25, of Cockeysville pleaded guilty Nov. 5."

Westminster Mayor W. Benjamin Brown announced yesterday that he will run for Carroll commissioner in the 1994 election.At an afternoon press conference at City Hall, Mr. Brown, aRepublican and frequent critic of the current commissioners, said his experience with the city has prepared him for county office."

Carroll County's public assistance and food stamp recipients, approximately 1,500 of them, didn't get welfare checks or food stamps in the mail this month.Instead, they got new cards that allow them to withdraw cash from MOST automatic teller machines and pay with plastic at the supermarket.The conversion "is going very well, considering," said David Ensor, assistant director for income maintenance at the Carroll County Department of Social Services.He said the staff found only a few glitches, such as incorrect codes entered into the computer.