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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."

A female Baltimore officer has filed a federal sexual harassment lawsuit seeking $12 million in damages because a male officer allegedly subjected her to lewd comments and gestures.Officer Ditanya Washington, 24, filed the suit Monday in U.S. District Court in Baltimore against Officer William Brown, who she said often acted as her supervisor in the absence of her sergeant.The state of Maryland, Baltimore's mayor and City Council, city police officials and Police Commissioner Edward V. Woods also were named as defendants.

An alert Baltimore County police officer stopped a robbery suspect returning to a Dundalk motel yesterday morning, arrested the man and confiscated a draftsman's T square the suspect had allegedly presented as a gun in six holdups since Tuesday.John Kevin Joiner, 32, of Brunswick was charged with four counts of robbery with a deadly weapon, the Dec. 27 burglary of Gattus' Bar in the 600 block of North Point Road, and petty theft of a license plate from a car parked outside the bar, said county police spokesman Sgt. Stephen R. Doarnberger.

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."

Annapolis Police Officer Keith L. Brown was fired yesterday, two weeks after a police trial board found him guilty of charges stemming from his failure to keep his K-9 dog on a leash during a drunken disturbance at an Annapolis American Legion Post.Officer Brown could not be reached last night for comment.

A police trial board has recommended that a 31-year-old Annapolis officer be suspended for 10 days without pay for failing to keep his K-9 dog on a leash and filing a false report.Officer Keith L. Brown was also found guilty of unbecoming conduct by the three-member board Friday, but five other charges against him were dismissed. Police Chief Harold Robbins will review and act on the board's recommendation.A complaint was filed against Officer Brown after he left his dog with a fellow officer while investigating a shooting Aug. 25, 1991, at one of the city's public housing projects.

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.

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.