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March 22, 2009
Hearing delayed in hit-and-run HEMPSTEAD, N.Y.: An extradition hearing in New York for a man accused in a hit-and-run that killed a McDaniel College student has been delayed until Wednesday. Police in Hempstead, N.Y., said the hearing for Shawron Bibbs, 29, was postponed after a local warrant for him was found. Westminster police say Bibbs was driving a pickup truck that hit a car carrying five McDaniel College students Feb. 6. Thomas Rouleau, 19, of Gilboa, N.Y., died at the scene. Charges against Bibbs include felony negligent manslaughter by auto, felony theft and felony unlawful taking of a motor vehicle.
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By STEVEN STANEK | June 3, 2008
A 17-year-old Annapolis resident was given a 35-year sentence yesterday for the fatal shooting of an 18-year-old friend Halloween night. Dupree Rashard Williams, who confessed to shooting Jerome D. Hughes with an automatic handgun outside a public housing community, was sentenced to 25 years for second-degree murder and 10 years, to be served consecutively, for use of a handgun in committing a felony. Circuit Judge Philip T. Caroom suspended half of the sentence and said Williams could be eligible for placement at the Patuxent Institution, a state treatment facility for mentally ill prisoners.
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April 22, 2008
Man pleads guilty in fatal crash A 20-year-old Anne Arundel County man who prosecutors said was drunk, high on drugs and speeding when the stolen car he was driving crashed, killing a passenger, pleaded guilty yesterday to a manslaughter charge. Michael Arnell Davis of the 400 block of Monterey Ave. in Annapolis, who is on probation for armed robbery, was driving at speeds up to 100 miles an hour before the Jan. 20, 2007, crash, prosecutors said. Davis pleaded guilty to charges of negligent manslaughter and unauthorized use of a motor vehicle.
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By Will Beall | May 2, 2007
I was in my dorm room at San Diego State University, listening to the Led Zeppelin cover of "When the Levee Breaks," when I first saw George Holliday's amateur video of the Rodney King incident on CNN. It looked like those grainy films of Selma, Ala., in 1965, and the brutality turned my stomach. They didn't really talk about Rodney King when I went through the Los Angeles Police Academy a few years later. The department just tore its clothes and sat shiva for those officers, and we didn't speak of them or the deadly riots that followed their acquittals 15 years ago this week.
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By Josh Mitchell | March 25, 2005
The panel that sets minimum standards for police recruits across the state is considering a proposal to further ease the rules on prior drug use in order to attract more applicants to short-staffed departments. Supporters of the policy change say it would widen the pool of potential recruits and allow police agencies to consider applicants who might have experimented with drugs earlier in their lives but are now clean. But some law enforcement officials contend that any loosening of the guidelines would send the wrong message about the acceptability of drug use. They say that previous drug use would hurt an officer's credibility in court and raise doubts about a recruit's judgment.
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By Andrea F. Siegel | December 22, 2004
Saying drug use, a chaotic upbringing and a severe beating left a convicted murderer mentally impaired, an Anne Arundel County judge yesterday spared him the death penalty and sentenced the Glen Burnie man to two terms of life without parole for killing his landlady and her daughter-in-law. Anne Arundel County Circuit Judge Pamela L. North said "overwhelming evidence from expert after expert" led her to conclude that Kenneth Ernest Abend, 42, either was unable to control himself or did not fully appreciate what he was doing when he killed Laverne M. Browning, 70, and Tamie C. Browning, 36, nearly three years ago. But Abend's longtime PCP dependence and violence made him far too dangerous for anything but life in prison without parole, North told the packed Annapolis courtroom.
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By Andrea F. Siegel | August 5, 2004
A teenager was sentenced yesterday to 30 years in prison for killing the driver of the moving car in which he was a passenger - a man he said was as close to him as a "big brother or an uncle" - in a fatal shooting that his lawyer blamed on a mind-bending mix of drugs and cog- nac. Ervin Demontray Montague, 18, tearfully apologized to the family of Aaron Kirk Howard, 33, saying, "I pray my words rest on your heart." Then Anne Arundel County Circuit Judge Michael E. Loney sentenced Montague to 25 years for second-degree murder and the minimum five years for use of a handgun in the killing, which occurred April 20 last year on Admiral Drive outside an Annapolis-area condominium complex.
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By Andrea F. Siegel | August 5, 2004
A teenager was sentenced yesterday to 30 years in prison for killing the driver of the moving car in which he was a passenger - a man he said was as close to him as a "big brother or an uncle" - in a fatal shooting that his lawyer blamed on a mind-bending mix of drugs and cognac. Ervin Demontray Montague, 18, tearfully apologized to the family of Aaron Kirk Howard, 33, saying, "I pray my words rest on your heart." Then Anne Arundel County Circuit Judge Michael E. Loney sentenced Montague to 25 years for second-degree murder and the minimum five years for use of a handgun in the killing, which occurred April 20 last year on Admiral Drive outside an Annapolis-area condominium complex.
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By Del Quentin Wilber | February 6, 2004
A state panel that sets standards for police hiring and training throughout Maryland is considering a proposal that would allow recruits to become police officers even if they had experimented with heroin, LSD and PCP - a move aimed at increasing the pool of applicants for short-staffed departments. The plan, however, is drawing stiff opposition from a broad range of police commanders and union leaders who contend that hiring officers who have used those substances sends the wrong message about the acceptability of criminal behavior.
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By Jennifer McMenamin | October 6, 2003
One kid asked why teen-agers can't hang out together without getting "harassed" by police. Another asked about the constitutionally protected right to free speech through blasting music from a car stereo. Trevor Groomes, an 18-year-old who said he has spent the past four years in and out of juvenile lockups, had a somewhat more specific question. "If you do smoke and you're underage or whatever, and you got two different packs of cigarettes but one pack has PCP and embalming fluid on it, can you even tell the difference?"