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A 43-year-old Columbia man was hospitalized after his motorcycle collided with a Howard County police cruiser in North Laurel, county police said. Police said the accident occurred at about 9:40 a.m. Sunday at the intersection of Route 216 and Leishear Road. The officer, identified as nine-year veteran Bryan Mason, was traveling with his emergency lights and siren activated when he slowed to enter the intersection and was struck by a Harley Davidson motorcycle being operated by Frederick Lee Adkins, according to Cpl. Christopher Krieger.

A city police officer was taken to Mercy Medical Center after his police cruiser was rear-ended by another vehicle on the southbound Jones Falls Expressway late Monday afternoon, according to a police spokesman. The officer was on the side of the roadway near West 29th Street writing a report on a separate accident when his cruiser was struck, said Sgt. Anthony Smith. The officer did not have apparent injuries, but was taken to the hospital to be checked by medical personnel as a precaution, Smith said.

A Baltimore County police cruiser collided with another vehicle Saturday in Towson, police said, sending one person to the hospital. The marked patrol unit from Towson collided with a black Mitsubishi SUV just before 2 p.m. near the intersection of Putty Hill Avenue and Goucher Boulevard, according to Baltimore County Police. The police crash team was on the scene investigating the incident at 4:30 p.m. No determination of fault had been made by that time, police said. The injured person was taken to Greater Baltimore Medical Center, police said.

A Baltimore police vehicle was in a collision Saturday afternoon at an East Baltimore intersection, police said. Around 5 p.m. the police cruiser and another car crashed at Chester Street and Ashland Avenue in the Middle East community, according to police spokesman Det. Donny Moses. Both drivers were taken to area hospitals with injuries that are not considered life-threatening, he said. Police are investigating the crash, and Moses said he did not know who was at fault.

A 5-year-old child was struck by a police cruiser in North Baltimore on Tuesday night, a department spokesman said. A marked patrol car struck the unidentified child in the 500 block of Sheridan Ave. near York Road in North Baltimore, said spokesman Detective Jeremy Silbert. He said the child was transported to a local hospital for non-life-threatening injuries. Initial reports indicate the officer was not responding to a call, Silbert said. The crash is being investigated by the department's accident investigating unit.

A 17-year-old bicyclist who was hit by a police cruiser after officers said they saw him selling drugs in East Baltimore and tried to arrest him was in critical condition Monday at Johns Hopkins Hospital, according to a city police spokesman. The youth, whose name was not released because he could face juvenile charges, had been alert and talking to police after he was struck in an alley off the 2300 block of E. Preston St. about 10:40 a.m. Sunday, according to the police report.

Someone broke into a state police cruiser parked as an anti-speeding decoy along Interstate 95 in Harford County and stole a trooper's uniform shirt and Stetson hat off a dummy inside, emergency lights off the top of the car and an electronic transmitter, state police said yesterday.The thefts occurred while the 1989 Chevrolet Caprice was parked off the shoulder of northbound I-95 about two miles south of Route 152 near Fallston overnight July 4, said Cpl. Glenn Gitschier of the John F. Kennedy Barracks in Perryville.

Vandals detonated a powerful illegal explosive device and several firecrackers on top of an unoccupied police cruiser parked in the 3400 block of Marble Arch Drive in Pasadena late Tuesday.Officer Richard P. Lesniewski of the Eastern District station reported that an M-80 and firecrackers were detonated on top of his 1995 Chevrolet Caprice cruiser about 2: 30 a.m. The vandals also threw a bottle of wine at the car but missed, police said. The car was not damaged.Typically, an M-80 is a cylinder 1 1/2 inches long containing 12 ounces of explosives.

A driver whose car crossed a median and struck a police cruiser in front of police headquarters has been released from Maryland Shock Trauma Center. The driver of the crossing car, LeeAnna Lynn Siegmund, 23, of Augusta Avenue in Baltimore was traveling north on Courthouse Drive shortly after 2 a.m. Wednesday, police said. Her Pontiac Sunfire jumped the concrete median at Rogers Avenue, police said, and headed north in the southbound lanes of Rogers Avenue. Police said that the Sunfire hit Pfc. Ronald Mabe III's cruiser.

A police cruiser responding to a report of an armed man collided yesterday with another car at an East Baltimore intersection, sending four people, including a 76-year-old woman, to area hospitals, police said. Police Department spokesman Kevin Enright said the cruiser was westbound on East Fayette Street around 1 p.m. when it hit a Nissan Sentra that was being driven north on North Broadway. The driver of the cruiser, Officer Patrick Nurse, 39, a four-year veteran, told investigators he stopped at a red light before going through with his lights and siren on. Enright said accident investigators are trying to determine whether the officer did stop, as is required.

A Baltimore police officer investigating a domestic disturbance on Saturday morning in the Reservoir Hill neighborhood shot and killed a man armed with a knife, according to authorities. A police spokesman identified the man who was killed as George Wells, 29, of the 2500 block of Brookfield Ave., the same location that the officer had responded for the call. Other details, including how many times and where on his body Wells was shot, were not released on Saturday. Police said Wells was pronounced dead at Maryland Shock Trauma Center at 12:23 p.m., less than 45 minutes after the shooting.

A Baltimore Police officer fatally shot a knife-wielding man after responding to a family disturbance in North Baltimore, officials said Tuesday, the first police shooting since the department implemented new rules governing the investigation of such incidents. The victim was identified as Sheron Carter Jackson, 21, who lived in the 2500 block of W. Coldspring Lane, where the shooting took place. Anthony Guglielmi, the Police Department's chief spokesman, said police were called to a home at about 9:40 a.m. Tuesday when an individual with a weapon was "about to do something crazy.

A state trooper narrowly escaped serious injury during an early-morning chase Friday along Route 152 in southern Harford County, and a suspect has been charged with driving under the influence of alcohol. John Jacob Nussle V, 22, of Joppa also faces assault and malicious destruction charges. Trooper Jon Sawa stopped a 2005 Chevrolet Cobalt at 12:01 a.m. in the southbound lane near Stockton Road for erratic driving. When the driver in the Cobalt fled, the trooper pursued for about three miles in his unmarked patrol car. The cars veered into the northbound lane, and the Cobalt rammed the trooper's vehicle at least once, police said.

Rebecca Chona says she was getting her three small children ready to play Tuesday and watching "Good Day Baltimore" when her husband called during a break at work to talk. As they spoke, she was distracted by a report about a Halethorpe man who allegedly fled from police and stole a police cruiser before being shot and killed by officers. Rebecca and Sundeep "Sunny" Chona wouldn't learn for another four hours that that man was Sunny Chona's 26-year-old brother, Munpreet, known to his friends and family as "Monty.

A man pulled over on Interstate 95 early Tuesday morning was able to flee in a Baltimore County police cruiser before being fatally shot by officers just inside the city line, officials said. Police have identified the man as Monpreet Chona, 26, of Halethorpe. It remained unclear how the officer surrendered the patrol car, with county police saying that aspect remains under investigation. City police, who are investigating the shooting because of where it took place, said no guns were recovered from the suspect or his vehicles.

Demonstrators marching through downtown Baltimore on Saturday to mark the approaching Martin Luther King Jr. holiday had a brief face-off with the police, but the two sides parted ways peacefully without arrests. About 50 marchers who were beginning a three-day trek to Washington, D.C., to decry economic and social inequality stopped at about 1 p.m. at the corner of Howard and Lexington streets — the former location of Read's Drug Store, a landmark in civil rights history. The store was the scene of a sit-in protesting racial segregation by students from what was then Morgan State College in January 1955, months before the Montgomery bus boycott and five years before the more celebrated lunch counter sit-in in Greensboro, N.C. The police, who had been trying to get the marchers to stay on the sidewalk when they walked down Eutaw Street toward Lexington, kept watch on foot and in several cruisers as the crowd stopped at what is now a boarded-up store and began chanting "No justice, no peace, no racist police.

A 20-year-old Baltimore man has been charged with trying to ram a Howard County police cruiser at the start of a high-speed car chase in May.Rodney Kareem Parker of the 1100 block of N. Calhoun St. was arrested Saturday and charged with assault with intent to murder, malicious destruction of property, being a rogue and a vagabond, tampering with a motor vehicle and resisting arrest.He was being held yesterday at the Howard County Detention Center on $10,000 bail.Police said that on May 17, five young men in a stolen 1990 Acura Legend attempted to steal two more cars in the 6000 block of Majors Lane in Columbia.

Police officers shot and wounded a man Thursday who was driving a car linked to an armed robbery after chasing the vehicle nearly 30 miles from southern Anne Arundel County to Lansdowne, according to a Baltimore County police spokeswoman. During the chase up Interstate 97, police said, the man waved a handgun out of the window of the car. The pursuit involved state troopers and officers from Baltimore City and Baltimore and Anne Arundel counties. Detective Cathy Batton, the Baltimore County police spokeswoman, said the chase began about 11 a.m. on Solomons Island Road, southwest of Annapolis, and ended at 11:48 a.m. at Virginia Avenue and Fenor Road in the Baltimore Highlands neighborhood.

Police officers on Thursday shot and wounded a man driving a car linked to an armed robbery after chasing the vehicle nearly 30 miles from southern Anne Arundel County to Lansdowne, according to a Baltimore County police spokeswoman. During the chase up Interstate 97, police said the man waved a handgun out of the window of the car. The pursuit involved troopers from the Maryland State Police and officers from Baltimore City and Baltimore and Anne Arundel Counties. Det. Cathy Batton, the Baltimore County police spokeswoman, said the chase began about 11:07 a.m. on Solomons Island Road, southwest of Annapolis, and ended about 11:48 a.m. at Virginia Avenue and Fenor Road in the Baltimore Highlands neighborhood.