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After a six-day trial, a federal jury awarded $225,000 on Wednesday to a Baltimore County police detective who suffered a seizure on the job in 1996. William Blake, 40, who remains in the department, contended in his suit against the county's government that it had violated the Americans with Disabilities Act by ordering him to submit to neurological and fitness-for-duty tests 10 years after he had the seizure. Blake, a member of the department since 1987, was pronounced ready to work three weeks after becoming ill, returned to his duties and suffered no further epileptic episodes.

A Baltimore police detective who was thrust into the national spotlight while leading the investigation into a teenager who disappeared has been suspended after authorities said he allegedly went on a rogue hunt for his own missing daughter. Law enforcement sources — one within the city police department, another affiliated with police who has information on the case — said Tuesday that investigators are probing allegations that detective Daniel Thomas Nicholson IV used his badge while off duty to gain entry to homes in an unauthorized search.

John J. Heidenberg, an Anne Arundel County police detective, was killed Saturday when his 1949 Ford pickup truck ran off a road near his Mechanicsville home. He was 35. Detective Heidenberg, a narcotics officer assigned to work with the federal Drug Enforcement Administration, was showing the antique vehicle to a prospective buyer, who was slightly injured, said Deputy 1st Class Mark Clark of the St. Mary's County sheriff's office. Last year, Detective Heidenberg was awarded a citation for his work with a narcotics team.

A man was shot Sunday afternoon at the corner of Kirk Avenue and Fillmore Street in Northeast Baltimore, according to the Baltimore City Police Department. No other details were available as detectives continued to investigate. Police were also investigating an incident in the 5400 block of Jonquil Avenue, where a man was shot in the arm. andrea.walker@baltsun.com twitter.com/ankwalker Text BUSINESS to 70701 to get Baltimore Sun Business text alerts

Wilbert Leon Sisco Sr., a retired Baltimore police detective, died of heart failure Tuesday at Chester River Hospital Center in Chestertown. He was 79 and lived in Chestertown. Mr. Sisco grew up in Rock Hall and graduated from Garnett School. He served two years in the Army and was a sergeant stationed in Germany and Japan. He married Evelyn C. Johnson in the late 1940s. The marriage ended in divorce. In 1954, he joined the Baltimore Police Department and started out patrolling Gay Street, Broadway and Fayette Street.

Charles A. Glass, a former Baltimore police detective and an avid pool player, died June 28 at Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Lebanon, Pa., after a long illness. He was 58. Mr. Glass was born in Baltimore and grew up in the Govans area. After graduating from City College, he joined the Navy at age 17 and served aboard the destroyer-submarine USS Hunter during the Cuban missile crisis. He later served aboard the USS Camp and the USS Enterprise. Mr. Glass attended the police academy shortly after his tour of duty.

Garnett "Gus" Dobbin Johnson, a Vietnam veteran and retired Baltimore County police detective, died Feb. 26 of lung cancer. He was 59. Fellow officers said he was an aggressive investigator who spent most of his career working armed robbery cases -- from bank robberies to street holdups -- solving about a third of all the department's cases. "He was a hell of a cop," said Gus Vaselaros, who worked with him for 20 years. "He led the show, he knew his job, and he was a damn good detective."

A Howard County police detective was charged with trespassing yesterday, accused of peeping into an apartment window, police said. Detective 1st Class Francis Mort, 33, of Elkridge was served with a summons after reports of a peeping tom at an apartment complex in the 6300 block of Orchard Club Drive in Elkridge. Two residents of the complex called police about 3:30 a.m. Jan. 26 to report a man peering into another resident's window. When police arrived, they found Mort in the building.

A headline on an article in yesterday's editions of The Sun incorrectly stated the guilty plea of Nicholas J. Tomlin, a former Baltimore police detective. Tomlin pleaded guilty to striking one teen-ager and pistol-whipping another.The Sun regrets the errors.A former Baltimore police detective pleaded guilty yesterday to assaulting two teen-agers he believed had shot a fellow officer, pistol-whipping one and striking the other with his flashlight, prosecutors said.Nicholas J. Tomlin, 28, who resigned from the city force and is employed by the DeForest, Wis., Police Department, entered an Alford plea in Baltimore Circuit Court and received a six-month suspended sentence from Judge Mabel H. Hubbard.

A Baltimore police detective who was thrust into the national spotlight while leading the investigation into a teenager who disappeared has been suspended after authorities said he allegedly went on a rogue hunt for his own missing daughter. Law enforcement sources — one within the city police department, another affiliated with police who has information on the case — said Tuesday that investigators are probing allegations that detective Daniel Thomas Nicholson IV used his badge while off duty to gain entry to homes in an unauthorized search.

The Darley Park neighborhood in Northeast Baltimore, where 13-year-old Monae Turnage's body was found Sunday evening under plastic bags behind a house on Cliftview Avenue, has long had issues with violent crime. The girl was found a block from where 12-year-old Sean Johnson was shot and killed in May of last year while sitting on a front porch watching a basketball game. It's also around the corner from where police Detective Michael Rice was shot in March 2011, near a strip of shops along Harford Road, and where another detective, Michael J. Cowdery Jr., was shot and killed in March 2001 when he interrupted a drug deal.

Annapolis Police Detective John Lee has been named the Maryland Polygraph Association's vice president for law enforcement. Police said Lee has been with the department for 18 years. The association is composed of polygraph examiners from law enforcement, government and private industry. andrea.siegel@baltsun.com

After a weekend in which 18 people were shot in the city, including a police detective who was injured and a 4-year-old boy who died, Baltimore Police Commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld III used the spate of violence to argue Monday for tighter gun laws in Maryland. Bealefeld, who has accompanied Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake to Annapolis to push for tougher penalties for gun offenders, bemoaned the availability of illegal guns in the city, and said the arrest record of a man accused of opening fire on a city police officer Friday night in East Baltimore underscores the point.

A Baltimore City homicide detective was shot in the leg about a block from police headquarters Tuesday night. The plainclothes detective was shot a little after 9 p.m. in a parking garage in the unit block of South Frederick Street, Police Commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld III said. The unidentified 13-year police department veteran was taken to Maryland Shock Trauma Center with a graze wound to his left thigh, an injury not considered life-threatening, he said. The detective was in the garage to get something out of his car when a man approached with a small-caliber revolver, Bealefeld said.

The lead investigator in the case of a former Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps instructor charged with having sex with one of his students admitted in court Wednesday that he made a mistake by failing to seize any of Sgt. Charles Ray Moore's uniforms during a search of Moore's Bowie home. Under cross-examination from attorney Thomas Morrow, Howard County Detective Mark Orlofsky said "it was an error" not to take the uniform that Moore might have been wearing when a 17-year-old student said she had sex with him in the JROTC supply closet at Atholton High School.

At a funeral this morning, family and friends will remember the life of a Baltimore police detective who died after an altercation over a Canton parking space. Detective Brian Stevenson, who served 18 years on the Baltimore police force, was killed Oct. 16, an hour before his 38 t h birthday, after police said he was struck on the temple with a chunk of concrete. Stevenson, who lived in Gwynn Oak, grew up in the city and as an officer investigated shootings and robberies in the Northeast District.

The Darley Park neighborhood in Northeast Baltimore, where 13-year-old Monae Turnage's body was found Sunday evening under plastic bags behind a house on Cliftview Avenue, has long had issues with violent crime. The girl was found a block from where 12-year-old Sean Johnson was shot and killed in May of last year while sitting on a front porch watching a basketball game. It's also around the corner from where police Detective Michael Rice was shot in March 2011, near a strip of shops along Harford Road, and where another detective, Michael J. Cowdery Jr., was shot and killed in March 2001 when he interrupted a drug deal.

A Baltimore County circuit judge ruled yesterday that statements a suspect made to a police detective and a jailhouse informant can be used when he is tried in the killing of a 72-year-old pizza shop owner. Judge Robert N. Dugan said after a hearing yesterday that Martin L. Hoffman Jr. was advised of his rights before he talked to police in a series of interviews that led to his arrest July 4. "The court does not find any coercion or any improper police action in interviewing this defendant," Dugan said.

An off-duty Baltimore police detective died Saturday night after he was assaulted in Southeast Baltimore, police said. Sources have identified the officer as Brian A. Stevenson, an 18-year department veteran. Stevenson, who police said was assigned to the Northeast District, was hit in the head with a rock or another hard object and may have been stabbed, said police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi. Police established a crime scene in the parking lot of the Mercy-Canton Family Care center in the 2800 block Hudson Street, near Streeper Street Saturday night.

Three Towson University detectives have been awarded the campus Police Department's Medal of Merit after solving an armed robbery and home invasion in which a student was clubbed with a crowbar. The three detectives, Frank Remesch, Matthew Tewey and Richard Saylor, were among the first officers to arrive when the call for help came from a campus dormitory March 22, but the attackers had already fled. One attacker was armed with a handgun, the other a crowbar, with which he reportedly struck a student on the forehead after bursting into his room, police said.