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Ed Reed should have been in Hawaii this week, getting ready to play in yet another Pro Bowl. Instead, the Ravens highly decorated safety sat in Luling, La., grieving over the loss of a younger brother in a tragedy that left critical questions unanswered. At a news conference in which authorities said the body pulled from the Mississippi River late Tuesday almost certainly was that of 29-year-old Brian Reed, it was left for Ed to serve as family spokesman and guiding light. Reed, in obvious distress, spoke of "a loving kid" and doting father who got caught up in the "worldly ways" of our time.

A Baltimore County police officer pleaded guilty to misconduct and agreed to resign after admitting to filming himself numerous times engaging in sex acts and neglecting to respond to calls while on duty. Aaron Z. Pross, 29, who had been assigned to the Pikesville Precinct, took more than 120 images and 20 videos engaging in sexual acts with himself, including one where he masturbated inside his patrol car while reports of "possible guns involved," can be heard over a police radio, prosecutors said.

"Drive," he pleaded, sweating and panting. "Just drive. " Munpreet Chona had just crashed his car after fleeing Baltimore County police at speeds topping 100 miles per hour, then stolen a police cruiser after a fight with an officer that sent both tumbling over a guardrail on Interstate 95. Now the 26-year-old's clueless friends, drinking buddies whom he'd called for a ride, were stopped in front of a motel in southern Baltimore, staring down...

"Drive," he pleaded, sweating and panting. "Just drive. " Munpreet Chona had just crashed his car after fleeing Baltimore County police at speeds topping 100 miles per hour, then stolen a police cruiser after a fight with an officer that sent both tumbling over a guardrail on Interstate 95. Now the 26-year-old's clueless friends, drinking buddies whom he'd called for a ride, were stopped in front of a motel in southern Baltimore, staring down...

Howard County police reported late last night that they were investigating a homicide in North Laurel, the sixth in the county this year.Police provided few details of the incident, but Officer Mark Taylor of the Southern District station in Laurel, confirmed that the victim, whose name was not released, had died apparently from a gunshot wound.The shooting occurred after 9 p.m. in an apartment in the 9500 block of Sylvan Still Road near the Whiskey Bottom shopping center, according to police radio reports.

A 37-year-old man was stabbed in the back Monday afternoon during what Baltimore police say was an apparent robbery on St. Paul Street near Penn Station and the Jones Falls Expressway. Officers arrested three juveniles within minutes of the attack. Police spokeswoman Nicole Monroe said the victim was rushed to an undisclosed hospital and is expected to survive. The suspects were being questioned Monday evening and could be charged as adults after the investigation is completed. Monroe said the victim was attacked about 3:35 p.m. as he walked in the 1500 block of St. Paul St., at the northern edge of the Mid-Town Belvedere neighborhood.

Police arrested two Brooklyn Park men Saturday and charged them with shooting out windows on eight cars with a BB gun, county police said.Stephen T. Kilgore, 20, and Glenn F. Acton, 18, both of the 5100 block of Patrick Henry Lane, were charged with eight counts of destruction to auto. No bail information was available.A Church Street resident called police shortly before 4 a.m. to report the vandalism. Witnesses described the offenders, and an officer broadcast the description over police radio.

Two Baltimore men have been charged with armed robbery after a Sykesville woman's purse was stolen in Ellicott City.According to police, a 52-year-old woman was getting out of her car when a man with a handgun approached her and took her purse. The woman was not injured.The gunman fled to a nearby car driven by a second man, and the two headed east on Route 40, police said.Baltimore County police stopped the vehicle on Route 40 in Catonsville based on a description broadcast on police radio.

State police have begun talking like real people. Troopers were ordered this week to dispense with speaking in code. Gone is the familiar 10-4 and the unfamiliar (to civilians, anyway) 10-46. Instead, when speaking over the police radio, the trooper is to just say, "disabled vehicle. " It's effort by the cops to streamline communications and make it easier for police in one jurisdiction to talk with police in another jurisdiction. The codes were originally designed to enable cops to exchange information quickly, and to keep prying ears from understanding what was being said.

More than two hours after scores of Baltimore's finest began chasing a suspected bank robber over what seemed like half the city, a cryptic call crackled over the police radio: "The hound has caught the rabbit."The message confirmed what has been the Police Department's most closely guarded secret in its war against bank holdups. Baltimore's bank robbery rate is among the highest in the nation.For the past month, local banks have been inserting tiny electronic tracking devices into packs of money that tellers give to bank robbers.

The mother and the brother of a suspect in a triple shooting were gunned down in an ambush outside their Northeast Baltimore home, according to sources, prompting police to assign a special unit of top investigators to stop the "momentum of violence. " Police released few details Friday about the crimes - the triple shooting took place Wednesday in Southwest Baltimore and the ambush a day later - but condemned the violence. "From now on, when incidents like this happen, when there's this momentum of violence, we need to respond," said acting Police Commissioner Anthony Barksdale.

State police have begun talking like real people. Troopers were ordered this week to dispense with speaking in code. Gone is the familiar 10-4 and the unfamiliar (to civilians, anyway) 10-46. Instead, when speaking over the police radio, the trooper is to just say, "disabled vehicle. " It's effort by the cops to streamline communications and make it easier for police in one jurisdiction to talk with police in another jurisdiction. The codes were originally designed to enable cops to exchange information quickly, and to keep prying ears from understanding what was being said.

Walter Oliver joined the Police Explorers youth volunteer program presumably because he had an interest in becoming an officer one day. But along the way, authorities in two jurisdictions say, he began stealing equipment from officers who took him under their wing. According to charging documents, he broke into Officer Joseph Tracy's locker and took a police radio; he took an expandable baton and a wooden espantoon from Officer Charles Connolly; when Officer Karen Crisafulli wasn't looking, he took her badge; and while on a ride-along with Officer Robert Hankard, Oliver took his Taser.

Herbert Vincent Sevier, a retired Baltimore County police officer who received a commendation for his role in capturing a bank robber, died of pulmonary failure Sept. 5 at Franklin Square Hospital Center. The Essex resident was 79. Born in Baltimore County, he attended a one-room elementary school in Back River and later Kenwood High School. He received a GED. Mr. Sevier worked at his family's Shell gas station on Back River Neck Road from 1947 to 1955. He then joined the Navy and was a diesel mechanic on the destroyer tender USS Grand Canyon.

Ed Reed should have been in Hawaii this week, getting ready to play in yet another Pro Bowl. Instead, the Ravens highly decorated safety sat in Luling, La., grieving over the loss of a younger brother in a tragedy that left critical questions unanswered. At a news conference in which authorities said the body pulled from the Mississippi River late Tuesday almost certainly was that of 29-year-old Brian Reed, it was left for Ed to serve as family spokesman and guiding light. Reed, in obvious distress, spoke of "a loving kid" and doting father who got caught up in the "worldly ways" of our time.

Baltimore Police Commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld III, sitting in the front passenger seat of a sport utility vehicle being driven out of Fells Point, held up his police radio and turned up the volume. "Do you hear this?" he said. There was silence. Not even static. "Isn't it nice?" Bealefeld said. Finally, a dispatcher's voice broke through. "Hold on," said Bealefeld, mocking urgency. "We got a parking complaint. " It was about 90 minutes into 2011 and Bealefeld was out on the streets with Gregg Bernstein, who is to be sworn in Monday as the city's new state's attorney.

Walter Oliver joined the Police Explorers youth volunteer program presumably because he had an interest in becoming an officer one day. But along the way, authorities in two jurisdictions say, he began stealing equipment from officers who took him under their wing. According to charging documents, he broke into Officer Joseph Tracy's locker and took a police radio; he took an expandable baton and a wooden espantoon from Officer Charles Connolly; when Officer Karen Crisafulli wasn't looking, he took her badge; and while on a ride-along with Officer Robert Hankard, Oliver took his Taser.

The mother and the brother of a suspect in a triple shooting were gunned down in an ambush outside their Northeast Baltimore home, according to sources, prompting police to assign a special unit of top investigators to stop the "momentum of violence. " Police released few details Friday about the crimes - the triple shooting took place Wednesday in Southwest Baltimore and the ambush a day later - but condemned the violence. "From now on, when incidents like this happen, when there's this momentum of violence, we need to respond," said acting Police Commissioner Anthony Barksdale.

A 37-year-old man was stabbed in the back Monday afternoon during what Baltimore police say was an apparent robbery on St. Paul Street near Penn Station and the Jones Falls Expressway. Officers arrested three juveniles within minutes of the attack. Police spokeswoman Nicole Monroe said the victim was rushed to an undisclosed hospital and is expected to survive. The suspects were being questioned Monday evening and could be charged as adults after the investigation is completed. Monroe said the victim was attacked about 3:35 p.m. as he walked in the 1500 block of St. Paul St., at the northern edge of the Mid-Town Belvedere neighborhood.