Resisting Arrest

Popular R&B singer Sisqo faces charges that he shot at a car from the porch of his Randallstown home and resisted arrest by Baltimore County police. The 27-year-old singer - whose legal name is Mark A. Andrews - was arrested Saturday at his house in the first block of Marks Manor Court and charged with first- and second-degree assault, reckless endangerment and resisting arrest. A man visiting a neighbor told police that a man started firing at his car while he was sitting inside the vehicle about 3:30 a.m. Saturday.

A 9-year-old Prince George's County boy was listed in good conditionyesterday at Children's National Medical Center after he was pinned Saturday between a van and a truck in a driveway of a friend's house in Tracy's Landing.Vernon Dean Edmonds of Upper Marlboro was visiting a house in the 300 block Bay Front Road when the accident happened at about 11:10 a.m.Police said it appears that Vernon was playing in a 1978 AMC StepVan that was parked on an incline in the driveway when he accidentally knocked the van out of gear.

A Towson woman who accused two Baltimore County police officers of mistreating her during a routine call in the summer has been convicted of four charges, and acquitted of four others stemming from the incident. The arrest of Judith Annan, 25, sparked allegations of police misconduct and led to infighting in the county Police Department over the way the case was handled. On June 6, police charged Annan with two counts each of second-degree assault, obstructing and hindering, and resisting arrest.

Saying "enough is enough," a Howard County Circuit Court judge sentenced a 43-year-old Columbia man to 18 years in prison yesterday for terrorizing members of his family for the second time in less than a decade. Judge James B. Dudley handed Kenneth Robert Welk Jr. three consecutive five-year prison terms for assault plus a three-year prison term for resisting arrest -- a sentence greater than recommended by state sentencing guidelines but less than the 30-plus years maximum allowed by law. In imposing sentence, Dudley noted the first incident, in 1991, during which Welk held his ex-wife and her co-workers at an Ellicott City bank hostage at gunpoint.

County police checking out complaints of drug dealing at Pioneer Drive and Arwell Court Wednesday arrested an 18-year-old Severn man for allegedly failing to move from the intersection.Torrey Garnett, of the 8300 block of Pioneer Drive, was charged with loitering, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest, police said.Western District officers went to the intersection shortly before 7 p.m. They asked the men for identification. Police said that Mr. Garnett refused to show identification and refused to leave the corner after they pointed out a "No trespassing, No loitering" sign.

Chicago Bears running back Cedric Benson was charged with failing a sobriety test while operating a 30-foot boat, then resisting arrest before being hit with pepper spray and dragged ashore by officers near Austin, Texas. Benson, 25, faces charges of boating while intoxicated and resisting arrest after the incident Saturday night on Lake Travis, Travis County Sheriff's Department spokesman Roger Wade said. Benson was released from jail early yesterday on a $14,500 bond. The charges are misdemeanors, each punishable by up to six months in jail and a $2,000 fine.

A Baltimore jury has awarded $2 million to a man who contended that city police left him paralyzed after a 1997 beating and filed false charges accusing him of resisting arrest. Horace Muhammad, 52, a former truck driver who now must use a wheelchair, won the judgment against Officer Joseph Tracy after a three-week trial in Baltimore Circuit Court. Samuel M. Shapiro, Muhammad's attorney, said his client is paralyzed from the waist down and does not have full use of his hands because of spinal injuries suffered in the March 1997 incident.

Western Maryland College officials will wait until after final exams to determine whether to take disciplinary action against two students arrested in a campus melee Saturday."

An 88-year old Parkville woman who spent 15 days in jail after her arrest on an assault charge was released on her own recognizance yesterday by a Baltimore County District Court judge. Judge Alexandra Williams released Leocadia Thomas into the custody of her nephew pending trial. Williams also asked the county Department of Social Services to investigate Thomas' living conditions and her relationship with her daughter, who had refused to post bail for her mother. "Her daughter bailed out on her - not to make a pun - by leaving her in jail," Michael DeHaven, the elder Thomas' attorney, said at a bail review hearing yesterday.

I'm pretty sure that if you got yourself a big federal grant and did a study, you'd find that professional athletes are not - on average - any less intelligent than the general population, but you'd never know that by the headlines. On almost any given day, somebody in sports is proving the timeless wisdom of fictional philosopher Forrest Gump, who was fond of pointing out that "stupid is as stupid does." Case in point: Former Orioles pitcher John Bale, who fractured his hand punching a door Friday in Cleveland.