A Bowie man was arrested early Friday and charged with attempted murder after a struggle during which police said he tried to wrest a service revolver from a county officer.
Officer Daniel Sereboff stopped a 1989 Ford truck about 2 a.m. on Davidsonville Road near Layton Street after he noticed that the driver appeared to be drunk.
When the man failed a sobriety test, Officer Sereboff tried to arrest him, but the man hit the officer and a sergeant who had come to his aid, police said.
The two officers struggled with the man, who grabbed Officer Sereboff's gun and tried to pull it from its holster, police said.
The man was arrested after several more officers arrived.
David Lee Heinicke, 30, of the 16000 block of English Oaks Ave. was charged with assault with intent to murder and driving while intoxicated, police said.
Teen stabbed in fight outside school
A 14-year-old Severn youth was treated at North Arundel Hospital and released Thursday afternoon after another boy stabbed him in the back with a broken bottle during a fight on a basketball court outside Van Bokkelen Elementary School, county police said.
Charges are pending against the suspect, a 14-year-old Severn boy who received several cuts on his hands from the broken bottle.
The fight occurred shortly before 5 p.m., when the victim and his assailant began arguing while the victim was playing basketball. Bystanders told police they broke up the fight but that one youth pulled a handgun from his pocket and threatened the other, prompting a second fight in which the unarmed youth allegedly broke a bottle and stabbed the victim in the back, police said.
Western District officers were called later to a house in the 1800 block of Arwell Court, where they found the victim lying %o face-down in his bedroom bleeding from the stab wound to his back, police said.
Man, 2 teen-age girls face drug charges
An Edgewater man and two 17-year-old Edgewater girls were arrested Wednesday night on drug charges after narcotics detectives raided a house in the 400 block of Silver Run Road, county police said.
Troy Nathaniel Hall, 19, who lives in the house, and both girls were charged with possession of marijuana, possession with intent to use drug paraphernalia and narcotics manufacturing, police said.
Mr. Hall was being held at the Anne Arundel County Detention Center on $10,000 bail. The girls were released to their parents, police said. Detectives who raided the home about 8:30 p.m. said they found a 3-foot tall plant and several detached leaves that they suspected were marijuana.
Several smoking devices with suspected marijuana residue in them also were recovered, police said.