An Arundel Mills Mall security officer was stabbed in the buttocks during a shoplifting incident in Hanover, Anne Arundel police said Wednesday.
The 37-year-old security officer, whose name was not released, was attacked Monday while confronting two suspects accused of assaulting another officer in a shoplifting incident moments earlier outside Baja Fresh Mexican Grill on Arundel Mills Boulevard, police said.
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During the confrontation, the security officer fended off one suspect with pepper spray, but in doing so, he was stabbed in the buttocks by the second suspect, police said.
The officer used pepper spray on both suspects before they ran away, police said.
Officers searched the area in a helicopter and found the first suspect near Wachovia Bank on Ridge Road. They couldn’t find the second suspect, but he was later identified, police said.
Police are withholding the suspects’ names because first-degree assault charges are pending.
The victim was treated and released from the Baltimore Washington Medical Center for the non life-threatening wound.
Nine suspects busted for drugs in Anne Arundel Nine suspects were recently arrested on drug charges during a police operation to combat neighborhood crime, Anne Arundel police said Wednesday.
Police conducted several months of surveillance and identified 13 suspects, including nine adults, who were caught selling drugs or look-a-like drugs in the Meade Village, Still Meadows and Pioneer City communities, police said.
During the operation, police seized more than 396 grams of marijuana, 26 grams of crack cocaine and 37 prescription pills worth an estimated total of $6,700 in street value.
Officers also seized three handguns, one shotgun, three vehicles and more than $6,400 in cash.
The adult suspects who were arrested were: Robert Lee Galloway Jr., 24, Dontae Timothy Jones, 22, Nathaniel Christopher Harris, 30, Curtis Leon Brown, 21, Timothy Savage, 39, and Raleigh Jay Harold, 53, all of Severn; Arthur Antonio Noakes, 43, and Keion Damont McKinney, 19, both of Glen Burnie; and Terrell Ellsworth Blake, 24, Baltimore.
The suspects were each charged with drug offenses, police said.
— Compiled by Carolyn Peirce
