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This deputy's squad car had the driver's side window shot out.
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Cockroaches flee camera in Colony Square the day after two teens shot at deputy
ST. MARY'S TODAY photos
Deputies Shot at in
Drug Infested Project

Shooting may have been in retaliation for cops
beating up suspects in open air drug market

LEXINGTON PARK --- Two St. Mary's deputies shot at in the Colony Square townhouse project in Lexington Park on Monday, Feb. 16th, were uninjured with two juveniles placed under arrest, one charged as an adult.
The Sheriff's Department reports that Deputy First Class Michael Labanowski and Deputy First Class Erik Walker were patrolling the Colony Square neighborhood in Lexington Park when DFC Walker came to the intersection of Missouri Avenue and Rogers Drive.
DFC Walker heard something hit the front side of his car, and he exited to investigate. DFC Walker quickly realized that someone had shot the side of his vehicle. DFC Labanowski pulled along side of DFC Walker's vehicle when another projectile struck the driver's side window of DFC Labanowski's vehicle, shattering the driver's side window.
Despite the shattered glass causing only a slight nick to the face of Deputy Labanowski, he was transported to St. Mary's Hospital for evaluation and released. The deputy's injury did not require as much as a Band-Aid to cover the wound, but ABC 7 news in Washington reported that "he was recovering from his injuries".
The Sheriff's Department surrounded the 30 year old townhouse community next to Lexington Park elementary school and established a perimeter around the home where they believe the shots were fired from.
Police say that the shots came from a house on Rogers Drive and a search of the house came up with two handgun BB guns along with a loaded air rifle.
Jarrell Johnson, 16, of Lexington Park, was arrested and charged as an adult, and a 13-year-old kid was arrested and taken away to the juvenile reform school in Cheltenham where he will stay pending a disposition of the Juvenile Court. Johnson will stand trial and is being held on a $30,000 bond at the county jail.
Sources report that some St. Mary's Deputies have been beating up persons placed under arrest and yesterday's shooting was in retaliation for those beatings.
St. Mary's Sheriff David Zylak says he has no complaints made by anyone arrested for being mistreated and would refer any such complaint to the department's internal affairs section for investigation. 
Various punks who are arrested by police sometimes decide to fight the cops, assaulting officers by kicking them, spitting on them or smacking them.  Those culprits usually get what it coming to them as the officers take action required to make an arrest, which the law determines is their right to defend themselves and use the force necessary.   Once a suspect is under arrest, handcuffed and under control, an officer may not continue to use force.  Some sources report that a few deputies are too heavy handed.
The Colony Square community is a veritiable hellhole, with some residents reporting that they are frustated with the drug dealers running the neighborhood and will move out in order to keep their families safe. Some sources say that more police action is needed and that the drug dealers will do or say anything in order to get the cops out so they can run their drug business unimpeded by police action.
Sheriff Zylak and State Police Major A. J. McAndrew were both on the scene on Monday.