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[QUOTE="Whitey23, post: 701729, member: 216"]
[URL='http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/9520002/wes-brown-maryland-terrapins-case-dropped-prosecutors']Case dropped against Maryland RB Brown
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A Maryland athletics department spokesman said Brown's status was unchanged and he was still suspended by the university.
 
Brown was arrested near the campus in College Park this month after police said he assaulted an officer who was trying to question him about a non-fatal shooting in Baltimore. Police said at the time that Brown fled from the officer and used someone else's cell phone to secretly record his conversation with the officer.
 
But Erzen said the conversation was never actually recorded and that the phone wasn't stolen because Brown had given the owner collateral. He said prosecutors now believe Brown was resisting an unlawful arrest, as he was permitted to do, instead of illegally assaulting an officer.
 
"There's nowhere to go with this at this point. We don't believe after screening ... that any crimes were committed. We're not going with charges," Erzen said.
 
Jason Shapiro, a lawyer for Brown, said he would work to get Brown back in school and on the football team. He said there was never any basis for his client to be arrested and that he had done nothing wrong.
 
"They were placing him under arrest before he allegedly ever assaulted the police, recorded the police or stole anyone's cell phone," Shapiro said. "So what were they placing him under arrest for?"
 
A Baltimore police spokesman, Detective Jeremy Silbert, said Monday that Brown remains a person of interest in a non-fatal shooting in that city last month. Shapiro said his client was not at all a suspect and had no involvement in that case.
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