St. Mary’s College of Maryland coach arrested on pornography charges
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Version 0 of 1. The head swim coach at St. Mary’s College of Maryland has been arrested on charges that he exchanged nude photographs with a child he met on the Internet. Andre Rudolph Barbins, 45, of Solomons, in Calvert County, was arrested Friday and is no longer coaching the swim team, according to the university, which said in a Tuesday statement that an assistant coach has taken on Barbins’s role. The university declined to comment further, except to say that it was working with investigators to protect students’ safety. The victim was a minor with whom Barbins had contact only online, not someone he coached, Maryland State Police Cpl. DaVaughn Parker said. Parker said the girl’s parents found that she had been chatting with Barbins online and contacted police. Barbins was charged with one count of child pornography, for instructing the girl to take lewd photos of herself and send them to him, and one count of displaying obscene matter to a minor, for sending photographs of himself back to the girl, Parker said. — Julie Zauzmer A man is dead after he was shot in the Greenbelt area of Prince George’s County. Police said the incident began around 11 p.m. Monday in the 8600 block of Greenbelt Road. Officers were called for the report of a shooting and found a man suffering from a gunshot wound. Police said the man, identified as Robert Dewayne Brandon Jr., 28, of Greenbelt Road in Greenbelt, was pronounced dead on the scene. In a news release, police said detectives do not think it was a random act. A reward of up to $25,000 is being offered for information leading to an arrest and indictment in the case. Authorities in Prince George’s County identified a man who was killed in District Heights on Monday as a 38-year-old resident of the same street where he was found shot. Prince George’s police said that Phillip Christopher Yorke died Monday after he was shot at about 4:45 p.m. in an apartment building in the 1900 block of Rochelle Avenue. On Tuesday, police said that they do not think the shooting was random, but that they had not determined who shot Yorke or what the motive might have been. |