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THE JBfk SUN Section baltimoresun.commaryland MARYLAND Tuesday, July 19, 2005 Issuing ticket gets city agent cuffed Parking: Police come close to hauling away enforcer after dispute over consultant's permit. Troubled schools' progress debated a car she thought was illegally parked. Then the unthinkable happened: She got handcuffed by police. Evans said she wrote a $42 ticket for a car parked during street-cleaning hours in the 1300 block of W. Pratt St.

She said the car's driver complained to her, then to a nearby police officer, claiming that an official city parking permit displayed in the back window allowed him to park without fear of being ticketed. Then, Evans said, the officer rushed to the scene and demanded answers, to no avail. "They didn't understand how I was being locked up for issuing someone a citation," said Evans, who has retained an attorney, Warren A. Brown. "We're searching out our options," Brown said yesterday.

"She doesn't want to lose her job, but at the same token, she feels what was done to her was wrong." Evans, a three-year employee, said the officers See Ticket, 5b called for backup. According to Evans, a police sergeant came and ordered her to void the ticket. When Evans refused, the sergeant ordered another officer to handcuff her and called for a police transport van to take the uniformed agent to the Central Booking and Intake Center, she said. Police supervisors intervened before she was taken away, and she was freed 10 minutes later, she said. "It was definitely very emotional," said Evans, whose supervisors By Gus G.

Sentementes SUN STAFF Donna L. Evans says she was just doing her job as a parking control agent when she wrote a citation for "It could've been any of us. My heart goes out to the family. City says four schools will be labeled as 'persistently dangerous'; state says 6 Md. officials note documentation 'discrepancy' District says No Child Left Behind policy punishes it for disciplining children By Sara Neufeld SUN STAFF State school officials questioned yesterday the accuracy of data released by the Baltimore school system showing a significant drop in suspensions at several schools at risk for being labeled "persistently dangerous." Fifteen city schools were at risk of the persistently dangerous designation.

The federal No Child Left Behind Act requires a school district to offer parents the option of transferring their children from persistently dan Schools in question State education officials are expected to label these schools "persistently dangerous:" Thurgood Marshall Middle Calverton Middle Canton Middle Highlandtown Middle Lombard Middle Harlem Park Middle The city school system disputes the designation of these schools. gerous schools. School system officials released figures yesterday showing that four schools would be named persistently dangerous. State officials, however, said the number of persistently dangerous schools is at least six. And at some of the remaining nine schools that were on a probationary list, state officials said their auditors found far more suspension referrals than were reported to school district headquarters.

"We have noted a huge discrepancy for some of the remaining BARBARA HADDOCK TAYLOR SUN STAFF PHOTOS 15-year-old Samantha Schroyer (right) grieves for her friend Sheriesa Bernay King, who died of apparent carbon monoxide poisoning. 3 in Essex die from apparent gas leak Carbon monoxide detected in family's townhouse Woman in critical condition nine schools," said Jo-Anne Carter, assistant state superintendent for student and school services, vowing to investigate. City school system spokeswoman Vanessa Pyatt said in a statement last night that the school district stands by its data. "We welcome the investigation," the statement said. In an interview, Pyatt said that state auditors who reviewed suspension records at schools on the probationary list "found nothing." The state school board is scheduled to vote tomorrow to designate Thurgood Marshall, Calver-ton, Canton, Highlandtown, Lombard and Harlem Park middle schools as persistently dangerous.

A school earns the label if, for three consecutive years, 2.5 percent or more of See Schools, 4b By Laura Barnhardt and Danny Jacobs SUN STAFF plex. "My heart goes out to the family." Norman Sylvester Wiley, 48, who worked demolishing houses, and his two stepdaughters, Sheriesa Bernay King, 15, and Ja-Na Liett Jones, 14, were confirmed dead late yesterday by police. Wiley's wife of about four years, Adrian Wiley, 35, survived the accident, police and relatives said. She was being treated in a hyperbaric chamber at Maryland Shock Trauma Center and was listed in fair condition late yesterday, a hospital spokeswoman said. Police said autopsies would be performed on the victims.

But investigators found that a vent pipe leading from a water heater was misaligned, which could have caused the release of carbon monoxide into See Deaths, 2b Baltimore County officials investigate at the Cove Village townhouse complex. Twenty-five homes were briefly evacuated. Ebony Wiley was already sobbing when she saw the yellow tape around her family's Essex townhouse. The 16-year-old girl, who has been staying with a cousin this summer, was told that her father and two stepsisters had died, apparently of carbon monoxide poisoning, and that her stepmother was in critical condition. As she rushed toward the front door yesterday, relatives followed to console her as a police officer kept Community fighting trucking company's expansion proposal Village neighborhood.

"It could've been any of us," said Chantel Young, 36, a Baltimore County school bus driver who lives in the townhouse com them from going inside. A few feet away, neighbors shook their heads, opened their windows and tried to smell for signs of more trouble in the Cove Working outside might not be a workable idea Residents say area is already burdened by excessive noise and exhaust fumes By Laura Barnhardt SUN STAFF OUT THERE in the noonday sun yesterday, we find Allen and Craig Hall, father and son, along with two teenage kids along for the grind. They're all standing outside the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, laying down pavement markings on Broadway just below Madison, and shvitzing like there's no tomorrow. Shvitzing that's a Yiddish word that crosses all boundaries of religion and race, of class and caste. It means to perspire, to sweat, to swelter and wilt.

You want to understand shvitzing, We are now a community joined in simultaneous, orchestrated shvitz, as choreographed by some fearsome weather gods in a particularly foul mood. The temperature hits the 90s, but the experts explain that the heat-humidity combination makes it feel like a hundred. As if we needed experts to tell us. Out here in the relentless sun on Broadway, it is at least 147 degrees. And the weather forecasters are all saying this is only the start of a particularly bad week.

"Drink plenty of water," says Craig Hall. See Olesker, 14b Michael Olesker you spend a few seconds inside a steam bath until your nostrils seem to have been set afire. Or, similarly, venture anywhere around the Baltimore metro area this week. Residents rallying against the plans of a southwest Baltimore County trucking company to expand closer to their small Lansdowne neighborhood will take their concerns about noise and pollution to a county board today. New England Motor Freight Co.

plans to renovate and expand its terminal to accommodate 300 trucks up from about 70 and increase the number of trailers parked on the site from 131 to 260. The company's plan was approved by a zoning commissioner in September, who granted New England Motor Freight a special exception to rules that require trucking companies to be set back 300 feet from residences. Residents who have done everything from researching zoning regulations to selling raffle tickets to raise money for their legal team say the expanded operation would come within 30 feet of houses and would intensify 24-hour truck noise and diesel fumes in their Bloomfield neighborhood. J. Carroll Holzer, the attorney representing the community, says that under zoning regulations, the company shouldn't be operating at all.

"We're trying to preserve the tranquillity of our neighborhood," said Lorna Rudnikas, president of the Greater Bloomfield See Bloomfield, 4b I I AMY DAVIS SUN STAFF Playin' hoops in 1972 death of child. Page 3b Columbia teen shot in apparent drug deal. Page 3b the Senate. Page 4b Eugene Thomas DeLuca, college educator, dies. Page 5b O'Malley supporters cheered by poll showing him well ahead of Duncan.

Page 2b Judge to consider dismissing At Project Safe Haven in East Baltimore yesterday, Kevin Brandon Jr. (left), Devin Miles and Flavour Lewis use a milk crate as a basketball hoop. murder charges against woman Mikulski returns to work in 14b Obituaries 5b Weather.