Md. cop
charged traffic accident
ANNAPOLIS —Howard County police officer has been charged
with reckless and negligent driving in a June car accident that injured four in
Pasadena, records show. Symchay Kon Bendu, of Laurel, was also charged with
four counts of second-degree assault in addition to the driving charges. A
preliminary investigation by Anne Arundel County Police indicated Bendu was
attempting to make an illegal U-turn. Two
girls were airlifted to the hospital with life-threatening injuries from the
accident. Driver Jamie Marie Butler, 31, of Brooklyn Park, and passenger
Charlie Norfolk, 34, of Brooklyn Park, were also taken with injures that
weren't life-threatening to Johns Hopkins in Baltimore. Bendu was not injured.
