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You know, with all the recent, well-publicized difficulties that professional athletes seem to be having with laws involving driving and guns, perhaps we shouldn't be so surprised that one would eventually combine reckless behavior with both in one fell swoop. Enter Delonte West, a member of the Cleveland LeBrons Cavaliers and a former area high school standout. According to the Post, when West was pulled over on his motorcycle for cutting off a Prince George's County police officer on I-95 Thursday night, he was packing "a Beretta 9mm in his waistband, a Ruger .357 strapped to his leg and a shotgun in a guitar case slung over his back" -- a ridiculous amount of iron to be hauling around. Police also noted that it was "unclear" where West was going, and why exactly he felt the need to engage his inner El Mariachi. West, who was named the Post's All-Met High School Basketball Player of the Year in the 2000-01 season, is from nearby Greenbelt and was released under his own recognizance, possibly (but hopefully not) to go figure out ways to strap more weaponry to his body.

Bats can do more than shape-shift and turn you into a vampire — they can also give you rabies! And Prince George's County health officials are now warning residents that they've recorded an increase in rabid bat activity in the area, the Post reports. Nine PG County bats have tested positive for rabies since the beginning of August, and at least one person has come into contact with one and been subsequently preemptively treated for rabies. County officials are urging residents to bat proof their homes by repairing any holes, using window screens and closing doors tightly.

WJLA reports that a Prince George's County grand jury hearing evidence in the June killing of inmate Ronnie White has disbanded without issuing an indictment. Medical examiners determined that White died from asphyxiation from being strangled to death while in custody on homicide charges in the death of Prince George's County Police Sergeant Richard Findley. The Post follows up with a quote from State's Attorney Glenn Ivey as saying that a new grand jury has been empaneled and will hear evidence in the case.

Close to three months after 19-year-old Ronnie White was strangled to death while in custody in a Prince George's County jail, the Post is reporting that two corrections officers have been placed on paid leave after being identified as "the focus" of an investigation into the killing. White had been taken into custody on charges of killing a Prince George's County police officer with his car less than 48 hours before he was killed. The two corrections officers who have been on leave since last week have yet to be identified. Guards from the jail reportedly told investigators that White had committed suicide. A recent medical examiner's report showed that White had been strangled, and his death has officially been ruled a homicide.

America's Next Top Model just might be a transgender woman. Us Magazine reports that Isis, a former receptionist originally from Prince George's County, Md., will compete in the upcoming season of Top Model, which premieres September 3 on the CW Network.

Back in February we were alarmed by reports of a man in Prince George's County who was using Craigslist to lure rape victims to various locations in the county. The Post reports that the man suspected of committing these crimes killed himself during a standoff with police yesterday. The suspect, Mark Antonio Humphries, 33, of the 4100 block of Suitland Road of Suitland, shot himself in the head after police began setting up a barricade outside a Hyattsville apartment where they believed he was hiding. He was pronounced dead later at a nearby hospital.

This really smells like it is going to get so much worse. The death of Ronnie White, the 19-year-old man who was arrested over the weekend on charges that he murdered a Prince George's County police officer, has been ruled a homicide. White appears to have been strangled to death while in custody in a county jail -- he had two broken bones in his neck and medical examiners have determined he died from asphyxiation, reports the Post. More on this tomorrow.