Owings Mills Man Charged In Courtroom Outburst: Report

BALTIMORE, MD — An Owings Mills man has been charged with eight offenses following a reported violent outburst in Baltimore City after a deputy asked him to put away his cell phone in a courtroom.

Leo Byrd, 31, of Phlox Court in Owings Mills, is being held without bail in Baltimore City on these charges, court records show: first-degree assault; four counts of second-degree assault (including two counts of assault on law enforcement); resisting arrest; obstructing and hindering; and disorderly conduct.

Byrd injured two deputies when he was escorted out of the courtroom, according to WBAL.

Baltimore City court rules stipulate that nobody may look at a cell phone in a courtroom; instead, people have to go outside if they want to look at a phone or remove it from a belt clip, purse, briefcase or pocketbook.