POLICE ARREST
SEAT PLEASANT
COUNCIL PRESIDENT

The Associated Press

June 28, 2005, 5:07 PM EDT

OCEAN CITY -- Police arrested the president of the Seat Pleasant Town Council on charges of driving an uninsured car on a suspended license.

Officer Joseph Melena pulled Brian K. Shivers, 37, over about 1:30 a.m. Monday on 49th Street, according to police reports. A random registration check of the license plates had shown the gold Mercedes station wagon was uninsured and its plates were recorded as stolen.

Shivers told police he "needed to have a vehicle to come to Ocean City with because he was in town for a political convention," according to a police report filed documenting the arrest.

The four-day Maryland Municipal League conference kicked off Sunday in Ocean City and an administrator at Seat Pleasant's City Hall said the town's mayor and seven council members were attending the meeting. Shivers is one of 13 elected officials nominated this year for 10 seats as members-at-large on the league's governing board.

A call Tuesday to Shivers at City Hall requesting comment was not immediately returned.

Records on police computers showed Shivers' driver's license was suspended in February 2004, the police report said. Shivers told police he had been in contact with the Motor Vehicle Administration about the suspension and believed his license papers were in order, according to the police report.

Shivers was arrested and detained at the Public Safety Building on 65th Street. He was released on his own recognizance later Monday after a hearing before a district commissioner.