A call taker at the county's 911 center hung up on a Glen Burnie man last summer when he asked for help with his sick girlfriend, according to a wrongful death lawsuit filed last month in county Circuit Court.

And when county police officers eventually responded to Maurice Brown's apartment, they decided to arrest a man in the hallway for dealing drugs before entering Brown's home and aiding the unconscious woman, the lawsuit alleges.

"Due to the negligence of the Anne Arundel County Police Department, Asha Clark suffered and died," James Clark, Asha's father, wrote in the lawsuit he filed June 24...