Crime Briefs

Police arrest suspect in Arbutus shootout

Baltimore County police have arrested a man who they say exchanged gunfire Sunday night with a security officer during a robbery at an Arbutus food store. Police are not releasing the man's identity until he is formally charged. Several hours after the robbery, police spotted the man walking along Wilkens Avenue and arrested him. They said the man had been shot in the arm and the stomach and had wrapped a rubber band around his arm to prevent blood loss. He was taken by ambulance to Maryland Shock Trauma Center for treatment. His condition was not available. Shortly before 7 p.m., police responded to Mars Super Market at the Maiden Choice Shopping Center in the 1000 block of Maiden Choice Lane, where they say the suspect and another man forced an employee to remove an undisclosed sum of money from a safe at gunpoint. Police said one man was armed with a large-caliber handgun. As the pair fled, the gunman and a security officer exchanged several rounds inside the store and outside before the suspect drove away from the scene in a car that may have been hit by a bullet fired by the security officer, police said. His accomplice fled on foot and remains at large. The security officer was not injured.

- Brent Jones and Richard Irwin

Man gets 24 years in videotape-sex case

A Dundalk man who videotaped sexual intercourse with a 14-year-old girl was sentenced to more than 24 years in federal prison Monday, the Maryland U.S. Attorney's Office announced. In November, a jury found Christopher Jude Blauvelt, 40, guilty of exploiting a minor, possession of child pornography and distribution of cocaine to a minor. Members acquitted Blauvelt of distributing hallucinogenic mushrooms to a minor. Blauvelt claims he was sexually abused as a child and suffers from depression and a bipolar disorder, according to medical records entered into the court file.

- Tricia Bishop

Man charged with assault in brother's stabbing

An argument between brothers turned violent Sunday, and one is accused of stabbing the other, Anne Arundel County police said. Police said officers arrived shortly after 6 p.m. at a home in the 8300 block of Williamstowne Drive in Millersville to find a man with a stab wound to the left side of his back sitting on the front porch. He was treated at Maryland Shock Trauma Center. Inside the house, police found Peter Joseph Jacques, 34, who lives in the house, and charged him with first- and second-degree assault and reckless endangerment.