Crime Briefs

- Brent Jones

Harford man held in stabbing during dispute

A county man was being held on $500,000 bond at the Harford County Detention Center on one count of attempted murder and three counts of reckless endangerment charges stemming from a stabbing early Sunday, said State Police at the Bel Air Barracks. Police said a man and his 25-year-old girlfriend were fighting in the bedroom of their home in the 1000 block of Conowingo Road outside Bel Air about 3:30 a.m. Saturday when the man assaulted the girlfriend's 17-year-old sister, then cut the girlfriend's stepfather on the left arm with a knife when he came to the girls' aid. Arrested at the scene was Bryan T. Hewitt, 26. Police said the victim, Ronald F. Gentry, 49, sustained a serious cut that resulted in heavy bleeding and was reported in critical condition at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center.

- Richard Irwin

Man gets 20 years for killing woman with truck

A Parkton man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for driving a stolen truck into a house and killing a woman sleeping inside. Thirty-year-old Aubrey Miller was sentenced Monday to 10 years in prison for vehicular manslaughter and 10 years for felony theft. Forty-six-year-old Mary Sullivan died in August 2008 in her first-floor bedroom in Monkton. According to court testimony, Miller was drunk and high when he broke into numerous vehicles before stealing a pickup truck. He blacked out while driving and crashed into Sullivan's home.

- Associated Press