7 Eleven Store

A man posing as a customer robbed a convenience store clerk in Ellicott City early yesterday and escaped with an undisclosed amount of money, Howard County police reported.The robbery occurred about 2: 35 a.m. at a 7-Eleven store in the 9000 block of Frederick Road.The clerk told police that the man inquired about a purchase, then placed his hand under his shirt as if he had a weapon and announced a holdup.The man fled on foot.He was described as about 25 years old, 5 feet 10 inches tall and 160 pounds, with a medium complexion and a thin mustache.

A 7-Eleven that recently opened on the west side of Baltimore's downtown is celebrating Friday with 11 cent Slurpees, coffees and Big Gulp drinks. The store is located at 301 N. Howard St., in a part of downtown long targeted for revitalization. It's expected to add as many as 20 jobs to the local economy. The grand opening event, including entertainment, discounted drinks and an appearance by the Oriole Bird, is set for 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday. The store is the 44th 7-Eleven in Baltimore City, which is the convenience store chain's top market for hot pizza sales nationwide, chain officials said.

A Pasadena woman was pushed to the ground and robbed of her purse Saturday night while she talked on a pay phone outside a 7-Eleven store in the 500 block of Donaldson Ave. in Severn, police said.Mimi Lee Young, 20, said a man walked up to her shortly after 11:30 p.m. and grabbed her purse, police said. The man then jumped into an older model -- 1978 to 1983 -- light blue Ford truck driven by a second man. The truck sped off on Old Quarterfield Road, police said.Ms. Young was not harmed. Her purse contained $120 and several credit cards, police said.

The man sought in the rape and fatal stabbing of a 15-year-old boy whose gagged body was found this week stuffed inside a closet of a relative's East Baltimore home was arrested late Thursday night, said a police spokesman. Agent Donny Moses, the spokesman, said Dante L. Parrish, 35, of no fixed address was arrested without incident about 10 p.m. at a 7-Eleven store at Moravia Road and Truesdale Avenue in Northeast Baltimore by members of the Regional Warrant Apprehension Task Force.

POLICE LOG* Severna Park: Someone stole 10 aluminum reflectors Tuesday afternoon from a 7-Eleven store in the 600 block of Ritchie Highway.

Man robs 7-Eleven store in LaurelA man stole four packs of cigarettes and 15 lighters from a 7-Eleven store in Laurel early yesterday.Police said the man walked into the store in the 3200 block of Fort Meade Road at 1:30 a.m. and bought a candy bar. When the clerk opened the register for change, the man pushed him aside and grabbed money out of the register, along with the cigarettes and lighters.He was last seen running out of the store and joining a second man waiting outside.

PoliceMount Airy: Employees of a 7-Eleven store in the 1600 block of Ridgeside Drive told state police that at 6: 25 p.m. Tuesday someone drove away without paying for $4 worth of gasoline.Pub Date: 3/22/96

A 7-Eleven store in Cape St. Claire was sprayed with bullets Saturday, county police said yesterday. One of the bullets struck a wall where two men were standing, and another hit a parked car that was occupied, but no one was injured.Police said a small, dark-colored car passed by the store in the 700 block of College Parkway shortly after 12: 30 a.m. and fired several shots.Police recovered seven spent rounds from the road in front of the store.Pub Date: 9/04/96

Maryland State Police are looking for a man who robbed a 7-Eleven store in Eldersburg late Wednesday night. Authorities said a man wearing a mask entered the store at 2033 Liberty Road at 11:30 p.m. The suspect ordered the employee to hand over money. No weapon was displayed, but the suspect kept his hands in his sweat shirt pocket. Anyone with information on the incident is asked to call the state police Westminster barracks at 410-386-3000.

7-Eleven robbed on Friday nightA 7-Eleven store in Brooklyn Park was robbed Friday by a man who implied he had a gun, county police said yesterday.According to police, the robber entered the store at 5617 Ritchie Highway about 11 p.m. and told the clerk he intended to rob the store. The man attempted to open the cash register, but was unable to do so, and forced the clerk to open it.He fled on foot after taking an undisclosed amount of money.

Shortly before federal agents arrested 24 Latinos outside a Fells Point 7-Eleven in January 2007, the acting field office director of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Baltimore told a deputy "to bring more bodies in," according to an internal ICE report. The roundup at the 7-Eleven occurred after the official told that deputy "to go back out to make more arrests, as the quantity of arrests that were made that morning was unacceptable," said the report. It appears to contradict previous statements by ICE officials that the agents were taking a drink break Jan. 23, 2007, when they happened to be approached by Latino laborers who thought they were contractors in need of workers.

When police found a teenager fatally shot inside a Columbia townhouse this week, they immediately started looking for the townhouse's resident, who had a lengthy criminal record. As detectives investigated the killing, they found people who said Charles David Richardson IV, 23, had bragged about killing a clerk at a 7-Eleven store across the street late last month, according to court records. Yesterday, police announced that they had charged Richardson, known as "Face," in two of Howard County's three killings this year.

Maryland State Police are looking for a man who robbed a 7-Eleven store in Eldersburg late Wednesday night. Authorities said a man wearing a mask entered the store at 2033 Liberty Road at 11:30 p.m. The suspect ordered the employee to hand over money. No weapon was displayed, but the suspect kept his hands in his sweat shirt pocket. Anyone with information on the incident is asked to call the state police Westminster barracks at 410-386-3000.

Two Howard County 7-Eleven stores were held up this week, county police said yesterday. The 7-Eleven in the 9400 block of Frederick Road in Ellicott City was robbed late Tuesday and the 7-Eleven in the 5700 block of Columbia Road in Columbia was robbed late Sunday, police said. Minutes before the Tuesday robbery, police said an employee arriving at work saw a man in his late teens wearing a black hooded sweat shirt using a pay phone outside the store. The man, described to police as black, 5 feet 9 inches to 5 feet 10 inches and 150 to 160 pounds, entered the store about 11 p.m. and announced a robbery.

An Edgewood man remained jailed yesterday after being charged in an armed robbery at a convenience store Sunday, the Harford County sheriff's office said. Charles C. Davis, 39, of the 1000 block of Agate Drive was charged with handgun violations, assault and theft, police said. According to the statement of charges, a man entered the 7-Eleven in the 1000 block of Gateway Drive in Edgewood about 11 p.m., showed the clerk a weapon and told him, "Nice and calmly give me all the money." The man drove away in a white car. Minutes later, a sheriff's deputy saw a white car at a nearby gas station, and a man fitting the description of the robber at a fuel pump.

A man threatened a clerk with a screwdriver while robbing a Union Bridge convenience store early Sunday and escaped with an undisclosed amount of money, state police said. No one was injured in the incident at the 7-Eleven store in the 100 block of S. Main St., police said. According to a store clerk, the robber walked into the store about 5: 30 a.m. and asked for a pack of cigarettes. He didn't have enough money to pay for the cigarettes and selected some candy instead. As the clerk opened the register, the suspect displayed thescrewdriver, reached over the counter, took money from the register and ran toward an alley behind the store.

A man with a rifle walked into the 7-Eleven store in the 7600 block Woodbine Road, said nothing, and walked out with a handful of money about 2:15 a.m. Tuesday.State police said the night clerk of the convenience store reported that a young white male -- about 5 feet 8 inches tall, with blond hair and wearing a turtle neck sweater pulled up over his nose -- pointed the rifle at the employee and walked slowly toward the cash register.The clerk opened the register, took out the money and placed it on the counter, according to police reports.

A man posing as a customer robbed a convenience store clerk in Ellicott City early yesterday and escaped with an undisclosed amount of money, Howard County police reported.The robbery occurred about 2: 35 a.m. at a 7-Eleven store in the 9000 block of Frederick Road.The clerk told police that the man inquired about a purchase, then placed his hand under his shirt as if he had a weapon and announced a holdup.The man fled on foot.He was described as about 25 years old, 5 feet 10 inches tall and 160 pounds, with a medium complexion and a thin mustache.

A mostly volunteer group poked, prodded and swept the dirt of a vacant lot in eastern Baltimore County this weekend, searching -- across the street from such incongruous landmarks as a Citgo station and 7-Eleven store -- for artifacts of the 1814 Battle of North Point.More then a dozen people using metal detectors and shovels turned up a metal button and six musket balls at the site where, they say, Baltimore's defenders fought British soldiers marching on the city during the War of 1812.