7 Eleven Store

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.

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.

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.

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.

The 48-year-old owner of a Northwest Baltimore 7-Eleven has been charged with shooting a customer to death after an argument in the convenience store Saturday afternoon, police said yesterday.John Howard Johnson of Cockeysville was charged with first-degree murder and a handgun violation, police said.The victim, whom police have not been able to identify, was shot once in the back inside the bay door of an auto repair shop three blocks from the convenience store on Reisterstown Road near the Baltimore County line.

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.

County police were looking last night for a suspect who abducted a man making a bank deposit for a Glen Burnie car dealership and then stole the 1992 Toyota Camry the man was driving.Rodney Thompson, 25, of Cherry Hill in Baltimore, told police he was approached at about12:30 p.m. by a man as he got out of his car in the parking lot of the Mercantile Bank in the 7300 block of Ritchie Highway in Glen Burnie.Thompson was to make a deposit for Brown's Toyota, also located on Ritchie Highway in Glen Burnie.

TOKYO -- Next time you stop by to see what's new at your neighborhood 7-Eleven store, there may be something new.The mother of all convenience-store chains is getting a forceful face lift -- backed by a $430 million cash injection from its new parent, 7-Eleven Japan Co. Ltd.The new backers plan to add the latest trends in Japanese shopkeeping to their country's ever-lengthening list of exports to the United States. And they pack the clout that comes from rescuing a troubled company, having acquired 68.98 percent of Southland Corp.

The night manager of an East 33rd Street convenience store was shot and killed early yesterday when he apparently tried to fight off gunmen who were attempting to rob him, the Baltimore police said.Hae Gak Chung, 51, of the 300 block of Limestone Valley Drive, Cockeysville, was shot in the right arm and the chest. The police found him dead behind the counter when they arrived about 3 a.m. at the 7-Eleven store in the 400 block of East 33rd Street.The police said they are seeking three men seen in the store just before the shooting.

Where is the best place to find a cop in Baltimore? On the Westside, it might be between the fabric softener and the doughnut case.The city's newest police substation opened yesterday in a 7-Eleven, allowing beat officers to write reports, make phone calls and greet the people from a podium next to the magazine rack."