NEWS
By MARY GAIL HARE | June 9, 2007
Aberdeen police have charged two city residents with second-degree assault in an attempted attack on Mayor S. Fred Simmons, authorities said yesterday. Dravine I. Henderson, 18, threatened Simmons with a baseball bat and used abusive language, police said. A 17-year-old boy, who was egging on Henderson during the incident on East Bel Air Avenue at noon Wednesday, was also arrested, authorities said. "They approached the mayor aggressively with Henderson holding a bat," said Sgt. Fred Budnick, police spokesman.
NEWS
By Madison Park | October 17, 2007
A Harford County man has been arrested in the armed robbery of a Dollar General store in Aberdeen, police said. Cornelius Alexander, 40, of the 700 block of Pulaski Highway was arrested Saturday and charged with robbery, assault and use of a handgun in the commission of a felony. Police said a man used a BB gun to take more than $500 from the store in Aberdeen Plaza near West Bel Air Avenue on Saturday morning. Aberdeen police officers were near the shopping center about 11:30 a.m. when they received a call about the robbery.
NEWS
By Justin Fenton | February 26, 2007
As he raised the claw of a backhoe over the tiny downtown Aberdeen home, Mayor S. Fred Simmons was reminded of the suspected drug dealers who once drifted through its doors and the angry pit bulls chained to trees in the front yard. With one violent jerk downward, Simmons sunk the claw into a front corner of the Washington Street home and tore it off, to the cheers of pastors and a gospel choir. Along with the controlled burns of two other houses, city leaders called yesterday's events a symbolic step forward in the effort to revitalize Aberdeen, a growing military outpost.
NEWS
By Richard Irwin | March 2, 1999
Two female employees were fatally shot during an attempted robbery of a convenience store last night, Aberdeen police said.Aberdeen police, county sheriff's deputies, Havre de Grace police and state troopers were searching early today for one man, possibly two.The women were killed about 8: 10 p.m. in a Wawa Food Market in the 200 block of N. Philadelphia Blvd., said Detective Sgt. Fred Budnick of Aberdeen City Police.One of the victims died at the scene; the other was pronounced dead at Harford Memorial Hospital in Havre de Grace, said a spokesman for the Harford County Fire Board.
NEWS
BY A SUN STAFF WRITER | March 4, 1999
Aberdeen police said yesterday that they had obtained photos from surveillance videotape at a Wawa convenience store where two employees were killed Monday night in what police continue to investigate as a botched attempted robbery.Capt. Kenneth Cox, spokesman for the Aberdeen Police Department, said that the tape had been sent to Aberdeen Proving Ground for enhancement but that investigators had decided not to make the photos public.Melissa Pennington, 18, and Nancy Atkinson, 31, both of Aberdeen were killed after a gunman opened fire in the store in the 200 block of N. Philadelphia Blvd.
NEWS
By Lisa Respers | March 5, 1999
When Aberdeen police sought help investigating Monday's double homicide at a convenience store, they sped to a nondescript facility tucked away at Aberdeen Proving Ground.In a small beige building, investigators began the meticulous, frame-by-frame process of enhancing the surveillance video taken from the store, using Army technology so sophisticated it could easily freeze-frame the image of a rocket as it hits a target.Officials will say only that the image of a gunman was retrieved from the tape at the Aberdeen Wawa, where Melissa Pennington, 18, and Nancy A. Atkinson, 31, both of Aberdeen, were killed in what police are investigating as a botched robbery attempt.
NEWS
By Lisa Respers | May 6, 1999
Harford County authorities have charged a Bel Air man as an accessory to murder in the aftermath of the March 1 killings of two Wawa convenience store workers in Aberdeen, saying he helped a man who has yet to be charged in the case.Laidley Elphic, 23, was being held without bail in the Harford County Detention Center yesterday on charges that authorities say are related to the fatal shootings of Melissa Pennington, 18, and Nancy Atkinson, 31, both of Aberdeen.Elphic is accused of aiding and abetting Waylon Tenoco Wesley, 26, of Havre de Grace, who is named in Elphic's indictment but has not been charged in the Wawa deaths.
NEWS
By Lisa Respers | December 31, 1999
A 27-year veteran with the Maryland State Police has been selected as the new chief of the Aberdeen Police Department.Capt. Randy M. Rudy, an assistant commander with the criminal enforcement command, will be sworn in Jan. 24 as the replacement for Michael Zotos, who retired Oct. 1.In his current job, Rudy oversees the technical investigative unit that includes homicide investigations, computer crimes and the Maryland Center for Missing Children.Rudy, 50, said he was attracted to Aberdeen for several reasons, including the opportunity to interact more with the public.
NEWS
BY A SUN STAFF WRITER | March 9, 1999
A body found in the parking lot of a convenience store Sunday was identified yesterday by Aberdeen police.Stephen Eugene Heintz, 30, whose address is not known, died of blunt trauma injuries, police said.The death, which has been ruled a homicide, remains under investigation by Aberdeen police. Police said they have no suspects.Pub Date: 3/09/99
NEWS
By Robert A. Erlandson and Jay Apperson | February 28, 1997
Terrence G. Johnson, paroled amid controversy in 1995 after serving nearly 17 years in the slayings of two Prince George's County police officers, shot himself to death yesterday moments after robbing an Aberdeen bank with his brother, police said.The shooting, which came as police closed in near the NationsBank branch at Beards Hill Plaza, shocked those who knew Johnson as a model former prisoner. And it brought tears at the University of the District of Columbia law school, where, until recently, he had been a second-year student.