Aberdeen Police

Aberdeen police have charged a 31-year-old Baltimore man with attempted murder and assault in connection with a parking lot melee that injured five people. Four victims, including an off-duty Aberdeen police officer who tried to stop a knife fight that broke out early Saturday between two men, remain hospitalized at Baltimore Shock Trauma Center in serious condition with multiple stab wounds. Kibwa Cazemba Evans, who was treated for injuries at Johns Hopkins Bayview Hospital and later released, is charged with several counts of attempted murder and first- and second-degree assault.

Suspect eludes police after two-hour chaseA suspect who eluded Aberdeen police in a two-hour chase and manhunt Monday is still on the loose, a police spokeswoman said Friday.The suspect, John Charles Mayhew, 28, formerly had lived in Havre de Grace. He escaped custody in New Castle, Del., while being transported to court on Sept. 25 for auto theft charges.A Havre de Grace police officer saw the suspect at 3 p.m. Monday in a stolen 1987 Pontiac Trans Am GTA traveling toward Aberdeen.Aberdeen police subsequently pulled over the Trans Am, but after stopping on U.S. 40, it sped away.

Aberdeen police are investigating the armed robbery of a cab driver early yesterday. Two people, one armed with a handgun, demanded money from the driver, who had been dispatched to the Magnolia Farms Apartments on East Bel Air Avenue about 3 a.m., police said. The suspects, described as possibly a man and a woman, were both wearing black hooded sweat shirts, police said. They fled on foot with an undetermined amount of cash. The cab driver was not injured.

Harford County Sheriff's Office and Maryland State Police Reports: Aberdeen Ronald B. Comer, 26, of the first block of North Post Road, was charged Friday with second-degree escape. Prentis James Vinson III, 24, of the first block of North Post Road, was charged Saturday with violating probation in a case in which he was found guilty of theft below $100. Justin D. Baughman, 24, of the 800 block of Matthews Avenue, was charged Sunday with concealing a dangerous weapon and possessing drug paraphernalia.

A 60-year-old Aberdeen man said whoever fired five shots into his living room early Sunday in the quiet neighborhood of Hillside Braemar probably had the wrong house or was just fooling around.Richard L. Harrison, a veteran of the Korean War, said he was falling asleep in an easy chair when he was startled shortly after midnight by five "popping" sounds in the 600 block of S. Rogers St."At first, I thought the television blew up," he said yesterday.When he realized that gunshots had struck his home, he called police.

7 a.m.-8 a.m. Tuesday : Vi Ripken is  forced into her 1998 Lincoln Town Car between by a man wielding a handgun Tuesday:  The suspect, who is described as a white male in his late 30s to early 40s, begins to drive a bound Vi Ripken throughout Central Maryland. 8:15 p.m. Tuesday : Baltimore County police receive a report about a suspicious vehicle carrying a man and an older woman on Ebenezer Road near White Marsh. A tag number leads authorities to discover the car is registered to Vi Ripken.

ABERDEEN - Harford County's state's attorney has ruled that two Aberdeen police officers involved in a shooting Feb. 20 will not face charges in the incident, and the officers have been returned to duty, a police spokesman said yesterday. Officer 1st Class Larry Wade, 44, on the force 12 years, and Officer 1st Class Richard Clark, 36, an officer for four years, had been on administrative leave since the shooting of a 17-year-old armed suspect, said Detective Sgt. Steve Smith of the Aberdeen Police Department.

A 27-year-old Aberdeen motel clerk remained in critical condition at the Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore yesterday after she was shot in the chest during a robbery late Monday, a hospital spokesman said.Glenda Darlene Wyatt of Joppa was behind the desk at the Econo Lodge Motel on Route 22 near Interstate 95 about 11:45 p.m. when a man dressed in dark clothing and armed with a 9 mm handgun entered the lobby and announced a holdup, said Maj. Harry Gruber of the Aberdeen Police Depart- ment.

Aberdeen police honored by Guard Chief Randy M. Rudy of the Aberdeen Police Department recently was presented with an award for employer support of the National Guard and Reserve from the Maryland National Guard. The Police Department has had three officers deployed to active duty since the country went to war against Iraq. Sgt. James McGarvey and Officer First Class Timothy Helf have each been deployed twice to the Middle East. Officer First Class Christopher Bradley has done security details in the United States.