Aberdeen Police

A 19-year-old man has been charged after Aberdeen Police say he stabbed his father in the chest with a knife outside an Aberdeen shopping center Wednesday afternoon. Joseph Thomas Waters IV of Aberdeen was held on $500,000 bail on charges including assault, reckless endangerment and concealing a deadly weapon, according to online court records. Officers were called at 3:47 p.m. to the Aberdeen Shopping Plaza, off Route 40, where they found Joseph Thomas Waters III with a stab wound in his chest, said Aberdeen Police spokesman Lt. Fred Budnick.

An Aberdeen man charged with the stabbing death of another Aberdeen man has been scheduled for a preliminary hearing in Harford District Court on Jan. 25.Ronald L. Huff, 37, has been charged with first-degree murder and assault with intent to murder by Aberdeen police inconnection with the Dec. 26 slaying of Kenneth Hueitt, 23.Police said that, according to witnesses, Huff went to Hueitt's apartment in the 100 block of Hanover Street, pulled out a knife...

Havre de Grace teen dies after car crash Ashley L. Forton, 15, of the 500 block of Stokes St., Havre de Grace, died from injuries received in a car crash at Routes 7 and 715 in Aberdeen on Thursday evening, Aberdeen police said. Kasandra Barr, 19, of Charlestown was driving a 1999 Ford Mustang west on Route 7 with Ashley as a passenger, police said. Barr was proceeding through the Route 715 intersection when a 2001 Jeep driven by Dorothy Woods, 40, of the 3800 block of Allegiance Court, Aberdeen Proving Ground, who was traveling east on Route 715, struck the Mustang, police reported.

Four Harford County sheriff's deputies have been honored with the National Sheriffs' Association Valor Award for their roles in a 2002 hostage rescue effort. On Feb. 4 last year, Sgt. Joe Mina, Cpl. Ed Keplin, Deputy 1st Class David Datsko and Cpl. Kevin Shrader assisted in attempting to rescue a Bel Air woman who had been shot by her estranged husband as she was chased outside their house. Edward Hopkins, Harford Sheriff's spokesman, said that the award honors the policemen's willingness to risk their lives in a hostage situation.

State transportation officials have scheduled a public hearing Thursday on plans for improving 16 miles of Interstate 95, mostly in Harford County. The meeting is set for 5 p.m. at William Paca Elementary, 2706 Philadelphia Road, Abingdon. Visitors can review displays and question state officials from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Officials will give an overview of the project and take public testimony, which will be recorded, until 8:30 p.m. Residents may also submit written comments for the public record until Jan. 21. More details on the project are available at www.mdtranspor tationauthority.

An Aberdeen police officer who accepted free haircuts from a woman in exchange for getting her 1993 speeding ticket dismissed in District Court was convicted of bribery in Harford Circuit Court yesterday.Charles David Dvorak, 33, of the 300 block of Kane St. in Baltimore was given a three-year suspended sentence and placed on supervised probation for two years after entering an Alford plea before Judge William O. Carr.In making the Alford plea, Mr. Dvorak did not admit guilt but conceded the evidence was against him.Mr.

Authorities investigating the strange circumstances of Violet R. Ripken's abduction hope that tips made in response to grainy images of the suspect will lead to an arrest. "We are attempting to look at other sources of video, photos" to release publicly, FBI spokesman Special Agent Richard Wolf said Monday. He would not say where authorities might be looking for surveillance footage, or where the suspect might have stopped during his daylong ride with Ripken in Ripken's 1998 Lincoln Town Car. Last week, Aberdeen police released two images of a man wearing an orange baseball cap and light-colored shirt standing in front of what appears to be a business.

More than 2 pounds of drugs were seized by police in Harford County during the arrests of four men that began last Thursday and ended Saturday, according to police. Jevon Hoke, 23, who lists multiple addresses, was arrested in his black Ford Explorer last Thursday after a joint surveillance effort by the Harford County Narcotics Task Force and the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, according to police. Aberdeen police made a traffic stop from which Hoke fled. He was arrested after a brief chase that ended at Swan Meadows trailer park in Aberdeen.

Donald Franklin Waltemeyer, a retired Baltimore City homicide investigator and most recently an Aberdeen Police Department detective sergeant, died of cancer Monday at his Dundalk home. He was 58. Sergeant Waltemeyer, whose nickname was "Digger," was recalled yesterday as a street-savvy patrolman with a strong work ethic who pursued one of the city's most publicized murder cases of the 1980s. Born in Baltimore and raised in Pimlico, he attended city public schools and served as a sergeant in the Army before joining the Baltimore Police Department in October 1968.

Two men shot, one fatally, in Northwest Baltimore A man was fatally shot in the head Wednesday afternoon in Northwest Baltimore, according to city police. The man was pronounced dead about 1:20 p.m. at the scene of the shooting in the 3900 block of Fairfax Road, police said. About an hour earlier, a 42-year-old man was shot in the upper torso and knee in the 3800 block of Ayrdale Ave., police said. He was taken to an area hospital after staggering to a Walgreens drugstore in the 3800 block of Liberty Heights Ave., according to police.