Additional Charges

The trial of a Sykesville man accused of soliciting two boys last year for pornographic pictures, videos and sexual offenses was postponed yesterday after the prosecutor requested time to seek additional charges. Carroll Circuit Judge Michael M. Galloway granted the delay in the jury trial of William R. Williams, 45, who lived in Westminster at the time of the alleged incidents. Prosecutor Tracey A. Gilmore said the new trial date, May 10, will allow time to take new information to a county grand jury May 4 and won't risk violating laws that require a defendant to be tried within 180 days.

The driver of a tractor-trailer that crashed on southbound Interstate 95 Wednesday evening has been charged with driving while impaired by alcohol, police said. Glenn Grise, 46, of West Orange, N.J., crashed a semitrailer around 8:15 p.m. on an overpass above Interstate 895, turning the truck over in the left lane of I-95, just north of the Harbor Tunnel, according to Sgt. Kirk Perez, a spokesman for the Maryland Transportation Authority Police. Grise's truck was registered to the New Jersey-based G. Grise Trucking company, Perez said.

Wicomico County law enforcement officials have found the body of an 11-year-old girl who police say was kidnapped from her bedroom by a registered sex offender. The body of Sarah Haley Foxwell was found in the Rum Ridge area of northern Wicomico County about three-quarters of a mile south of the Maryland-Delaware state line, an area that had been a focus of the search. Wicomico County Sheriff Mike Lewis said no additional charges have yet been brought against Thomas James Leggs Jr., the sex offender who had been earlier charged with her kidnapping.

Federal prosecutors said in court Friday that they're contemplating additional charges against two New York men accused in multistate thefts of historic documents uncovered this month when police said the pair targeted a Maryland museum. The revelation came during the initial court appearances for Barry H. Landau, 63, and Jason J. Savedoff, 24, who were indicted in Baltimore's U.S. District Court a day earlier on charges of conspiracy and "theft of major artwork" from archives in Maryland and New York.

The state is assessing airlines operating at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport $25 million in new charges, including $13 million it says is owed by dominant carrier Southwest Airlines. Airport officials said the additional charges were being imposed to cover increased expenses, including higher security and utility costs. In Southwest's case, the state said it found that it had been undercharging the airline for its new terminal space. Southwest Chief Financial Officer Laura H. Wright disclosed the "surprise audit settlement charge" that it is negotiating with the Maryland Aviation Administration during the airline's first-quarter earnings conference call yesterday.

This week150 years ago in The SunAugust 3: On Saturday night, some thief watched an opportunity and stole from the butcher stall of Mr. Sterling Thomas, in Centre Market, about $30 of the proceeds of sales for the day. This, too, was characterized by a degree of boldness which shows that practised hands were at work.100 years ago in The SunAugust 1: Health Commissioner Jones has decided with the co-operation of the School Board, that no child shall enter the public schools of the city at their opening in September without a written certificate of successful vaccination.

Police were investigating a report yesterday that a woman had been bound and held for three days at a Baltimore County motel. The 36-year-old woman told police about 7:30 a.m. yesterday that she had just freed herself after a man had held her for three days in a room at the Regal Inn in the 8000 block of Pulaski Highway in Rosedale, police said. The woman had injuries on her wrists, and was taken to Franklin Square Hospital Center. Officers found a 40-year-old man in the motel room and arrested him on warrants charging him in an unrelated assault and a burglary, police said.

Pennsylvania State Police in Gettysburg have charged two men with robbery and conspiracy in an armed robbery in the home of an elderly couple.Travis Timothy Mann, 18, of Westminster and John Henry Williams Jr., 21, of Littlestown, Pa., were arrested Christmas Day following the Dec. 23 incident in Adams County, Pa.Police said they believe the men entered the Mount Joy Township residence, pointed a pistol at the couple and demanded money. No one was injured.The intruders fled with about $1,000 and the victims' wallet and purse.

A Virginia man, accused of stalking a woman from state to state and attempting to set fire to her Westminster apartment building Sunday, was held on $20,000 bond yesterday.Kenneth Rydell Murray, 32, of Charlottesville was charged with attempted first-degree arson, arson by threatening to burn, breaking and entering, and stalking Darlean Goode.City police said they arrested Mr. Murray after Ms. Goode reported that a man poured a flammable liquid around her apartment building in the first block of Charles St. and attempted to light it Sunday.

A second person has died from injuries suffered in a crash in Howard County over the weekend, and police said additional charges likely will be brought against the driver, whom investigators suspect of being under the influence of alcohol at the time of the accident. Victor Guitierrez-Almeida died early yesterday at Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, Howard County police said. He and Gilberto Garcia Vasquez, who died at the scene, were passengers in a car that crossed the double-yellow line on Route 32 in Dayton early Sunday and collided with a Dodge pickup truck.

A Baltimore man wanted in the attempted shooting of a Carroll County Sheriff's deputy was picked up in Hagerstown on Friday, police said. Brian Joseph Hill, 27, of the 3900 block of Penhurst Ave. was wanted after police say he attempted to shoot the deputy with a handgun during a traffic stop on Old Westminster Pike about 2:30 a.m. Monday. The deputy, who had stopped Hill's Ford Explorer for suspended tags, returned fire, causing Hill to accelerate and crash in a nearby yard, police said.

Wicomico County law enforcement officials have found the body of an 11-year-old girl who police say was kidnapped from her bedroom by a registered sex offender. The body of Sarah Haley Foxwell was found in the Rum Ridge area of northern Wicomico County about three-quarters of a mile south of the Maryland-Delaware state line, an area that had been a focus of the search. Wicomico County Sheriff Mike Lewis said no additional charges have yet been brought against Thomas James Leggs Jr., the sex offender who had been earlier charged with her kidnapping.

A second person has died from injuries suffered in a crash in Howard County over the weekend, and police said additional charges likely will be brought against the driver, whom investigators suspect of being under the influence of alcohol at the time of the accident. Victor Guitierrez-Almeida died early yesterday at Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, Howard County police said. He and Gilberto Garcia Vasquez, who died at the scene, were passengers in a car that crossed the double-yellow line on Route 32 in Dayton early Sunday and collided with a Dodge pickup truck.

A 46-year-old man has been charged in a rash of "smash-and-grab" burglaries of Howard County businesses in recent months, police said yesterday. Marvin Eugene Harding, of no fixed address, was arrested without incident by Howard County detectives at a residence in the 1900 block of Frederick Road in Baltimore on June 30. Harding is charged with second-degree burglary in 16 incidents, police spokeswoman Sherry Llewellyn said, and additional charges are...

A 16-year-old Forest Hill youth has been charged with attempted first-degree murder, accused of shooting at a Harford County sheriff's deputy early yesterday, authorities said. Justin Jacob Bristol, who was charged as an adult, was being held without bail at the Harford County Detention Center, police said. The Emergency Operations Center received a call about 7 a.m. yesterday from someone saying that a teenager was agitated and possibly suicidal, police said. The caller said the teenager, who does not have a driver's license, had taken his grandmother's 2002 red Jeep Liberty without permission.

The state is assessing airlines operating at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport $25 million in new charges, including $13 million it says is owed by dominant carrier Southwest Airlines. Airport officials said the additional charges were being imposed to cover increased expenses, including higher security and utility costs. In Southwest's case, the state said it found that it had been undercharging the airline for its new terminal space. Southwest Chief Financial Officer Laura H. Wright disclosed the "surprise audit settlement charge" that it is negotiating with the Maryland Aviation Administration during the airline's first-quarter earnings conference call yesterday.

A 46-year-old man has been charged in a rash of "smash-and-grab" burglaries of Howard County businesses in recent months, police said yesterday. Marvin Eugene Harding, of no fixed address, was arrested without incident by Howard County detectives at a residence in the 1900 block of Frederick Road in Baltimore on June 30. Harding is charged with second-degree burglary in 16 incidents, police spokeswoman Sherry Llewellyn said, and additional charges are...

Bail was revoked and additional charges were filed against a 35-year-old Westminster man who was accused last month of assaulting the mother of his infant son.State police in Westminster arrested Kenneth E. Kern Thursday night on charges of telephone misuse and violating a protective order the woman obtained to prevent him from contacting her after the alleged assault Sept. 10.Bail on the new charges was set at $100,000 in District Court Friday morning. Prosecutors said Kern was served with a bench warrant signed by visiting Circuit Judge Elsbeth L. Bothe on Friday that revoked the $75,000 bail he posted Sept.

Prosecutors in Baltimore have decided not to charge the nine middle school students accused in the beating of a 26-year-old woman on a city bus with a hate crime as a judge postponed their trial yesterday until Jan. 31. Judge Edward R.K. Hargadon, the head of the city's juvenile judges, granted a request from the state to postpone a Jan. 4 trial date despite objections from the juveniles' attorneys. A hearing on the teenagers' home-detention status will take place Jan. 4.

Fire investigators and federal agents charged a 28-year-old Havre de Grace man and a teenager from Level yesterday in an Aug. 22 incident in which an incendiary device was thrown through a window at the Havre de Grace library. Daniel Woodrow Ramsey Jr. and the 17-year-old male, whose name was withheld because he is a juvenile, were charged with manufacturing and using an incendiary device, fire officials said. Firefighters from the Susquehanna Hose Company responded at 3:12 a.m. and extinguished the blaze, which caused about $17,000 in damages to the Union Avenue building.