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WASHINGTON -- Representative Roy P. Dyson, D-Md.-1st, denied yesterday calling the home of a defense lobbyist convicted in the Pentagon probe case -- even though a federal affidavit released last week cites FBI wiretaps of the congressman making at least one such call.The 39-page affidavit names Mr. Dyson as one of a number of officials who called the Long Island, N.Y., home of Charles F. Gardner, a Unisys Corp. official and consultant who was convicted last year of bribing Pentagon officials and making illegal campaign contributions.

Two Baltimore men arrested after a Monday morning bank robbery that netted more than $30,000 could be connected to as many as a dozen other bank holdups in the area, according to federal court records made public yesterday. Authorities charged Teledo H. Smith, 36, and Kevin Maurice Lawson, 35, in U.S. District Court in Baltimore with robbing the Wachovia Bank branch at 5439 Harford Road Monday morning. An FBI affidavit alleged that the men took $37,086 from the bank, although they dropped about $3,725 on the floor of the bank as they fled.

Miguel Tejada's guilty plea yesterday might give credibility to Rafael Palmeiro's claims that he received contaminated B-12 from Tejada. The Jason Grimsley affidavit in 2006 was the first hint Palmeiro might have plausible deniability. ( For more, go to baltimoresun.com/schmuckblog)

The captain of a Norwegian tanker failed to tell the Coast Guard that his ship was in dangerous condition as it came into Baltimore on March 22, even though there was a leak in the engine room and the ship was taking on water, federal investigators charged in papers unsealed yesterday. Frightened crew members slipped a note about the danger to Coast Guard inspectors, according to an affidavit filed in U.S. District Court in Baltimore. The ship's captain, Davor Maric of Croatia, is charged with failing to report dangerous conditions and making false statements to the Coast Guard.

A federal immigration judge ordered an Afghan native held without bond for another week yesterday while an FBI terrorism task force investigates a circle of Middle Eastern men arrested Sept. 10 in a Northwest Baltimore apartment. Department of Justice Judge Lisa Dornell refused a government lawyer's request that Khoshal Wahid Nasery, 24, be held in Immigration and Naturalization Service custody for at least two more weeks. A bond hearing was set for Monday. Yesterday's hearing at the Fallon Federal Building provided fresh information about the federal investigation in an affidavit written by FBI Special Agent Philip A. Phillips.

A 35-year-old Alaskan oil pipeline worker was charged yesterday with traveling to Maryland intending to have sex with a 13-year-old boy, who was an undercover FBI agent on the Internet. Larry Breshears, a welding inspector for the North Slope Alaska oil fields, was arrested at an Annapolis hotel after flying into Baltimore-Washington International Airport to meet "Josh," the undercover name used by the agent, 31-year-old Stacey M. Bradley. Bradley met Breshears in December in an America Online chat room, where she was posing as a child as part of the FBI's Innocent Images program.

A 47-year-old attorney and magician who runs a children's entertainment company in Baltimore County was arrested Monday and charged with flying to Florida to have sex with a 14-year-old boy, who turned out to be an undercover detective, according to police. Howard Scott Kalin, who lives in the 1700 block of Anne Ave. in Essex, was being held without bail by the Lake County, Fla., Sheriff's Office. Police said he runs "Funhouse Entertainment," in the 2200 block of York Road in Lutherville.

He was a talented engineer, a conscientious father, a loving son and a civic leader in the waterfront community near Annapolis where he lived with his mother.But federal authorities say Robert Patrick Schmitt Jr. was also a major-league thief.Mr. Schmitt, 31, has been charged in U.S. District Court in Baltimore with stealing $1.7 million from the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing, the largest theft in the bureau's 132-year history.His arrest June 17 brought to an end a monthlong federal investigation and threatened the promising career of an "up and coming star" engineer who at one time worked to redesign the type of bills that were stolen -- the $100 note.

A cash-strapped teller at a First National Bank branch in Pasadena gave her boyfriend the keys to the building and vault, enabling him and another man to steal $20,000, a federal grand jury charged in an indictment released yesterday.Raymond J. Thiele, 31, of the 7800 block of Bridge Drive; Robert J. Thorpe Jr., 27, of the 3000 block of Strickland St., and Kathie Diane Miller, 40, of the 7800 block of Bruton Drive in Glen Burnie were charged with bank burglary and with aiding and abetting.

An Arnold businessman who wants to turn his mansion on St. Helena Island into a private club allegedly has been concealing an income of millions of dollars from the Internal Revenue Service since 1994, according to an affidavit filed after a two-year federal investigation.Keith J. Osborne, president of Fantasy Island Management Inc., received millions of dollars in 1992 and from 1994 to 1997 but sporadically filed tax returns in those years, according to the affidavit IRS special agents Michael R. O'Hanlon and Antonio Gomez filed last month to obtain an April 7 search warrant.