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Laurel police report felonies, arrests and property crimes. Prince George's County police report violent crimes and property crimes. Howard County police report major crimes, break-ins and car thefts. Laurel City Bryan Court , 100 block, July 8. Pioneer CD, radio player stolen from truck. Main Street , 300 block, July 7. Male broke window to occupied apartment in entry attempt. Resident moved blinds and man fled from roof. North Arbory Way , 7600 block, July 7. No signs of forced entry.

Maryland Transportation Authority Police arrested a Florida man Sunday morning after security agents found a loaded handgun in his carry-on luggage at BWI Marshall Airport. Michael Menlo Smith, 58, was found with a 9 mm Glock 17, loaded with 10 rounds of ammunition, and two magazines with another 10 rounds each, according to police and the Transportation Security Administration. Police confiscated the firearm and ammunition and arrested the man. There was no impact on airport operations, according to TSA. Smith told police he forgot the firearm was in his luggage, spokesman Sgt. Kirk Perez said.

Baltimore mayoral candidate Otis Rolley needed to get some attention and to boost his name recognition. That he has done, though most of the attention from his proposal to tax ammunition at a dollar a round in the city has been derisory. The Internet is abuzz with reaction to his suggested ammo tax, just one of 12 steps he promises to take as mayor to "make every neighborhood in Baltimore safer. " Calling himself "the man with a plan," the challenger to Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's attempt to win a term on her own after succeeding the ousted Sheila Dixon says he's not at all disturbed by the scorn stirred up by his tax idea.

Baltimore mayoral candidate Otis Rolley needed to get some attention and to boost his name recognition. That he has done, though most of the attention from his proposal to tax ammunition at a dollar a round in the city has been derisory. The Internet is abuzz with reaction to his suggested ammo tax, just one of 12 steps he promises to take as mayor to "make every neighborhood in Baltimore safer. " Calling himself "the man with a plan," the challenger to Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's attempt to win a term on her own after succeeding the ousted Sheila Dixon says he's not at all disturbed by the scorn stirred up by his tax idea.

Police seized more than 2 kilograms of cocaine, a handgun and ammunition yesterday from an Edmondson Village couple, both of whom have convictions on felony drug charges. During a routine scan last month of the ammunition sales log at Wal-Mart in Catonsville, detectives from the federal High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area task force found that the woman had bought ammunition for a .45 caliber handgun and that she was a felon, said Baltimore Police Lt. John Hess. It is illegal for a convicted felon to possess guns or ammunition.

Firearms, ammunition and a color television set were stolen Sunday from a Harmans home, county police said.Charles Merton Laios, 34, told Western District officers that the theft occurred between 1 p.m. and 8:43 p.m. The thieves broke a back basement window and pried out half of the window frame to get into the house, police said.The thieves took the television, a Colt .45 automatic and a 12-gauge Remington 1200 shotgun from the bedroom. Two loaded magazines for the handgun, 1 1/2 boxes of Colt .45 ammunition and eight boxes of shotgun shells also were taken.

An article in The Sun yesterday incorrectly reported Sen. Janice Piccinini's vote on a 1991 bill requiring gun owners to secure their weapons so that children can't use them. Senator Piccinini voted for the bill.ANNAPOLIS -- Imagine turning your shotgun into a three-second flamethrower that can spew a 4,000-degree fireball to 300 feet.Heck, why just imagine?For $16.95 per three-round pack, anyone can purchase Dragon's Breath -- a registered trademark -- from the South Carolina-based Blammo Ammo Co.If you're worried about damage from the 12-gauge ammunition, an advertisement for it in Shotgun News last year claims it "blows a load of exotic, fast-burning, high temperature metals.

Stanley Plummer Earp, a retired Aberdeen Proving Ground ammunition expert, died of pneumonia Jan. 11 at Greater Baltimore Medical Center. The longtime Towson resident was 84. Mr. Earp was born in Baltimore and raised on Dixie Drive in Towson. He was a 1941 graduate of Towson High School and joined the Navy in 1943. He served in the Pacific theater as a gunner on a PBY Catalina flying boat. After the war, he briefly attended the College of Wooster in Ohio, then went to sea after joining the U.S. merchant marine.

Baltimore County police seized a cache of guns and 7,000 rounds of ammunition, and arrested the owner -- who had been ordered by a judge not to possess firearms, officials said yesterday.Richard M. Segel, 40, was arrested Monday after police recovered 18 rifles and semiautomatic weapons, a handgun and ammunition. He was charged with violating the order prohibiting him from possessing firearms.Mr. Segel, who does not have a permanent address, was ordered held on $100,000 bail and sent to Spring Grove Hospital Center after a psychiatric evaluation showed he may be a danger to himself or others, court records show.

Baltimore police said yesterday they raided an East Baltimore clothing store allegedly used as a front for the illegal sale of high-powered weapons and accessories, including assault rifles, shotguns, handguns, ammunition and body armor. Organized-crime detectives raided the store, Moon Wear in the 2400 block of Greenmount Ave. on Thursday, about 15 hours after its owner, Andre Mills, 33, was pulled over on a traffic stop, police said. During the stop, officers said they discovered ammunition for high-powered rifles.

Laurel police report felonies, arrests and property crimes. Prince George's County police report violent crimes and property crimes. Howard County police report major crimes, break-ins and car thefts. Laurel City Bryan Court , 100 block, July 8. Pioneer CD, radio player stolen from truck. Main Street , 300 block, July 7. Male broke window to occupied apartment in entry attempt. Resident moved blinds and man fled from roof. North Arbory Way , 7600 block, July 7. No signs of forced entry.

The "lamestream" U.S. media has been conspicuously silent about who has been supplying weapons to the Arab dictatorships which are currently being used to suppress and kill their own people. The guilty include the USA, the Russians, the French, the Belgians and the British just to name a few. The same nations who are now wringing their hands about the ruling elite's brutality using the very weapons they supplied! The British are especially hypocritical when it comes to Libya. According to the Campaign Against the Arms Trade, in the third quarter of 2010 (the most recent period for which figures are available)

Let's posit the argument, as made by Ron Smith in Friday's column, that political rhetoric had no bearing on the actions of Jared Loughner in Tucson last week ( "Mental illness, not political speech, to blame for bloodbath," Jan. 14). He is a deeply disturbed individual, like John Hinckley and Mark David Chapman. But Mr. Smith conveniently sidesteps a key issue. This person had a history of unstable and erratic behavior that goes back several years, but he had never been committed to a mental institution and had no police record.

A Mount Airy teenager was charged Monday with stealing guns and ammunition from a neighbor after the boy's father found the weapons in his son's room and the family car, Howard County police said. Christopher McCoy, 19, of the 16000 block of Camalo Drive, allegedly stole four guns and ammunition from a gun closet in the neighbor's house Thursday and a nonworking revolver from a barn in the backyard last November, police said. Police said it was a tip from the father that led to the arrest.

A Baltimore man, who authorities believe was part of a drug organization whose feuding with rivals might have led to several killings and the shooting of 12 people at a cookout this summer, was sentenced to four years in federal prison Wednesday for being a felon in possession of ammunition. Terrell Allen, 36, pleaded guilty in September, two months after agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives executed a search warrant on his Essex home on Punjab Drive and found 21 rounds of ammunition in a table next to his bed. The search warrant was connected to a series of incidents more than a year earlier.

After The Independent, a newspaper in the United Kingdom, sent a crime reporter to Baltimore last month to see if the city bears out the images on "The Wire," The Baltimore Sun sent police reporter Justin Fenton to London. The swap offered an opportunity to compare attitudes, crime and policing in London and Baltimore. For more observations, visit baltimoresun.com/twocities. LONDON -- With the television drama "The Wire" airing here, political and law enforcement leaders recently found themselves in an odd position: defending their streets from comparisons to inner-city Baltimore.

WASHINGTON -- Nearly a dozen members of the police force that guards the top-secret National Security Agency are suspected of stealing ammunition from the Fort Meade-based agency, sources and federal officials said yesterday.The thefts, which included up to 50,000 rounds of ammunition, represent an embarrassing incident for the NSA, an intelligence agency that eavesdrops on foreign communications and makes and breaks codes. Besides NSA officials, agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms are investigating the thefts.

A Baltimore man, who authorities believe was part of a drug organization whose feuding with rivals might have led to several killings and the shooting of 12 people at a cookout this summer, was sentenced to four years in federal prison Wednesday for being a felon in possession of ammunition. Terrell Allen, 36, pleaded guilty in September, two months after agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives executed a search warrant on his Essex home on Punjab Drive and found 21 rounds of ammunition in a table next to his bed. The search warrant was connected to a series of incidents more than a year earlier.

WASHINGTON - -The Supreme Court's reversal Monday of a discrimination ruling involving a group of white Connecticut firefighters has provided critics of high court nominee Sonia Sotomayor with some fresh buckshot. The ruling that New Haven firefighters were unfairly denied promotions because of their race became an instant talking point for conservative foes of Sotomayor. They argued that her court's decision to the contrary last year shows she would be an activist who allows her biases - particularly her backing of affirmative action policies - to taint her judgment.

Members of the Baltimore Gun Tracing Task Force raided a Glen Burnie pawn shop and the owner's Northwest Baltimore home yesterday, seizing more than 250 guns and multiple crates of ammunition two weeks after the owner pleaded guilty to a felony. Police said the owner of B&A Pawn was not charged with a crime yesterday. The state police licensing division revoked the firearm dealer's license for B&A Pawn yesterday, and investigators from the task force - made up of officers from Baltimore, Baltimore County and the state - are examining weapons and reviewing sales records looking for possible violations.