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Anne Arundel County police arrested a 33-year-old Annapolis man Tuesday night and charged him with beating his mother. Robert N. Benscoter faces charges of attempted second-degree murder, assault and reckless endangerment. Police responded to a report of family violence on the 1300 block of Hazel Nut Court in Cape St. Claire shortly after 8 p.m. The 61-year-old woman at the home had been violently assaulted by her son, police said. Benscoter, who also lives at the residence, used a hammer to strike his mother repeatedly in the head and torso, police said.

Anne Arundel County police have charged a 28-year-old Annapolis man with three counts of indecent exposure in connection with several incidents at Anne Arundel Community College last month. Jacob Lee Bovia, of the 900 block Vanburen St., also faces two counts of disorderly conduct. Between Feb.16 and Feb. 22, the police and the college's public safety officers received several complaints of a man who had exposed himself, while in his car, to several women on the college's main campus in Arnold.

An Annapolis man was arrested and charged with stabbing another man in the chest with a tire reamer Sunday evening, according to Annapolis police. Otto Gordy, 38, of Annapolis was charged with assault, reckless endangerment, possession of a dangerous weapon with intent to injure and disorderly conduct after allegedly stabbing the victim around 5 p.m. in the 1100 block of Madison St., police said. Gordy is being held on $500,000 bond, police said. The victim refused treatment.

A 33-year-old Annapolis man faces charges of rape and sexual assault of a 15-year-old girl. Annapolis Police arrested William Ashley Pickett of Royal Street in the city early Wednesday in Prince George's County. Police said the suspect lured the teenager into his home and assaulted and raped her on Tuesday. The victim told police that she knew the suspect, who lived in her neighborhood. Pickett is charged with second-degree rape and second-degree assault. mary.gail.hare@baltsun.com

As the shadows lengthen in Sandy Point State Park next Sunday afternoon, and another Maryland Seafood Festival winds down, six people will take the stage before a cheering crowd and press against a table piled high with steamed crabs. The judge will give a signal. The contestants will start snatching up crustaceans, tearing them apart and tossing shells aside. And the Cantler's Riverside Inn Crab-Picking Contest will be under way. It's a noisy, colorful spectacle, complete with trash-talking rivals, flying elbows and bellowing fans.

A registered sex offender was sentenced Thursday to 20 years in prison for raping a 13-year-old girl he met online and sexually assaulting her 14-year-old friend. James Mason III, 30, of Annapolis, had run-ins with the law starting at age 12, and this case represented his fourth and fifth sex crimes, according to Anne Arundel County prosecutor Kathleen Rogers. "This is completely within your character, taking advantage of people sexually," Anne Arundel County Circuit Court Judge Paul A. Hackner said to Mason.

Maryland Natural Resources Police are investigating the death of a man whose body was found in Spa Creek Saturday afternoon. The man was identified as Timothy Patrick Ellis, 55, of Annapolis, Sgt. Art Windemuth said Sunday. Police responded about 2:20 p.m. after a call to Anne Arundel County 911 that reported a body floating in the creek near the 300 block of Burnside St. in Annapolis, Windemuth said. The body has been taken to the chief medical examiner for an autopsy.

Three people were stabbed early Sunday morning when a fight that erupted at a house party turned into a violent street brawl in Edgewater, in southern Anne Arundel County, police said. Two of the victims, a juvenile from Annapolis and a man from Edgewater, were treated and released for non-life-threatening injuries at Anne Arundel Medical Center, while the third victim, an Annapolis man, was taken to the University of Maryland Medical Center's Shock Trauma Center for treatment of his wounds.

A 19-year-old man charged in a Monday evening stabbing at an Edgewater Taco Bell turned himself in Tuesday to the Anne Arundel County Police Southern District, officials said. Tyrell Markell Dailey of the 100 block of Tydings Drive in Edgewater faces attempted second-degree murder and related charges in the stabbing of a 21-year-old Annapolis man. Officers were called at about 7:45 p.m. Monday for a reported stabbing at a Taco Bell at 3091 Solomons Island Road in Edgewater, where, on the parking lot, they found a man wounded in the torso.