Annapolis Police

A Brooklyn Park man died after suffering several gunshot wounds early yesterday, Annapolis police said. Terrence Anthony Powell, 23, was killed in the first block of College Creek Terrace, where police had responded to a call about 4:45 a.m. reporting shots fired and a person possibly injured, said Officer 1st Class Kevin Freeman of the Annapolis Police Department. Powell died at the scene, Freeman said. The police investigation was continuing.

2 men hospitalized in Eastport shooting Two men remained hospitalized - one of them in critical condition - after a shooting Tuesday night in Eastport near a public housing community, Annapolis police said. Officers found Carlos Toliver, 26, of Laurel and Kejuan Butler, 19, of Annapolis at Anne Arundel Medical Center shortly after receiving a report of a shooting at 10:30 p.m., police said. When officers arrived at President and Madison streets, near the Harbour House and Eastport Terrace public housing communities, no one was there, police said.

An Annapolis committee looking for ways to curb underage drinking is asking the city council to consider a program that places officers in liquor stores and outside bars to help clerks and doormen check identification.The Alcohol and Beverage Ad Hoc Committee, formed by the council's Economic Matters Committee last summer, will present its proposal to Mayor Dean L. Johnson and the aldermen tomorrow night at City Hall. The program, Reducing Availability of Alcohol to Minors (RAAM), is modeled after one in Ocean City.

A patrolman from Annapolis and a Baltimore officer were the winners at the 42nd annual Baltimore Sun Police Officer of the Year awards ceremony yesterday at Martin's West in Woodlawn.Edgar A. Allen II of the Baltimore Police Department was named Police Officer of the Year, and Patrolman Eric E. Crane of the Annapolis Police Department won the community service award.Allen, 29, a nine-year veteran of the force, works as an undercover narcotics officer. He was nominated by Maj. George L. Klein.

A 38-year-old Annapolis man was stabbed in the chest early Monday morning, Annapolis police said.John Henry Davis was listed in critical condition yesterday at Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore.Annapolis police found Davis in the 1800 block of Bowman Court, in the northwest section of the city. He was bleeding from a chest wound inflicted by a woman, said Norman Johnson of the Annapolis Police Department.No arrests have been made.

The former live-in boyfriend of a psychiatrist accused of helping her other lover escape from state prison pleaded guilty yesterday in District Court to two traffic offenses for pursuing his girlfriend through downtown Annapolis in a high-speed car chase in May.Annapolis police initially had charged Glenn M. Bosshard, 44, with first- and second-degree assault for the pursuit of Elizabeth L. Feil May 28, which ended in a crash. Kristin Riggin, spokeswoman for the Anne Arundel County state's attorney's office, said that because Feil, a former psychiatrist, did not want to testify, prosecutors and Feil's attorney agreed to reduce the charges to one count of reckless driving and one count of fleeing or eluding a police officer.

Anne Arundel County police have arrested two men on charges of running a money scam designed to swindle elderly bank patrons out of their savings, a spokesman said yesterday.James McKee, 40, of Oxon Hill and James Smith, 43, of Washington, were charged with felony theft. McKee is being held in lieu of $100,000 bail, and Smith is being held in lieu of $50,000 bail.Annapolis police have issued a warrant for a third man, 35-year-old Keith Twiggs, also of Washington. Police in Baltimore and Prince George's County are investigating the men in connection with similar fraud schemes.

The former live-in boyfriend of a psychiatrist accused of helping her other lover escape from state prison pleaded guilty yesterday in District Court to two traffic offenses for pursuing his girlfriend through downtown Annapolis in a high-speed car chase in May.Annapolis police initially had charged Glenn M. Bosshard, 44, with first- and second-degree assault for the pursuit of Elizabeth L. Feil on May 28, which ended in a crash. Kristin Riggin, spokeswoman for the Anne Arundel County state's attorney's office, said that because Feil, a former psychiatrist, did not want to testify, prosecutors and Feil's attorney agreed to reduce the charges to one count of reckless driving and one count of fleeing or eluding a police officer.

An electrical short in a power strip caused Anne Arundel County's 911 emergency telephone system to crash Sunday, Bell Atlantic officials said yesterday. But it is still unclear what caused the short and why the backup system also failed.Callers to the county's 911 system, which handles emergency calls for the county police and fire departments, got busy signals from 7: 30 a.m. to 8: 49 a.m., when the backup service was restored. The power strip was repaired and the main system was returned to service at 9: 20 a.m., said Lt. Jeff Kelly, a police spokesman.

WERE FRIENDS of Black Annapolitans really concerned about police brutality when its leaders encouraged city residents to protest against the Police Department in the fall of 1996? Or, was the group trying to drive a wedge between the police and community to protect a lucrative drug business?Last week's drug raids in the city cast doubt on the group's original motives.Annapolis police and federal Drug Enforcement Administration agents arrested Curtis Allan Spencer, the group's organizer; Theodore Lee Brown, its president; and Harold Lovell Johnson, its treasurer, along with 13 others.

Arnold man charged in theft from church's poor box Officials from St. Mary's Parish Church, 109 Duke of Gloucester St., told Annapolis police last week that their poor boxes had been tampered with and one box had been opened. Video surveillance showed a person opening a poor box and taking cash, police said. Police arrested James Allan Thomas, 39, of the 400 block of Knockwood Court in Arnold and charged him with theft and related counts. Police said Thomas previously had been banned from church property.

Two Howard men indicted in attempted-murder cases Grand jury indictments for attempted murder have been handed down in two separate cases in Howard County. Donald Joseph Scallio of Elkridge is accused of attempted murder in an attack on his former girlfriend at their residence in the 6000 block of Old Washington Blvd. Joel Christian Fowler, 28, of Laurel, is accused of attempted murder in a baseball bat attack on his aunt and uncle in their Laurel home. - Don Markus Essex man held on child pornography charges Prosecutors say an Essex man accused of posing online as a lesbian stricken with cancer to entice teenage girls into relationships has been indicted on child pornography charges.

Naked man charged in Annapolis yacht break-in A naked man was arrested and charged with burglary and theft after he was suspected of breaking into a yacht early Friday and stealing alcohol, Annapolis police said. Employees on a boat docked at the Annapolis Yacht Basin in the first block of Compromise St. were awakened about 2 a.m. by sounds of an intruder, police said. The boat's engineer awoke to see a man clothed in a black V-neck T-shirt and dark jeans in his bedroom and chased him off the yacht.

A city councilman is demanding that the Police Department take action against three city officers - including the brother of Police Commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld III - who have yet to be disciplined for internal violations in connection with a federal race discrimination complaint. Councilman Bernard C. "Jack" Young sent a letter last week to several high-ranking city officials asking why no action has been taken since charges were sustained early last year against three former homicide detectives - Lt. James W. Hagin Jr., Detective Paul A. Kidd and former Detective Charles E. Bealefeld - stemming from an incident in which a black homicide detective said he was ordered to look at Ku Klux Klan Web sites.

Dulaney High student hit by car has died A Baltimore County high school student who was hit by a car late last week has died, officials said yesterday. Conrad A. Utanes, 17, of Timonium was struck shortly after school let out Friday afternoon, police said. The Dulaney High School senior was crossing Girdwood Road when he was hit by a 2001 Ford Focus driven by another Dulaney student, Sarah J. Sernaker, 16, of Cockeysville, Baltimore County police spokesman Bill Toohey said yesterday. Grief counselors were at Dulaney yesterday, Principal Patrick S. McCusker said, along with the guidance counselors.

Police arrest Glen Burnie robbery suspect Police arrested a man who tried to rob a Glen Burnie convenience store Monday, county police said. Just before 8 p.m., a man walked up to the register of a 7-Eleven store on Quarterfield Road and showed what appeared to be a handgun in the waistband of his pants and demanded money from an employee. The employee refused and went into a back room. The suspect left the store. Officers working a "Holiday Robbery Suppression Detail" arrested Ryan Marcus Green, 20, of the 3200 block of Yosemite Ave. in Baltimore and charged him with armed robbery, assault, theft and other related charges, police said.

Stoop returns to helm of Baltimore ATF division The Baltimore field division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives announced yesterday that the agency has again named Theresa R. Stoop its special agent in charge, her second go-round in the job. She replaces Gregory K. Gant, who moved to the Atlanta ATF division in August. Stoop, who has served with the ATF for 24 years, was also the Baltimore agent in charge from 2000 to 2003. She most recently worked as chief of staff for the ATF acting national director, Michael J. Sullivan.

Separate city shootings leave two wounded Two people were shot in West Baltimore late yesterday, according to police. Both of the shootings occurred about 9 p.m., said Baltimore Police spokesman Troy Harris. The first took place in the 1000 block of Payson St. when a 17-year-old was shot in the thigh, Harris said. The injury was not life-threatening. In the second incident, a man was shot in the head in the 1500 block of McKean Ave. and was later taken to a hospital, Harris said. No details were available on his condition last night.

Woman, 62, assaulted, robbed at Westfield mall Police were searching for a man who robbed a woman Monday outside Westfield Annapolis mall, according to police. A 62-year-old woman told police she was putting merchandise into the trunk of her car just before 1 p.m. outside Nordstrom when someone approached and struck her in the head with a heavy object and she fell, county police said. The robber fled with a laptop computer, an iPod and jewelry, police said. The man was last seen leaving the parking garage area and walking around the north corner of Nordstrom.

Annapolis man, 21, linked to other armed robberies A 21-year-old Annapolis man who was charged with robbing a pedestrian and a McDonald's restaurant on the same day last week has also admitted robbing a pizza deliveryman and a convenience store, city police said. Jontae Powell of Hilltop Lane was arrested early Sept. 12 after officers with police dogs found him hiding in the backyard of a home in the 1400 block of Stone Creek Road. He matched the description of a man who had wriggled through the drive-in window of a McDonald's in the 1900 block of West St. and held up the employees at gunpoint and of a man who had robbed a pedestrian on Ellington Drive that same day, police said.