Anne Arundel County Police

An Anne Arundel police corporal was charged Friday after allegedly warning drug suspects that a search warrant was going to be executed for their residence, police said. Anne Arundel County Police Cpl. Rick Alexander, 36, a 14-year member of the department, was arrested and charged with obstructing and hindering a police officer, conspiracy to distribute marijuana and conspiracy to distribute cocaine, according to a statement Friday evening from county police. Around 10 p.m. Thursday, Anne Arundel County Police executed a narcotics search and seizure warrant in the 1300 block of Juniper Street, in Shady Side, police said.

A Brooklyn Park man killed his wife and her twin children on Sunday before he sent a text message to his mother and turned a gun on himself, police said. Anne Arundel County Police identified the man as Kelly Brian Thompson, 33, who lived in a Wood Street rowhouse. They said he first shot and killed his wife, Nina Thompson, 34, and her 15-year-old twins, Taishawn Pugh, a girl, and Treshawn Pugh, a boy. He then texted an agitated message to his mother, who called police and went to the house around 9 a.m., police said.

A 36-year-old man died at the Maryland Shock Trauma Center after being shot early Friday morning in his driveway in Laurel, Anne Arundel County police said. Officers from the county's Western District responded to the 8000 block of Ians Alley shortly before 2:30 a.m. Friday for the report of a shooting, police said. The victim, Gregory Robert Sears, told them he was shot after being approached by two men in his driveway, according to police. Officers searched the area for the men, but they were unable to locate them, police said.

Anne Arundel County Police are investigating the shooting of a Brooklyn Park man who was found dead in a car near his home Thursday. Police were responding to calls for a shooting in the 400 block of Audrey Avenue at about 5:35 p.m. when they found Adam Ray Bucklew, 21, inside a vehicle with several gunshot wounds. Police said witnesses reported seeing two men flee from the area, but they were not found after officers combed the area. One man was described as a black, in his late teens to early 20s, 5-foot-11, 190 pounds, with a bald head and a large tattoo on his left arm, police said.

Anne Arundel County police are seeking three men, at least one armed with a handgun, who are suspects in a Glen Burnie assault and robbery. A man was walking on a foot path in the 300 block of Highland Drive just after midnight Monday when he was confronted by three men, who, with faces covered, demanded his money, according to police. After indicating that he had none, the three men assaulted the man, stole his lighter and fled on foot.

A person was fatally shot Thursday afternoon in a Glen Burnie home, police said. Around 3 p.m., Anne Arundel County police were called to a residence in the 1500 block of Furnace Ave., a police spokesman said. Homicide detectives were questioning another person who was in the home when detectives arrived, according to police. No other information, including the sex of the deceased, was made available by 6:45 p.m. steve.kilar@baltsun.com twitter.com/stevekilar

Anne Arundel County police arrested a Glen Burnie man after they responded to a caller telling them that his mother was being held at gunpoint by a former boyfriend, police said. Anne Arundel County police arrested a Glen Burnie man after they responded to a 21-year-old caller telling them that his mother was being held at gunpoint by a former boyfriend, police said. Police said that at about 10 p.m. Friday, they received a call saying that the 38-year-old woman was being held in a bedroom of a home in 200 block of Maryland Avenue by an ex-boyfriend, police said.

One man has died and another was injured in a head-on crash Friday morning in southern Anne Arundel County, police said. The incident, which involved two vehicles, was reported at 6:22 a.m. at the intersection of Route 258 and Nutwell Sudley Road in Deale, said Anne Arundel County Police in a statement Friday afternoon. John Leonard Lonigan, a 20-year-old from the 5900 block of Sneed Drive in Deale, was driving a Chevy Impala that crossed the double yellow line and struck a Ford truck, according to the statement.

One man is in critical condition after a shooting in a grocery store parking lot in Glen Burnie, Anne Arundel County Police said Friday. The shooting occurred about 10:45 p.m. Friday night at the Super Fresh grocery store in the Harundale Plaza shopping center in the 7700 block of Richie Highway in Glen Bernie, Lt. Glenn Shanahan said. One victim was taken to Maryland Shock Trauma Center, where he is in critical condition. He was not identified. Shanahan said there was an altercation between two groups of people in the parking lot and that officers found multiple shell casings spread over a 100-yard area.

A 45-year-old man has been charged with stabbing another man who he believed had damaged his motorcycle outside a Glen Burnie tavern late Sunday, Anne Arundel County Police said. The man, who police said was drunk, allegedly drove off and crashed his Harley Davidson at a nearby intersection after the altercation. Brian Scott Smith, of the unit block of Magnolia Avenue, has since been arrested and charged with multiple crimes in the incident, including attempted second-degree murder, police said.