Anne Arundel Police

Anne Arundel County police are investigating the discovery of a body in the woods in Pasadena, police said Tuesday. Police said a man told them Monday afternoon that he was walking into the wood line when he saw what appeared to be a human skull. A team that included investigators and volunteers from Chesapeake Search Dogs and the Mason Dixon Search and Rescue Dogs Inc. then searched the woods behind the 8100 block of Ritchie Highway. Police spokesman Justin Mulcahy said the other remains were found after a search that lasted "a number of hours.

Anne Arundel County Police have released the description of the person who killed a bicyclist on Ritchie Highway near Bon Air Avenue, south of Brooklyn Park, on July 14. At about 8 a.m, the bicyclist was crossing the highway's northbound lanes and was hit by a small, dark-colored sport utility vehicle, police said in a statement Tuesday. The vehicle, which may have damage to the passenger-side headlight area, did not stop. The vehicle's driver was described a black woman who was less than 5-feet 6-inches tall, police said.

Anne Arundel County police are investigating reports that two men were robbed in separate attacks in Brooklyn Park, though it does not appear the two incidents are related. One robbery occurred Christmas Eve but was not reported until Tuesday. Police said the latest robbery occurred Tuesday night about 11:30 p.m. when a 25-year-old man from Pasadena said he had been waiting at a bus stop on Ritchie Highway, near Hammonds Lane, when three men wearing ski masks asked him if he had drugs.

A man forced a cab driver to pull over, and claiming to be a police officer pounded on his car, Anne Arundel County police said Thursday. Police said that shortly before 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, an employee of Cab Connection in Linthicum told officers that one of the company's drivers was followed into the Motor Vehicle Administration lot in Glen Burnie by a driver due to a disagreement over a possible traffic violation. Police said the man boxed in the company's driver, and wearing a jacket with the word "police" on the back, claimed to be a police officer, confronted the company's driver, and pounded on the hood of the driver's vehicle before fleeing.

Anne Arundel County Police say a pedestrian was hit by a car Friday in an incident they believe might have stemmed from a traffic dispute between occupants of one vehicle and the driver of another. According to police, at about 11:45 p.m., officers responded to westbound Route 100 in Pasadena for a report of a vehicle crash and found a pedestrian had been struck. Police said a preliminary investigation indicates an Acura was heading west on Route 100 and attempted to notify police about a SUV being operated "in a reckless manner," police said.

Anne Arundel County police said they found a woman who drank herself to death in a Glen Burnie home Tuesday after her husband reported it during a traffic stop. An autopsy by the office of the chief medical examiner Tuesday showed that Bonnie Grace Anthony-Garde, 50, died from gastrointestinal bleeding due to excessive alcohol consumption, police said. Her husband had been stopped about 11 p.m. Monday at West Ordnance Road and Roberts Court on suspicion of drunken driving, police said.

When a police sergeant approached a black Jeep Cherokee parked on the side of Piney Orchard Parkway in Anne Arundel County, its hazard lights blinking, she thought it would be a routine check on a stranded motorist. But the encounter was the first in a series of events that ended with the motorist's death. Police said that when the sergeant approached, 41-year-old Patrick Raphael Toney, an academic adviser at Bowie State University, got out of the vehicle, threw items onto the ground and spat.

Two teenagers were arrested Sunday and charged in the robberies of two people in the parking lot of Marley Station mall in Glen Burnie, Anne Arundel County police said. Police said that when they responded to a call around 6:07 p.m., a 34-year-old man told them he was walking to his car when he was attacked by a man, hit repeatedly and robbed of cash. The victim told police he tried to run away, but was chased to a parked car. There, his attacker assaulted a 30-year-old woman and stole cash from a purse inside her vehicle, police said.

Three years after an Arnold man was shot in his home during a scuffle with Anne Arundel County police, the trial of his lawsuit claiming officers overreacted and violated his rights is scheduled to begin Tuesday afternoon. Michael A. Housley, and his wife, Leah, claim that a team of officers used excessive force when they came to his home to return his wife to a hospital for an evaluation. The county and police have denied wrongdoing. Housley, 54, sued after he was fined $500 by Anne Arundel County Circuit Judge Philip T. Caroom for hindering police by barring them from entering the family's home.

Anne Arundel County police said they found the vehicle they believe was involved in a fatal hit-and-run crash that killed a Glen Burnie man last week. Police said they located the suspected vehicle Tuesday morning in the driveway of a home in the 8100 block of Lea Road in Pasadena, and seized it. They said the operator, Donovan Scott Bailey, contacted police later in the day, and was questioned. He was released and charges are pending, according to police. Killed in the crash last Thursday evening was pedestrian John Junior Stewart, 52, who police said apparently was not in a crosswalk when struck by a vehicle eastbound on Mountain Road near Jumpers Hole Road.