Armistead Gardens

A Carroll County man was one of two people shot and killed early yesterday in Armistead Gardens in Northeast Baltimore, highlighting concerns by city police about the dangers to suburban residents involved in the drug trade.The 40-year-old Hampstead man is the third person from Carroll County killed in Baltimore this year during apparent drug disputes, all coming at a time when police have noted an unusual surge of arrests of cocaine and heroin users from outside the city.The incident highlights a circle of drug activity in which high-level dealers and struggling addicts from outside Baltimore use inner-city streets to conduct their business in transactions that often lead to violence.

A Baltimore County man was arrested last night and charged in the theft of 16 tickets to Baltimore Ravens home games, city police said.Police said the $55 tickets were stolen from D.C. Intercell in the 1400 block of Cherry Hill Road. Four tickets to the Nov. 16 game were sold to Joe Sowinski, owner of the Eastwood Inn, in the 6800 block of Eastern Ave., who gave them to friends, police said. When the friends were detained at the game, Sowinski learned the tickets were stolen and worked with police, arranging to buy tickets to the Dec. 14 game, they said.

A recent spate of canine attacks has prompted the United States Postal Service to issue an ultimatum to 500 Armistead Gardens residents: Move your mailbox to the street, or your mail will not be delivered -- even if you don't own a dog.The new rule, announced March 19, may be the first regulation of its kind to be issued by the Postal Service in Baltimore, postal officials say.The department typically takes action against the owner of a troublesome pet...

After battling for more than a decade against businessman Willard J. Hackerman, opponents of his Pulaski Highway incinerator have dealt the operation a blow that could keep it out of business for good.The Maryland Senate gave final approval yesterday to a bill banning the reopening of closed incinerators or construction of new ones within a mile of a school -- a measure aimed specifically at the Hackerman incinerator, which shut down two years ago and is near about a half-dozen schools.Senators voted 35-9 to send the legislation to the governor, who is expected to sign it into law.Lawmakers had propose a similar measure last year, but failed to get it through the General Assembly.

More than 150 police officers swept through Armistead Gardens in Northeast Baltimore yesterday afternoon hoping to break up a ring of teen-age drug dealers who they said were relatives and friends of another drug gang busted eight months ago."I stood here on this very corner and watched the cops arrest the older brothers of the people we are locking up today," said police Commissioner Thomas C. Frazier, standing at Quantril Way and Harper Way. "We are going to keep coming back here until this behavior stops."

Residents of East Baltimore's Armistead Gardens have asked the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center to set up shop in their small working-class community, where there are a large number of elderly people who need health care but have difficulty traveling to nearby medical centers."

Police Blotter is a sampling of crimes in Baltimore City and Baltimore County.Southeastern DistrictTheft from vehicle: Stereo equipment, a compact disc player and stereo speakers, all valued at more than $2,500, were stolen yesterday from a van parked in the 2000 block of Gough St.Eastern DistrictShooting: Two men were shot Monday night during an attempted armed robbery by two other men in the 1700 block of N. Collington Ave. Both victims -- one from the...

Authorities raided residences in Armistead Gardens and Highlandtown in East Baltimore and Dundalk in Baltimore County yesterday afternoon and arrested at least 20 people, including nine juveniles and two women, on drug and weapons charges.During the raids, police seized 21 handguns and rifles, 2 pounds of marijuana, about 8 ounces of suspected crack cocaine, $10,000 and three automobiles.Lt. Paul Sheppard of the city's Northeastern District investigative operations section said the arrests were part of the department's effort to rid targeted neighborhoods of drugs, weapons and undesirable residents.

Sean Roberts is realistic about his Armistead Gardens community of small rowhouses in a semi-isolated section of northeast Baltimore."It certainly isn't the best neighborhood, but it's not the worst," Mr. Roberts said yesterday as the city's police commissioner stood nearby. "We don't want it to get any worse." He said the community is threatened by a budding drug trade and is hoping that a legal crackdown by Baltimore police and prosecutors can nip the problem.Police Commissioner Thomas C. Frazier and Baltimore State's Attorney Patricia C. Jessamy held a news conference at the 1,500-home complex yesterday to announce the filing of civil lawsuits against five residents under the state's nuisance abatement law.Mr.

Christian Engleman Jr.Navy captainCapt. Christian L. Engleman Jr., a retired Navy electronics specialist who was credited with giving SONAR its name, died July 20 of complications from cancer at the Fort Vancouver Convalescent Center in Vancouver, Wash. He was 89 and had lived in Washington, D.C., and Arlington, Va.During World War II, he was serving with the Navy Bureau of Ships Electronics Installation and Maintenance Branch when he suggested the name SONAR to his former Harvard University professor Theodore Hunt, the developer of the underwater sound technique that was used in anti-submarine warfare.