Arrest

City police have charged a 22-year-old man in a double shooting over the weekend in Southwest Baltimore that killed a 42-year-old woman.  Gerald Gaffney, of the 3500 block of W. Garrison Ave., is charged with first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder and armed robbery counts, court records show. A motive was not immediately disclosed by police, though the charges indicate a robbery. Police said officers were called to the 2700 block of Kinsey Ave. at about 6:45 p.m. for a report of a shooting, and found a 33-year-old man suffering gunshot wounds to his arms.

A 23-year-old Rosedale man has been charged with trying to kill another man and the man's 4-year-old daughter after arranging a meeting at a nearby street corner and then opening fire, Baltimore County Police announced Friday. Rasean Dominick Penix arranged the Monday night meeting with a Baltimore man, also 23, by phone prior to the victim and his daughter arriving at the intersection of Old Home and Meadow roads about 8:30 p.m., in the vehicle being driven by another person, police said.

An 18-year-old Baltimore resident was arrested at Old Mill High School in Millersville on Wednesday after a school resource officer stopped him and found three knives in a backpack he was carrying, according to Anne Arundel County Police and school officials. Norman Hardy of the 2100 block of N. Rosedale St. in the Walbrook neighborhood was first encountered in the school building by a student advocate about 8:50 a.m., school officials said. Hardy, who is not a student at the school, fled outside when asked why he was there, the officials said.

Baltimore police have arrested a 24-year-old man in the fatal stabbing of a Cheesecake Factory employee who was leaving work early Sunday. Police said Anthony Black, 20, was being picked up by his girlfriend at 2:18 a.m. after work when two men began hitting on his girlfriend, who was sitting in her car in the 400 block of E. Pratt St. near the Inner Harbor. "That's my girl," Black told the men, according to Baltimore police spokesman Detective Vernon Davis. One of the men responded by telling him to "calm down, your girl is hot-looking," according to a court charging document.

Howard County police have arrested a man they say set fire to an apartment in Columbia Friday and hurled obscenities at police officers before fleeing. Alejandro Adolfo Rodriguez, 25, of the 5300 block of Harpers Farm Road in Columbia, is charged with first- and second-degree assault, first- and second-degree arson, and malicious burning. Police spotted him walking in the 5400 block of Eliots Oak Road in Columbia and arrested him without incident at about 1:30 p.m. Saturday, they said.

A Washington, D.C., man arrested in July on human trafficking and prostitution charges has pleaded guilty in exchange for a reduced sentence, said the Annapolis Police Department in a prepared statement on Tuesday. Freddy Leguisamon, 28, was arrested by police in connection with a prostitution business he operated. The arrest followed an investigation that combined several government agencies, including the Annapolis Police Department's Hispanic Liaison, Homeland Security and the Social Security Administration.

A Laurel teenager is being charged as an adult with first-degree assault in the shooting of a police vehicle with a BB gun while it was being driven by an officer, Prince George's County Police said Saturday. Andre Christopher Rivers, 16, of the 13500 block of Attleboro Court, was arrested Friday evening after an officer driving along Contee Road "heard a projectile strike his driver's side door" about 6 p.m. and immediately called for backup, police said in a statement. "The patrol officer believed he was being fired on and immediately requested a search of the area," the statement said.

As officers lingered outside his Northwest Baltimore home for three hours, Anthony Todd was busy inside trying to cover up evidence of a marijuana-growing operation, police say. His pants had fresh dirt on them from squeezing through a crawl space to hide what police say was a pound of loose marijuana, and he told officers he had spent the time before they entered the home tearing apart the marijuana plants and flushing them down the toilet....

Harford County sheriff's deputies arrested a Baltimore man on drug charges early Thursday morning after the suspect fled while deputies were attempting to stop him for speeding. According to the Sheriff's Office, Reginald S. Artis, 34, of the 2500 block of Hollins Street in the Southwest Baltimore, was charged with possession of a drug other than marijuana, narcotics possession with intent to distribute and hindering a police officer, according to court records. Around 12:48 am Thursday, a sheriff's deputy saw a 2000 silver Mercury exceeding the posted speed limit on Hanson Road in Edgewood, according to a Sheriff's Office news release.

When a warrant for his arrest arrived at his mother's house, Bryan Bookman went to the district court in Essex to clear up the matter. "That's when I was handcuffed and shackled, right on the spot, like I was a common criminal," said Bookman, who didn't have the money to post bail and spent the night in the Baltimore County Jail in Towson. His crime? Failure to show up in court for a small claims case. Debtors' prison, where people are incarcerated for owing money, seems like something out of another century.