Arundel County Police

WITH AN APPARENT serial rapist attacking women in the Glen Burnie area, the Anne Arundel County Police Department has stepped up patrols and issued warnings to women living in large apartment complexes. Police have also mounted apublicity campaign informing women that an armed rapist is at large and to take precautions.Obviously, the police want to catch this person before he chooses to attack again, but they can't be everywhere. This man seems to be carrying out his assaults in Glen Burnie and Northern Virginia.

A man was shot during a home invasion just outside the Baltimore City limits in Brooklyn Park on Wednesday evening, according to Anne Arundel County Police. Police responded to the 200 block of Southerly Road about 6:34 p.m. and found a 27-year-old man with non-life-threatening injuries from a single gunshot wound, police said. Investigators interviewed witnesses and determined two male suspects entered the home, produced a handgun and announced a robbery. The victim was shot during the robbery.

Another Marylander who took a walk into the shadows was Julius "The Lord" Salsbury, the one-time colorful Block nightclub owner and gambling figure who vanished 36 years ago. Salsbury, who was awaiting the outcome of an appeal on a federal gambling conviction and facing a 15-year federal prison term, walked away from his home at 2912 W. Strathmore Ave. in Northwest Baltimore on a warm summer's evening. Thirty-six years have passed since Aug. 13, 1970, when Susan Salsbury saw her husband for the last time.

Anne Arundel County police are looking for three teens involved in a strong-arm robbery Friday night in Laurel. Police responding to an incident at the 3400 block of Laurel Fort Meade Road at approximately 9:40 p.m., reported that a 51-year-old man said he had been assaulted by three teens, one of whom asked for money and punched him in the face, knocking him to the ground. The teens then punched and kicked the victim, whose wallet fell out and was stolen, police said. The three teens fled on foot.

A Queen Anne man was sentenced in federal court yesterday to more than 12 years in prison for robbing a Glen Burnie bank and then leading police on a 10-mile car chase. Anthony Wayne Nunn, 34, pleaded guilty in May to bank robbery -- a charge that stemmed from the Ritchie Highway robbery, in which prosecutors say he threatened tellers with a fake bomb. As part of his sentence, he also agreed to make restitution of more than $220,000 in connection with several other banks he had robbed, prosecutors said.

The day is made for going barefoot and spoiling dinner with ice cream cones. Eighty degrees and sunny, the afternoon is greeted on Arwell Court with open windows and children's laughter. But the drone of a distant lawn mower is shattered by loud pops of gunfire. When four bullets pierce the upper body of a 21-year-old convicted drug dealer, the happy shrieks of children riding bikes momentarily stop. Anne Arundel County Police Officer T.J. Smith speeds up in a patrol car minutes later to find dozens of people - from toddlers to grandmothers - mobbing the street.

A headline in yesterday's editions referred to an Anne Arundel County police protest as a "job action." As the article pointed out, the police union does not consider plans to stop cancelling backup on routine calls to be a job action, which would be illegal, but rather as adhering to department rules.

Anne Arundel County police identified Friday the man who was found dead Thursday morning after he fell off his boat on Mill Creek in Arnold. Paul James Glowzinski, 45, lived alone on the boat, police said, and has no local relatives. Investigators believe he slipped off the boat accidentally.

An article in Tuesday's editions of The Sun about the indictment of a woman in the accidental death of her baby in Severn incorrectly reported the police agency that investigated the death. It was investigated by Anne Arundel County police.The Sun regrets the error.

An 18-year-old male was fatally shot last night in Glen Burnie. The shooting occurred about 7:30 p.m. at Norvelle Court and Century Towne Road, according to Anne Arundel County police. Police said they knew of no suspect and no motive.

A man pulled a shotgun on an Anne Arundel County police officer after officers were called to a neighborhood dispute, police said. Witnesses said that William Wesley Neall III had been acting erratically most of Thursday, banging on doors and yelling profanities in the 600 block of Belle Dora Court in Arnold, police said. As an officer waited for backup outside Neall's home, he came out pointing a loaded Winchester 12-gauge shotgun at the cop. The officer drew his weapon and ordered Neall, 46, to put his gun down, which he did, according to police.

Anne Arundel County councilmen approved on Monday the first raise for county workers in more than four years. The council unanimously granted a 3 percent pay increase for more than 550 officers who belong to the Fraternal Order of Police, as well as for an additional 1,000 employees in another union whose contract included a "me, too" clause entitling its members to raises if another bargaining unit received them. The county was forced to give the $1.6 million worth of raises, retroactive to July 1, after the Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the police union in a labor dispute.

In Anne Arundel County, public relations appear to go hand-in-hand with police work. Arrested the nephew of an Annapolis mayoral candidate? Run that up the ranks to the chief. A television producer wants to interview a detective about gangs? “HIGHLY” recommend a public information officer sits in and “ensure he stays on course.” Make sure the chief signs off on that, too. The Anne Arundel County Police Department released hundreds of emails this month detailing interactions with the media.

The union that represents high-ranking police officers in Anne Arundel County has dropped the name of the force's second-in-command from a radio ad that criticizes the county's executive and chief of police. The International Brotherhood of Police Officers, which represents Anne Arundel's police lieutenants and sergeants, originally planned to run an ad that promoted Deputy Police Chief Lt. Col. Emerson C. Davis as having taken a "brave stand" by testifying in front of the County Council about alleged improprieties by his superiors.

A 17-year-old boy walking with his girlfriend Wednesday night in Brooklyn Park reported being robbed by three male suspects, Anne Arundel County police said. Officers in the Northern District received the complaint of the robbery in the area of Belle Grove Road and West Arden Road at approximately 10:40 p.m. Wednesday, according to police. One of the suspects held the victim while the other two assaulted him and took his phone, police said, before all three fled on Belle Grove Road.

A bicyclist was struck and killed by a vehicle in Millersville, while a police officer was injured in a separate car accident Friday night, Anne Arundel County police said. Matthew Jeffrey Young, 40, who police said did not have a fixed address, was pronounced dead at University of Maryland Hospital. Young was riding his mountain bike north on Veterans Highway, just north of West Benfield Road, when he was struck from behind by a 2000 Buick LeSabre driven by Larry Jay Vespermann of Dunkirk at around 7:30 p.m. Friday.

A man who was shot in the head while sitting in his car in Severn late last night was being treated at North Arundel Hospital, Anne Arundel County police said. Police were trying to find witnesses to the shooting, which occurred on Cantor Court around 10:30 p.m.

Because of incorrect information supplied by the Anne Arundel County police, an article in yesterday's editions of The Sun misidentified a man found fatally shot late Thursday near his room at a Brooklyn Park motel. The victim was 43-year-old Stanley Roger Cobb.The Sun regrets the error.Pub Date: 9/20/98

Anne Arundel County Police are looking for a driver involved in a hit and run accident that killed a tow truck operator Wednesday morning on Route 100 in Glen Burnie. According to a police statement, tow truck operator James Frederick Schreiber Jr., 38, of the 200 block of Iris Drive in Pasadena was fatally struck while trying to help the driver of a disabled sewage truck. Investigators said he was outside his truck and preparing to tow the disabled vehicle when he was struck by a 1987 to 1995 Nissan Pathfinder, which may have been red. The Nissan's driver did not stop, police said.