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A 21-year-old Baltimore man was indicted last week in Harford County on 15 child pornography counts. Marcus Curtis Clark, 21, and a registered sex offender who is being held without bail at Eastern Correctional Institution, had been living at the Baltimore Rescue Mission at 4 N. Central Avenue in the city. The indictment against him was handed up by a Harford County grand jury on Sept. 27. Clark met a 16-year-old girl from whom he allegedly solicited pornographic cell phone pictures.

A man was found badly injured outside a home on fire in East Baltimore on Monday night, and he may have been injured escaping from the flames, the city Fire Department said. The fire was underway at a home in the 800 block of North Luzerne Avenue in the Milton-Montford neighborhood about 9 p.m., Fire Department spokesman Capt. Roman Clark said. The injured man was taken to a hospital in serious condition, and the fire had not spread beyond the house, Clark said. cwells@baltsun.com twitter.com/cwellssun

A 24-year-old Baltimore man was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison Wednesday for a Christmas-Day carjacking, the Maryland U.S. attorney's office announced. Tyrone Royster and an accomplice were on the 3300 block of West Coldspring Lane on Dec. 25, 2010, when a man pulled over to give them a ride, according to court documents. One of them pressed something against the driver's neck and demanded money. When the victim tried to take off his jacket to access his cash, Royster told the conspirator to shoot.

A Baltimore man who was found suffering from a gunshot wound in Rosedale early Sunday morning had driven to the gas station where he collapsed onto the parking lot, Baltimore County police said Monday. Robert Wynder Jr., 23, of the 1700 block of Montpelier Ave., was shot in a different location before driving to a Shell gas station on Kenwood Avenue in a gold four-door Honda Civic, police said. Officers were called to the gas station at 4:28 a.m., where Wynder was suffering from at least one gunshot wound in front of the gas station.

A Baltimore man was sentenced to 18 months in jail after pleading guilty Monday in circuit court to illegally dumping hazardous waste in an empty city lot, Attorney General Douglas Gansler said. Richard Kevin Fox Jr., 40, admitted that a year ago he hauled two, 55-gallon drums filled with wastewater from a brick-washing job to a lot in the 1800 block of S. Monroe St. and left them. A city code enforcement investigator was able to trace the truck back to Fox, who admitted he accepted money from a contractor to dispose of the drums.

Police think robbery might have been the motive in the death of a 50-year-old Baltimore man shot to death while leaving for work Sunday morning. Carlos Williams of the 1900 block of Boone St. was shot about 6 a.m. in the cab of his Comcast Cable van. Police said he was approached by at least three suspects and was shot multiple times. He was pronounced dead at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Police spokesman Donny Moses said there were no suspects, and it was not immediately known if anything was taken from the victim or the van. - Baltimore Sun staff

A 38-year-old city man, who shot into a crowd two decades ago killing two people, was sentenced to 10 years in prison Tuesday for violating probation  by assaulting an officer and again brandishing a firearm in public, the Baltimore State's Attorney's Office announced. Ronald Brady Jr. was released from prison in May of 2011, after serving nearly 19 years for murder and illegal handgun use. On Christmas, he was arrested again for pointing a gun at a group of people outside a northeast Baltimore bar then scuffling with police, who recovered the firearm and drugs from him, prosecutors said.

Police are accusing a 29-year-old Baltimore man with ejaculating on a woman in the Montgomery College Library on Oct. 9 and then exposing himself to her. According to news reports, a man ejaculated on a woman's arm while she was reading in the library. When she turned around, the man then exposed himself to her and then fled the library, police said. He returned shortly and then left again, and police were able to identify him from the woman's description and video surveillance footage.

Michael Maurice Johnson pleaded not guilty Wednesday in the asphyxiation death of 16-year-old Phylicia Barnes, his former girlfriend's half-sister, as a dozen of the teen's friends and family looked on, many wearing purple. It was Phylicia's “favorite color,” her father, Russell Barnes, who lives in Atlanta, said outside the courthouse after the brief hearing. It has “been a long morning,” he said, mopping his brow and declining to say much else. “We're just letting justice prevail for right now.” A trial date has been set for Aug. 13. Johnson, 28, was arrested in April after a 16-month investigation, though police said they identified him as an early suspect after Barnes, an honors student from Monroe, N.C., went missing in December 2010 while visiting her older sister Deena in Baltimore.

A Baltimore man has been charged in a Woodlawn rape that occurred 15 years earlier, after county investigators matched DNA evidence to an earlier case. The evidence collected in the 1997 Woodlawn case matched evidence from a 1993 city case, where police identified Ronald White, 49, as a suspect, police said. Law enforcement agencies continue to review DNA collections, after the process was briefly halted when the state's highest court blocked the collections in April. The court of appeals decision in a Wicomico County case found collections of DNA samples unconstitutional and that the practice provided access to a significant amount of personal information.

As a teenager in the mid-1990s, he moved with his parents to the United States from Pakistan. The family sought and received political asylum. They settled in Baltimore County and operated a gas station. The boy attended Owings Mills High School. His cricket skills helped him excel at baseball, the quintessential American game. "He always seemed like such a nice young man," said the chair of the English department. The nice young man graduated in 1999. He picked up a job as a data administrator with the Maryland Office of Planning.

Claude R. “Shug” McGaughey is a man who looks like the embodiment of the nickname that is all anybody calls him by. Short and unassuming, he said this week he made an effort to enjoy the run-up to the Kentucky Derby, a race he has, like any trainer, dreamed of winning. But the Hall of Famer knew, really, that there's only one way to truly enjoy the Kentucky Derby: win it. Running over a sloppy Churchill Downs track that left 19 contenders caked in mud, McGaughey's horse Orb found stable footing and a late lead in the 139th running of the Kentucky Derby today.

Anne Arundel County Police say a call to a hotel in the Linthicum Heights area on Monday resulted in the seizure of more than 120 grams of suspected cocaine and other drugs and more than $10,000 cash. The call also resulted in one arrest on drug possession charges, and a warrant issued for a Baltimore man on similar charges. Police said on Monday just after 11:30 a.m., officers went to Sleep Inn in the 6000 block of Belle Grove Road for a report of an unauthorized use of a vehicle.

A Baltimore man was sentenced to 18 months in jail after pleading guilty Monday in circuit court to illegally dumping hazardous waste in an empty city lot, Attorney General Douglas Gansler said. Richard Kevin Fox Jr., 40, admitted that a year ago he hauled two, 55-gallon drums filled with wastewater from a brick-washing job to a lot in the 1800 block of S. Monroe St. and left them. A city code enforcement investigator was able to trace the truck back to Fox, who admitted he accepted money from a contractor to dispose of the drums.

A 30-year-old Baltimore man is jailed without bail in Harford County facing multiple criminal and traffic charges after leading police on a wild car chase through Edgewater Village on Tuesday. Gregory Jamal Turnipseed appeared via closed circuit TV from the Harford County Detention Center at a bail review hearing in District Court in Bel Air Wednesday afternoon, where the judge denied bail. According to charging documents and electronic court records, Turnipseed, whose address is listed as the 400 block of Lyndhurst Street, is charged with unlawful taking of a motor vehicle and resisting arrest and with 16 separate traffic infractions, including speeding, driving a vehicle without the owner's consent, fleeing and eluding, reckless driving and negligent driving.

A 16-year-old Belcamp boy has been arrested and charged as an adult in connection with a Craigslist robbery earlier this month. Rodney Parker Jr., 16, of the 1300 block of Liriope Court, is charged with armed robbery, robbery and theft. He was arrested near his home by detectives at about 6 p.m. Wednesday, according to a press release from the Harford County Sheriff's Office. On April 6 at 11:30 p.m., sheriff's deputies were sent to the 1300 block of Riverside Parkway and met with a Baltimore man who said that earlier in the day he had responded to a Craigslist advertisement in which he offered to buy a cell phone listed for sale, according to the release.

A 21-year-old Baltimore man, who pleaded guilty to distributing child pornography, was sentenced to five years in federal prison Tuesday, according to the Maryland U.S. Attorney's Office. FBI agents in Philadelphia and San Diego independently discovered in March of last year that Kenneth Johnson was sharing hundreds of pornographic photos and videos online through peer-to-peer file programs, according to court records. He later admitted to possessing and distributing thousands of illegal images, federal prosecutors said.

A 31-year-old Baltimore man was convicted of attempted murder Wednesday for opening fire on a crowded street while yelling "You think you're better than me," according to the Baltimore State's Attorney's Office. On June 26, 2010, Andre K. Haines shot eight rounds at his target, Antoine Free, who was standing on Guilford Avenue with family and friends. Free, who identified Haines as the shooter, was hit three times. Bullets grazed two others. Haines, who was also convicted of two assault counts and handgun offenses, is scheduled for sentencing on May 24; he faces a maximum of life in prison.

His family feared the worst after Marcus "Anton" Lesane went missing two weeks ago, and on Wednesday those concerns were confirmed when his body was found stashed behind a vacant home in Northwest Baltimore. Police confirmed that a body found Tuesday morning in the 2600 block of Loyola Southway was that of Lesane, a 27-year-old who had been living in Southwest Baltimore and was last seen April 10 with a friend. He had been shot. A resident who regularly sweeps the alley found his body in the rear of a crumbling vacant home, according to police and residents.

The Food Network said today that  Dangerously Delicious Pies founder Rodney Henry of Baltimore will be a finalist on the ninth season of "Food Network Star. " The judges will be Alton Brown, Giada De Laurentiis and Bobby Flay in the competition to name the best and brightest new faces in food television. The season premiere will be at 9 p.m. Sunday, June 2. The network says that each episode before the Aug. 11 finale will feature a first-round Mentor Challenge, second-round Star Challenge and an elimination determined by the selection committee, including returning judges Food Network executives Susie Fogelson and Bob Tuschman.