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A Baltimore man has been charged with repeatedly raping a former Annapolis woman over five years, starting when she was 12, fathering two children by her, Annapolis police said yesterday. The 59-year-old man, whose name was not released to protect the woman's identity, was arrested Tuesday at BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport. The woman, now 28, told police that the rapes began in 1991, when she was living with the man and her mother on Newtowne Drive, and continued until 1996. She had two children as a result, police said.

Baltimore man sentenced to 16 years on heroin charge A Baltimore man was sentenced this week to more than 16 years in prison, to be followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiring to distribute more than a kilogram of heroin, the U.S. attorney's office said. Javon Brewer, 26, was part of a drug organization that included Samuel "Mook" Price, Michael "Mike-Mike" Frasier, Steven "Beans" or "Bino" Boyd, Eric "E" Davis, James "E-Bay" Stewart, Lamont "L" Jones and Katie Eggleston, U.S. Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein's office said in a statement.

Three plead guilty to invoice scheme Three people pleaded guilty yesterday to what officials described as a "false invoice scheme" at the Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development that resulted in the loss of thousands of dollars. Stephen Ross, 38, of the 400 block of Edgewood St.; Diana O'Connor, 43, of the 700 block of Deacon Hill Court; and Tinikia Rice, 23, of the 2700 block of Fisk Road were each fined and given three-year suspended sentences by Baltimore Circuit Judge John M. Glynn.

A Baltimore man was held yesterday without bail at the Carroll County Detention Center after he was charged in several burglaries and thefts in Westminster in January and February.Willie Capers Williams of the 3200 block of Lake Ave. is accused of breaking into toy stores in Cranberry Mall and Cranberry Square, as well as Country Liquors and Big Lots in 140 Village Shopping Center and Kmart on Englar Road, court records show.All the stores are in Westminster.Williams was charged on 20 counts, including several counts of second-degree burglary, theft over and under $300, and malicious destruction of property for alleged incidents Jan. 16, Jan. 18 and Feb. 2, court records show.

A Baltimore man, 19, is wanted by Howard County police in the shooting of a pizza delivery driver in Harper's Choice last week.Charles A. Mosley is charged in an arrest warrant with 26 counts, including attempted first-degree murder, police say.Pub Date: 1/08/99

After five hours of late-night deliberation, a Howard Circuit Court jury acquitted a Baltimore man early yesterday of charges of attempted murder in the second of two shootings in September that shocked Harper's Choice Village in Columbia.Robert Joseph Manning, 18, who has been in custody at the county Detention Center since his arrest in September, was found not guilty at 1: 45 a.m. of five charges, including attempted first- and second-degree murder and first- and second-degree assault.

Baltimore police are investigating the death of a 19-year-old West Baltimore man who was found shot once in the chest on North Payson Street late Friday night.Steven Louis Jupiter Jr. of the 1600 block of W. Mulberry St. was shot just after 11: 10 p.m. outside the 7-Eleven store in the 700 block of N. Payson St., police said.Jupiter was taken to Bon Secours Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, they said.Homicide detectives said they knewof no motives or suspects.

A 43-year-old man was sentenced Friday to 18 months in jail stemming from the assault on a Baltimore man at Denny's Food Market in Elkridge last year.Howell G. Chambers of Elkridge was convicted in January of second-degree assault in the beating of Thomas E. Baumgarten of Baltimore. Baumgarten alleged in court papers that Chambers "pounded [him] into unconsciousness" on Jan. 10, 1998, at the market."This isn't a run-of-the-mill assault," said Assistant State's Attorney Debra Saltz. "This is a serious case."

In Baltimore CityMan trying to cross Russell Street is hit by car and killedA man was killed last night when he was struck by a car while he and a female companion tried to cross Russell Street in the Westport area of South Baltimore, police said. The woman was not injured.Ronald Cunningham, who was about age 48, suffered multiple injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene, said Officer William Murray of the traffic investigation section. Murray said police were trying to confirm Cunningham's address last night.

A Baltimore man was shot and killed yesterday morning as he was adding oil to the engine of his truck in front of the apartment house where he lived.Oil-soaked paper towels and a pack of cigarettes, which belonged to the victim, Lewis Lackey, littered the sidewalk at 1410 Eutaw Place.Lackey, 47, a store manager at Mattress Discounters in White Oak, was getting ready to head to work, said Harold Webb, 39, a neighbor who knew Lackey and heard three gunshots at about 8: 05 a.m. followed by a "quick yell."

Prosecutors and defense attorneys squared off Wednesday in opening statements in the double first-degree murder trial of a Baltimore man in what police said was an ambush outside an Odenton bar last year. Prosecutors hope to see Russell Kelscoe Harden, 26, sentenced to life without parole. But his lawyers said he was not involved in the shootings Nov. 16 that took the lives of two Annapolis men and injured two more. Shortly before the shootings, Harden was placed on house arrest for failing to comply with the terms of his release on a federal gun conviction in U.S. District Court in Baltimore.

Baltimore man indicted in theft of architect credential A grand jury in Prince George's County has returned a four-count indictment against a 50-year-old Baltimore man who is accused of stealing a licensed architect's credential and practicing architecture without a license. The indictment charged Darren Dewitt Comedy with forgery, identity theft, theft and practicing architecture without a license, the state Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation said Wednesday. Investigators from the department's State Board of Architects discovered that Comedy had placed the seal of his former college instructor, a licensed architect, on plans submitted to the Prince George's permits office in February for a restaurant in Largo, the labor department said.

Maryland Transit Administration police have charged a 22-year-old Baltimore man in connection with the detonation of a homemade bomb on a city bus earlier this month, documents show. Alan Weeks, of the 5900 block of Radecke Ave., turned himself in Saturday after television stations broadcast closed-circuit surveillance footage of two men who were on the bus moments before the bomb went off, according to charging documents. Weeks said he was one of the men in the surveillance footage but denied any involvement in the incident.

Suspect, 29, charged in beating of homeless man A homeless man was recovering from severe head injuries after an unprovoked beating Sunday in Westminster, according to the Carroll County Sheriff's Office. A 29-year-old man was charged in the attack. Authorities found George Herbert Smith Jr. semiconscious and lying on a pile of garbage at a makeshift campsite near Routes 27 and 140. He was in serious condition Monday at Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore. Troy Thomas Haller of no fixed address was charged with first- and second-degree assault, disorderly intoxication and reckless endangerment, according to the sheriff's office.

The death this year of a Baltimore man who was shot and paralyzed more than 20 years ago has been added to this year's homicide tally, after the state medical examiner determined that he died from medical complications stemming from the shooting. Michael A. Chase was 26 years old on Aug. 20, 1988, when he was shot in the neck as he walked in the 1500 block of Hopewell Court. He became a paraplegic and died May 19 of this year, at age 47. In a twist, police say a suspect in the shooting died in 2004.

City man, 20, fatally shot in head in East Baltimore A 20-year-old man was fatally shot in the head Tuesday night in East Baltimore, according to city police. The man, identified as Gregory Wilson, was found by officers about 11:16 p.m. in the 2600 block of E. Oliver St. lying on his back suffering from a gunshot wound, police said. Wilson, of the 1100 block of Whitelock St., was taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital and pronounced dead about midnight. Police have made no arrests in the case.

Four shootings leave two dead, two wounded Baltimore police were investigating four shootings, two of them fatal. About 3 p.m. Monday, Antwon Witherspoon, 28, of the 2500 block of N. Charles St., was shot to death while standing in an alley off the 2900 block of The Alameda. About 7:15 p.m. Monday, officers were called to the 4000 block of Old York Road at Dumbarton Avenue for a reported shooting. They found John Woodies, 38, of the 700 block of Grantley St., lying on a basketball court with wounds to the chest, police said.

An 18-year-old Baltimore man pleaded guilty Tuesday in Baltimore County Circuit Court to kidnapping two teenagers last year at a light rail station in Timonium, locking the male in the trunk of a car and sexually assaulting the female in the back seat during an apparently random attack. Brian Tyrone Scott could receive up to 40 years in prison when sentenced Oct. 30. Scott and co-defendant Kiheem Malik Taylor kidnapped the teens at gunpoint as the high school students sat in a parked car at the Deereco park-and-ride lot in Timonium, prosecutors said during Taylor's trial in May. The men also stole money from the victims before dropping them off in Cherry Hill, according to court testimony.

Man charged with assaulting officer in incident in which another officer fired gun A 26-year-old Baltimore man was charged Saturday with assaulting an officer and resisting arrest in an incident Friday afternoon in which the man tried to drive into police officer Scott Reid as the officer approached the man's vehicle, according to charging documents. Christopher Mobley of the 3300 block of Piedmont Avenue, who officers believed was armed, is accused of leading police on a chase in his vehicle and then on foot near 23rd Street and Greenmount Avenue.

Boy attacked and killed, perhaps by other teens, police say 1 A 14-year-old boy was killed Saturday in Crofton after he was apparently attacked by a group of other teens while riding his bicycle, according to the Anne Arundel County police. Officers found the victim, whose name was not released, lying in the roadway on Nantucket Drive in Crofton shortly after 4:15 p.m.. The victim was transported by ambulance to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead. According to police, detectives learned the youth had been attacked by a group of five to seven males, all believed to be teen-agers.