Belair Road

A fast-food restaurant in Northeast Baltimore was robbed Saturday night by two men who forced customers to lie on the floor while they took an undetermined amount of cash from registers, police said. The men entered the KFC restaurant in the 6200 block of Belair Road shortly before 7:10 p.m. One of them brandished a handgun and ordered customers to the floor as his companion acted as lookout, police said. The gunman then jumped over the counter and took money from the cash registers before both men fled through the restaurant's rear parking lot and went south on Marluth Avenue, police said.

The mother and the brother of a suspect in a triple shooting were gunned down in an ambush outside their Northeast Baltimore home, according to sources, prompting police to assign a special unit of top investigators to stop the "momentum of violence. " Police released few details Friday about the crimes - the triple shooting took place Wednesday in Southwest Baltimore and the ambush a day later - but condemned the violence. "From now on, when incidents like this happen, when there's this momentum of violence, we need to respond," said acting Police Commissioner Anthony Barksdale.

In order to help the estimate 300 people still without water in the East North Avenue corridor, the Baltimore City Department of Public Works has opened four stations to provide free bottled water for residents to help stay hydrated. According to a press release, Public Works Director Alfred H. Foxx said the four stations - located at the Oliver Recreation Center, Lanvale Towers, the intersection of Belair Road and North Avenue, and 1401 E. Oliver St. - are open to all of those affected, but residents must bring either a valid Baltimore I.D. or a bill to prove they live between Belair Road and Aisquith Street.

As of 9 a.m. Tuesday, traffic was slow on the inner loop of I-695 near I-95, due to an accident. Accidents were slowing traffic on the inner loop of I-695 near the Jones Falls Expressway, Route 30 near Route 482 in Hampstead, Belair Road southbound near Route 152 in Fallston, and Route 7 near Golden Ring Road in Baltimore County. A disabled vehicle was slowing traffic on I-895 northbound near the Baltimore Harbor Tunnel. Traffic was slow on I-895 near the Steel Bridge, due to construction activity.

As of 9 a.m. Wednesday, traffic was slow on U.S. 29 southbound near U.S. 40 in Howard County, due to an accident. Accidents were slowing traffic on McDonogh Road near Woods Road in Baltimore County, Kentucky Avenue at Mannasota Avenue in Baltimore City and Belair Road and Reckord Road in Fallston. Traffic was slow on I-895 near the Steel Bridge, due to construction activity. Light Street is closed from Baltimore to Lombard streets due to water main repairs. Some bus routes have been diverted due to the repair work.

A veteran Baltimore police detective must resign from the department after being placed on probation for stealing groceries with her daughter, a cashier at the store where the theft occurred. Darlene Early, a Western District detective who joined the department in 1990, entered an Alford plea Wednesday to one count of theft under $1,000. An Alford plea allows a defendant to maintain innocence while admitting that prosecutors have enough evidence for a conviction. Her 18-year-old daughter, Ciara Anderson, pleaded guilty to the same charge, prosecutors said.

Joseph Lawrence "Larry" Bohlen Jr., who had been director of risk management for CSX, died Friday of multiple organ failure at his Rossville home. He was 76. Mr. Bohlen, whose father was superintendent at the old Glenn L. Martin Co. in Middle River and whose mother was a homemaker, was born in Baltimore and raised on his family's farm in Rosedale. Mr. Bohlen — who did not use his first name — was a 1953 graduate of Kenwood High School. He earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Maryland, College Park and a law degree from the University of Baltimore.

A Baltimore County man orchestrated a drug deal to rob a 22-year-old who was found shot to death in the back seat of his Chevrolet Impala in Parkville last week, police said. DeAngelo Devonne Johnson, 24, of the first block of Delight Ave. in Nottingham, was charged Wednesday with armed robbery and first-degree murder. Police said Johnson had arranged to buy a quarter-pound of marijuana from Miguiel Anthony Bailey when he and Linwood Tymais Smith allegedly robbed and shot Bailey on June 12. Smith was charged earlier with first-degree murder and armed robbery in the incident.

A Parkville man has been charged in the death of an Owings Mills man who was found in the back seat of a Chevrolet Impala earlier this month, Baltimore County police said Wednesday. Police said Linwood Tymais Smith shot Miguiel Anthony Bailey, 22, during an attempted robbery in the first block of Mopec Circle, off of Taylor Avenue and east of Belair Road, on June 12. Police said a bystander called 911 and said it appeared someone had fallen asleep or was unconscious in the car. Officers found Bailey, of the 4700 block of Dark Star Way, in the back seat of the parked car. He suffered at least one gunshot wound and was pronounced dead at the scene.

A man initially thought to be sleeping in his car in Parkville Tuesday evening turned out to have been shot several times and was pronounced dead on the scene, according to Baltimore County police. The victim, identified as Miguiel Anthony Bailey, 22, was found about 6 p.m. in a dark Chevrolet Impala parked in the first block of Mopec Circle, off of Taylor Avenue and east of Belair Road. He lived in the 4700 block of Dark Start Way in Owings Mills. Police said a bystander called 911 and said it appeared someone had fallen asleep or was unconscious in the car. Officers and paramedics responded and said Bailey had been shot several times.