Body Of Man

Police have identified the man whose body was dumped Monday from a car onto an East Baltimore street as Michael Keith Partlow, 26, of the 200 block of N. Fremont Ave.Donald Worden, a homicide detective, said police matched the victim's fingerprints with those on file with the department.Police said Partlow's body, with multiple gunshot wounds to the head and face, was dumped from a car.

The body of a male between 15 and 20 years old was found in Baltimore's Inner Harbor early Sunday morning, police and fire officials reported. Emergency responders, including divers with the city's fire department and city police officers, responded to 301 Light St. at about 3:15 a.m. after a caller reported a body in the water, said Chief Kevin Cartwright, a fire spokesman. Divers entered the water near the Inner Harbor's promenade and discovered the body, Cartwright said. The operation, which was not a rescue but a recovery effort, took until about 4 a.m., Cartwright said.

The body of a 54-year-old man was found yesterday evening on the shore of the Patapsco River at the border of Howard and Carroll counties, authorities reported.The fully clothed body of Hugh William Price, believed to have been a Sykesville resident, was found by two residents of the town about 5:45 p.m.Police said there was no obvious cause of death, and the body was taken to the state medical examiner's office for an autopsy.

The body of an Edgewood man who jumped off a boat Sunday in the Chesapeake Bay was found Monday, according to Maryland Natural Resources Police. Brandon M. Greene, 21, jumped from a drifting vessel and did not reappear on the surface after entering the water, Natural Resources Police spokesman Art Windemuth said in a news release. Mr. Greene had jumped from a vessel to go swimming in the Chesapeake Bay, about a half mile west of Howell Point, near Betterton in Kent County, Windemuth said.

Coast Guard finds body of man in fishing nets The body of a Montgomery County man was recovered from fishing nets in southern Anne Arundel County by Coast Guard rescue personnel late yesterday after his boat was found adrift near Chesapeake Beach, according to state Natural Resources Police. Walter Jarvis, 66, of the 3700 block of Jones Bridge Road in Chevy Chase, was pronounced dead about 5:30 p.m. A spokesman for the Natural Resources Police said the Coast Guard found Jarvis' cabin cruiser drifting near Chesapeake Beach.

City police are investigating the discovery yesterday afternoon of a body floating in a lake in Druid Hill Park.Police pulled the body of a black man in his 40s from the lake in the 3100 block of Swan Drive about 3: 45 p.m.The death has been called questionable pending an investigation.Police had not released the man's identity last night.Pub Date: 4/25/99

A 44-year-old man who apparently died of a drug overdose or natural causes was found on the steps of Baltimore's City Hall yesterday, police reported.There was no sign of foul play, according to police, who said the man appeared to be homeless and an intravenous drug user.Homicide detectives would not divulge the man's identity until informing his mother of his death.A passer-by found the man on the steps about noon yesterday.Police were uncertain how long the man had been dead.The body was taken to the state medical examiner's office for an autopsy.

The body of an unidentified man was found last night in a vacant East Baltimore rowhouse, police said.Police said a man flagged down an officer and told him a body was on the upper floor of a nearby two-story dwelling in the 1700 block of E. North Ave.Police said the man appeared to have been dead for longer than a day, and no visible signs of foul play were on the body.The death was ruled suspicious pending an autopsy.Pub Date: 1/29/99

Maryland Natural Resources Police recovered the body yesterday morning of a Talbot County man who was thrown from his boat Saturday afternoon in Cummings Creek.Police spokesman John Surrick said search crews, using a tracking dog, found the body of Joseph B. Janda Sr., 41, at 9: 47 a.m. in Cummings Creek, about a half-mile from Wittman. Janda's body will be sent to the state medical examiner's office in Baltimore for an autopsy.Janda and a 13-year-old relative -- identified by the Associated Press as his son, Joey -- were setting eel pots in Cummings Creek and were returning to shore to get more supplies about 1 p.m. when their 19-foot Carolina skiff swerved, throwing both from the boat, Surrick said.

The body of a 24-year-old Clifton Park-area man was foun last night lying in an alley near his home, police said.The slaying was the city's fifth this year in as many days.Homicide detective William Ritz said Northeastern District officers responding to a report of shots fired in an alley between the 1600 and 1700 blocks of E. 25th St. at 10:30 p.m. found the body of Robert Sylvester Jones, of the 1600 block of E. 25th St.Detective Ritz said Mr. Jones, who was training to be a barber, was pronounced dead at the scene from at least one gunshot wound to the head.

— Many farmers in this rural Kent County community were left shaken after a father and his two teenage sons were found dead early Thursday in a pond full of liquid manure on a local dairy farm. The deaths appear to be accidental, but investigators will wait for autopsy results before ruling out foul play, said Greg Shipley, Maryland State Police spokesman. The bodies, tentatively identified as those of Glen W. Nolt, 48, and his two sons, Kelvin R. Nolt, 18, and Cleason S. Nolt, 14, all of Peach Bottom, Pa., had taken hours to find, submerged in a 20-foot-deep, 2-million-gallon manure pit on Centerdel Farm, state police said.

Baltimore city police found the body of an unidentified man Sunday afternoon in the Central Park Heights neighborhood and are investigating the death as a homicide. Officers were called to the 3000 block Oakley Avenue shortly after 3 p.m. The victim, who was discovered inside a vacant home, had sustained a gunshot wound to the head, police said. Mary.gail.hare@baltsun.com Text NEWS to 70701 to get Baltimore Sun local news text alerts

The body of a man was found early Friday evening in a Brooklyn alley, according to the Baltimore Police Department's Twitter account. Police have identified the death as "suspicious. " The man was found at about 6:15 p.m. in the 700 block of E. Pontiac Avenue. Homicide detectives are investigating. No other information was immediately available. steve.kilar@baltsun.com twitter.com/stevekilar

The Carroll County Sheriff's Office reported Tuesday that the body of a Baltimore City man missing in the area of Liberty Reservoir since Sept. 9 had been found. According to the Sheriff's Office account, Baltimore City Watershed Rangers patrolling the reservoir were stopped by a motorist just before 9 a.m. on Sept. 13 along Liberty Road (Route 26) reporting an object floating in the reservoir north of the Liberty Road bridge. With the assistance of a Baltimore County Police Helicopter, rangers located a partially decomposed body in the water and called Sheriff's Office deputies and the Rescue Dive Team from the Gamber and Community Volunteer Fire Company to assist.

The body of Christopher Anthony White, 44, was found in the Liberty Reservoir in Carroll County Tuesday morning, police said. White, of Baltimore, was reported missing Friday, according to a statement by the Carroll County Sheriff's Office. Just before 9 a.m. Tuesday, Baltimore City Watershed Rangers patrolling the reservoir were stopped by a motorist on Route 26 who reported something floating in the water north of the Liberty Road Bridge, police said. White's body was found in the water, about 20 miles northwest of Baltimore.

The body of James Robert Kane, 25, of Pasadena, was recovered from the Magothy River near Dobbins Island by Maryland Natural Resources Police, officials said in a statement Thursday. Kane went missing after a boating accident on July 4. Kane and a woman were thrown into the water after turning their 17-foot boat too sharply, police said. The woman was picked up, uninjured, by a second boat. Kane's body, which was recovered Wednesday morning, was taken to the medical examiner's office for an autopsy.

The body of a man found in Patapsco State Park in April was identified Monday through his knee replacements, according to Maryland State Police. State medical examiner ruled John H. Hagegeorge, died of natural causes and exposure but they could not identify the 55 year old through conventional means. Officials used the serial numbers to track down the hospital that had used them. Hagegeorge, whose last known address was on Redcliffe Road in Catonsville, appeared to be living at a makeshift campsite where his body was found.