Brooklyn Park

A young boy died Wednesday night after he was found unresponsive in a residential swimming pool in Brooklyn Park, according to the Anne Arundel police department. According to Anne Arundel County Police Lt. John McAndrew and fire department Lt. Cliff Kooser, emergency crews received a call around 9:45 p.m. Wednesday about a child, aged 3 or 4, who was found in a pool in the 600 block of Old Riverside Road. The child's identity has not been released. Paramedics attempted to revive the child on the scene and then transported him to Harbor Hospital Center, where he was pronounced dead around 10:25 p.m., according to McAndrew.

Two clerks at a Glen Burnie convenience store thwarted a robbery early Monday by locking the suspects out of store. But armed men held up another store in Brooklyn Park Saturday. Four men, apparently frustrated with the lock-out, began brawling in the parking lot of the Royal Farms Store at in the 200 block of Oak Manor Drive. Police, who arrived at 3:48 a.m., arrested Joseph A. Brown, 25, of Madison Street, Annapolis; Joshua D. Carey, 20, of Waterford Road, Pasadena; Lorenzo C. Martin, 26, of Pondswood Road, Annapolis; and Gregory A. Wells, 25, of Oaklawn Avenue in Annapolis.

Armed robbers held up the clerk at Daddy Pa's in Brooklyn Park on Wednesday night, Anne Arundel County police said. Police said the clerk at the store in the 4100 block of Ritchie Highway told police that shortly before 10 p.m. two men with handguns came in and took cash before fleeing. Police said the men were described as thin and in their 20s. One was 5 feet 11 inches tall and wearing a black T-shirt and black pants. The other was described as about 5 feet 6 inches tall and wearing a light brown T-shirt and black pants.

An Anne Arundel County police surveillance team has charged two men with drug possession in a Brooklyn Park neighborhood. Kevin Charles Brown, 32, of the 6000 block of Amberwood Court in the city's Frankford neighborhood, faces two counts of heroin possession and one count of intent to distribute. Dale Charles Edge, 30, of the 100 block of Lincoln Ave. in Glen Burnie, was charged with possession of heroin. Officers, responding to numerous residents' complaints of drug activity, set up surveillance Tuesday in the area near First Avenue and Ritchie Highway.

Three people were injured, one of them seriously, in two stabbing incidents this weekend in Anne Arundel County, police said. Timothy Lee Styles, 44, of Annapolis, was charged in a double stabbing in Glen Burnie. He is accused of stabbing his 37-year-old girlfriend and her 18-year-old son. Styles became combative and was subdued with a Taser when Anne Arundel County Police responded to an apartment in the 300 block of Highland Drive at 10 p.m. Saturday, officials said. The female victim was taken to Maryland Shock Trauma Center and the male victim was taken to Baltimore Washington Medical Center.

Three teen-aged boys face robbery and assault charges in the beating Monday of a pizza shop worker in Brooklyn Park. Anne Arundel County Police charged two suspects, aged 15 and 16, as juveniles with robbery and second-degree assault. Shaquille Davon Johnson, 16, of the 800 block of Washburn Ave. in Baltimore, was charged as an adult with robbery, armed robbery and first-degree assault. The 31-year-old victim told police as many as 10 juveniles approached him as he was taking a break at about 3:30 p.m. behind the Seasons Pizza in the 5500 block of Ritchie Highway.

Two Brooklyn Park men were stabbed early Thursday at their home during an argument that involved several family members. Anne Arundel County Police responded at 2:37 a.m. to a report of domestic violence in the 5300 block of Fourth Street. Two victims, men aged 19 and 48, were suffering from stab wounds. Officers learned that, prior to calling police, several family members were involved in an argument and had ordered one male relative to leave the residence. The man left, but returned a short time later and forcibly entered the home, police said.

An unidentified homeless man was taken to Bayview Medical Center with life-threatening injuries Monday after firefighters found him unconscious inside a burning single-family home in Brooklyn Park. Anne Arundel County firefighters responded to the 4500 block of Ritchie Highway at 12:01 p.m., a spokesman said. It took about 30 firefighters 15-20 minutes to control the blaze in the otherwise vacant structure, he said. The fire caused $40,000 in damage. Its cause is under investigation.

John G. "Gil" Steinkraus, a retired financial manager and golfer, died Feb. 7 of cancer at Tate Chesapeake Hospice House in Linthicum. The longtime Arnold resident was 90. The son of factory workers, John Gilbert Steinkraus was born and raised in Brooklyn Park. He was a 1940 graduate of Glen Burnie High School. During World War II, he served in the infantry for two years. After the war, he earned a bachelor's degree on the GI Bill of Right in 1951 from the University of Maryland.

Cole Porter's "Anything Goes" is near the top of any short list of great Broadway musicals, and fans have a choice of four performances this weekend in Annapolis or Brooklyn Park. From what I heard from the cast of singer-actors rehearsing last Friday at the home of Live Arts Maryland music director J. Ernest Green, I predict another terrific "Broadway in Annapolis" production. Watching the actors run lines and rehearse songs, I was soon so immersed in the show's incomparable music and wit that I fully understood what "It's De-Lovely" actually means.