Burglary Charges

Led by a crack addict awaiting trial on burglary charges, a group of inmates at the Anne Arundel County Detention Center in Annapolis is crusading to hold daily Bible study sessions in their cells.Officials don't want the inmates to congregate in individual cells -- even to study Scripture."Most of us are drug addicts who had some childhood values messed up," said Mike Thompson, 35, the Bible study leader. "Now, the Bible installs values and morals and a better way of living. We are trying to do something positive, and the detention center won't let us."

A Hampstead man was being held yesterday at the Carroll County Detention Center in lieu of $75,000 bail after he was arrested Wednesday and charged with committing two burglaries last month.Richard S. Shipp, 19, of the 4200 block of Maple Grove Road, faces 19 charges, including allegations of conspiring with another person to break into a neighbor's home on Jan. 16., where an exterior door was destroyed and an antique mantel clock was stolen.Shipp is also accused of plotting with four others to break into a Manchester home Jan. 19, when a large jug of coins, a gold-plated pocket watch and a gold pendant were stolen.

A Westminster man, who is being held on burglary charges in lieu of $200,000 bail, has been charged by state police in three more burglaries.Patrick J. Yox, 24, of the 500 block of Bachman Valley Road was taken before a commissioner yesterday in Carroll County District Court, where an additional $150,000 bail was imposed, pending a bail review hearing today.Court records show Yox originally was arrested Aug. 23 and charged in burglaries on Wampler Lane in Westminster on Aug. 17 and on Arrington Road in Marriottsville on Aug. 19.In the latest charges, state police allege Yox broke into a home on Wendy Road in Eldersburg on Aug. 19, where they say a typewriter and three jewelry boxes, which had an estimated value of more than $300, were stolen, police said.

A 31-year-old Mount Airy man accused of attacking a Taylorsville woman last week was released from the county jail Friday evening after his parents posted their Montgomery County home as collateral to secure a $100,000 bond.Barry Lee Loman of the 3200 block Kimberly Drive was arrested on battery and burglary charges Friday morning.According to court records, a Taylorsville woman told police that when she had answered a knock on her front door about 8:30 a.m. Thursday, a man told her he had lost his dog and asked to use her telephone.

A 24-year-old Taneytown man remained in the Carroll County Detention Center yesterday on $100,000 bail after his arrest Friday on burglary charges.Yesterday, Carroll District Judge JoAnn Ellinghaus-Jones declined to lower the bail set for John Carlos Villarreal of the 3500 block of Runnymeade Road.Mr. Villarreal was arrested Friday and charged with several counts of burglary, theft, malicious destruction and conspiracy in the theft of more than $3,700 worth of television sets, videocassette recorders, guitars, stereos and jewelry from a Snydersburg home April 20.It was not clear yesterday why Mr. Villarreal wasn't arrested until last week; state police obtained an arrest warrant for him early last month.

The trial of a former state health official on burglary charges -- already postponed from May until November -- could be further delayed by Judge Raymond E. Beck Sr.'s decision to recuse himself from the case.Judge Beck said yesterday that he removed himself from the bench for the Nov. 2 trial because he had "almost daily contact" with the official, former Deputy Health Secretary John Martin Staubitz Jr., during the judge's six-year stint in the state Senate.Judge Beck served in the state House of Delegates from 1972 to 1982 and in the Senate from 1983 until 1989.

A 47-year-old Baltimore man, the companion of a burglary suspect who hanged himself in a cell in the Westminster state police barracks in September, was arrested on 12 counts of burglary-related charges yesterday.William H. McFadden Jr., who lives in the 2600 block of W. Belvedere Ave., had been released on $25,000 unsecured bond on the September breaking and entering charges.He was held in lieu of $50,000 bond after a hearing before a court commissioner yesterday.Mr. McFadden and Daniel Ray Marsh, 43, of Glen Burnie were arrested in the Eldersburg area Sept.

John M. Staubitz Jr., the former state health official who faces trial on burglary charges in Carroll County, plans to plead guilty, he told a county circuit judge yesterday.Judge Luke K. Burns Jr. will hear the terms of the plea and sentence Staubitz Dec. 29.Staubitz, 45, is serving an eight-year prison sentence at the Roxbury Correctional Institute in Hagerstown for his conviction last summer in five breaking and entering cases in Baltimore County. He was in Carroll Circuit Court yesterday for a motions hearing on his Carroll cases.

Jailed man charged with more break-insHoward County police have charged a 23-year-old man, already jailed on burglary charges, with additional charges in a series of home and automobile break-ins across the county. Rory Wade Leftwich, of the 8200 block of Wellington Place, is being held at the Howard County Detention Center in lieu of $200,000 bond, a detention center worker said.County police took Leftwich into custody Aug. 13 from the detention center and charged him with 12 additional burglary charges, police said.

Two men arrested on handgun chargesWESTMINSTER -- Two Baltimore men were charged with handgun violations and a 14-year-old Westminster youth is facing assault charges after an altercation erupted between the youth and one of the men, who was involved with the boy's mother, police said.Objecting to the relationship between his mother and Bryan Bowen, 20, and vowing to kill them both around 11:30 p.m. Saturday, the youth fled his apartment on Sullivan Avenue to a nearby relative's home, where he grabbed several large kitchen knives, police reported.

Golf Connelly stays tied for 6th at NCAA event; Song leads Central Florida senior Stephanie Connelly, a native of Pasadena, shot a 3-over-par 75 on Thursday and remains tied for sixth at 5-over 221 after three rounds of the NCAA Division I women's championship at Caves Valley Golf Course in Owings Mills. Southern California freshman Jennifer Song shot a 71 and leads by two strokes at 216. PGA HP BYRON NELSON CHAMPIONSHIP: : Rookie James Nitties of Australia finished with four consecutive birdies for a 5-under 65 and a share of the first-round lead with Ken Duke in Irving, Texas.

The state dropped all charges yesterday against Mark Karcher, the boys basketball coach at St. Frances, who had been arrested on assault and burglary charges in September. A spokeswoman for the Baltimore state's attorney's office said the charges against Karcher, 29, were dropped for lack of evidence. "He's very relieved and just wants to move on," said Karcher's lawyer, David B. Irwin. "I think Mark's going to go forward and be a great basketball coach for St. Frances, and I think he'll be a good role model for kids."

In Maryland Charity donates $6 million to Hopkins, other schools The Johns Hopkins University and three independent Maryland colleges received $6 million yesterday from the Hodson Trust, a charity named for the founder of the Beneficial Corp. financial services firm. At a downtown Baltimore luncheon, the presidents of Hopkins, Hood College in Frederick and Washington College in Chestertown each picked up checks for more than $1.7 million, while St. John's College in Annapolis received $802,000.

A Baltimore teen-ager pleaded innocent yesterday to charges of kidnapping and first-degree burglary in a case involving the abduction of a toddler from the child's Clifton Avenue home last month. Prosecutors set an Aug. 15 trial date for Marsha Bynum, 16, of the 200 block of W. 27th St. in the city's Remington section. She could face up to 50 years in prison on the kidnapping and burglary charges, said Assistant State's Attorney Dave Mabrey, who is prosecuting the case. Bynum also faces three lesser charges, Mabrey said.

Baltimore police officials were growing concerned about a recent spike in burglaries in the Western District -- especially after they realized 40 fugitives lived in the district who were wanted on burglary charges. "We want to get some of these guys off the streets," said Maj. Antonio Williams, commander of the Western District, which has seen a 31 percent increase in burglaries over last year. So Williams and Capt. Gary D'Addario formed a warrant task force of six officers in an effort to arrest burglary suspects and some of the more than 2,600 fugitives who are wanted for various crimes and are believed to be living in the district, Williams said.

Two men were charged yesterday in a smash-and-grab burglary at a Parkville convenience store, and Baltimore County police say they may be responsible for several similar crimes in the area. Vasilous J. Manouse, 36, and Joseph A. Kosyjana, 43, were arrested about 3:30 a.m. near the Royal Farm store in the 8200 block of Harford Road. They are accused of stealing $700 worth of cigarettes after breaking into the store. Each has been charged with second-degree burglary and grand theft, police said.

Led by a crack addict awaiting trial on burglary charges, a group of inmates at the Anne Arundel County Detention Center in Annapolis is crusading to hold daily Bible study sessions in their cells.Officials don't want the inmates to congregate in individual cells -- even to study Scripture."Most of us are drug addicts who had some childhood values messed up," said Mike Thompson, 35, the Bible study leader. "Now, the Bible installs values and morals and a better way of living. We are trying to do something positive, and the detention center won't let us."

A Hampstead man was being held yesterday at the Carroll County Detention Center in lieu of $75,000 bail after he was arrested Wednesday and charged with committing two burglaries last month.Richard S. Shipp, 19, of the 4200 block of Maple Grove Road, faces 19 charges, including allegations of conspiring with another person to break into a neighbor's home on Jan. 16., where an exterior door was destroyed and an antique mantel clock was stolen.Shipp is also accused of plotting with four others to break into a Manchester home Jan. 19, when a large jug of coins, a gold-plated pocket watch and a gold pendant were stolen.

A Westminster man, who is being held on burglary charges in lieu of $200,000 bail, has been charged by state police in three more burglaries.Patrick J. Yox, 24, of the 500 block of Bachman Valley Road was taken before a commissioner yesterday in Carroll County District Court, where an additional $150,000 bail was imposed, pending a bail review hearing today.Court records show Yox originally was arrested Aug. 23 and charged in burglaries on Wampler Lane in Westminster on Aug. 17 and on Arrington Road in Marriottsville on Aug. 19.In the latest charges, state police allege Yox broke into a home on Wendy Road in Eldersburg on Aug. 19, where they say a typewriter and three jewelry boxes, which had an estimated value of more than $300, were stolen, police said.

A 31-year-old Mount Airy man accused of attacking a Taylorsville woman last week was released from the county jail Friday evening after his parents posted their Montgomery County home as collateral to secure a $100,000 bond.Barry Lee Loman of the 3200 block Kimberly Drive was arrested on battery and burglary charges Friday morning.According to court records, a Taylorsville woman told police that when she had answered a knock on her front door about 8:30 a.m. Thursday, a man told her he had lost his dog and asked to use her telephone.