Burglary

Jill DiMaura said she has never felt safer in her Charles Village neighborhood than she has since a shooting last summer at 28th and Barclay streets. "The police have been like neighbors," DiMaura, 52, told local law enforcement officials and city council members Monday, at a meeting to update residents on public safety. "I've been able to walk my dog at night," said DiMaura, a nine-year resident of Harwood, who was one of 70 people at the crime meeting. "It's been like a completely different neighborhood.

Harford County sheriff's deputies and Maryland State Police report: Aberdeen Paula Michelle Selchert, 33, of the 100 block of Hanover Street, was charged Monday with possession of marijuana. Eric Gregory Lind, 23, of the 3500 block of Churchville Road, was charged Saturday with possession of marijuana. Rondrae D. Lark, 23, of the 1300 block of Tralee Circle, was arrested Friday on a bench warrant in a case in which he was charged with unlawful sale of firearm, illegally having a handgun and illegally having a handgun in a vehicle.

The door at 831 N. Howard St. swings open to one of Baltimore's more charming salesrooms. But Friday, when I stopped by the place known as the Imperial Half Bushel, it was a dispiriting and depressing sight. The 19th-century walnut and oak showcases were empty. Gone were the silver forks and spoons made by Baltimore silversmiths. The water pitchers, the cups, the napkin holders had disappeared. Sometime between Sept. 17 and Sept. 20, thieves looted $100,000 worth of silver from this little shop located on a stretch known as Antiques Row. Fred and Nancy Duggan and their son, Patrick, opened their silver business in 1976.

FINKSBURG - The Carroll County Sheriff's Office reported Sept. 21 that twin brothers from Howard County had been arrested and charged with a pair of burglaries last month in the county. Timothy Brian Feick and Matthew Dean Feick, 26, of Clarksville, were charged in the August burglaries of pharmacies in Finksburg and Woodbine. On Aug. 4, sheriff's deputies responded a burglar alarm at the King's Pharmacy in the Woodbine Shopping Center just after 2 a.m. Investigators found the pharmacy's front window shattered and more than $13,000 in medications missing.

The last time an XBox video game system was taken from former Mayor Sheila Dixon's home, it was by state prosecutors armed with a search warrant as part of an embezzlement investigation. Sometime this week, an XBox was taken again – this time in what police say was a burglary, and the latest in a string of break-ins in the Southwest Baltimore neighborhood. Dixon called police Monday morning to report the burglary at her home in the 600 block of Winans Way. According to a police report, someone broke in through a kitchen window and "ransacked" two second-floor bedrooms.

A cigarette butt discarded outside the front door of a murder victim's Northeast Baltimore home led detectives to a suspect, who has now been charged with stabbing a 91-year-old woman during a burglary. "The way we closed this case was right out of a scene from 'CSI,'" city police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said Friday, referring to the popular television series that focuses on solving crimes through high-tech forensic techniques. "We're very pleased," said Irene Ushry, the daughter of the victim, Irene Logan, who lived on Moravia Road.

Maryland State Police announced Friday they made several arrests in the previous 10 days in connection with Harford County burglary cases dating back to last month. Troopers from Bel Air Barrack "D" and assistance from the public and local police agencies in Harford and Baltimore counties made seven arrests and solved four burglary cases in less than a week, according to a news release from the commander of the Bel Air Barrack Lt. Charles Moore. The continuing investigations will likely lead to the closure of dozens of other burglaries or similar crimes, Moore added.

Beech Avenue 3700 block, between 12:01 and 6:50 a.m. July 3. Oakley Five sunglasses stolen from vehicle. Bellona Avenue 6000 block, between 9:30 a.m. and 12:15 p.m. July 6. Laptop, jewelry stolen from residence. Entry gained by kicking in side door. North Calvert Street 2800 block, between 9 p.m. July 8 and noon July 9. Bicycle stolen from bed of pickup truck. NorthCharles Street 5200 block, between 8:30 a.m. and 5:10 p.m. July 6. Two TVs, Xbox, three laptops among property stolen from residence.

An East Baltimore church was destroyed in an early morning blaze Sunday after a burglar stole sound equipment from the building, according to police. No injuries were reported in the fire and burglary, which occurred shortly after 4 a.m. at the Paradise Christian Center, located in the 3000 block of E. Oliver Street, according to police spokesman Kevin Brown. Brown said the fire started when a burglar attempted to steal the sound equipment, and eventually consumed the entire building.