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Baltimore County police released new computer enhance images to help detectives identify a woman whose skeletal remains were found around Falls Road south of Gunpowder Road.The remains were found March 5, 1996.Anyone with information is asked to call police at 410- 887-2198.Pub Date: 9/25/98

Annapolis Mayor Joshua Cohen filed a police complaint Tuesday after catching a 68-year-old man, pants at his ankles, urinating off the third floor parking deck of a garage behind City Hall. "If it would have been three in the morning, I might have looked the other way," Cohen said. "But it was three in the afternoon, in broad daylight. " The man told the mayor he was "following the call of the wild" when confronted mid-stream and then cursed at Cohen's recommendation of using public restrooms nearby, according to the police report.

A 24-year-old mother of two young boys was stabbed to death in Northwest Baltimore and three others were killed in separate shootings Wednesday, city police said yesterday. Police said Natalie Nicole Trent went outside her apartment in the 3000 block of Thorndale Ave. about 8 p.m. and broke up an argument between a group of people and her 5-year-old son, Dashawn Whitaker. The group left and returned, and someone stabbed Trent during a heated verbal exchange, police said. Trent, who is also the mother of a 9-year-old boy, Shawn, was rushed to Sinai Hospital, where she died, police said.

Two men were killed and an unidentified woman was critically wounded in a shooting late Wednesday in Southwest Baltimore, police said. Police said officers were first called to the 600 block of Linnard St. about 9 p.m. for reports of shots fired but did not find anything suspicious. Later, around midnight, officers received a call from a man who said he was inside a home where people had been shot. When police arrived, the caller was gone and officers found the victims inside.

Half a dozen men beat and tried to rob a 26-year-old man in Freetown Village Monday night, county police reported.Paul Michael Sievers, 26, of the 7800 block of Huff Court in Pasadena, was walking on Huff Court when he was attacked by the men about 7 p.m. They hit Mr. Sievers with a steel weight and tried to take his bag, the police report said.Mr. Sievers managed to escape from the men and run into his house to call police. Police searched the area but could not find the men.

An unidentified man with gunshot wounds was found on an East Baltimore street about 1: 10 a.m. yesterday, and he died about 30 minutes later at Johns Hopkins Hospital, police said.Responding to a report of a shooting in the 1500 block of N. Chapel St., Eastern District police found the wounded man lying in the street.Police had made no arrest and knew of no motive for the slaying. Anyone with information is asked to call police at 410-396-2100.Pub Date: 6/19/97

Police were looking last night for a 12-year-old Northwest Baltimore girl last seen walking toward Cross Country Elementary School at 7:30 a.m. on Friday.After Danielle Nicole Rice failed to show up at the school, teachers there called her mother, Cynthia Cox, of the 3300 block of Avondale Avenue, who told them Danielle was probably playing hooky.But after determining that none of Danielle's friends had seen her, Mrs. Cox telephoned police at 5:30 p.m. on Friday to report the child missing.

A 25-year-old Dundalk man jumped from the Key Bridge early yesterday after fleeing his house when his girlfriend called 911 to report finding a dead woman in his kitchen, Baltimore County police said. According to police, Shane M. Foster of the 3200 block of McShane Way appeared distraught when his girlfriend arrived at his house early yesterday. He told her that he believed he had hurt someone, police said. Foster's girlfriend, whom police did not identify yesterday, entered his kitchen and found the body of a woman who was later identified as Ashley Davis, 18, of the 8000 block of Del Haven Road in Dundalk, police said.

A man who tried to rob a Laurel 7-Eleven store Monday night went away empty-handed after the clerk called 911, county police said.The man walked into the store, in the 3400 block of Fort Meade Road, about 11:30 p.m. He held his hand in his pocket and implied that he had a gun as he demanded money. When the clerk went into a back room to call police, the man ran off, police said.The suspect was described as a black male 25 to 30 years old, 6 feet tall, with a slim build and wearing a blue baseball hat and a brown jacket, police said.

A man described as in his mid-20s was gunned down yesterday in the second daylight killing this month in the same block in East Baltimore, and police were investigating to see if there was a link between the shootings. About 5 p.m., the man was walking in the 1000 block of Bonaparte Ave. when a passenger stepped from a white sedan and shot him several times before being driven away, police said. The victim died at Johns Hopkins Hospital, police said. The other victim, Thomas Ragin, 27, of the 1600 block of Riggs Ave., was shot three times about 11 a.m. Oct. 2. Anyone with information in either killing was urged to call police at 410-396-2100.

What would you do if, while sitting behind the wheel of your car at a traffic light, you see a man with a handgun in a shoulder holster approach your vehicle, pound his fist against the driver-side window and release a profane tirade? Would you: a. Lower the window and fire back some expletives; b. Look for an emergency route through the busy intersection in front of you; c. Remain calm and ignore the man until he goes away; d. Call the cops as soon as possible? When this happened to him in Harford County last week, Francesco Grasso chose "c" and "d. " Dr. Grasso is a surgeon with a practice in Baltimore, Towson and Bel Air. He was shaken enough by this display of road rage to contact me and to submit his account as a cautionary tale for other drivers.

The guilty verdict against one of two brothers accused of beating a Northwest Baltimore teen cuts through the conflicting accounts of what happened on Fallstaff Road nearly 18 months ago and arrives at an essential truth: When Eliyahu Werdesheim stepped out of his car and confronted Corey Ausby, he stopped being a volunteer on neighborhood patrol and became a vigilante. No matter whose account of the incident you believe, it is clear that he overstepped his bounds. Neighborhood patrols serve a valuable purpose, and Shomrim, the organization to which Eliyahu Werdesheim belonged at the time, has long been lauded for its efforts in Northwest Baltimore.

Bel Air police are releasing few details about a woman who said she delivered a stillborn baby at a home in the town and then threw the body away. The unidentified woman contacted police Tuesday to say she had wrapped the infant's body in a plastic bag and placed it in a trash bin just outside the downtown area of the Harford County seat. Police escorted the woman to the 900 block of Sablewood Road, where she pointed out the exact location of the refuse container. Harford County Sheriff's Department deputies assisted the town police at the scene and recovered the body at about 6 p.m. The woman was taken to Upper Chesapeake Medical Center for treatment.

Maryland State Police are searching for a man who they said rear-ended a woman's vehicle on Interstate 83 in Parkton, offered her money to not call police and then violently attacked her when she dialed 911 on her cell phone. The incident occurred about 10 p.m. Friday south of the Pennsylvania line, in the northbound lanes near Exit 33. Police said a man driving a dark-colored Jeep Wrangler with a soft top, possibly with Pennsylvania license plates, hit the back of the woman's car. Both drivers pulled over and police said the man "pleaded with her, offering her money to settle the incident.

A 22-year-old Charles Village woman who was reported missing more than three weeks ago was found unharmed in Baltimore Wednesday, Baltimore County police said. Baltimore County police searched for Soojin Yeh, of the 2900 block of Charles Street after she was last seen at the Old Court Metro Station in Pikesville and reported missing on June 18. Police issued a news released to media Tuesday, which led to witnesses calling authorities to provide information about her location.

A Laurel minister whose two young daughters were placed on the wrong bus Thursday and left unaccompanied at a stop says their elementary school called the police on him after he went to the school and became agitated. C.J. Blair, 38, said he went to the Brock Bridge Elementary School in Laurel after his children, Tatianna, 7, a first-grader, and Gabrianna, 5, who is in kindergarten, failed to get dropped off at their bus stop at the usual time. Blair, who said he picks up the children every day after school, said he was told by other youngsters on the bus that his children might have been placed on a different bus. He said that he went to the school and became upset when school officials told him the missing children had indeed been placed on a different bus and had been dropped off unaccompanied.

A 38-year-old Elkridge man was being held on $250,000 bail in the Baltimore County Detention Center on charges, including kidnapping and first-degree assault, in the reported abduction and beating of a girlfriend, authorities said. The woman, 44, told Baltimore County police that she was kidnapped from her home in the north county community of Hydes about 3 p.m. Saturday and forced into the passenger seat of her car. She said her assailant drove her around, smoked crack and beat her with his fists.

A 12-year-old Glen Burnie girl walking to the bus stop yesterday fought off a man in red cutoff shorts with a blanket around his head who grabbed her, county police said.Police said the girl, whose name they did not release, was not hurt.The sixth-grader told police she was on her way to the bus stop at Mystic View Turn and Hiddenbrook Drive about 7: 30 a.m. when a man standing on the corner poked her on the shoulder and said, "Let's go to Wal-Mart."Police said the man grabbed the girl's arm, but she broke free and ran. The man chased her but was scared off by a woman walking her dog and was last seen running toward the woods on Mystic View Turn, police said.

A burglar ran from the home of a woman when she threatened to call police Friday, Anne Arundel County police said. Police said the woman told them she was awakened shortly before 11 p.m. Friday in the bedroom of her home in the 7900 block of Liberty Circle, Pasadena. The woman told police she was assaulted but broke free from the assailant. When she told her attacker that she would call police, he fled, police said. Police said there was no obvious sign of a break-in and the woman was not seriously hurt.

A Baltimore teen was arrested after a woman spotted him at a Brooklyn bus stop and told police he had robbed and sexually assaulted her two months earlier, according to court records. Police were called to the corner of Fifth Street and East Patapsco Avenue about 9 p.m. Saturday, where a woman told police that a man standing at a bus stop was the same man who had robbed her of $200 and attempted to rape her June 26, records show. "You don't remember me," she said, yelling and pointing at the man, according to charging documents.