Carrollton

Profits at the parent company of Carrollton Bank rose last year as it increased its loan portfolio, decreased additions to loan loss reserves and boosted its income from fees, said Bud Kretzschmar, director of marketing for the bank.Total assets at the Baltimore bank holding company, which has seven branches, increased 4 percent, and its deposits grew 4.26 percent. Loans increased nearly 20 percent over the past 12 months, to $112.1 million as of Dec. 31. The company declined to release quarterly figures.

Jefferson Bancorp Inc., parent of Lutherville-based Bay Bank, said Monday it had completed its acquisition of Carrollton Bancorp, the holding company of Columbia-based Carrollton Bank. The $25 million stock-cash deal included the repayment of $9.1 million from the Troubled Asset Relief Program, a federal program created more than four years ago to support banks during the financial crisis. The combined bank operations have total assets of about $480 million and a dozen branches. Under the merged operations, Carrollton's former 10 branches - from Anne Arundel County to Harford County - now bear the name of Bay Bank.

Carrollton Bancorp reported yesterday that its second-quarter earnings were practically wiped out by a $1.2 million after-tax loss from an alleged check-kiting scheme by one of its commercial customers. The community bank said its profit for the three months that ended June 30 decreased 91 percent to $58,000, or 2 cents per diluted share, from $634,000, or 22 cents per diluted share, for the second quarter last year. Still, the bank's second-quarter net income was higher than the company's initial estimate of $18,000 when it first alleged the check-kiting operation last month.

Baltimore Police found a man dead of an apparent homicide on Friday morning in an industrial, half-vacant section of the Carrollton Ridge neighborhood. The man was found at 6:07 a.m. in a field behind a string of abandoned railroad cars next to some tracks just off the 600 block of S. Fulton Ave. Bits of crime scene tape remained attached to a rusted railroad car that had marked off the crime scene, where, at noon, blood could be seen still pooled on the ground. No description of the victim's age, injuries or manner of death was available.

Carrollton Bancorp said yesterday that it suffered $1.2 million in losses, which nearly wiped out second-quarter profits at the Baltimore-based community bank, from a check-kiting scheme that might have victimized another area bank and a money-order business. Robert A. Altieri, chief executive officer at Carrollton, said the bank suspects the scheme was undertaken by one of its commercial deposit customers, A&B Check Cashing, which operated a string of stores in Baltimore that offered a variety of financial services.

MRS. KATHLEEN ARTHUR BORGMEIER, age 58, of 304 Old Mill Drive, Carrollton, GA died March 4, 2006 following a heroic battle with lung cancer. She was a devoted wife, mother, and grandmother. She will be cremated, as per her request. Mrs. Borgmeier was born in Baltimore, Maryland on February 5, 1948 to the late Jeanne Klaus and Paul Arthur. She grew up in Baltimore and spent much of her childhood at the home of her late aunt and uncle, Gerard and Catherine Weber, in Severna Park, Maryland.

POLICE* Westminster: A resident of Alymer Court reported someone stole his 1989 Jeep Wrangler from outside his house Wednesday. He estimated the value of the vehicle at $10,000.FIRE* Carrollton: Reese responded to clean up after an accident on Carrollton Road at 1:03 p.m. Thursday. Crews were out for 30 minutes.* Pleasant Valley: Pleasant Valley responded to a farm tractor on fire on Bren-Will Drive at 12:57 p.m. Thursday. Crews were out for 30 minutes.* Westminster: Westminster responded to clean up at the site of an accident on East Green Street at 5:21 p.m. Wednesday.

On October 29, 2003, LELA ELIZABETH (nee Brewer), beloved wife of the late Elvin E. Beard; devoted mother of Richard L. Beard of Newport News, VA, Linda S. Dusel and Rebecca B. Long; loving grandmother of R.J. Milnor-Beard, Jennifer and Brendon Dusel; fond aunt of Jeannie Talbert. The family will receive relatives and friends at the Church of the Good Shepherd, 1401 Carrollton Rd (Boyce and Carrollton Rd) Towson, on Saturday 11 to 12 P.M. Funeral services to follow. Interment Monday 12 P.M. at Rest Haven Cemetery, Hagerstown, MD. Arrangements by Brian T. Chisholm Funeral Services of Dulaney Valley, P.A.

On March 18, 2004, BETTYEVisitation at 2140 N. Fulton Ave., on Friday 2 to 8 P.M. The family will receive friends at Emmanuael C.C. Church, 800 Carrollton Ave., on Saturday at 10:30 A.M. Funeral at 11 A.M.

THE COUNT Homicides since Jan. 1: 182 THE VICTIMS A man found bleeding on the street late Saturday in the Carrollton Ridge neighborhood was pronounced dead at the scene in the 2100 block of McHenry St. His identity was unknown. ONLINE: Details and locations of this year's city homicides at baltimoresun.com/homicidemap

Baltimore police have charged a 19-year-old man in connection with a shooting death earlier this year. Sgt. Anthony Smith said Saturday that Arthur Holt was arrested for first- and second-degree murder and related charges in the death of Tavon Whelchel, 18. Whelchel, of the 200 block of Pulaski St., died after he was shot several times in the torso on June 19 in the 2100 block of W. Pratt St. in Baltimore's Carrollton Ridge neighborhood....

Randall Shreve Jr.'s 1999 robbery of the Carrollton Bank in Glen Burnie didn't go so well, but it didn't stop him from trying again, federal prosecutors say. On Friday, Shreve, 44, was sentenced to more than 19 years in federal prison after being convicted for the second time in 12 years of robbing the bank in the 400 block of Crain Highway. He received an 11-year sentence after the first robbery and was on supervised probation at the time of the most recent crime. According to his guilty plea, on May 23, 2011 Shreve forced two tellers standing outside to enter the bank.

Four people were shot in Baltimore between Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, including two fatally, which pushed the city's homicide count to 100 for the year. The victims were identified by police as 18-year-old Tavon Whelchel and 36-year-old Lewis Womack IV. Both cases are open, and anyone with information was asked to call homicide detectives at 410-396-2100. Whelchel of the 200 block of Pulaski St. was found after police received a call about 6:20 p.m. Tuesday for a shooting in the 2100 block of W. Pratt St., in the Carrollton Ridge neighborhood of Southwest Baltimore.

Natural gas and water service have been restored to most of the approximately 1,000 southwest Baltimore households that lost them as a result of pipe breaks Tuesday, city officials say. As of Sunday afternoon, about 25 households were still waiting for plumbers to make minor repairs and relight furnaces, stoves and water heaters, according to Kurt Kocher, a spokesman for Baltimore's public works department. Water service was restored to the area by late Tuesday, he said. Kocher said the house-by-house repair work was running ahead of schedule.

A man was shot in the legs Tuesday evening in the Carrollton Ridge neighborhood in Southwest Baltimore. Officers responded at 5:42 p.m. to the report of a man lying in an alley in the 2200 block of Christian St. and found a 22-year-old male suffering from gunshot wounds to the left leg and right knee, police said. The victim was taken to an area hospital. Officers have made no arrests and are continuing to investigate the shooting, police said. Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to call Baltimore police.

Anne Arundel County Executive John R. Leopold is skeptical of the decision to move two state agencies out of his county - and for good reason. In the case of the Department of Housing and Community Development's planned relocation to Prince George's County, he raises legitimate questions of cost and political favoritism that deserve closer scrutiny. But don't expect that closer scrutiny to come from the General Assembly. The DHCD's move to New Carrollton, announced nearly one year ago, has all the look of a political decision - the fulfillment of a five-year-old campaign promise from Gov. Martin O'Malley that fellow Democrats are unlikely to question, no matter how expensive it turns out to be or how much fuss a Republican county executive might make in the media.

After more than a decade, Plata Grande and Margarita Maggie's, a Mexican restaurant and bar on Route 175 in Columbia, has closed its doors.Carrollton Enterprises of Beltsville, the owners of the restaurant, said yesterday that they are in negotiations with a steak and seafood restaurant to lease the 17,000-square-foot building off Dobbin Center Way.Officials say the interior of the building will undergo some renovations before reopening. They are unsure when it will reopen.Over the last year, the chain has closed its other locations in Richmond, Va., Ocean City, Annapolis and Calverton, as the management company has focused more on the shopping centers it runs in Prince George's County.

Howard County, which began July 4, 1851, as a western outpost of neighboring Anne Arundel County, has started celebrating its 150th anniversary this year. To mark the occasion and give readers a sense of what life was like in Howard County 150 years ago, the Howard County edition of The Sun will publish a column on county history and the people who were part of it. The column will appear every Tuesday through the school year on Page 3B. This week's column traces the role of Charles Carroll of Carrollton (above)

The state is planning a new building in Prince George's County to house the state Department of Housing and Community Development, Gov. Martin O'Malley announced Monday. The agency, which employs 385 workers, will move from Crownsville to New Carrollton next fall, O'Malley and Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown said. The new building, to be called Metroview, is to be built near the Orange Line and the proposed Purple Line of the Washington Metro. O'Malley called it a "modern investment" that will "allow us to do the right thing for reducing traffic and sprawl, the right thing for our quality of life, and the right thing for our land, our water, and our air. " Metroview is to be developed by Carl Williams of Grand Central Development, the governor's office said.