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Three teen-agers were charged yesterday in the killing of a man during an apparent robbery attempt that police say was part of a marathon crime spree in Northeast Baltimore.Investigators said they are reviewing five holdups in which 11 people were robbed and four carjackings that occurred over 5 1/2 hours Monday night and early Tuesday.The suspects were being held at the Central Booking and Intake Center while awaiting an initial appearance before a District Court commissioner yesterday. Court officials said they would most likely have their first court appearance tommorrow.

Baltimore police charged a man yesterday in the stabbing death two weeks ago of a 16-year-old East Baltimore girl who was dragged into a weedy, vacant lot as she walked with her best friend to a drug store.Malcolm Jabbar Bryant, 23, who has no known address, was charged with first-degree murder. Police said he was being held on an unrelated theft charge in the city detention center when he was served with the warrant.He is charged with the Nov. 20 stabbing of Toni Bullock, who lived near Johnston Square.

James J. Harrison Jr., whose wife's slaying remains a mystery, was arrested Tuesday and charged with punching an airport police officer after US Airways had refused to let him board a plane for Florida, where he was going to visit his grandson.Harrison, 60, of the 600 block of W. Timonium Road was charged with disorderly conduct, second-degree assault on a police officer and resisting arrest. He was released on his own recognizance shortly after midnight yesterday.As he was being released, Harrison scrawled "I am completely innocent!

Howard County police announced yesterday that they have charged four juveniles and two adults in the May 14 fight at Columbia's Wilde Lake High that preceded the death of a teacher who tried to stop it.Sgt. Steven Keller, a police spokesman, said five of those charged are from Howard High School in Ellicott City and one is a Wilde Lake student.Keller said police plan to charge three more students this week, but he would not say which schools the students attended.The most serious charge -- second-degree assault -- was brought against the Wilde Lake student, identified as a 15-year-old girl, and one of the Howard High adults, Erica Racquell Lynn Gresham, 18, of the 7600 block of Rockbridge Drive in Elkridge.

Two teen-agers charged in a fight that preceded the fatal heart attack of a Wilde Lake biology teacher last spring asked yesterday that a jury decide their fate.Erica Lynn Gresham, 18, and Dawann Rondray Hebron, 18, appeared in court for the first time since Lawrence Hoyer died after trying to break up a fight among at least 17 students, almost all girls.The request, allowed by law, means that their trials will be transferred to the county Circuit Court and will take place in about two months.

A veteran Baltimore police officer was charged with murder yesterday in the killing of a 41-year-old man who was chased down and shot in the back nearly a decade ago near Little Italy, according to police and court records.Officer Robert W. Carre Jr., 46, who joined the force in 1973, was ordered held without bail yesterday in the Baltimore City Detention Center.He was suspended with pay pending a formal disciplinary hearing, when his pay could be revoked.Detectives were unusually tight-lipped yesterday.

A help-wanted ad for a lingerie model in a Crofton-area shopper led to the arrest Tuesday of two women on charges of running an illegal massage parlor and house of prostitution in a Crofton apartment.Carmen Morgan Lopez, 39, of the 1600 block of Fendall Court in Crofton was charged with operating a massage parlor without a license and operating a brothel. She was held in lieu of $10,000 bail.Stephanie L. VonBargen, 20, of the 200 block of Margate Drive in Glen Burnie was charged with giving massages without a license and massaging or offering to massage an erogenous area of a customer.

A convicted tax evader and once-nationally known concert promoter from Baltimore, whose empire crumbled a decade ago when IRS agents raided his Worthington Valley estate, has been charged with swindling a Georgia man out of $28,000.Richard Klotzman, the son of a Baltimore pawnshop owner who built a $20 million rock promotion company by the time he reached 30, was arrested Thursday morning in the offices of the Internal Revenue Service.Mr. Klotzman, 51, is awaiting extradition to Baldwin County, Ga., where he was indicted in 1993 on charges of theft by deception.

Three days in, an inmate threw urine on him. Four months in, someone stabbed him in the back. He never reported the injury, he says, because he had been warned: No matter how young you are, no matter what happens, shut your mouth and keep your head down.Phillip Eugene Moore is 15 years old. He is in the eighth grade. This week, he spoke publicly for the first time about how he spent his summer vacation -- April through October, in fact -- living with adult inmates in the Baltimore City Detention Center.

Man in Roxbury facility is charged in theftA Westminster man in the Roxbury Correctional Institute in Hagerstown was charged Friday in the theft of a bank bag from an employee of Monopoly Pizza Sept. 25.State police charged Timothy T. Costley, 32, Friday with theft, conspiring to commit theft and six counts of writing bad checks. He was held without bail after a hearing in front of a court commissioner.Costley was in the Hagerstown correctional center for an unrelated incident.

Three men have been charged in federal criminal complaints with a series of brazen Maryland robberies that netted more than $300,000 in illegal proceeds and left one business owner dying of head injuries while he was zip-tied and duct-taped to a chair. The men - Antwone Bell, 25, of Rosedale; Nikolaos Mamalis, 53, of Edgewood; and Daniel Chase, 64, of Brownsville, N.J. - are being held pending a detention hearing scheduled for Thursday in Baltimore U.S. District Court. Each was arrested on a single charge of conspiring to commit robbery, though more charges could result if the trio are later indicted.

State police have charged a 22-year-old Harford County man with attempted murder and assault in connection with a stabbing during what police called a near riot at a crowded Fallston bar early Sunday morning. Security workers at Tully's Bar on Belair Road were escorting Tyrell Lamont Young of Edgewood from the building when police arrived at about 1:22 a.m. Police said they determined that Young had been involved in a stabbing inside the bar and arrested him. He is being held at the Harford County Detention Center without bond.

A man who had been charged with dousing his 85-year-old grandmother with alcohol and setting her on fire in an argument over money in March is now being charged with first-degree murder, three months after the woman died at a hospital, a Baltimore police spokesman said. Tyron Markit Mason, 29, of the 2800 block of Frederick Ave., had been charged with attempted murder. Ethel Henderson died June 17 in the burn unit of Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. The attack occurred about 5:20 p.m. on March 8, when police said Mason went to Henderson's home on Poplar Grove Street, demanded money and then set her on fire.

Citing concerns for safety and the accused youth, an Anne Arundel County judge barred the public from the trial of the younger of two teenagers charged in the May 30 death of 14-year-old Christopher David Jones of Crofton. Judge Philip T. Caroom's ruling, issued Monday, allows the news media at the trial, but with a request that they voluntarily agree not to publish the names of the 14-year-old boy who is charged and names of witnesses who are juveniles. Caroom issued the order after learning of death threats against the 14-year-old while the boy was at one detention center.

Psychiatric nurse gets three years for fraud A Severna Park psychiatric nurse was sentenced to three years in prison and three years of supervised release Thursday for billing for medical services she did not provide, according to the Maryland U.S. attorney's office. Virginia Vought Acree, 49, a specialist in children's psychiatric nursing, must also pay $390,000 in restitution. Acree was accused of filing hundreds of fraudulent insurance claims from January 2003 to November 2007, receiving more than $400,000 from government and private health insurance programs.

Major rental car companies have reached agreement with state officials to reduce refueling fees by about 40 percent on vehicles returned in Maryland with partially full gas tanks. Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler will detail the new rate agreements, which go into effect July 4, at a briefing today at the rental car facility at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport. The measure comes as the average price of regular gasoline has crossed the $4-a-gallon mark. Hertz, the dominant rental car company at BWI and one of the three largest in the state, had been imposing the highest refueling rates, said Raquel Guillory, spokeswoman for the attorney general's office.

Anne Arundel County police have charged a 22-year-old West River woman with prostitution - and say charges are pending against her husband, who is accused of facilitating some of her rendezvous. Elizabeth Jeffers of the 5700 block of Muddy Creek Road was charged with engaging and soliciting prostitution after police say she advertised an escort service on Craigslist.org, which police said she operated with the help of her husband. A vice detective answered a posting on the Web site, where Jeffers reportedly used the name Ann. Officials say she instructed the detective to come to her home, where she offered him an erotic massage followed by a sex act of his choice for $170.

A former Annapolis sanitation worker accused of holding up a restaurant where he had filled out a job application and used his credit card to buy dinner has been charged in three other city robberies. Stephen Maurice Brown, 30, of Bellwether Court was served with an arrest warrant Thursday afternoon while being held at the Jennifer Road Detention Center. He was charged in robberies that occurred between June 25 and Sept. 7, said Officer Hal Dalton, a spokesman. Brown was picked up this month on a parole-violation charge and was charged in the Sept.

The Maryland state prosecutor charged Mayor Sheila Dixon's former campaign chairman yesterday with failing to file state income tax returns for three of the six years in which he earned $500,000 working without a contract as the Baltimore City Council's computer consultant. The misdemeanor charges come less than two weeks before the Sept. 11 Democratic primary and are providing Dixon's challengers fodder to remind voters of contract controversies that dogged the former council president last year.

Police investigating the fatal shooting of a Rosedale man who had been a key witness in a Baltimore murder case announced yesterday the arrest of a third suspect -- a man who had previously been charged numerous times with drug-related offenses. Marcus Antwan Pearson, 26, with no known address, is charged with first-degree murder in the July 2 killing of Carl Stanley Lackl. Pearson is accused of calling Lackl about a car that the Rosedale man was selling to lure him outside of his home, according to charging documents.