Charged With Robbery

An Oakland Mills man was charged with robbery, breaking and entering and assault after his ex-girlfriend and her boyfriend were held at gunpoint Sunday afternoon, Howard County police said.Police said the man, 23, broke into the home of a Columbia man, 19, about 4 p.m. and stole a camera, wallet and money. The incident was related to an earlier dispute between the man and his former Greenbelt girlfriend, 19, over a cellular telephone, police said. Coleman J. Scott of the 9600 block of White Acre Road was arrested Sunday evening.

Baltimore County police charged a man with attempted first- and second-degree murder this week in the stabbing of two men who allegedly tried to jump him, the department announced on Friday. Dallus Newson, 18, of the 4400 block of Greenwich Court in Abingdon, was arrested Jan. 7 and is being held without bail, police said. Police said Newson fought with Brandon Victorian, 20, and Donte Smith, 19, after getting into a drug-related disagreement on Jan. 3 at about 7:30 p.m. in Perry Hall.

A 20-year-old Westminster man, whose picture was picked out of a police mug shot book by a man who says he was robbed, was held on $25,000 bond yesterday. Kane Allan McGruger, of the first block of S. Church St., was charged with one count each of robbery, robbery with a deadly weapon, assault with intent to rob, assault and theft.City police said the driver of a Countywide Taxi took two men to a parking lot off Center Street at Court Street about 12:30 a.m. Aug. 10. Both men left the cab, telling the driver to wait while they went into a nearby apartment to get the $2 fare.

A Baltimore inmate charged with robbery and second-degree burglary walked off a work site Wednesday in the Clifton Park neighborhood. Travis Lee Wildes, 25, was last seen at 12:15 p.m. in a gray jumpsuit with "DOC" written on the back, according to the state Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services. Wildes, who is serving 23 months at the Baltimore City Correctional Center, was on an outside detail that was supervised by a correctional officer. On such details, the inmate are considered a low risk to society and are near the end of their sentences, officials said.

Three Westminster men have been arrested and charged with robbery after they allegedly forced another man to the ground and took his car Oct. 31.Joseph Clark of the first block of Charles St. in Westminster told police that he was grabbed by two men in front of his residence about 2:30 a.m. and pushed to the ground.Timothy Tyrone Costley, 30, of the first block of Charles St.; Bryant Edwin Millberry, 38, of the 1100 block of Western Chapel Road; and David Bowman, 32, of the 100 block of Carrollview Ave. were each charged with robbing Mr. Clark and two counts of theft.

An Annapolis District Court judge ordered yesterday that a teen-ager charged with murder in the shooting death of another youth be held without bail. In a brief hearing, Judge Paul A. Hackner declined to set bail for LoMichael Delvon Booze, 17, of the 700 block of Newtowne Drive in Annapolis. Booze is charged as an adult with first-degree murder in the Jan. 12 shooting death of Alexander David Henderson, of the 1800 block of Chatfield Terrace in Severn. He also is charged with seven related offenses, including armed robbery and assault.

Man charged with assault, robberyA Crofton man was charged yesterday after an acquaintance was attacked inside a yogurt shop on Defense Highway.County police said the victim, Donna Lou Wiley, 62, of the 1600 block of Carlyle Drive in Crofton, was in the Crofton TCBY shop when a man entered at 9:47 a.m., apparently to make a telephone call.Police said the woman was struck in the face several times with a blunt object. The man then robbed the store of an unknown amount of money.Shawn Thomas McDonnell, 25, of the 1700 block of Greentree Court, was charged with robbery and assault with intent to murder.

A Howard County grand jury indicted a Columbia man Wednesday on three charges connected with the armed robbery of a Long Reach gas station in May. Victor J. Morrison, 41, of the 7500 block of Rain Flower Way is charged with robbery, robbery with a dangerous and deadly weapon and theft of less than $500. Police said a man with a handgun entered the Exxon station in Long Reach Village Center about 11:30 p.m. May 16 and demanded money. After taking an undisclosed amount cash, the robber fled, police said.

Two men were charged with robbery and assault after an attendant at an Eldersburg gas station was beaten and several packs of cigarettes were stolen, authorities said yesterday. Bryant Mitchell Johnson, 38, of Baltimore and Michael Jones, 34, of no fixed address were arrested about midnight Wednesday, state police in Westminster said. Both were charged in the robbery and with possession of heroin and conspiracy to commit robbery, police said. Two men forced their way into an Amoco station in the 1500 block of Liberty Road shortly before 11:30 p.m. Wednesday and beat the clerk, who escaped and called police with a description of the vehicle, said Lt. Terry Katz, commander of the Westminster barracks.

County police arrested a Severn man Saturday afternoon after family members said he tried to strangle his 14-year-old stepdaughter during a domestic dispute, officials said.Police officers arrived at the home shortly after 1:30 p.m. and were told the man had attacked the girl when she refused to obey him. Family members said they had to pull the man off the girl, police said.Francis Bernard Gantt Jr., 42, of the 8200 block of Autumn Lake Court has been charged with assault with intent to murder, child abuse and battery, police said.

A 24-year-old Baltimore man has been arrested and charged with robbing and shooting a cabdriver in Remington early Sunday, police said. Police said Maurice Turner, who in 2008 was sentenced to a 30-year prison term, and a second man robbed and shot a 30-year-old cabdriver early Sunday after he pulled into a parking lot in the 2700 block of Sisson St. The suspects demanded money, shot the driver in the back and fled with an unknown amount of...

Three Baltimore youths were arrested Monday and charged with attempted robbery of a teenager at a gas station in Linthicum, according to Anne Arundel County police. Police said the three approached a 14-year-old boy around 4:50 p.m. outside a BP gas station in the 6800 block of Baltimore- Annapolis Boulevard and demanded that he give them his cash and cell phone. Police said one of the youths implied that he had a handgun. The victim did not give them anything and ran away, police said.

A man has been charged with robbing a greeting card store in Pasadena, Anne Arundel County police said. Employees of Pat's Hallmark at 4100 Mountain Road said the robber came in about 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, implied that he had a weapon and demanded the money from the store's cash register. Store employees turned over an undisclosed amount of money, and the robber fled. With the help of a canine unit and a helicopter, officers found Antonio Baker, 45, of no fixed address hiding in thick brush near Jacobsville Park after a an extensive of the area by uniformed officers.

An Odenton man locked his family out of his house, set it on fire, then later rammed his truck into a parked car, Anne Arundel County police said yesterday. James M. Morris, 37, was "acting strange and violent" and allegedly cut off his 6-year-old niece's hair Monday afternoon in his Edwards Drive home, said Lt. David Waltemeyer, a county police spokesman. That prompted his father to take the girl and her 7-year-old brother outside and dial 911, but James P. Morris said his son grabbed the phone, broke it and locked them out of the house.

Two men have been arrested in a violent attack on a 73-year-old man on a downtown street in February, and police said yesterday they have linked one of the suspects to similar assaults against two others that month. Latar C. Bradshaw, 22, was charged with robbery and conspiracy in connection with the Feb. 25 assault and robbery of Carl A. Schoettler, 73, a veteran Sun journalist. Police said they have issued a warrant for Phillip M. Carter in connection with Schoettler's case. Carter, 18, has been in custody since Feb. 26 after he was arrested in West Baltimore by an off-duty police officer and charged with assaulting a 65-year-old man. That attack occurred less than four hours after Schoettler had been assaulted, police documents show.

Terrance Whiters, who was expected to start in the backcourt for the Towson University men's basketball team this season, has been suspended indefinitely by coach Pat Kennedy after being charged by Baltimore County police last month with two, third-degree sex offenses, armed robbery and a felony handgun violation. Whiters, 22, a Baltimore native who attended St. Frances Academy, transferred to Towson a year ago and sat out the 2004-2005 season after playing for two years at Loyola of Chicago.

A homeless man walked into the State Police barracks in Glen Burnie Sunday night and confessed to last week's robbery of the Linthicum branch of a NationsBank, county police said.Harold Clendenin, 41, was charged with robbery.Police said the man had been drinking before he walked into the barracks in the 6800 block of Aviation Blvd. about 10: 30 p.m.He gave state troopers a written confession to last Thursday's crime in which a man walked into the bank in the 200 block of Benton Ave. about 10 a.m., approached a teller and held a note at eye level.

A man has been charged with robbing a greeting card store in Pasadena, Anne Arundel County police said. Employees of Pat's Hallmark at 4100 Mountain Road said the robber came in about 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, implied that he had a weapon and demanded the money from the store's cash register. Store employees turned over an undisclosed amount of money, and the robber fled. With the help of a canine unit and a helicopter, officers found Antonio Baker, 45, of no fixed address hiding in thick brush near Jacobsville Park after a an extensive of the area by uniformed officers.

Police Blotter is a sampling of crimes from police reports in Baltimore City and Baltimore County. Baltimore City Northeastern District Arrest: Derrick Davis, 17, of the 400 block of E. 23rd St. was arrested yesterday at his attorney's downtown office by members of the Warrant Apprehension Task Force on a warrant charging him as an adult with first-degree murder. Davis is accused in the shooting of Reginald Gray, 18, of the 5600 block of Kavon Ave. on Feb. 23 on St. Lo Drive in Clifton Park.