Charged With Robbery

&TC County police arrested two men Tuesday and charged them in the holdup of a Linthicum branch of Signet Bank.John Wayne Newman, 36, and Robert George Pawley, 30, neither of a fixed address, were charged with robbery in the first of two bank robberies that occurred in a three-hour period in Linthicum Tuesday, police said.A man walked into the Signet Bank branch in the 700 block of Hammonds Ferry Road shortly after 11 a.m. and demanded money from a teller, police said.The teller gave the man an undisclosed amount, and the man left, got onto a bicycle and rode off with another bicyclist, police said.

Two Baltimore-area men accused of a strong-arm robbery in Westminster early Wednesday were arrested later that day after calling Westminster police for help finding their car.Police said a 28-year-old resident of Charles Street in Westminster told them that two men in a Nissan Sentra assaulted him about 2 a.m. in the 200 block of E. Main St. One man yanked a gold chain from his neck, police said, and the other grabbed his watch after hitting him in the...

A 17-year-old male was arrested yesterday and charged as an adult with robbery in an incident in which Elizabeth Jones, 64, was fatally shot as she stood in the doorway of her West Baltimore home, police said.Shennard Wilson of the 4800 block of Melbourne Ave. was being held at the Central Booking and Intake Center, police said.Police said four males robbed Jones' grandson at her home in the 2100 block of Hollins St. on Aug. 7.As the robbers fled, the grandson fired a handgun at them and two of them shot back, fatally wounding Jones in the chest, police said.

A youth who works at a fast-food restaurant in Columbia's Kings Contrivance village was assaulted and robbed of his compact disc player Sunday afternoon, police said.The youth, whose age was not given by police, was approached by three juveniles about 4: 50 p.m. as he went to work at McDonald's in Kings Contrivance Village Center in the 8600 block of Guilford Road, said Howard County Police Sgt. Glenn Hansen.Police said the three juveniles pushed the victim, took his CD player and fled on bicycles.

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 Calvert County man has been arrested in connection with an assault and robbery Sunday evening at a pizza restaurant at the Whiskey Bottom Shopping Center in Laurel.Nester Enrique Simmonds, 19, of the 1100 block of Cimmeron Road in Lusby was charged Sunday with assault, battery, robbery, attempted robbery and theft of less than $300. He was being held Monday on $5,000 bail at the Howard County Detention Center.According to court documents:About 7: 40 p.m. Sunday, a man approached Arnold Burton Miller, an employee of Pizza Italiano's, 9105Q All Saints Road, and demanded $30 for handing out fliers for the restaurant.

Police have charged a Baltimore County teen-ager with robbing a Linthicum bank Wednesday.Bruce Wayne Setherley, 17, of the 1700 block of Carroll Ave. in Arbutus, was charged with robbery with a deadly weapon and assault with intent to murder. No bail information was available.Police said a man walked into the Signet Bank in the 700 block of Hammonds Ferry Road about 10: 45 a.m., walked over to a teller, pulled up his sweater and pointed to what he said was a gun.The man demanded cash and, when the teller complied, walked out of the bank and headed north on Nursery Road, police said.

County police arrested a 26-year-old man yesterday on charges of trying to rob a 7-Eleven in Glen Burnie.Steven Barry Johnson, of no fixed address, was charged with attempted robbery and assault and battery.Police said a man walked into the 7-Eleven in the 7700 block of Quarterfield Road shortly after 2 a.m., made several small purchases and waited for customers to leave.When everyone else had left, the man walked behind the counter, put his forearm to the clerk's throat, and said: "Don't say anything.

A Westminster man who was a key witness last year for prosecutors trying Carroll County's first drug-related murder case was arrested early Friday on an armed robbery charge, police said.Keith Edward Goins, 22, was charged with armed robbery, assault with intent to rob, assault, battery and conspiracy. He also was charged with two counts associated with possession of a deadly weapon.Mr. Goins, who is out on $20,000 bail, testified last year about how his friend, Gregory Lamont Howard, was killed by Timothy Cumberland on Center Street on Jan. 28, 1993.

The former boyfriend of one of two sisters stabbed to death Thursday night in the basement of a West Baltimore home turned himself in to police last night after being charged with two counts of first-degree murder.Rodney W. Pitts, 21, of no known address, walked alone into the Central District station house on Baltimore Street downtown about 9:45 p.m. and surrendered, homicide detectives said. He was awaiting a bail hearing last night before a District Court commissioner.Police said Mr. Pitts had recently ended a relationship with one of the victims, Trina Johnson, 28, and the motive for the killings appeared to be a domestic dispute.