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He sat there, at the defense table, a broken man. Despite an education capped with an MBA, a wife and young child and a close extended family, Patrick McDevitt, now dressed in a prison jumpsuit, admitted he could not stop using other people's money. A federal judge ended that spending spree yesterday with a 2 1/2 -year prison sentence for the Timonium man. McDevitt, who tearfully apologized to his friends and family in U.S. District Court in Baltimore yesterday, filed $399,537 in false claims to his employer for reimbursement of fake business expenses, court records show.

A deacon at an Edgewood church has been charged on child sex abuse counts in the alleged molestation of two teenage half-sisters who are church members, the Harford County state's attorney said yesterday. Kevin Rondell Glenn, a deacon at Fountain of Life Fellowship Church, was arrested Thursday and charged with 11 counts, including sexual abuse of a minor and sexual solicitation of a minor. Charging documents allege that the 50-year-old Edgewood resident sexually abused the half-sisters, who are ages 13 and 17, over a two-year period that ended in May this year.

Someone in Australia browsing an Internet chat site in November spotted a disturbing image: a live video showing a man molesting a child who was sitting in his lap. The unidentified Web user quickly notified the chat site, which called the Australian Federal Police, who, using computer addresses, traced related images on the site to a man halfway around the world on Maryland's Eastern Shore. The international investigation culminated yesterday in a federal courtroom in Baltimore where Roderick Gene Parks, 42, was sentenced to 30 years in prison without possibility of parole.

A 44-year-old woman charged with assaulting a Baltimore District judge as he presided over a case was ordered held without bail yesterday until a psychiatric evaluation is performed.Angela P. Middleton, who lives in a YWCA building on West Franklin Street, was charged with second-degree assault, which carries a 10-year maximum sentence, and threatening a public official, which could bring a three-year sentence.Judges called the courtroom attack unprecedented.Judge Theodore B. Oshrine was not injured.

Lawyers for the public relations firm that is suing Black & Decker Corp. filed a motion yesterday to lift the protective order that bars outside parties from reviewing court documents and prevents either side from discussing the case.The move followed a motion filed by The Sun Monday to open the records."That Black & Decker may be embarrassed by the disclosure of certain information provides an insufficient basis to deny public access to hearings or to the Court's files," Image Dynamics Inc. lawyer Alan M. Rifkin said in a separate letter to Baltimore Circuit Judge Thomas E. Noel.

A Florida man, who was arrested and charged with sexually abusing a teen-age girl last year while he lived in Sykesville, pleaded guilty yesterday to one count of child abuse.Ellwood Fulkroad, 47, of Naples will be sentenced Nov. 22 by Circuit Judge Luke K. Burns Jr., court documents show.Under the plea agreement, Fulkroad will be incarcerated for no more than five years and assault and sexual offenses charges against him were dropped.Court documents said Fulkroad abused the girl, now 14, between April 1, 1998, and Sept.

Two more suspects -- believed to be the last of six -- were arrested yesterday in connection with the beating of two men with baseball bats in Westminster last week, authorities said.A 15-year-old Westminster boy was charged as a juvenile on 11 counts, including two counts each of attempted second-degree murder, first- and second-degree assault, reckless endangerment, use of a deadly weapon with intent to injure and one count of malicious destruction of property, Westminster police said.The boy, who was not named because of his age, was turned over to juvenile authorities to be held at the Charles P. Hickey School in Baltimore, pending further action by juvenile authorities, said Capt.

A star lacrosse player who helped lead the Johns Hopkins University to the national tournament last year has been charged with raping a student early Saturday at her off-campus apartment.Brian Joseph Carcaterra, 21, a senior majoring in political science and an All-America lacrosse player, was arrested Monday night by police and charged with second-degree rape and second-degree assault. He was being held last night at the city detention center in lieu of $25,000 bail.The woman told police she believes she was drugged, and investigators said they found an unknown sediment in the bottom of a glass partially filled with white wine that the woman said she had been drinking from.

A Florida man, who pleaded guilty in August to sexually abusing a 13-year-old girl while he lived in Sykesville last year, was sentenced yesterday to 15 years in prison.Circuit Judge Luke K. Burns Jr. suspended the term and ordered Elwood Fulkroad, 47, of Naples to complete five years' probation under the supervision of Florida authorities, complete two years of treatment and register as a sexual offender with Florida authorities.According to court documents, Fulkroad abused the girl between April 1, 1998, and Sept.

A California man was arrested yesterday on charges of sexually abusing an 8-year-old Manchester girl between June 1998 and June 1999, court documents showed.The 63-year-old man was ordered held at the Carroll County Detention Center in lieu of $25,000 bail, court records showed.The names of the suspect and the girl are not being reported because of her age and the nature of the alleged offenses.The man was charged with child abuse and second-, third-, and fourth-degree sexual offenses and ordered not to leave the state if he makes bail, according to court documents.

The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va., will hear arguments today in a case that could determine whether a Virginia company can proceed with plans to build a liquefied natural gas terminal at Sparrows Point in eastern Baltimore County. The Maryland Department of the Environment denied AES Corp. a water-quality certification for the project, which would install 88 miles of pipeline through Maryland to Pennsylvania. AES's plan involves dredging the Baltimore harbor so that it can handle the large LNG tankers.

Zina C. Pierre, a virtual unknown in Annapolis politics whose victory in this week's Democratic primary put her on track to become the city's first African-American mayor, withdrew from the race Friday. Pierre pointed to "personal reasons" for her decision, which came after a day in which the historic capital city buzzed with revelations of her financial problems, including a home in foreclosure, a bounced check and state liens for unpaid income taxes. The Annapolis Democratic Central Committee must choose a replacement nominee by early October, according to city code.

The abduction of two Catonsville brothers last year - which police believe triggered a wave of retaliatory killings and other violence, including the shootings of 12 people at a cookout Sunday - was orchestrated by members of a heroin organization who believed their supplier was cheating them, authorities allege in court documents reviewed by The Baltimore Sun. The documents, filed in U.S. District Court last month, shed new light on last year's kidnappings,...

Police announced Tuesday the arrest of a 21-year-old city man in the killings of two women whose bodies were found last week at their Northeast Baltimore home. Mark K. Floyd of the 4200 block of Seidel Ave. is charged with first-degree murder, first-degree assault and theft, according to court documents. The victims, Lydia Steed, 31, and Allisha Royster, 23, died of multiple stab wounds to the backs of their heads June 6 or June 7, according to the medical examiner's office, and had been robbed.

Man charged in murder try A man charged with attempting to murder a 26-year-old woman last fall in Crofton is believed by the woman to be the father of her unborn child, according to police and court documents. Charles B. Martin, 32, of Charles County was arrested Monday afternoon after months of investigation by Anne Arundel County homicide detectives, who linked him to the shooting through interviews with witnesses and a hair found at the crime scene, said Capt. David Waltemeyer, who commands the department's criminal investigation division.

A former Baltimore County teacher sentenced to a year and a half in jail for a sex offense against a 13-year-old student now faces federal child pornography charges, according to U.S. District Court documents. Timothy N. Gounaris, 52, of the first block of Cardor Court in Perry Hall, is scheduled for a detention hearing Monday. Gounaris was arrested Friday after the FBI found evidence that he was sharing image and video files of "minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct" on the Internet, court documents said.

The man charged with attempted murder for allegedly setting fire to a tent last month while a man was inside it has a record of arrests dating back nearly 20 years, had threatened relatives with a metal skillet and broken into a lover's apartment, according to court records. John Allen Wilder, 40, of the 500 block of Crain Highway in Glen Burnie, was arrested Nov. 22 after police found him standing by a burning makeshift tent in the woods behind the BJ's Wholesale Club in the 8100 block of Ritchie Highway in Pasadena.

A 53-year-old Westminster man pleaded guilty to first-degree assault and obstruction of justice yesterday for attacking a female hitchhiker nearly 20 years ago and then trying to intimidate her so that she would not testify against him. Before dawn in November 1988, a 23-year-old woman hitched a ride with a man in Brooklyn Park, but once she got into his car, she saw that he was nearly naked and had a knife, according to court documents. The man ordered the woman to strip, then forced her to perform sexual acts with him in the woods before letting her go, according to the documents.

Court documents unsealed yesterday reveal that a 17-year-old kidnapping victim was forced at gunpoint into the trunk of his car before he and his female companion, who was later raped, were driven to several banks to withdraw money from ATMs. The charging documents describe in previously unavailable detail the events surrounding the Oct. 10 abduction of two teenagers at a light-rail station in Timonium for which two men have been charged. The documents say that Brian Tyrone Scott, 18, who surrendered at a Baltimore County police station Saturday evening, told investigators that his accomplice was Kiheem Malik Taylor, 22, who was arrested the next day at his home in Baltimore.

It was a few hours before dawn when police spotted the two men smudged with grease leaving the parking lot of an auto repair shop in a deserted industrial area of Glen Burnie. The men told police that they had stopped to relieve themselves, but when officers discovered a cache of car parts, tools and more than a dozen damaged vehicles nearby, they thought otherwise. The two men were arrested and charged in connection with the theft of catalytic converters, an increasingly common crime in the county, according to police.