Deadly Weapon

A 14-year-old South Carroll High student was arrested on charges of possessing a deadly weapon after showing an 8-inch knife to students on the school bus yesterday.Police said the boy, whose name is not being released because of his age, did not threaten anyone with the knife. Students on the bus reported the youth to the principal when they got to school, police said.Carroll County public schools' policy calls for automatic suspension and notification of police when students older than 7 bring weapons to school.

Samuel Renard Queen, of the 3500 block of Elmley Ave. in Baltimore, was sentenced to two consecutive life terms for rape, kidnapping and related offenses this week for assaulting a woman at knifepoint in his unlicensed taxicab, the Baltimore state's attorney's office announced. The victim hailed the “hack” taxi after work on Dec. 6, 2010, prosecutors said. Queen picked her up on Belair Road and agreed to take her downtown, but instead took her to Clifton Park, where he forced her to engage in sexual acts and raped her. A jury convicted Queen in the attack on April 12, and he was sentenced Wednesday.

A grand jury indicted two people yesterday in the shooting of a police detective last month in Westport. Sherray Q. Douglas and Jobrea Lodge, both 20, have been charged with attempted first-degree murder, attempted robbery with a deadly weapon and conspiracy to commit robbery with a deadly weapon. Douglas is accused of working with Lodge to lure Officer Dante M. Hemingway to a street in Westport and then rob him. Hemingway was shot three times in a gunbattle. Hemingway was listed in critical condition yesterday at Maryland Shock Trauma Center, a Police Department spokesman said.

Edward Lamptey walked out of a fast-foot restaurant in Park Heights in May of 2010 and got carjacked. But it's what happened next that sets this case apart. Prosecutors say he was forced to drive to ATMs, dragged into an alley, beaten, shot, stripped and left unconscious. Then, authorities said his assailants set his car on fire. The Baltimore State's Attorney's Office said on Wednesday that the main suspect, Terrell Scott, 21, of the 3500 block of West Garrison St., was convicted by a jury of armed car jacking, robbery with a deadly weapon, kidnapping and several other crimes.

A Littlestown, Pa., man was being held at the Carroll County jail yesterday after he was arrested on charges of threatening a former girlfriend - identified as Sara Feezer, also of Littlestown - with a 2-foot-long sword during a trip to Westminster, authorities said. Donald W. Bange, 21, was arrested Sunday on charges including kidnapping, first- and second-degree assault, concealing a deadly weapon, using a deadly weapon with intent to injure, malicious destruction of property and violating a protective order, according to court documents.

A Circuit Court judge who sentenced Kevin Michael Briscoe to life plus 30 years for the April 1990 murder of a Columbia woman reduced his sentence yesterday by 20 years.Briscoe, 27, who was convicted of felony murder in the April 1990 death of 44-year-old Pamela Mary Barker, was sentenced to life in prison in April by Circuit Judge Raymond J. Kane Jr. Judge Kane also imposed the maximum sentences of 20 years for robbery with a deadly weapon and 10 years for burglary, to be served consecutively.

A 46-year-old Southwest Baltimore woman died of a gunshot wound early yesterday, and her 25-year-old boyfriend was charged with murder, according to police.He told police that the woman had thrown an end table at the .22-caliber rifle he was holding.Officers summoned to the 4800 block of Clifton Avenue found Norlinda R. Rucker lying in a second-floor hallway, shot in the left side of the head, police said. She was declared dead on arrival at 1:41 a.m. after being airlifted to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center.

LAS VEGAS -- O.J. Simpson and three other men were charged yesterday with 10 felony counts, including kidnapping and assault with a deadly weapon, in the purported theft of at least $80,000 worth of sports memorabilia from a hotel room. If convicted, Simpson, 60, could face life in prison. The former football star is being held without bail at the Clark County Detention Center. Simpson - who was acquitted in the 1994 killings of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman - is scheduled to be arraigned this morning.

A Baltimore County man was arrested and charged Saturday by Maryland State Police in the armed robberies of two Eldersburg fast-food restaurants. Loushawn Adaryl Robinson, 23, was arrested in Woodlawn, in Baltimore County, in the armed robbery Jan. 22 of a Wendy's and the robbery Oct. 10 of a Roy Rogers. Baltimore City and Baltimore County police assisted state police in the arrest. Authorities are seeking a second suspect in the Wendy's robbery, in which two restaurant employees were assaulted.

The unloaded revolver an East Middle School student brought to school Thursday was stolen from a Hampstead woman, Westminster police said.The boy, 12, was charged Friday with possession of stolen property and also faces charges of having a concealed deadly weapon, possessing a deadly weapon on school property and reckless endangerment. The revolver was found inside a taped box in his possession at school.Mary Wyatt of Hampstead called police Friday to report a .22-caliber revolver was missing.

A Baltimore jury convicted a 27-year-old man of first degree rape for using a rouse to lure a woman into his car and then raping her at knifepoint. Michael D. Glenn was found guilty of first-degree rape, first-degree assault, use of a deadly weapon and other sexual offenses in the May 8, 2011 incident, the Baltimore City State's Attorney's office said Friday. Prosecutors say Glenn posed as a hack taxi driver and picked up a woman, offering to transport her to her destination in exchange for a fee. But he drove her to Leakin Park instead, and put a box cutter to her neck, repeatedly threatened to kill her and raped her. Glenn will be sentenced on April 4. He faces a maximum of two life terms plus 38 years in prison.

A senior at Carver Vocational-Technical High School was arrested Monday afternoon after officers determined that he was carrying a handgun, according to a news release from the Baltimore City Public Schools. The student, who was not named in the release, was charged as an adult with possession of a deadly weapon, officials said. In additional to criminal charges, he could be expelled permanently. Officers searched the senior after receiving a tip "from a concerned citizen," schools police said.

Maryland Transit Administration Police have charged an MTA bus driver with assault after an early Saturday morning altercation with a passenger near Eastpoint Mall in Baltimore County, according to a police statement. The passenger, Ricardo Devon Hale, was stabbed with a knife on the bus in the 7800 block of Eastern Avenue, the release said. Hale, who is 44 years old, suffered non-life threatening injuries and was treated at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. The 28-year-old bus driver, Brian Jamal Marshall, was hired by the MTA in 2006.

Boy, 14, struck, killed by train in Laurel Authorities say a teenager has been struck and killed by a freight train in Laurel. Prince George's County police spokeswoman Erica Johnson says 14-year-old Prince Ibrahim Trye was hit early Thursday by a southbound CSX train. Johnson says the teenager was struck near Locust Grove Drive and Baltimore Avenue. She also says there were other children walking with Trye, but it is unclear why the children were near the tracks. Trye attended nearby Dwight D. Eisenhower Middle School.

Teen charged in robbery with knife A 15-year-old Baltimore City boy was arrested after snatching a woman's cell phone, then robbing her husband at knifepoint, Anne Arundel County police said. The couple was leaving the 7-Eleven at 4000 Ritchie Highway in Brooklyn Park just after midnight yesterday when a teenager stole the phone from the woman. As her husband tried to retrieve it, the boy pulled a kitchen knife and demanded his money. The victim complied, and the robber ordered him not to use the nearby pay phone to call police or he would be stabbed.

Two Morgan State University students were arrested and charged with possession of narcotics and possession of a deadly weapon after they were pulled over Sunday night, city police said. About 10:30 p.m., Sgt. Dennis Workley and Officer Antonio Cirillo, both of the Northeastern District, stopped the driver of a 2004 Acura TSX for exceeding the speed limit in the 4100 block of Moravia Road near Belair Road, police said. Workley said the car was traveling well over the 25 mph limit when it was stopped.

An East Middle School student was released to his parents yesterday facing deadly-weapon charges after a teacher became suspicious of a taped-up box and an officer found it contained an unloaded revolver, according to Westminster police.The officer responded to a call from the school at 2: 30 p.m. yesterday and found a short-barreled, .22-caliber revolver in a box, police said. The weapon was not loaded, and police were trying to determine its origin last night.A 12-year-old boy from Hampstead was charged with having a concealed deadly weapon, possessing a deadly weapon on school grounds and reckless endangerment.

A Baltimore jury yesterday convicted a 23-year-old city man of attempted first-degree murder - meaning he could be sentenced to life in prison. During a fight over drugs May 1, 2006, in the 2000 block of Ellsworth St. in East Baltimore, Bobby Hough picked up a 42-year-old man and rammed his head into the pavement, prosecutors said. Hough also stomped on his head and beat him with a bottle, prosecutors said. The attack left Rodney Armstead a quadriplegic. Hough was also convicted of carrying a deadly weapon with intent to injure and is scheduled to be sentenced in March.