Deliveryman

Two teen-agers were arrested early yesterday for allegedly shooting and robbing a Domino's Pizza deliveryman outside one of the suspects' homes in Carroll Park in Southwest Baltimore Saturday night, police said.The deliveryman, Michael Vogel, 47, of the 4200 block of 6th St. in Brooklyn, was shot in the left buttock and was in stable condition yesterday at Maryland Shock Trauma Center, said Sgt. Scott Rowe, a police spokesman.Police said Vogel went to the 1100 block of Sargeant St. about 8: 45 p.m. and found that the address for his delivery was a vacant house.

An armored car deliveryman carrying two bags of money from a Columbia financial processing center was robbed yesterday afternoon after shots were fired, Howard County police said.The man was not injured. Witnesses said they heard three or four gunshots about 2: 50 p.m. yesterday in the 7100 block of Columbia Gateway Drive, tucked behind U.S. 29.Police believe the incident began when a white car thought to have been operated by the robbers pulled behind the Loomis-Fargo armored truck and struck the parked vehicle at the back of the First Union Operations Center.

Glenn Wayne Oliver was a clown, a mortician, a police officer, a bus driver, a baker. He also was a balloon deliveryman -- often dressed in his clown garb, red nose and all.He never missed a chance to crack a joke or to pull off a prank. And he never waived an occasion to make himself the target of humor.Mr. Oliver, 45, of New Windsor in Carroll County, died Monday of heart failure at Carroll County General Hospital."He enjoyed life immensely," said his wife, the former Lois Pusateri whom he married in 1983.

A man walked into an Annapolis clothing store before noon Wednesday, pointed a handgun at an employee and demanded money, county police said.The employee of the Casual Male store in the 2000 block of West St. told police she handed over an unknown amount of money from the cash drawer, then followed the gunman's instructions to lie down in a back room.The gunman escaped on foot, taking the money and some clothes, police said.Man with knife robs pizza deliverymanA man armed with a knife robbed a pizza deliveryman of an undetermined amount of money late Wednesday as the employee returned to his shop in Odenton, county police said.

Police Blotter is a sampling of crimes in Howard County.Elkridge: 5700 block of Railroad Avenue: Police said three men approached a pizza deliveryman Friday while he was attempting to make a delivery and demanded a pizza. The deliveryman drove away.Elkridge: 6800 block of Ducketts Lane: A videocassette recorder and jewelry were taken from a house Saturday after burglars entered through a rear door.Ellicott City: 4900 block of Waterloo Road: Someone broke into the Watermont Pharmacy on Thursday or Friday.

Two men jumped a Papa John's Pizza deliveryman Wednesday in a Glen Burnie apartment complex, pushed him to the ground and robbed him, county police said.Mark Lawrence, 31, was returning from a delivery in the 7800 block of Tall Pines Court shortly after 7 p.m. when he saw a man hiding behind a car parked next to his, police said.The man rushed Lawrence while another man grabbed him from behind, police said. They forced Lawrence to the ground, took between $35 and $40 and fled toward Highland Drive Apartments, police said.

A Glen Burnie man injured when a tree fell on his car while he was delivering pizzas during a storm Sunday has been released from the Maryland Shock Trauma Center, Anne Arundel County police said.Mohammed Taric Khan, 24, of the 300 block of Old Stage Road, a deliveryman for Papa John's Pizza in Glen Burnie, was trapped in his car about 8 p.m. when the tree fell on it, police said.Khan had just made a delivery to a home in the first block of Joyce Lane when a strong wind uprooted the tree, which fell on his 1990 Honda CRX, pinning his hand to the steering wheel, police said.

For the second time in less than a week, a Papa John's pizza deliveryman was robbed at gunpoint outside an apartment complex in Ellicott City, Howard County police said.The latest holdup took place at the Normandy Woods Apartments in the 3200 block of Normandy Woods Drive about 7 p.m. Monday, police said, when a gunman approached a deliveryman in the parking lot.The victim, whom police declined to identify, had delivered a pizza to an apartment and was robbed as he was getting into his car. After taking an undisclosed amount of cash, the robber ran into woods next to the complex, police said.

A 19-year-old Laurel man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for his part in the robbery and shooting of a Pizz-A-Boli deliveryman outside the east Columbia restaurant in July.Tyron Andre Holmes of the first block of Woodland Court in Laurel was sentenced Thursday by Howard Circuit Judge Diane O. Leasure.Holmes -- who was arrested in Prince George's County in August on a separate robbery charge -- pleaded guilty to two counts each of armed robbery and unlawful use of a handgun in the commission of a robbery.

A Pizza Boli's deliveryman was robbed of an undisclosed amount of money in Brooklyn Park Monday while on his way to make a delivery.Robert K. Heffler, 36, told police he was carrying a pizza to a home in the 100 block of Wallace Ave. shortly before 10 p.m. when two masked men approached him and demanded money.While Heffler was getting the money, one of the men hit him in the head with a wooden pole, police said.Heffler handed the men the money, and they fled, police said. Police did not have a detailed description of the culprits.

Teenager is charged as adult in attempted robbery of officer Baltimore police have charged a juvenile in the attempted robbery Thursday of an off-duty officer a block from the Southern District police station. Corey L. Johnson, 17, of the 3000 block of Southland Ave. was charged as an adult with first-degree assault, armed robbery and use of a handgun in a violent crime, according to court records. - Justin Fenton 2 Glen Burnie men charged in thefts Police have charged Steven Raymond Griffiths, 25, of the 300 block of Milton Court and Douglas Robert Dorsey, 23, of the 100 block of Ferndale Road, both in Glen Burnie, with multiple counts of theft and property destruction in the thefts of laptop computers, power tools, GPS units and other items from 21 people.

At age 14, police say, Radames Reyes ordered a pizza with the intention of robbing the deliveryman - and shot him when he failed to comply with the teenager's demands. Reyes, now 15, was identified after police obtained the phone number that placed the order and used cell towers to triangulate its location, a technology that is being increasingly used to track suspects. Witnesses later told police that Reyes told them he had committed the killing Nov. 23 of Adam Diarra, 22, who was shot in the Wakefield community, according to charging documents.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - A 13-year-old boy has changed his story, claiming that officers threatened the boy with time in jail unless he named Lionel Tate as the assailant last month in the robbery of a pizza deliveryman, a defense lawyer said yesterday. The boy, Taquincy Tomkins, told private investigators that a 16-year-old named Willie - and not Tate, once the youngest American ever sentenced to life in prison - broke into his apartment, hit him with a door and pointed a gun at the deliveryman.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Lionel Tate, who was the youngest person sentenced in the United States to life in prison without parole - but who later was freed - was behind bars yesterday, accused of holding up a pizza deliveryman at gunpoint. It was the second time that Tate, 18, had been arrested since his release from prison last year. He had been convicted in 2001 of beating a 6-year-old playmate, Tiffany Eunick, to death two years earlier, when he was 12. Tate's lawyers argued at the time that he had been mimicking wrestling moves he had seen on television and that he hadn't intended to murder the girl.

Pizza deliveryman assaulted, robbed at Laurel apartment A Domino's Pizza deliveryman was assaulted and robbed Saturday night as he tried to deliver a pizza and soda to a Laurel apartment, according to Anne Arundel County police. Two men in black ski masks emerged from a basement laundry room and punched and kicked the deliveryman, knocking him to the ground, said Lt. Joseph Jordan, a Police Department spokesman. The assailants fled on foot with cash, the victim's car key and the pizza and soda.

State police were looking yesterday for a 22-year-old man accused of stealing a trooper's cruiser and committing two subsequent carjackings in Harford County - including the abduction of a pizza deliveryman - during a crime spree sparked by a traffic stop Saturday night. The suspect, Karief Youmans, is charged in a warrant with 31 counts including kidnapping, armed carjacking and motor vehicle theft in the crimes that started on southbound Interstate 95 about 7 p.m. Saturday and ended after midnight yesterday in Philadelphia, where the abducted man was found unharmed, police said.

Kisaiah D. Brown, At the first hint of snow, some Baltimore-area residents scramble to the supermarket, clamoring for their bread, milk and toilet paper. Others simply call Eddie's, They phone for steak fillets and crab cakes, a diet soda or two, or maybe just eggs and milk. Whatever the request, Wes Hardiman, a 27-year-old deliveryman for the Eddie's of Roland Park supermarket on Charles Street, is ready to pull on his winter gloves and oblige. Yesterday, Hardiman was one of the hundreds of delivery people who braved the perilous weather and the area's daffy drivers so other residents could stay inside, out of the snow.

Roy Canapp, 70, veteran, bakery deliveryman Roy Canapp, a longtime bakery deliveryman whose routes took him to the grocery stores of Essex and Middle River for 39 years, died Thursday of complications from cancer at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Baltimore. He was 70. Born in Baltimore, Mr. Canapp served in the Army during the Korean War. When he returned home in 1955, he went to work for Koester's Baking Co. as a route salesman and later for Schmidt Baking Co. He was a familiar face in the community as he delivered bread and baked goods to stores throughout eastern Baltimore County.

Weeks before Darrell Brooks was accused of setting a deadly blaze that killed a family of seven in East Baltimore, he robbed a pizza deliveryman at gunpoint, court documents allege. The deliveryman told detectives he saw Brooks' face in the news last week and realized that was the person who had robbed him last month. Brooks, who is charged with murder and arson in the deaths of seven members of the Dawson family, was also charged with robbery with a deadly weapon and assault last week, and bail was set at $1 million.

Weeks before Darrell Brooks was accused of setting a deadly blaze that killed a family of seven in East Baltimore, he robbed a pizza deliveryman at gunpoint, court documents allege. The deliveryman told detectives he saw Brooks' face in the news last week and realized that was the person who had robbed him last month. Brooks, who is charged with murder and arson in the deaths of seven members of the Dawson family, was also charged with robbery with a deadly weapon and assault last week, and bail was set at $1 million.