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Detective Sgt. Allen Adkins and Detective Darryl Turner had two options yesterday: According to their investigation, the 48-year-old woman, a chronic drug user being sought on a warrant, might have been in one East Baltimore apartment. Or, maybe another, just three doors down. Adkins approached the first door, pounding loudly as a light snow fell on an otherwise still morning, while Turner went to the other. The occupants of both apartments, groggy and semiclothed, eventually answered and reported that they hadn't seen the woman in months.

An undercover police detective shot a 16-year-old boy in the shoulder early yesterday after the youth threatened officers with a gun, according to a city police spokesman. The boy is being treated at Johns Hopkins Hospital, said Agent Donny Moses. The teenager starting fleeing on a bicycle when approached by plainclothes officers about 1:40 a.m. at Jefferson Street and North Belnord Avenue in McElderry Park, Moses said. The officers chased him several blocks before he crashed his bike as they cornered him in the 2700 block of Jefferson St., Moses said.

A longtime Baltimore County police detective is under investigation for theft, prompting prosecutors to strike him from the witness lists of cases in which he was expected to testify. Detective Charles W. Allan, a 34-year veteran of the county Police Department who is assigned to the unit that investigates sex crimes, was suspended from duty last week pending the outcome of an internal investigation, according to a department spokesman and the officer's lawyer. Soon afterward, prosecutors in the county state's attorney's office began mailing letters to lawyers representing defendants in cases that Allan had investigated, informing them of the allegations and that the detective would not be called as a witness at those trials.

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Howard County police Detective Keith Fisher remembers exactly where he was 19 years ago when he learned that Rebecca H. "Dolly" Davis was killed outside her Elkridge home. For Fisher, the news meant the death of a family friend and the end of his community's sense of security.The 70-year-old churchgoing woman was stabbed and sexually assaulted, her body hidden in the woods behind her home on Lawyers Hill Road. After that, women were afraid to stay alone in their homes, and residents wondered for years whether a killer was stalking their streets.

In 97 minutes, a federal jury changed the course of George A. Dangerfield Jr.'s life yesterday -- transforming the self-styled "King of Baltimore" into a two-time convicted drug dealer with at least a decade in prison ahead of him."I'm walking out of here today," Dangerfield declared in an interview minutes before the verdict came in."One way or another, I'm walking out of here today."Called back into court at 3 p.m., the 29-year-old president of Estate Management Inc. deflated in his chair as the jury's decision came in after less than two hours of deliberation -- "guilty of drug conspiracy."

Police had no suspects or witnesses yesterday in the weekend shooting death of a 23-year-old Carroll County man in a Southwest Baltimore neighborhood known for its active open-air drug market.Justin Roger Alban, a recently discharged Army private from a middle-class neighborhood in Woodbine, was shot about 10: 25 p.m. Friday in the 2000 block of Hollins St.Homicide Detective William F. Ritz said Alban managed to drive his car to the 1900 block of Hollins, where it came to rest against a parked vehicle.

25 years ago: Arobatic dancing? No. Arabic dancing? No. It's Aerobic dancing, and its the program for the March 12 meeting of the Ida Dawson Circle for Young Mothers at Calvery United Methodist Church. Aerobic dancing is not merely exercising to music. It's a series of simple dances which improve and maintain cardiovascular and muscular fitness. -- the Community Reporter, March 8, 1974.75 years ago: There was quite a little excitement on Liberty Heights Thursday evening. Harry Schwam on returning home from work noticed a flock of wild ducks in George E. Benson's garden.

A determined gas station owner and a passing Baltimore County undercover officer foiled a persistent would-be robber early yesterday morning, police said.Late Wednesday night, a man tried to rob the Shell station at the corner of Eastern Avenue and Stemmers Run Road, police said. The station attendant managed to run out the door without giving up any money, said Baltimore County police spokesman Bill Toohey, and the would-be robber left.At 7: 15 a.m. yesterday the man returned, according to police, and handed over a note demanding money and implying he had a weapon.

A burglary ring specializing in computers has struck more than 20 locations in Howard County since early March, prompting police to issue a warning to businesses.The burglars usually enter offices in large buildings by prying open a suite's door, said Howard County Detective Ed Sprinkle."They seem to be selective," Sprinkle said. "They don't just clear an office out."Sprinkle said office workers should look for people who don't belong in the buildings after hours."This is a big deal," said Sgt. Morris Carroll, the department's spokesman.

Jason Simons was the kind of cop whom bad guys opened up to. Simons, a detective with the Baltimore County Police Department until his death last week in an auto accident, had such an engaging way about him that he could extract information from people who might have been better off shutting up. "It got to the point that suspects would tell him things that would tank them afterwards," Lt. J.R. Brown, one of Simons' supervisors in the department's Towson...

Baltimore Police Detective Terry W. Love Jr. won his court case and lost his career. A city jury acquitted him of assaulting a man outside a Govans barbershop, but the very same prosecutors who failed to put him in prison added his name to a list of officers they refuse to put on the witness stand in court, believing he lied even if jurors felt otherwise. That means police can't put Terry Love in any position in which he might arrest a suspect, investigate a case or handle evidence because he wouldn't be able to testify.

A city homicide detective and a Baltimore County sheriff's deputy were acquitted Tuesday of assaulting a man outside a Govans barbershop in a case that took an unusual path to trial. Prosecutors said Detective Terry W. Love Jr., 31, and Deputy Michael Herring, 37, were trying to teach Andre Thomas, 43, a lesson Sept. 8, 2007 after he burst into the Detailer Barbershop on York Road and spewed profanities. Three eyewitnesses who pulled over to help Thomas said they watched two men kick and punch him repeatedly.

Edward William Eldridge Jr. took his own life at the age of 62. He lived alone in a small semidetached, red-brick house on Daywalt Avenue in Northeast Baltimore. He had no wife, no known children, no brothers, no sisters, and his parents died years ago. He listed his only aunt as a beneficiary, but she, too, had passed away. He had no friends, at least none close enough or willing enough to stay with him at the hospital for a few hours so he could undergo the arthroscopic knee surgery he was scheduled to have on the day he died.

Detective Sgt. Allen Adkins and Detective Darryl Turner had two options yesterday: According to their investigation, the 48-year-old woman, a chronic drug user being sought on a warrant, might have been in one East Baltimore apartment. Or, maybe another, just three doors down. Adkins approached the first door, pounding loudly as a light snow fell on an otherwise still morning, while Turner went to the other. The occupants of both apartments, groggy and semiclothed, eventually answered and reported that they hadn't seen the woman in months.

The 23-year-old Baltimore man convicted of killing an off-duty city detective in a robbery attempt outside his girlfriend's home was sentenced yesterday to life in prison without parole. In issuing the sentence for the murder of Detective Troy Lamont Chesley Sr., Baltimore Circuit Judge Timothy Doory described Brandon Grimes as a "cruel and cowardly criminal" whom the citizens of Baltimore had "every reason to fear" for "every day of his adult life." Chesley's mother, Joyce, began sobbing on the stand, and a detective stepped in to finish reading her written remarks.

Southwestern District detectives were seeking at least one unidentified assailant in the shootings early yesterday of three teenage boys in the city's Northwest Community Action neighborhood in West Baltimore. Shortly before 1 a.m., police responding to shots fired in the 2900 block of Westwood Ave. near St. Stephen's Street found three boys suffering from gunshot wounds, police said. Police said one boy was shot in the upper leg, another in the lower back and the third in the shin. All three were taken by city Fire Department ambulances to area hospitals.

Confronted by police about the trail of blood through the crawl space between his townhouse and the home of his dead neighbor, Vaughn L. Garris initially told detectives that a maintenance man must have stabbed the woman to death, according to a video of the interview shown yesterday in court. But after long stretches of silence during the first of four interviews with police, Garris haltingly told investigators that he stabbed his neighbor with the same knife he used to force open a ceiling panel that led to the attic space shared by the row of townhouses in Woodlawn.

If he were honest with himself, Detective Richard Gibson had to admit that he was eager to meet Miss Cindy McKay. It wasn't always that way with crooks. Most struck Gibson, a blunt Baltimore cop and former Navy petty officer, as barely sentient and uninteresting in the extreme. Experience had shown that most were far from criminal masterminds. And it was true, McKay was no genius. But, man, she had brass. She was fearless. He had to give her that. St. Mary's Seminary & University in Roland Park was already far along in its investigation of a suspected embezzlement when it brought its findings to Gibson.

A man shot by city police in West Baltimore Wednesday night remained in critical condition yesterday at Maryland Shock Trauma Center, police said. The man was shot after he fired at an officer, police reported. The officer, assigned to the Southwestern District and whose name was not released, was not hit in the 10:40 p.m. shooting that occurred on Westwood Avenue at Poplar Grove Street. Police said two detectives heard a gunshot and saw a man run by. One detective chased the man, while the other followed in an unmarked car, said Officer Troy Harris, a police spokesman.