Emergency Lights

Someone broke into a state police cruiser parked as an anti-speeding decoy along Interstate 95 in Harford County and stole a trooper's uniform shirt and Stetson hat off a dummy inside, emergency lights off the top of the car and an electronic transmitter, state police said yesterday.The thefts occurred while the 1989 Chevrolet Caprice was parked off the shoulder of northbound I-95 about two miles south of Route 152 near Fallston overnight July 4, said Cpl. Glenn Gitschier of the John F. Kennedy Barracks in Perryville.

Car crashes into tree,killing a passengerA 20-year-old Baltimore man was killed shortly before dawn yesterday when the car he was riding in crashed into a tree while a police car was in pursuit, authorities said.The accident occurred on Stokes Drive about 5:30 a.m. after the juvenile driver of the car allegedly drove hazardously on several streets in the Edmondson community, said Dennis S. Hill, a city police spokesman.A police officer noticed the car moving erratically in the westbound lanes of Edmondson Avenue and began following it, without activating the overhead emergency lights, Mr. Hill said.