Fugitive

More than eight years and at least two aliases later, Bryan Anthony Hale is back in jail in Howard County after failing to appear in Circuit Court in December 2001 after police seized 75 pounds of marijuana from his Sykesville home. Hale was extradited to Maryland last week after being identified through fingerprints following an arrest March 13 in Austin, Texas, on charges of driving under the influence and using a fictitious name, Jason Taylor Beam. His bond of $50,000 was revoked.

I closed my eyes, inhaled gently and imagined hard, but the Timonium traffic din quickly short-circuited the conceit that placed me at the Inner Harbor. How silly; maybe more than most, I knew the lovely nutmeg scent wafting downwind from the McCormick plant two miles north hadn't perfumed the downtown air for over two decades. On Dec. 8, 1988, the McCormick Spice Company announced it would abandon its landmark Inner Harbor building and the Rouse Company would tear it down. The lawsuit I filed and the "Demolition Makes No Scents" campaign I spearheaded for Baltimore Heritage quickly turned legions of citizens into historic preservationists.

WHEN CONGRESS told immigration authorities to find and deport thousands of illegal immigrants who had skirted deportation orders for years, even decades, the move understandably received wide public support in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. But instead of hundreds of immigration officers sweeping the country in search of 370,000 fugitive absconders, only 180 were assigned to the imposing, if not impossible, task. Three years later, the number of absconders is greater - 465,000, including 8,507 in Maryland and 9,373 in Washington, D.C. The Department of Homeland Security still does not sufficiently fund and staff the fugitive apprehension operations of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)

The manhunt - er, pighunt - is over. After nearly a month of pursuit, Anne Arundel authorities have finally captured both potbelly pigs they say have been "running at large" in the Linthicum area. The second pig was caught Wednesday. "They're resting," said Robin Small, administrator for Anne Arundel County Animal Control, where the pigs were reunited. "They're snuggling in together. " The pair, first spotted outside an office park near the Baltimore-Washington Parkway in early September, were being fed kale.

Convicted cop killer Samuel Veney -- whose escape after being granted a two-day pass from prison outraged crime victims -- was returned to a prison cell in Maryland yesterday.Veney arrived about 1 p.m. at Martin State Airport in Middle River and, as state police escorted him to a waiting car, he protested to reporters that he had earned parole but would never be given it."That's one of the reasons I left. I been on work release for 11 years and family leave for 18 months, but they would never let me go."

A former Howard County schoolteacher who eluded capture for 10 months after he failed to report to jail for a conviction stemming from an offense involving a 15-year-old boy was arrested yesterday afternoon at a Rehoboth Beach, Del., hotel, authorities said. Members of the Baltimore-based FBI fugitive task force found Klaude Krannebitter, 38, working behind the counter at the Quality Inn and Suites on Coastal Highway about 1:30 p.m., authorities said. Krannebitter, who resigned from his job at Glenwood Middle School in 1999 after he was accused of paying a 15-year-old Baltimore boy to perform sex acts, was being held last night at the Delaware State Police barracks in Lewes, said a state police official.

A 24-year-old fugitive wanted on attempted murder and kidnapping charges was arrested last night in West Baltimore after 17 days on the run, during which his family reported that he had been kidnapped, the FBI said.Paul Antonio Burton was arrested about 8 p.m. by members of the Maryland Joint Violent Crime Fugitive Task Force at a house on Rokeby Road in Edmondson Village, said Andy Manning, spokesman for the Baltimore FBI office.Burton was not believed to have been kidnapped but was instead trying to dodge Baltimore County authorities who were seeking to send him to prison in the robbery, kidnapping and attempted murder of a Baltimore man, Mr. Manning said.

Susan Salsbury, a former waitress who was the wife of fugitive Baltimore gambling kingpin Julius Salsbury, died Friday of heart failure at St. Joseph Hospital. She was 69.Mrs. Salsbury was rarely mentioned in the dozens of newspaper articles tracing her husband's rise and fall as a bookmaker and Block nightclub owner from the early 1950s until his 1970 disappearance to avoid a 15-year federal prison term.She granted one interview for a Sun Magazine article a few months later, providing a peek at the unreported side of her husband's life -- as a loving husband and father of three daughters.

A 26-year-old Virginia fugitive was arrested on handgun charges after state police stopped him for speeding near Havre de Grace, they reported.A routine computer check of the man's driver's license and tags showed that he was wanted on drug charges by Petersburg, Va., police, said a spokesman at the John F. Kennedy barracks.The spokesman said the man was driving north on Interstate 95 about 2 p.m. Monday when he was stopped by Tfc. John Appleby. After the man said he had a gun in his 1991 Infiniti, Trooper Appleby seized a .40-caliber Glock 23 pistol and $25,300 from the trunk of the car.Fred Demarco Bates, of Virginia Beach, was being held without bond at the Harford County Detention Center pending extradition to Virginia, said Sgt. Steve A. Batts of the Petersburg Police Department yesterday.

CHICAGO -- A fugitive former radical who had participated in the "Days of Rage" demonstrations in Chicago in 1969 surrendered in a Chicago courtroom yesterday and was fined $500 on a single charge of mob action.Jeffrey David Powell, a member of the Weatherman radical faction that caused disruptions in U.S. society in an underground movement against the Vietnam War, also was sentenced to 18 months of probationand was ordered to pay an additional $210 in court costs.Mr. Powell, who has been a fugitive and living underground for the last 24 years, is believed to be the last of the wanted Weatherman members who were charged in the "Days of Rage" demonstrations in October 1969.

A 42-year-old New York man was being held on a fugitive warrant in Anne Arundel County on Saturday after being arrested on a fugitive warrant in the slaying of his estranged wife in a Manhattan hair salon. Michael Kenny of Brooklyn was captured Friday night by Anne Arundel County officers after a low-speed chase that ended in the 700 block of Mattawa Court in Millersville, police spokesman Lt. James Fredericks said. Kenny, described by the New York Daily News as a "crazy-eyed ex-con" who was the target of a nationwide manhunt, was wanted in the stabbing death of Denise Kenny in a Midtown salon Thursday.

The first time the Fugitive Safe Surrender program was tried in Baltimore, it worked. Last June, 987 people with outstanding warrants peacefully turned themselves in over four days at a satellite court set up adjacent to a West Baltimore church. A small percentage were arrested, but the vast majority of offenders — most of them nonviolent — had the charges against them resolved. Despite the fact that an original source of support, the U.S. Marshals Service, announced recently that it no longer has funding for the program, Fugitive Safe Surrender should not die. The experience of both the courts and the community with the program last year should enable Baltimore to handle the program without the marshals' help, and perhaps to do so in a less expensive way. Almost everyone who participated in last summer's event seemed satisfied by the outcome.

The line was a block long outside the Metropolitan Baptist Church on McCulloh Street on Wednesday when the city kicked off its Safe Surrender program, which allows city residents wanted for minor, nonviolent crimes to turn themselves in and get their records cleared. Saturday is the last day for people to seek amnesty under the program. The city wants to clear some of the 40,000 outstanding arrest warrants on its rolls by encouraging nonviolent fugitives to resolve the charges against them and avoid spending hours in jail at the Central Booking and Intake Center.

For nearly four years, Nakia Parrine had difficulty getting a job to support her family. Wanted on minor drug charges, she said she constantly looked over her shoulder, aware that any interaction with police might result in her arrest and hours at Central Booking. But in less than a few hours Wednesday, that was all behind her. As part of a program called Safe Surrender, she turned herself in, got booked, faced a judge, had the charges dropped, and began the expungement process.

The body found Friday in the Triadelphia Reservoir on the Patuxent River has been identified as a 46-year-old Gaithersburg man wanted for attempted murder, carjacking and assault in Howard County. Montgomery County Police said the man was Robert Lewis Thornton, who was being sought for an incident near the reservoir late May 12 in which he drove a truck into the rear of a vehicle driven by a female friend he had earlier argued with, forcing her off Brighton Dam Road. He is alleged to have chased her into the woods, threatened her life and cut her in the neck before fleeing when a passerby called police.

More than eight years and at least two aliases later, Bryan Anthony Hale is back in jail in Howard County after failing to appear in Circuit Court in December 2001 after police seized 75 pounds of marijuana from his Sykesville home. Hale was extradited to Maryland last week after being identified through fingerprints following an arrest March 13 in Austin, Texas, on charges of driving under the influence and using a fictitious name, Jason Taylor Beam. His bond of $50,000 was revoked.

A Baltimore County man has been charged with helping a longtime friend elude a 3 1/2 -day police manhunt before it ended Monday when the fugitive killed himself in a state park in Howard County, according to state police and court records. Everette Ray Taylor, 65, of the 2700 block of Hernwood Road in Woodstock was charged with two misdemeanor counts of harboring a fugitive and of hindering a police investigation. Taylor is said to have picked up Michael Kenneth Voland Sr., 45, of Hanover, Pa., on Friday night at Route 97 and Buckhorn Road, near Berrett in Carroll County, while police in Maryland and Pennsylvania were searching for Voland.

A former Takoma Park resident who had lived as a fugitive for more than 13 years after being charged with fatally shooting a Howard University doctor has been arrested in Toronto, police announced yesterday. While a medical student at Howard, Jacquelyn Camille Robinson, now 41, began a secret affair with Henry Lloyd Garvey, a member of the faculty at the university's medical school, according to Detective Phillip Glavin of the Toronto Fugitive Squad. Glavin said the affair lasted 18 months - until Robinson discovered that her lover was married.

Thousands of fugitives being sought on minor warrants for crimes committed in Baltimore and Baltimore County are being urged to turn themselves in this month and expedite their cases at a makeshift court set up in a West Baltimore church and outreach center. The Fugitive Safe Surrender program will run June 16-19 and is aimed at offenders being sought on nonviolent felony or misdemeanor warrants. The warrant backlog is at more than 40,000, and Mayor Stephanie C. Rawlings-Blake said tens of thousands of people live in fear or are unable to get jobs because they are unwilling to get the warrants cleared.