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 His bond of $50,000 was revoked.

A federal grand jury in Baltimore indicted a man Tuesday in connection with a mortgage fraud scheme in which he allegedly bilked banks out of $2.5 million, the U.S. Department of Justice announced. Joshua S. Goldberg was charged with three counts of wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud. The indictment alleges Goldberg and others, through the Baltimore-based Worthington Mortgage Group, falsified applications and appraisals to get mortgages from 2004 to 2008 on at least five properties.

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)

Baltimore police have arrested a 19-year-old man who had been a fugitive for a month and a half after police said he fatally shot a man while the victim's family stood nearby. The Baltimore Police Warrant Apprehension Task Force found Tavon William-Arthur Barnett on Tuesday and charged him with first- and second-degree murder in the Nov. 3 killing of Terrance Seale, 29, in Northeast Baltimore. Barnett, who also faces related assault and gun charges, was found through community tips, police said.

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.

Tina Brown's New Yorker continues to make and break news.This week's issue is illuminated by two strong pieces that suggest, like the best journalism, that with all its resources, Hollywood can't match the real thing.Lucinda Franks' ambitious, detailed investigation of former fugitive Katherine Ann Power makes "The Fugitive," either the movie or the TV series, look tame. The piece portrays both a flawed, vengeful and vindictive legal system and the grotesque legacy of warped and ruined lives in the wake of the Vietnam War.James B. Stewart's "Gentlemen's Agreement" in the same issue is more intriguing in its way than the movie "Philadelphia."

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.

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 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.

A 44-year-old Glen Burnie man was arrested Wednesday afternoon and charged with harboring a fugitive after police learned that his son, who had escaped from jail, had been staying with him, police said.Police first went to the father's home in the 700 block of Pamela Road on July 2, after the fugitive's former girlfriend, Terry Marie Shackelford, 19, said he was staying there.Police did not find the fugitive, John Haslup Jr., 19, when they arrived. They told his father, John Haslup Sr., that they would arrest him if they learned that his son was staying with him, police said.

The mother took several minutes to open the door, and when she did on Wednesday, she told police that her son never came home the night before. "He's not here," she repeatedly told the officers. But he was there, hiding in the basement. The team of Baltimore police sergeants, detectives and officers - all working on a special operation to suppress crime after a spate of shootings in recent weeks - searched the two-story house on the 3500 block of W. Cold Spring Lane and apprehended the suspect.

A 19-year-old man wanted in North Carolina in connection with the alleged armed robbery and murder of a teenager last month was arrested Tuesday morning at a welcome center off Interstate 95 in Laurel after his Baltimore-bound bus from Atlanta stopped there, Maryland State Police said. Darius J. Smotherson, of Kannapolis, N.C., was arrested at the rest stop near Route 32 in Howard County without incident and is being held at the state police Waterloo Barrack, where Kannapolis Police Department detectives were expected to arrive Tuesday afternoon to begin interviewing him, police said.

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.

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.

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.

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."

On Friday afternoon, people in Aberdeen knew Joseph DeBartolo as the guy who cut their meats at Michael's Food Rite for the past year and a half, lived in a trailer park, and regularly beat the competition in a dart league at the Eagle's Nest."

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.