Gambrills

A head-on two-vehicle crash Tuesday in Gambrills sent three people to area hospitals, Anne Arundel County Fire Department officials said. The crash occurred about 2:30 p.m. when an Isuzu Rodeo and a Honda collided on Generals Highway near Honeysuckle Lane, Battalion Chief Steve Thompson said. The driver of the Rodeo, a 57-year-old man, and the driver of the Spectra, a 55-year-old woman, were taken to Maryland Shock Trauma Center, Thompson said. A passenger in the Rodeo, a 50-year-old woman, was taken to Anne Arundel Medical Center, he said.

Two men were arrested in Crofton on Friday in connection to at least one carjacking incident in the area. An officer on patrol in Crofton noticed two vehicles he suspected were involved in stealing motorcycles, so he continued to monitor their movements. According to police, Clinton resident Kevin M. Wilkins, 25, got out of the white minivan he was driving on Forksbridge Court in Gambrills and fled from the scene on foot. Darrel Lamont King, Jr., 29, of Cheverly, who was in a separate vehicle, was immediately detained, while Wilkins turned himself in as police were canvassing the area.

A single car crash in Gambrills Monday has claimed the life of an elderly female passenger and critically injured the driver. The car was traveling down the driveway to an underground parking garage at about 4:50 p.m., when it struck a wall of the building in the 2600 block of Chapel Lake Drive, police said. Both victims, who, police said, are related, were taken to University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center, where the woman died. The elderly driver remains in critical condition.

Three people died early Sunday in an Odenton car crash. According to Anne Arundel County Police, officers were called to Piney Orchard Parkway and Riverscape Road at about 12:30 a.m. where a 2005 Subaru had crashed into a tree. The driver, David Michael D'Augustine of Odenton, 22, was dead at the scene, police said, as well as two passengers in the car, Samuel Carl Schindler of Odenton, 22, and Katherine Marie Warrington of Odenton, also 22. A third passenger, identified by police as Michael Lee Phillips of Gambrills, 23, was taken by Medevac to Maryland Shock Trauma in critical condition.

An email was forwarded to me announcing Wednesday night's reopening of Kaufman's Tavern in Gambrills. I gave Kaufmann's a call, and manager Daniel Carr confirmed that the sprawling restaurant would be open on Wednesday, Aug. 31, the first night since Hurricane Irene came through town and knocked Kaufmann's for a loop. Irene did a number on Kaufmann's, smashing a tree down on a car its lot and generally playing havoc with the expansive deck area that had been remodeled only this past spring.

A pedestrian was transported to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center with serious injuries Monday morning after he was struck by a vehicle in Gambrills, an Anne Arundel County fire spokesman said. The 20-year-old man was struck on Bell Branch Road near St. Heather Lane, said Lt. Stuart Peters of the Anne Arundel County Fire Department. He was flown to Shock Trauma with possibly life-threatening injuries, Peters said. Anne Arundel County Police will investigate the cause of the collision.

The Millersville woman who died in a two-alarm fire at a duplex in the Gambrills area Sunday night has been identified by the Anne Arundel County Fire Department as Lolita Mitchell. Mitchell, 78, was found unconscious and unresponsive by firefighters on the second floor of the house in the 1300 block of Ferrara Drive. She was treated at the scene by fire department paramedics and taken to Baltimore Washington Medical Center, where she was later pronounced dead. The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner determined Mitchell's death to be fire-related, making this the fourth fire death in Anne Arundel County for 2012, according to a Fire Department release.  cmcampbell@baltsun.com

A Gambrills man was arrested Wednesday in connection with the distribution of child pornography, police said. Robert J. Hudson 2nd, 24, of the 1000 block of Christmas Lane has been charged with two counts of distributing pornographic images of children, according to a statement by Maryland State Police. On Tuesday, an undercover state trooper was surveilling an online file-sharing network "known for distributing child pornography," the statement said. The trooper engaged in an online chat with another person and they agreed to meet to exchange computer files containing child pornography, police said.

Regal Cinemas will open a theater at Waugh Chapel Towne Centre, a planned mixed-use development in Gambrills in West Anne Arundel County, project developer Greenberg Gibbons said Monday. The theater will offer digital projection and will be the first IMAX cinema in the area. The 52,000-square-foot theater will join anchors Wegmans, Target, Dick's Sporting Goods and Petco in a 1.2 million-square-foot center with 650,000 square feet of shops, 125,000 square feet of offices and 380 apartments.

A woman died following a two-alarm fire at a duplex in the Gambrills area of Millersville that caused $80,000 in damages Sunday night. The woman, estimated to be in her 70s, was found unconscious and unresponsive by firefighters on the second floor of the house in the 1300 block of Ferrara Drive. She was treated at the scene by fire department paramedics and taken to Baltimore Washington Medical Center, where she was later pronounced dead. Officials are withholding the name of the woman and the cause of death pending positive identification and the results of an autopsy being conducted by the State Medical Examiner.

Joe Flacco signs a contract bringing him over $20 million a year. Did I miss the announcement from the Occupy Baltimore people as to when they are going to protest ("Flacco's record pay day," March 2)? If ever there was a "1-percenter" in Maryland, it has to be Joe. Come on guys, set up a protest camp at M&T Stadium, picket Joe's house. Let's hear from you. Dave Daughters, Gambrills Text NEWS to 70701 to get Baltimore Sun local news text alerts

The Chesapeake Bayhawks and Denver Outlaws will conduct a joint open tryout Saturday, March 9 in Gambrills to fill out their training camp rosters. All players must be registered in the Major League Lacrosse Player Pool in order to try out. The nonrefundable registration fee is $125. Space is limited, so early registration is encouraged. Players can register here . At least one player each season has been invited to training camp. The tryout will consists of a brief combine testing each player's height, weight, 40-yard dash time and vertical jump. Players will then run through competitive drills and gamelike situations led by coaches and staff.

Anne Arundel County fire officials on Wednesday identified the victim of a Gambrills house fire earlier this month. Blanche Anderson, 92, had been found unconscious by firefighters on the first floor of a home in the 1300 block of Tenbrook Road that was engulfed in flames on Dec. 12, according to the fire department. When firefighters arrived around 5:30 p.m., heavy smoke and flames were reported. A neighbor had called 911 after hearing calls for help coming from another resident, a 15-year-old, who jumped from a second-floor window, fire officials said.

A 25-year-old Gambrills man was sentenced Tuesday to eight years in prison for possession of child pornography, including images depicting "sadistic and violent conduct" toward children, according to prosecutors. Robert Jay Hudson II, who pleaded guilty to the charge in July, will also have to serve 40 years of supervised release after his incarceration and be registered as a sex offender wherever he lives, works or attends school, the office of Maryland U.S. Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein said.

Anne Arundel County police are investigating several armed robberies that occurred over the weekend in Brooklyn Park, Galesville, Glen Burnie and Annapolis. In several cases, they have descriptions of the suspects, but have been unable to locate them. Officers on patrol in Gambrills did arrest a 29-year-old Arnold man in connection with a series of thefts from autos. Officers stopped a vehicle, known to be involved in the thefts, at about 3 a.m. Friday on Reidel Road, near Route 3. The driver Brandon Michael Smith of the 1100 block Wright Avenue gave officers the consent to search the vehicle.

Anne Arundel County police recovered $50,000 worth of marijuana plants and two dozen firearms, most of them unregistered, in a search and seizure operation in a Gambrills home on Friday. Police arrested 53-year-old Nicholas Vincent Dominick, who lives at the home, at 528 Watts Ave., and was there when police arrived. Dominick is charged with various counts of drug- and gun-related offenses. Police had received several complaints about marijuana being grown at the home, which is about a quarter of a mile from Arundel High School.

A ruptured natural gas line forced a day care and 15 homes in Gambrills to be evacuated Thursday as fire and Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. crews worked to contain the threat of explosion, according to the Anne Arundel County Fire Department. The fire department first got a call about 1:30 p.m. from a cable or fiber-optics contractor who had been working underground in the 1300 block of Riedell Road when he smelled gas, said Lt. Keith Hamilton, a fire department spokesman. Fire personnel, working with BGE crews, subsequently identified a ruptured four-inch natural gas line, which Hamilton called a "super-highway of natural gases" compared with the more common half-inch lines that bring gas into individual homes.

A Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. transformer caught fire Tuesday in Gambrills, rising to two alarms and sending a dark plume of smoke over the surrounding area, according to Anne Arundel County fire officials. Firefighters were called to the 1100 block of Waugh Chapel Road at about 10 a.m. after a transformer that was being taken apart became engulfed in flames. BGE workers temporarily cut off power in the area after the fire grew to two alarms. No one was injured, fire officials said.

A 46-year-old woman who worked for the Federal Bureau of Prisons was indicted on charges she demanded freebies and perquisites - including meals and spa services - from moving companies in exchange for bureau business, the Maryland U.S. Attorney's Office announced Monday. Susan A. Pratt of Crofton was a supervisor in the “relocation services” section of the BOP, which handled moves for transferred prison employees, according to a six-count indictment returned against her returned last week.

A 25-year-old Gambrills man pleaded guilty Tuesday to possession of child pornography after Anne Arundel County police located hundreds of images of prepubescent children on computers and other digital storage devices in his home, according to the office of Maryland U.S. Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein. Many of the images Robert Jay Hudson II had collected contained "sadistic and violent conduct" against children, including the rape of toddlers, prosecutors said. According to the plea agreement, police were first notified that Hudson possessed child pornography in April 2011, after he let someone use his computer and that person saw the images.