Garage Door

Police Blotter is a sampling of crimes in Howard County.Ellicott City: 2500 block of Ashbrook Drive: Someone broke into a house Monday by kicking in a garage door and a door leading into the house. A shotgun, jewelry, videocassette recorder, television, fax machine and printer were stolen.Ellicott City: 10200 block of Raleigh Tavern Lane: Jewelry, computer equipment and frozen food were stolen from a house Monday after someone kicked in the front door.Ellicott City: 2500 block of N. Farm Drive: A fax machine, computer equipment and videocassette recorder were stolen from a house Monday or Tuesday.

After the arrest of two boys who jumped from a stolen Jeep Cherokee in Baltimore yesterday, Baltimore County police were searching for two suspects they believe may be part of a theft ring that used garage door openers to steal electronic equipment from homes.Two youths, ages 15 and 17, were arrested by Baltimore City police officers when they jumped from the stolen Jeep at Clifton Avenue and Ellamont Street near Walbrook Avenue after a chase that started at about 6 a.m. Two men who also jumped from the truck and fled are being sought.

Police logGlenelg: 13600 block of Triadelphia Road: Someone tried to break into a High's store by breaking the glass on the door. Nothing was taken.Mount Airy: 800 block of Bennett Road: Someone kicked in the basement door of a house Saturday evening. No entry was made.West Friendship: 12700 block of Buttercup Court: Someone entered a house through a garage door Saturday night or Sunday morning after breaking into a car to steal the garage door opener. Tools were taken.Cooksville: 14900 block of Frederick Road: Someone stole a 1992 Bobcat loader Friday or Saturday.

Police logOwen Brown: 6600 Dobbin Road: Late Friday or early Saturday, someone pried open a garage door at I/O Magnetics, entered a warehouse and stole two televisions. Nearby -- about the same time -- a garage door at Medical Systems Inc. was pried open and tools, a television and a computer were stolen.Pub Date: 10/23/96

ONE RECENT MORNING a six-foot male sauntered down the alley behind my house, walked into my garage and rode off with my 8-year-old daughter's brand-new bike. A girl's bike, I should add, the kind of thing I as a boy would never have been caught dead riding. I would rather have walked barefoot on a highway of upended Legos.It was only a bike theft. Not a rape or murder, thankfully, but the pettiest sort of crime, one that has become as common an occurrence in my neighborhood as a summer thunderstorm.

Someone broke into a Millersville home overnight Monday and stole a camera bag containing $1,500 worth of equipment, county police said.Etta Lynch McGuire of the 300 block of Cool Ridge Court called police about 7: 30 a.m. to report that her husband had found their garage door and a door leading to the living room open when he went outside to get the paper at 6 a.m.The interior door was propped open with a shoe from the garage, police said.McGuire told police the garage door probably was left open and the interior door closed but not locked.

Police logLong Reach: 8800 block of Flowerstock Row: Someone tried to force open a home's front door Tuesday, but police said there was no entry.Owen Brown: 9200 block of Berger Road: Someone broke a window on a garage door at the Lube Center on Wednesday, entered and took cash, police said.Pub Date: 4/19/96

Police logJessup: 8100 block of U.S. 1: Someone stole a television from a warehouse at Red Star Express between Friday and Monday. Police said a garage door was found ajar and off track.Pub Date: 3/20/96

Students at a west Columbia elementary school dedicated a garden at the school and a tree in Israel yesterday to their classmate Simon Decker, who was crushed by a garage door 12 days before school started in August."