Handgun Violations

Bail was revoked yesterday for five men charged with brazenly robbing 42 people at gunpoint in a remote area of the Loch Raven Reservoir when a prosecutor said that after they were arrested, the suspects discussed killing the victims. While the suspects were detained at the Cockeysville station shortly after midnight Saturday, police heard one of them say, "As soon as we get out of here, we've got to kill all of them," Assistant State's Attorney Richard K. Scott told District Judge Norman R. Stone III yesterday.

A 20-year-old man was sentenced to spend 55 years in prison for a shooting that authorities said missed its target and instead injured a 10-year-old boy in East Baltimore. Circuit Court Judge Emanuel Brown issued the sentence on Tuesday for Dafon Canty, who was convicted during a trial that ended in January. The judge suspended all but 55 years of a life term. The shooting occurred Aug. 19 in the 1100 block of North Lakewood Ave. Prosecutors said Canty approached Terrell Singleton, who was sitting on the steps of a home, to avenge an earlier argument.

The second suspect in a series of carjackings and sexual assaults in Baltimore and Baltimore County last week surrendered to city police yesterday. Investigators said 20-year-old Michael Miles of the 2900 block of Walbrook Ave. in Northwest Baltimore surrendered at 3 p.m. yesterday at the office of a fugitive task force at 29th and Howard streets. Miles was charged with kidnapping, rape, handgun violations and sex offenses in attacks Aug. 25 on four women. Two of the victims were accosted outside an apartment complex on Goodnow Road.

After a 25-year-old man was shot and wounded in Northeast Baltimore, police said residents pointed the arriving officers to an apartment building where they said two or three men had gone after the gunfire. Heavily armed members of the Police Department's tactical team went into the building in the 5900 block of Radecke Ave., in Cedonia. Police said the officers not only found the men hiding in a woman's apartment, but found a gun hidden in an air vent in a bathroom. One of the men was arrested in the shooting, which occurred on Friday.

Baltimore's violent-crime task force arrested two people yesterday on charges of distributing heroin and cocaine from their West Baltimore home, where about $40,000 worth of drugs was seized, police said.About 280 vials and 215 glassine bags of heroin and cocaine were found in the raid, in which police charged Davon Smith, 19, and Chenee Powell, 25, both of the 2000 block of Westwood Ave., with drug distribution and handgun violations.

Two Virginia men arrested last month in an armed robbery in Northwest Baltimore -- both of whom were living in a motel on Reisterstown Road -- are suspects in two Richmond slayings, city police said yesterday.Though the men have not been charged in the shooting deaths, police said authorities are planning to extradite them to Virginia on outstanding abduction warrants. They have been charged with handgun violations and robbery in Baltimore.The case began Oct. 31 when Sgt. James Rood and Officers Kevin Hagan and Chris Wade, members of the Northwestern District's major crime unit, were flagged down by four teen-agers, who said they had been robbed near Northern Parkway and Reisterstown Road.

Two men from Prince George's County have been charged by Howard County police with robbing a Jessup bank Friday. David Wayne Holloway of Landover and David Dwayne Ford of Forestville are charged with armed robbery, handgun violations, robbery, first-degree assault, endangerment and theft, police say. They are accused of robbing a Bank of America branch in the 7300 block of Assateague Ave. shortly before 10 a.m. No customers or employees were hurt,...

A 22-year-old Randallstown man was being held in lieu of $100,000 bond yesterday at Baltimore County's Woodlawn Precinct, charged with carjacking, armed robbery and handgun violations, police said.Andre Duane Boone of the 8200 block of Church Lane was arrested at 10 p.m. Saturday, after a woman was accosted in the 8300 block of Church Lane and her car taken.The victim, a 26-year-old Owings Mills woman, said she was getting into her car to leave a friend's house when a man approached her and demanded her car keys.

A Baltimore man who had served time for attempted murder was sentenced Monday to eight years in prison for violating his probation, the Baltimore state's attorney's office said. Baltimore Circuit Judge John N. Prevas sentenced Michael Freeman, 28, of the 300 block of S. Payson St. The state's attorney's office gave this synopsis: In 2001, Freeman was sentenced to four years in prison plus three years' probation for attempted second-degree murder and handgun violations. While serving that time, he was convicted in federal court of possession of a firearm by a felon, an offense that happened before he went to prison.

After a 25-year-old man was shot and wounded in Northeast Baltimore, police said residents pointed the arriving officers to an apartment building where they said two or three men had gone after the gunfire. Heavily armed members of the Police Department's tactical team went into the building in the 5900 block of Radecke Ave., in Cedonia. Police said the officers not only found the men hiding in a woman's apartment, but found a gun hidden in an air vent in a bathroom. One of the men was arrested in the shooting, which occurred on Friday.

A Baltimore jury convicted a man of attempted first degree murder and eight other charges for a retaliation shooting that missed the intended target but struck a 10-year-old boy, prosecutors said Friday. The state's attorney's office announced that Dafon Canty, who was 18 at the time of the August 2010 shooting, approached Terrell Singleton, who he had argued with previously. Canty opened fire on Singleton as he sat on the front steps of a home in the 1100 block of North Lakewood Avenue, according to the announcement.

Three men were charged Sunday in a weekend shooting at the Inner Harbor, an incident that prompted the Baltimore Police Department to describe its security plan for next weekend's Fourth of July fireworks display at the tourist attraction. Commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld III said the harbor shooting was "of significant concern to us," but it was one of several over the weekend that left two people dead and seven more injured. It was also the city's second unusually violent weekend in a row. About midnight Saturday, brothers Keiron and Dominick Holly and friend Kesmond Harris, all teenagers, confronted another group of teens on a walkway near the World Trade Center, police said.

An 86-year-old man died Wednesday afternoon after police said his vehicle was struck by a car driven by men suspected of drug dealing who were fleeing officers in Northwest Baltimore, a tragic example of the peripheral damage of the city's drug trade. The incident hit particularly close to home for police — the victim is the father of a city officer, whom officials were scrambling to contact Wednesday night. Joseph Caldwell, 65, was making breakfast when he heard the crash.

An 86-year-old man died Wednesday afternoon after police said his vehicle was struck by a car driven by men suspected of drug dealing who were fleeing officers in Northwest Baltimore, a tragic example of the peripheral damage of the city's drug trade. The incident hit particularly close to home for police — the victim is the father of a city officer, whom officials were scrambling to contact Wednesday night. Joseph Caldwell, 65, was making breakfast when he heard the crash.

Baltimore County police shot and killed a 39-year-old man Tuesday afternoon after he opened fire on officers while leaving a meeting at a parole and probation center in Northwest Baltimore, police said. A city police spokesman said two county detectives were following the man, a suspect in an armed robbery. When the officers attempted to arrest him outside his vehicle at the intersection of Metro and Mount Hope drives about 1:30 p.m., the suspect fired a .50-caliber handgun, Baltimore police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said.

Two men from Prince George's County have been charged by Howard County police with robbing a Jessup bank Friday. David Wayne Holloway of Landover and David Dwayne Ford of Forestville are charged with armed robbery, handgun violations, robbery, first-degree assault, endangerment and theft, police say. They are accused of robbing a Bank of America branch in the 7300 block of Assateague Ave. shortly before 10 a.m. No customers or employees were hurt,...

A woman charged with attempted first-degree murder in the shooting of a Baltimore police officer was denied bail yesterday by a District Court judge at a hearing where it was revealed that she had lied about her name and age. Police arrested a female suspect on Monday whom they identified as Brittany Johnson, a 17-year-old and charged her as a co-conspirator in the robbery and shooting of Officer Dante M. Hemingway last week in Westport. Police had charged her on Monday with attempted murder, armed robbery and numerous handgun violations.

A Baltimore jury convicted a man of attempted first degree murder and eight other charges for a retaliation shooting that missed the intended target but struck a 10-year-old boy, prosecutors said Friday. The state's attorney's office announced that Dafon Canty, who was 18 at the time of the August 2010 shooting, approached Terrell Singleton, who he had argued with previously. Canty opened fire on Singleton as he sat on the front steps of a home in the 1100 block of North Lakewood Avenue, according to the announcement.