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Police are looking for two men who robbed an Edgewood convenience store at gunpoint and fired off two shots early Friday morning. The Harford County Sheriff's Office is seeking the public's assistance in obtaining information about the armed robbery that occurred at approximately 3:45 a.m. Friday at the Mystik Mart in the 1700 block of Hanson Road. According to the sheriff's office, two suspects, described as black men, entered the Mystik Mart, pointed handguns at the clerk and demanded money.

The robber of the Benson post office on Connolly Road Saturday is believed to be the same man who robbed that post office in December 2012, police investigators say.. An attempted robbery that also occurred Saturday, at the Sovereign Bank branch just south of Bel Air, is not believed to be related to the post office crime, according to the Harford County Sheriff's Office. The bank robbery is, however, likely to be connected to two earlier robberies at the same Sovereign Bank branch.

Anne Arundel County police are interviewing witnesses and looking for suspects in the Friday night shooting death of a 20-year-old man who was in a Glen Burnie pizza store during an armed holdup, according to police Lt. J.D. Batten Jr. Police said four men entered Mr. Wings and Pizza, in the 7600 Baltimore Annapolis Blvd. at 9 p.m. Friday and announced a holdup. Two were armed. When Misael Abdias Flores of the first block of Kuethe Road in Glen Burnie and a female employee both told them to leave, one of the men shot Flores in the upper torso, then all four robbers fled on foot.

The Harford County Sheriff's Office continues to seek information in connection with an attempted armed robbery at the Darlington Pharmacy earlier this month. The Sheriff's Office released store surveillance photos of the robber on Monday morning. On Saturday, April 6, shortly after 1 p.m., a suspect described as a white man, 5 feet, 10 inches tall with a medium build, attempted to rob the Darlington Pharmacy on Main Street in Darlington. The robber displayed a knife during the robbery attempt and demanded prescription medications from the pharmacist; however, the pharmacist told him they did not have any and the robber did not persist, according to the Sheriff's Office.

An off-duty city police officer critically wounded a man who was holding up a Hampden liquor store Friday night. Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said a customer at Hampden Liquors left the store as it was being robbed by two men about 8:20 p.m. The customer encountered an off-duty Northwestern District officer walking along the 3700 block of Falls Road. The officer went to the store and saw a 20-year-old man pointing a handgun at a clerk. Guglielmi said the officer, while on the street, "took a defensive position" and fired shots at the robber, wounding him in the upper torso.

The Harford County Sheriff's Office continues to seek information in connection with an attempted armed robbery at the Darlington Pharmacy earlier this month. The Sheriff's Office released store surveillance photos of the robber on Monday morning. On Saturday, April 6, shortly after 1 p.m., a suspect described as a white man, 5 feet, 10 inches tall with a medium build, attempted to rob the Darlington Pharmacy on Main Street in Darlington. The robber displayed a knife during the robbery attempt and demanded prescription medications from the pharmacist; however, the pharmacist told him they did not have any and the robber did not persist, according to the Sheriff's Office.

Howard County police have arrested two Columbia boys and charged them as adults with armed robbery and assault in the holdup of a Columbia convenience store May 10. Police said the teen-agers entered High's in the 5200 block of Phelps Luck Drive about 10 p.m. and confronted clerks behind the counter. One of the boys had a rifle and demanded cash; the victims handed over money but were not able to open a safe in the back of the store, police said. The robbers then fled, stealing phone calling cards and cigarettes, police said.

Baltimore County police today are continuing to seek two men who held up an Exxon gas station on Liberty Road early yesterday and handcuffed two employees to a restroom stall.One wore a baseball cap and a salt-and-pepper tweed coat, police said. The other wore a black-knit ski mask and a dark and yellow-colored ski jacket, police said.Both men were armed, one with a sawed-off shotgun and the other with a handgun, police said.Police said the two confronted the employees about 6:34 a.m. at the Exxon in the 8000 block of Liberty Road and forced them back into the office area.

A 42-year-old Towson man was arrested yesterday outside his home and charged in the midmorning robbery of a nearby health food store -- the latest in a series of holdups in the area.Police were called at 10:37 a.m. to the Power House Natural Food Store in the 100 block of Shealy Ave., where a robber with a ski mask, implying that he had a weapon, ordered several people to lie on the floor and took an undisclosed amount of money, police said.Following an escape route pointed out by witnesses, officers arrested Darnell H. McManus at his house in the 400 block of Jefferson Ave. A garbage bag containing money, a jacket, gloves and a ski mask were found in a yard next door, said Detective Robert E. Marley.

A 34-year-old Westminster man was arrested Thursday in Montgomery County and charged in the Sept. 8 armed robbery of the Washington Heights Pharmacy, where drugs and cash were stolen.Steven Anthony Shawe, of the first block of N. Court St., was charged with two counts of robbing the pharmacy, in the 200 block of Washington Road, about 8:20 p.m. He also was charged with assault, battery and use of a handgun in the commission of a felony.City police said the robber walked into the store and approached an employee at the rear counter.

The Harford County Sheriff's Office says it is looking for a man in connection with two armed robberies that occurred seven hours apart late Wednesday and early Thursday at a Subway sandwich shop and a Royal Farms store east of Bel Air. The latest of the two holdups occurred around 4 a.m. Thursday at the Royal Farms in the 1600 block of Churchville Road, the Sheriff's Office said in a news release Friday morning. Deputies responded to the convenience store, which is at the Fountain Green intersection of Routes 22 and 533, where the cashier told them they had been robbed at gunpoint.

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The Harford County Sheriff's Office says an undisclosed amount of cash was taken at in an armed robbery at a Walgreens drug store in the Bel Air South area last Thursday night. A man entered the store in the 1900 block of Emmorton Road at about 8:10 p.m. Thursday, robbed the store clerk and then fled on foot toward the intersection of Route 924 (Emmorton Road) and Plumtree Road, the sheriff's office said in a news release issued Friday night. The sheriff's office has released still photos of the suspect taken from store security cameras.

Baltimore detectives are searching for a man they suspect in multiple robberies in Fells Point over the past month, and are asking for the public's help in identifying him. The robberies began July 20, with the latest occurring around midnight Thursday on Lancaster Street, police said. Most have happened between 10 p.m. and 2 a.m., police said. The crimes were the latest robberies to occur in high-traffic areas, including the Inner Harbor, downtown and Federal Hill. Baltimore police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi described the Fells Point robberies as "typically all the same.

Police are looking for two men who robbed an Edgewood convenience store at gunpoint and fired off two shots early Friday morning. The Harford County Sheriff's Office is seeking the public's assistance in obtaining information about the armed robbery that occurred at approximately 3:45 a.m. Friday at the Mystik Mart in the 1700 block of Hanson Road. According to the sheriff's office, two suspects, described as black men, entered the Mystik Mart, pointed handguns at the clerk and demanded money.

A second suspect was arrested and charged with attempted murder last night in connection with an attempted robbery in which a cashier at a crowded Giant supermarket was shot Thursday night at the Rotunda shopping center.Anthony Chris Drake, 36, of the 1800 block of Lorman Ave. in West Baltimore also was charged with armed commercial robbery and a handgun violation.Police alleged that Mr. Drake was one of three men who staged the holdup at 7: 45 p.m. Thursday, but fled after one of them shot cashier Mary Haines three times.

The night manager of a Pikesville motel was listed in serious condition today at the Shock-Trauma Unit in Baltimore after being shot during a robbery that police believe was one of four committed by the same gang of heavily armed men in a span of four hours.Area police said that while the robberies yesterday were believed to have been committed by the same men, they probably are not the gunmen who have terrorized city and county businesses since Halloween night, when the first of more than 20 armed robberies of restaurants and food markets began.

A 50-year-old man who threatened to shoot patrons and tellers while robbing two Baltimore banks within a block of each other near Johns Hopkins Hospital was sentenced Thursday to 12 years in prison. George Jordan, of Baltimore, admitted in U.S. District Court in Baltimore to the holdups -- in February and March 2009 that targeted bank branches on East Monument Street. The suspect, George Jordan of Baltimore, pleaded guilty to the crimes in U.S. District Court in Baltimore.

Two out-of-town men have been charged in the armed robbery of a Cockeysville jewelry store on Thursday, officials said. Luis Noel Rodriguez, 28, of New York, N.Y., and Vincent Henry Courts Jr., 28, of Harrisburg, Pa., are being held at the Baltimore County Detention Center on $300,000 bail. The men were charged with armed robbery of the Alpha Gold Exchange in the 10800 block of York Road, according to police. They also face charges of first degree assault and use of a handgun in a felony crime.