K 9 Unit

The Bel Air Police Explorer Program is hosting a one-week Youth Police Camp this summer for children who are interested in the law enforcement profession. Campers will participate in classroom and hands-on activities with the many different officers from various units within the Bel Air Police Department, including a daily regimen of physical training. There will be demonstrations from the police K-9 unit and the Harford County Sheriff's Office Marine Unit and Motorcycle Unit. The campers will be required to wear a uniform consisting of a T-shirts with camp logo and a baseball cap. The cost to attend the camp is $40 per child.

A Maryland brief on Friday contained an incorrect telephone number for people wishing to give German shepherd dogs to the Baltimore County police K-9 unit. The correction number for information is 887-0870.The Sun regrets the errors.

On September 4, 2004, ROBERTMARSHALL LEFTWICH, SR., retired LTC US Army Reserve and retired Sgt. Baltimore City Police Dept., K-9 Unit, beloved husband of Joann G. (nee Bush) Leftwich; devoted father of Brenda Lee Ayd, Barbara Lee Hender, Belinda Lee Delcon, and Robert Marshall Leftwich, Jr. He is also survived by eight loving grandchildren, three brothers, and one sister. Relatives and friends are invited to call at the Schimunek Funeral Home, Inc., 9705 Belair Road (Perry Hall), on Wednesday and Thursday from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m., where funeral services will be held on Friday at 11 a.m. Interment Parkwood Cemetery.

Howard County police are looking for a man who robbed a Jessup convenience store Wednesday night while implying he had a gun under his shirt.About 9:35 p.m. Wednesday, the masked suspect entered the High's store in the 7900 block of Washington Blvd. and approached a clerk at the register. Police say the suspect placed his hand under his shirt to suggest he was armed.The man ordered the clerk to turn over cash. He took the undisclosed amount of money and fled. No one was injured in the robbery, said spokesman Sgt. Steve Keller.

County police recovered a stolen handgun and a stolen car but lost two suspects yesterday morning after a foot chase near the Greentree apartments, county police said.The 9mm semiautomatic pistol was reported stolen in Prince George's County. The car, a Ford Escort, had been reported stolen from Howard CountyPolice had gone to the 8000 block of Winding Wood Road about 3 a.m. Thursday to investigate a report of two men looking into cars on the parking lot. They spotted the men beside a Ford Escort and followed them on foot to Winding Wood Road and Green Branch Lane.

A man forced his way into the home of an 83-year-old Glen Burnie woman early Monday morning and sexually assaulted her, according to Anne Arundel County Police. Officers went to the first block of Country Club Drive to meet the victim, who said a man entered her home and assaulted her before fleeing, police said. Officers and a K-9 unit searched the area but did not find the suspect. Anyone with information about this incident is asked to contact Detective Guy of the county police sex crimes unit at 410-222-3416 or the Police Department at 410-222-8610.

The U.S. post office in Annapolis Junction was robbed shortly before noon Saturday by a gunman who took an undisclosed amount of money, Howard County police said.No one was was injured. The gunman entered the branch in the 10900 block of Guilford Road about 11: 55 a.m., displayed a handgun and ordered two clerks to turn over money from the registers, police said. He took the cash and ran.Minutes later, a K-9 unit tracked the man for about 100 yards, but the dogs stopped where he apparently got into a waiting vehicle, police said.

A Severn man was treated and released from Maryland Shock Trauma Center after being shot in a leg early yesterday in a field near his home, Anne Arundel County police reported. The victim, Derrick Duwalt Poole, 35, of the 8500 block of Pioneer Drive said he was in the field with his girlfriend when he saw a young man, who fired a handgun at him, police said. Poole told police he turned and ran, and that the assailant fired four more shots. Hit once in a leg, Poole ran to a nearby house and knocked on the door seeking help from the occupant, who called police.

Two men wielding butcher's knives and wearing ski masks robbed a Severn pizza shop Saturday night, fleeing with an undisclosed amount of money, police said.The men walked into Jay Jay's Pizza shop in the 1100 block of Reece Road about 10:30 p.m., brandished the knives and told employees they were there to rob the shop, police said.One of the men held a knife to an employee's chest and demanded money. After taking the money, the men ordered the employees to lie on the floor.Western District officers and a K-9 unit searched the area but could not find the robbers, police said.

Anne Arundel police responded Saturday night to a Holiday Inn Express hotel in Annapolis for a report of an armed robbery. At about 8 p.m., officers from the southern district arrived at the hotel, at 2451 Riva Road, and were told that a man in his late twenties or early thirties had entered the hotel, displayed a handgun and demanded money from the clerk, police said. The clerk gave the money to the man, who then fled, police said. Police said that county officers and an Annapolis City K-9 unit searched the area but were unable to find the suspect.