Kidnapping

A Parkville man who posed as a Baltimore County police officer and raped a young woman has pleaded guilty to rape and kidnapping in the county's Circuit Court.William Todd Jamison, 21, could receive a maximum sentence of life in prison plus 30 years when he is sentenced Dec. 4.Jamison, who is being held without bond at the county detention center, is to undergo a psychiatric evaluation at the request of his attorney, James Garrity.Scott D. Shellenberger, the assistant state's attorney who handled the case yesterday, told Judge Barbara K. Howe that Jamison entered his plea to first-degree rape and kidnapping in exchange for the withdrawal of other charges, including impersonating a police officer.

The man arrested in the abduction of a Glen Burnie priest and his receptionist Saturday and in the abduction and rape of a former girlfriend Monday has a history of violence against women, court records show.Derrick Lontaye Sellman, 25, of the 1000 block of Monroe St., Annapolis, was being held without bail at the Anne Arundel County jail yesterday. He is scheduled for a bail hearing today.Mr. Sellman has been charged with kidnapping, assault with intent to murder and armed robbery in the abduction of the Rev. Gene Nickol, 47, and his receptionist, Aileen Pelesky, 66, from the Holy Trinity Church in the 7400 block of Baltimore-Annapolis Blvd.

Anne Arundel District Judge Joseph Manck revoked a $400,000 bond for Dale LeRoy Knight yesterday and ordered the Glen Burnie kidnapping suspect to undergo psychological evaluation.The 34-year-old defendant was returned to the county Detention Center after his bail review hearing in Annapolis.He is accused of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a 6-year-old girl and of trying to abduct two other girls.Mr. Knight, who surrendered to police Tuesday, has been accused of violent behavior before, court records indicate.

With helicopters buzzing overhead, more than 100 law enforcement officers swarmed over 200 acres in the town of Greensboro, Ga., last night, searching for a 24-year-old Baltimore man charged with kidnapping his estranged wife as she walked to a city subway station Tuesday.The FBI and the Greene County sheriff's office and police department, aided by dogs, searched back yards, several industrial areas and a wooded tract of land alongside residential neighborhoods for Wade Morris Lucas Jr. of the 1900 block of Woodlawn Drive.

A 27-year-old Washington, D.C., man was charged with kidnapping and theft after police stopped a car in Severn Monday night, county police reported.An officer sitting in his patrol car at the Pioneer Food Mart on Pioneer Drive saw a motorist slam on his brakes and nearly cause an accident at 10:43 p.m. The officer followed the car to Stillmeadow Drive and stopped the driver.A 13-year-old boy who was in the car told police that the driver had kidnapped him from the corner of Pennsylvania Avenue and 25th Street in Washington on Friday and that he had not been able to escape, police spokeswoman Faye Scheibe said.

A Glen Burnie man has been charged with raping and kidnapping two women, county police said.Lathaniel Spencer, 22, of the 300 block of Addison Road, was charged Tuesday with two counts of kidnapping, one count of first-degree rape and one count of second-degree rape.Police said sex crime investigators served a warrant on Spencer'shome Tuesday. They said he allegedly kidnapped the women on separateoccasions, drove them to remote areas and raped them.Both women identified Spencer from a group of photographs, police said.

The man arrested in the abduction of a Glen Burnie priest and a receptionist Saturday and the abduction and rape of a former girlfriend Monday has a history of violence against women, court records show.Derrick Lontaye Sellman, 25, of the 1000 block of Monroe St. in Annapolis, was being held without bail at the Anne Arundel County jail yesterday. He is scheduled for a bail hearing today.Mr. Sellman has been charged with kidnapping, assault with intent to murder and armed robbery in the abduction of the Rev. Gene Nickol, 47, and his receptionist, Aileen Pelesky, 66, from the Holy Trinity Church in the 7400 block of Baltimore-Annapolis Blvd.

An Annapolis man was sentenced to life in prison yesterday for kidnapping a Glen Burnie priest and sexually assaulting a 66-year-old church employee at knifepoint, crimes he called the acts of "an animal.""I feel like an animal for the pain I put other people through," Derrick Lontaye Sellman told Anne Arundel Circuit Judge Raymond G. Thieme Jr.Sellman, 25, pleaded guilty March 1 to kidnapping and a first-degree sex offense in the Aug. 13 abduction of the Rev. Gene Nickol, 48, and the female employee from Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Church in the 7400 block of Baltimore-Annapolis Blvd.

A 35-year-old man was arrested yesterday and charged with kidnapping his ex-girlfriend Sunday from her Columbia apartment, Howard County police said.Police believe a man went to the woman's apartment in the 4900 block of Blue Wing Court around 6 p.m., knocked on her door, and forced her into his car, said Sgt. Morris Carroll, Howard County police spokesman."