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A man armed with a 4-inch screwdriver robbed a High's store in the 700 block of Church St., Brooklyn Park, of an undetermined amount of cash Friday, county police said yesterday.Police said the man walked into the store about 8:30 a.m. and picked up a can of cat food. When he pulled a dollar from his pocket to pay, he also pulled out the screwdriver from his jacket and demanded money from the cashier.The man took the cash and fled, leaving the cat food. The suspect is described as a white male, about 25, with thin, shoulder-length brown hair, a mole near his mouth, and a thin mustache.

A Russett home was robbed Tuesday after the resident was approached outside by a man with a gun, Anne Arundel County Police said. Police said the Russett resident was reaching into his car outside his home around 10:40 p.m. in the 3500 block of Marcey Creek Road, when a maroon Honda Civic stopped in the road. He told police that a man with a gun got out of the car and approached him, asking for money. When the victim said he didn't have money, the man who approached him then rummaged through the victim's car and then went inside the victim's home, stealing money.

A man armed with a knife robbed an Annapolis service station of an undetermined amount of money early yesterday, county police said.Pamela L. Offer, a clerk at the Shell station in the 2500 block of Riva Road, told police that the man walked into the station about 1 a.m. and asked for cigarettes.When Offer opened the cash drawer, the man pulled a large knife and demanded money, police said. He grabbed money from the drawer and fled, police said.Pub Date: 11/11/97

Detectives solved a robbery of a Northeast Baltimore dollar store in part by comparing surveillance footage and a Facebook picture of the suspect that showed him wearing the same shirt.  Federal prosecutors announced that Gerald Jerome Rice, 44, was sentenced to 15 years in prison Tuesday morning after pleading guilty to robbing the Family Dollar store in the 5300 block of Frankford Ave in November 2011.  According to prosecutors, Rice entered...

A man armed with a gun robbed a Brooklyn Park General Nutrition Center store of an undisclosed amount of money Friday, county police said.The man walked into the store in the 6700 block of Ritchie Highway shortly before 3 p.m., picked up two items and walked to the cash register.As the clerk rang up the purchase, the man put a purple hip pack on the counter and pointed a small blue handgun at the clerk, police said.The man demanded money and told the clerk to put it in the hip pack, police said.

Police logNorth Laurel: 9800 block of Whiskey Run: A man armed with a handgun approached a 37-year-old Laurel woman and robbed her of her purse and jewelry while another man stood by and watched late Saturday night. Police said there were no injuries and detectives were still investigating.

A man armed with a 6-inch knife robbed an Arnold motel Sunday morning of an undisclosed amount of money, county police said.The man walked into the Days Inn in the 1500 block of Whitehall Road about 2:50 a.m. and brandished the knife at Andrew Andrezywski, 20, the clerk on duty. The robber ordered Mr. Andrezywski to open the cash drawer and took the money when the clerk complied, police said.The man then ordered Mr. Andrezywski and a witness who was in the office to lie face down on the floor and not to move before he ran off, police said.

Police Blotter is a sampling of crimes in Baltimore city and county.Central DistrictRobbery: A man armed with a handgun walked into the Sportsman's Bar in the 400 block of Park Ave. shortly after 1 p.m. Sunday and announced a robbery, saying, "How lucky do you feel? I have a gun!" The man escaped with $105.Robbery: A man armed with a machete approached a 40-year-old woman in the 700 block of Harlem Ave. about 1: 30 a.m. Saturday and took $25.Robbery: A man armed with a .9 mm handgun took $65 from an employee at the Diplomat Parking Corp.

Police Blotter is a sampling of crimes from police reports in Baltimore and Baltimore County. Baltimore Northeastern Shooting -- A resident of the 6800 block of McClean Blvd. was shot in the upper right leg about 11 p.m. Sunday by an unknown gunman when he answered a knock at his door. The victim, 39, was taken by ambulance to Maryland Shock Trauma Center and was reported in good condition. Southwestern Shootings/robberies -- Two teenage brothers were walking in the 1800 block of Bloomingdale Road about 9 p.m. Sunday when a man armed with a shotgun robbed them of their cell phones.

State police in Westminster were seeking a man armed with a handgun and a knife who reportedly robbed a gasoline station near Eldersburg and the Baltimore County line yesterday afternoon. The man entered the Liberty Shell station in the 2800 block of Liberty Road just before 1 p.m. and demanded money from a 53-year-old male employee at the cash register, police were told. The robber displayed a handgun and a folding knife, and took an undisclosed amount of money from the cash drawer, police said.

City police are investigating a sexual assault of a female jogger, who was attacked by a man armed with a knife in Fells Point Friday morning. Police are unclear of the exact location but say a woman in her 20s was attacked between 5 a.m. and 7 a.m. by a man who was possibly wearing a mask and armed with a knife. The victim received medical treatment and has met with investigators, police said. She has met with TurnAround, Inc. a victim advocacy group that has partnered with the police department to investigate sex crimes.

A city police officer shot a man Wednesday morning who was brandishing two long kitchen knives on a busy street in Southwest Baltimore, according to a department spokesman. Police said the man died a few hours later at a city hospital. The officer had been dispatched to Edmondson Avenue and Denison Street near Gwynns Falls Park for a report of a man armed with a knife. When she arrived minutes before 9 a.m., police said, she encountered a man holding two knives. Detective Kevin Brown, a police spokesman, said the officer demanded that the man drop the weapons, and she shot him at least once with her .40-caliber Glock semiautomatic handgun when he refused.

Joshua Lamont Joyce of Columbia was ordered to prison for 10 years Friday after pleading guilty to armed robbery and using a handgun in a March home invasion robbery in North Laurel. Circuit Judge Timothy J. McCrone sentenced Joyce, 31, of the 6000 block of Majors Lane, to 20 years, with half suspended, on the robbery charge. He also got five years on the handgun charge, which can be served concurrently. Joyce was one of three men who forced their way into a home in the 9600 block of Canterbury Riding in North Laurel early on a Saturday in late March by kicking in the door, according to court documents.

Howard County police were looking for a man they say robbed a cab driver Saturday night in Columbia. According to police, Alexander Bofah was approached by a man in the Long Reach Village Center parking lot around 8 p.m. seeking a ride. After the man got into the cab and Bofah began to drive away, the suspect put a knife to Bofah's neck and demanded cash, police said. After a struggle, Bofah, 38, gave him an undisclosed amount of money, and the suspect fled. Bofah then called police. He described the man as black, about 5 feet 9 inches, between 25 and 30 years old, with short black hair.

Police Blotter is a sampling of crimes from police reports in Baltimore and Baltimore County. Baltimore Northeastern Shooting -- A resident of the 6800 block of McClean Blvd. was shot in the upper right leg about 11 p.m. Sunday by an unknown gunman when he answered a knock at his door. The victim, 39, was taken by ambulance to Maryland Shock Trauma Center and was reported in good condition. Southwestern Shootings/robberies -- Two teenage brothers were walking in the 1800 block of Bloomingdale Road about 9 p.m. Sunday when a man armed with a shotgun robbed them of their cell phones.

A former Indonesian general pleaded guilty in federal court in Baltimore yesterday after he was ensnared in an undercover operation targeting illegal arms dealers. In September, federal customs agents arrested six South Asian arms dealers who were accused of paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to ship restricted, high-tech weapons to rebels in Sri Lanka and the Indonesian Army. The elaborate sting was centered in Baltimore last year, where federal agents put up a Singapore arms broker at an Inner Harbor hotel and took him to a shooting range in Harford County so he could test-fire machine guns.

Introductions are over and the stretch run lies ahead. Here's what we learned from the first half of the NFL season. 1. Manning unleashed: Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning threw 29 touchdown passes last year and was co-Most Valuable Player. At the halfway point this year, attempting to drag his dormant defense into the playoffs, he has thrown 26. Manning, who faces only three top-10 defenses in the season's second half, has taken the Colts' offense to new heights. Right now, offense is their best defense - a point not lost on Houston Texans quarterback David Carr.