Man Arrested

A teen-ager and a man have been arrested in last month's fatal shooting of two men in Armistead Gardens in Northeast Baltimore, possibly during a drug-related dispute, police said.Robert "Bert" Fleek Jr., 17, of the 7200 block of Conley St. and Thoyt Dean "Sonny" Hackney, 22, of the 3200 block of E. Baltimore St. were arrested Monday by members of the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force.The two were charged with two counts each of first-degree murder and handgun violations. They were being held yesterday without bail at the state Central Booking and Intake Center downtown.

Baltimore police arrested yesterday a man who was driving a stolen car belonging to an Elkridge couple who told police they were assaulted and robbed when they arrived home Thursday night.Howard police spokesman Sgt. Steven Keller said the man was stopped in the 2400 block of Barclay St. in Baltimore about 3 p.m. He was driving a 1996 Chrysler Sebring convertible.Police were unable to say whether the man arrested was one of the two men wanted in the robbery and assault. Police have obtained photographs of the suspects from an automated teller machine in Baltimore, where they allegedly tried to use the couple's ATM cards.

A man suspected in Wednesday night's triple shooting aboard an MTA bus in West Baltimore was arrested yesterday and charged with first-degree murder, city police said.Davon Robinson, 19, was arrested without incident about 1: 30 ** p.m. at his home in the 2900 block of Round Road in the Cherry Hill neighborhood, said Maj. Elmer Dennis, commander of Baltimore's Southern District.Three homicide detectives and eight officers searched Robinson's home after the arrest, Dennis said."Police recovered a weapon from the home that they believe was used in the shooting," said Officer Angelique Cook-Hayes, a Police Department spokeswoman.

County police arrested a Gaithersburg man Friday on charges of breaking into a house in Gambrills and a nearby fire station.Mutema Shadrack Nyankale, 19, of the first block of Gaslight Court was charged with two counts of burglary.Loyal E.Thompson, 66, told police that a man walked into his house in the 2300 block of Davidsonville Road about 6 a.m. When Thompson confronted him in the living room, the man demanded the keys to a car parked in the driveway. Thompson told the man to leave, and he ran away, police said.

Police seeking a suspect in an assault arrested a Brooklyn Park man Wednesday on a handgun charge.Alan C. Smith, 54, of the 5200 block of Brookwood Road was charged with illegal possession of a handgun.Officer Todd Powell said he was on Brookwood Road about 7: 30 a.m. when he saw a man who fit the description of a suspect in an assault.Powell and Officer Michael Guy stopped the man, searched him and found a 9 mm handgun.The man said he did not have a permit to carry a gun, and the officers arrested him on the handgun charge.

Acting on a tip from the Westminster Police Department, Baltimore County police officers arrested a Westminster man about 11 a.m. yesterday at a Caraway Road apartment complex in Reisterstown on charges stemming from crack cocaine sales to a Westminster undercover officer in August.Calvin Lamont Warfield, 23, of the 100 block of S. Court St. was charged on two counts of cocaine distribution.He was being held yesterday at the Carroll County Detention Center in lieu of $50,000 bond for each count, police said.

The driver of a sparkling new Toyota Avalon pulled over on Eutaw Street and talked with Loretta Young, a small, young woman dressed in green Spandex tights and a windbreaker.Within minutes, Baltimore police officers swarmed the car and arrested the driver, a salesman for a Toyota dealership."I didn't give her anything," the 29-year-old man pleaded."You don't have to give her anything," replied Sgt. Craig Gentile, as he handcuffed his suspect. "She's an undercover police officer. Any questions?"

County police arrested a Severn man Saturday on charges that he started a fire in a trash bin along Hospital Drive.David Wilson Hall, 44, of the 700 block of Old Donaldson Ave. was charged with arson.Officer Gregory Huck had taken the man to North Arundel Hospital about 7: 30 a.m. after the man received several cuts and bruises in a fight.At the hospital, the man became disorderly, and officials ordered him to leave. Officer Huck saw the man walking toward Southgate Pharmacy in the 300 block of Hospital Drive about 7: 45 a.m., police said.

County police arrested a West River man Wednesday on charges of trying to cash a forged payroll check at a Mars Supermarket in Pasadena.Kenneth Edward Butler, 22, of the 5200 block of Sudley Road was charged with uttering a false check.Darlene DiLeonardi, a bookkeeper for the grocery store in the 8500 block of Fort Smallwood Road, told police a customer tried to cash a county school payroll check for $1,143.78 shortly before 12: 30 p.m.Ms. DiLeonardi called J. Mark Black, supervisor of employee records at the Board of Education, who said that the check was originally written for $143.

County police arrested a Jessup man after an officer saw him punching another man, county police said.Michael Reece Colburn, 29, of the 6300 block of Old Washington Road in Elkridge was bleeding heavily from several cuts on his face and his eye was almost swollen shut, police said.Mr. Colburn told police an acquaintance had asked for a ride about 1 a.m. to a bar in Laurel. When they arrived, the man said he wanted to go to Route 198 to buy drugs, police said. When they got near Route 198, the acquaintance began punching Mr. Colburn in the face, police said.

Man arrested, owed $94,000 in support Officials with the Baltimore sheriff's office said yesterday that they arrested a 48-year-old man who owed more than $94,000 in child-support payments to two women - a sum that had accumulated over the past 15 years. Sheriff's deputies arrested Warren Lee Dangerfield on Tuesday morning at a home in the 500 block of S. Decker Ave. in Southeast Baltimore. Dangerfield's arrest was part of an operation that the city sheriff's office launched three months ago to pursue the top 20 child-support violators in Baltimore.

Davidsonville man arrested on drug charges Police seized nearly $1,000 of steroids, trace amounts of cocaine and drug paraphernalia from a Davidsonville home Wednesday, concluding a monthlong investigation, county police said. Officers from a tactical drug team found the drugs while searching a home in the 700 block of Sharpsburg Drive on a warrant. Michael Damian Paddy, 31, a resident of the home, was arrested and charged with drug possession and steroid possession. Annapolis man arrested on gun charges An Annapolis man threatened to shoot a woman, kicked a mailbox and banged on a door Wednesday evening, city police said.

A man who was stopped yesterday morning and questioned by a police officer near the University of Maryland's Baltimore campus was arrested after a makeshift explosive device fell from his knapsack when he fought with the officer, authorities said. The man was being questioned by detectives, and charges had not been filed yesterday evening. His name was not released. Sterling Clifford, a Baltimore police spokesman, said the man was stopped by the university officer in the 800 block of W. Baltimore St. about 7:30 a.m. "The man was clutching his side as if he was trying to conceal a weapon," Clifford said.

Wanted man arrested after ride in taxicab An Annapolis man who was recently featured on the Anne Arundel County's Most Wanted TV show was arrested after an officer recognized him as a passenger in a passing taxicab, city police said. The officer knew that the man in the cab - on Bywater Road approaching Copeland Street around 12:30 a.m. Thursday - was Keith Bithol Williams, 21, of Admiral Drive, and that he was wanted on a warrant for first-degree assault. He is charged with firing numerous shots into an apartment on Newtowne Drive on May 18 after arguing with one of the residents.

Man fatally shot in Cherry Hill A Baltimore police officer heard the gunshots in Cherry Hill last night that killed a 22-year-old man, the sixth homicide victim in less than a year in the Baltimore neighborhood, police said. Authorities said the man was shot shortly before 11 p.m. in the 2800 block of Spelman Road. An officer heard the gunfire, drove to the scene and found the man wounded on the ground. Despite paramedics' efforts, the man died at the scene of multiple gunshot wounds, police said.

Overlea man found guilty of murder An Overlea man was found guilty yesterday of murder in the death of his upstairs neighbor, whose body was found in the bathtub of her burning apartment. A Baltimore County Circuit Court jury deliberated about six hours before finding Ellis Lee Hickman Jr., 34, guilty of first-degree murder in the death of 29-year-old Rakiyya Tiana States. Hickman was also found guilty of arson and harassment. On Sept. 25, firefighters extinguished several fires in States' apartment on Mopec Circle, then discovered her body in a bathtub full of blood, gasoline and water.

Police Blotter is a sampling of crimes from police reports in Baltimore City and Baltimore County. Baltimore City Northwestern District Burglary/arrest: A man arrested early Thursday in an attempted break-in at a storage company has also been charged with 12 other break-ins that occurred over the past two weeks. Officer Adam Friedman was in the 5800 block of Reisterstown Road when he spotted a man trying to break into EZ Self Storage. Arrested and charged in the storage company burglary and a dozen others was Sylvester Johnson, 26, of the 3300 block of W. Rogers Ave. Southeastern District Shooting: A man was walking near Patterson Park about 9:35 p.m. Saturday when he was stopped by a man who placed a handgun to his head.

A man suspected of killing his father yesterday surrendered to police officers who had surrounded the older man's home in Lutherville for several hours. The father, John Raymond Kauffman, 66, was found dead in the garage of his home in the 100 block of Westbury Road shortly after the son stepped outside. Police arrested the son, and he was being interviewed by homicide detectives last night. No charges had been filed. Neighbors said the 37-year-old son had moved into his father's house about six months ago. Shortly after 8 a.m., a Glen Burnie man had called the Kauffman home about a meeting he and the father were to have there later in the day at the house, said police spokesman Shawn Vinson.

A 42-year-old man arrested with five illegal immigrants in his Northwest Baltimore apartment Wednesday overstayed a visa two years ago and is scheduled to appear at a bail hearing in state court today, officials said. Abderrahim Houti is being held in lieu of $5,000 bail on state criminal charges that he harassed and threatened an Owings Mills woman and her family last month. Police arrested Houti on those charges Wednesday morning at his apartment in the 3600 block of Labyrinth Road.

In Baltimore City Parents, kids asked to wash hands to prevent infection Noting a big jump in the number of Baltimore cases of a bacterial infection common in children, Dr. Peter L. Beilenson, city health commissioner, is urging parents and children to practice good hygiene, especially hand-washing. This year, 84 cases of the intestinal infection, called Shigella, have been reported in the city -- more than twice the number for all of last year. Doctors have noted the increase mostly in children ages 1 to 4, especially in day care centers.