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Investigators found blood and remains from two people on the undercarriage of a car owned by a Harford County man charged with killing one woman and linked to three other deaths, newly filed court documents show. The revelation came in a defense motion to suppress evidence of any other alleged victims from being introduced next month in the first-degree murder trial of Charles Eugene Burns. The 35-year-old Burns is charged in last year's killing of Lilliam Abramowicz Phelps, an Elkton woman whose family says she traveled to Havre de Grace to visit friends and never returned.

A man suspected of holding a woman hostage in North Point State Park on Sunday afternoon has been charged with multiple offenses, including assault, Baltimore County police said yesterday. About 5:30 p.m., the woman told police that she had escaped from the man and that he had fired shots as she fled into the woods. Police blocked off North Point Road and other roads leading into the park and searched for the man. Scores of motorists in the area were forced to wait until the search was over.

A man was arrested without incident yesterday and charged in the attempted abduction of an 8-year-old boy on June 3.Police said Jason Knight, 34, of the 1100 block of St. Paul St. was charged with attempted abduction, assault and possession of a knife. Police said Knight, who was arrested outside his home shortly after midnight and charged with indecent exposure, was being held at the Central Booking and Intake Center.Police said a man with a stuffed animal in the front seat of his car tried to abduct the boy in the 2100 block of Park Ave. in Reservoir Hill about 7: 45 p.m. June 3.The boy was chased through a park by a man with a knife, police said.

A Westminster man accused of robbing a Finksburg man at gunpoint of $5 was arrested yesterday on charges of armed robbery, assault, reckless endangerment and related offenses, court records show.An unsecured bond of $50,000 was placed on Matthew Justin Timmons, 19, of the 100 block of Charles St. before he was returned to custody in Baltimore County, where he is being held on unrelated charges, state police said.After the Baltimore County case is resolved, Timmons will be turned over to Carroll County authorities to resolve the other charges.

Domestic violence that erupted during a court proceeding left a woman injured and a man charged with beating her, Baltimore County police said yesterday.Court Master Jacqueline Dawson was ruling Thursday on how much child support would be paid to Tanya Smith, 30, of the 8200 block of Vosges Road in Baltimore County by Thomas Jerome Owens, 43, of Jamaica, N.Y., when Owens became angry.Dawson told Owens to be quiet, police said, and Owens stood up and punched Smith, who was seated next to him at the trial table.

A Howard County circuit judge has postponed until Feb. 15 the trial of a Columbia man charged in the death of his estranged wife and critically injuring his stepdaughter.Police charged Tuse S. Liu, 49, with fatally shooting So Shan Chan, 52, and injuring Wing Sau Wu, 26, as the women were leaving the Ellicott City Circuit courthouse March 11. Liu has been evaluated at Clifton T. Perkins Hospital Center since the shootings.His attorney, Louis P. Willemin, asked for the postponement, saying hospital officials had not completed the evaluation.

Bail was revoked and additional charges were filed against a 35-year-old Westminster man who was accused last month of assaulting the mother of his infant son.State police in Westminster arrested Kenneth E. Kern Thursday night on charges of telephone misuse and violating a protective order the woman obtained to prevent him from contacting her after the alleged assault Sept. 10.Bail on the new charges was set at $100,000 in District Court Friday morning. Prosecutors said Kern was served with a bench warrant signed by visiting Circuit Judge Elsbeth L. Bothe on Friday that revoked the $75,000 bail he posted Sept.

For the RecordArrest correction: The name of a man charged in the burglary of a Cockeysville home Friday was incorrectly reported in Wednesday's Police Blotter. The man arrested was Raymond Sienkielewski.Pub Date: 6/12/98

A Severna Park man was arrested and charged with robbing a French restaurant on Benfield Road Tuesday.Sean Patrick O'Brien, 19, of the first block of Brenda Court also was charged with drug possession and assault.An employee at Moulin de Paris, in the 500 block of Benfield Road, told police a man in his late teens with sideburns walked in just after 6 p.m. asking for change. When the cashier opened the register, the man pushed her, reached into the drawer and took an undisclosed amount, police said.

A Baltimore man was ordered held in lieu of $10,000 bail at the Carroll County jail on assault charges stemming from an incident Thursday outside an Eldersburg restaurant and pub, court records show.John G. Lewis, 32, of the 1700 block of North Ave. was arrested about 7 p.m. outside the restaurant in the 1000 block of Liberty Road. He was charged with four counts of first-degree assault, four counts of second-degree assault and one count each of reckless endangerment, public drunkenness and endangering the safety of others by being intoxicated in public.

Man charged with assaulting officer in incident in which another officer fired gun A 26-year-old Baltimore man was charged Saturday with assaulting an officer and resisting arrest in an incident Friday afternoon in which the man tried to drive into police officer Scott Reid as the officer approached the man's vehicle, according to charging documents. Christopher Mobley of the 3300 block of Piedmont Avenue, who officers believed was armed, is accused of leading police on a chase in his vehicle and then on foot near 23rd Street and Greenmount Avenue.

Man to stand trial in drowning case A medical evaluator has found a Montgomery County man, accused of drowning his three children, competent to stand trial. Attorneys in the case have been proceeding with trial preparations, including a hearing to ensure prosecutors turned over all evidence against Mark Castillo to his attorney, according to court records. Castillo is charged with killing Anthony, 6; Austin, 4; and Athena, 2, in a bathtub at the Marriott Inner Harbor hotel in March 2008 during a custody and divorce battle.

Man charged in shootings 3 A 21-year-old man has been arrested and faces 31 criminal counts in connection with a quadruple shooting in East Baltimore last month. Police say David Hunter of the 300 block of E. 33rd St. was one of the suspects who opened fire on a group of men Feb. 26 in the 400 block of E. Lanvale St. near the intersection with Greenmount Avenue, wounding three of them: Chervez Kittrell, Vernon Smith and Christopher Horne. A fourth man, Charles Goodman, was shot as he ran toward the scene.

Man sought in altercation with police on I-695 Police were searching yesterday evening for a man who pulled a knife on a Maryland Transportation Authority Police officer during a traffic stop, prompting another officer to fire at the man, authorities said. The incident began at 12:30 a.m. yesterday when an officer pulled over a 2003 Cadillac along Interstate 695 in Anne Arundel County. After doing a background check, the officer discovered that the driver, Sean Michael Mapp, 26, of Goldsboro, was wanted for probation violation related to an armed-robbery charge, said spokesman Cpl. Jonathan Green.

A 47-year-old Carney man was arrested and charged with kidnapping his 65-year-old girlfriend and assaulting her and her 10-year-old grandson, Baltimore County police said yesterday. Nathaniel "Sonny" Knox of the 9000 block of Waltham Woods Road was charged with kidnapping and two counts of second-degree assault after he forced Burnetta Mae Ajide out of the apartment they shared and into her car during a argument Tuesday, said Cpl. Michael Hill, a police spokesman. Ajide's grandson called 911 about 11 a.m. Tuesday Hill said.

A 53-year-old Baltimore man faces attempted murder charges in an attack on two women in North Laurel, Howard County police said yesterday. Acting on a tip, police arrested Raymond Watson under a bridge near Stevens Forest Road and Woodside Court in Columbia about 9:30 p.m. Sunday, police said. Watson was being sought in the knife attack Friday night on two women in front of their home. According to police, a 44-year-old woman who once had a relationship with Watson emerged from the house to find a man she identified as the suspect hiding in the bushes.

A man who was fatally shot early Friday while attending a party at an apartment near Morgan State University was not a student at the school, Morgan officials confirmed yesterday. Police did not release the name of the man, but Clinton Coleman, a Morgan spokesman, said police gave the school the victim's name, and that he is not in the university's student database. Coleman added that it is unlikely the man lived in Morgan View Apartments, the privately run student housing complex in the 1500 block of Pentridge Road where the shooting took place.

FREDERICK -- A Woodsboro man has been arrested by Frederick County sheriff's deputies and charged with the fatal shooting of his wife in their home early yesterday. After someone made what was described as an "alarming phone call" from a house on Wood Street about 12:15 a.m. yesterday and was disconnected, deputies worked with the cell phone company to trace the call's origin, according to a news release by Cpl. Jennifer Bailey, a sheriff's department spokeswoman. After deputies arrived at the house more than an hour later and were setting up a perimeter, a man left the house and told them an injured person was inside.

A man suspected of holding a woman hostage in North Point State Park on Sunday afternoon has been charged with multiple offenses, including assault, Baltimore County police said yesterday. About 5:30 p.m., the woman told police that she had escaped from the man and that he had fired shots as she fled into the woods. Police blocked off North Point Road and other roads leading into the park and searched for the man. Scores of motorists in the area were forced to wait until the search was over.

A Gettysburg, Pa., man has been charged in the attempted sale of a black bear hide during a Native American Powwow at the Howard County Fairgrounds in West Friendship last weekend, according to Maryland Natural Resources Police. Sgt. Ken Turner said that Edward Leroy Myers, 49, violated state laws prohibiting the sale of bear skins. "We're trying to prevent so-called `market hunters,' or people who hunt for a living," Turner said. "State law allows commercial fishing, but not commercial hunting with a few exceptions."