Man Drove

A 35-year-old Odenton man was charged with kidnapping and sexual assault after a woman was forced into a car in Baltimore, police said.The woman was walking along Hanover Street in Baltimore at 4:29 a.m. when a man with a gun pulled up next to her and forced her into his car, police said. The man drove to Anne Arundel County, sexually assaulted the woman and later stopped on Oakton Road near Route 175.After demanding and receiving $150, the man started choking the woman, police said. She managed to fight him off, then ran to a nearby house.

County police arrested a Cape St. Claire man on assault charges Sunday in the beating of an Arnold man, police said yesterday.The man allegedly punched and kicked Lawrence Turner, 43, of the 700 block of Mago Vista Road in front of Officer Timothy M. Holevas.Mr. Turner called police about 8:30 a.m. and said that an acquaintance had taken his van without permission. Shortly after the call, Officer Holevas arrived at Mr. Turner's house and they drove to the suspect's house in the 1100 block of Ramblewood Dr.Officer Holevas waited outside while Mr. Turner went inside to speak to the acquaintance, police said.

Robbery attempt foiled at Crofton bankA teller at a Crofton bank thwarted a robbery attempt Friday morning by pushing an alarm button, scaring away the suspect, who was in a car at the drive-up window, police reported.Police said a man drove up to the Standard Federal Savings Bank, in the Crofton Center shopping plaza, and placed a note announcing a holdup in the drawer.The teller moved away from the window, gave the note to her supervisor and pushed the alarm button, summoning police. The man drove away from the bank without further incident.

A 30-year-old Shady Side man was robbed of his 1971 Mercury on Sunday by a man who said his car had broken down and asked for a ride, then claimed he had a gun and demanded the car, county police said yesterday.David Alfred Patton of the 5400 block of Shady Side Road was getting gas at the Paceway store in the 5500 block of Muddycreek Road at 8:30 p.m. when the man approached him and asked for a ride.Mr. Patton agreed. But during the ride, the man told him he had a gun and demanded the car. After Mr. Patton stopped the car and got out, the man drove off.Store manager robbed while making depositThe manager of an Annapolis convenience store was robbed of his bank deposit bags early Thursday morning, county police reported.

Police are looking for a man who threatened to expose himself to an Arundel High School student on school property Friday.A 17-year-old student told police she was waiting for a friend on the back parking lot of the school in the 1000 block of Annapolis Road in Gambrills about 11: 30 a.m. She said a man drove up in a dark blue pickup truck and offered to pay her $5 to watch him. The girl told the man no and he drove off, police said. Police did not have a detailed description of the man.Police logSevern: Vandals damaged at least six vehicles with green spray paint between 2 a.m. and 8 a.m. Saturday while they were parked in the Quail Run South neighborhood.

A Westminster man could be arrested as early as tomorrow on a charge of attempted first-degree murder stemming from the Jan. 21 beating of a 7-Eleven clerk in Taylorsville.State police filed documents in Carroll County District Court on Friday alleging that Michael Walter Jones, 22, beat the clerk, Linda Sue Thompson, with the wooden handle of a shovel during a holdup at the convenience store at the corner of Routes 27 and 26.Mr. Jones, who is in an unspecified jail on an unrelated theft charge, is also charged with battery, robbery and assault with intent to maim in the Jan. 21 incident.

A Glen Burnie man has been charged with robbing a 17-year-old girl of her car Monday outside the Giant grocery store at the intersection of Ritchie Highway and Mountain Road.Scott Joseph Weber, 35, of the 7800 block of Americana Circle was charged with armed carjacking, robbery with a deadly weapon and driving with a suspended license.According to the police report, Heather Burmeister of the 8100 block of Holly Road was sitting in a Dodge Shadow while waiting for a friend outside the store at 8:52 p.m. when a man with a knife got into the car.The girl jumped out of the car, and the man drove off.Police reported that investigators were told by a woman that she had been arguing with her husband during the evening and that she thought that he might have gone to the grocery store.

A Columbia man was arrested Wednesday night after police said he tried to run over an anti-pornography protester in front of the Pack Shack bookstore in Ellicott City, the site of numerous protests since it opened earlier this year.Christopher Maurice Wan, 34, of the 5400 block of High Tide Court, was charged with assault, reckless endangerment and disorderly conduct, said Sgt. Steven Keller, a police spokesman.Keller said officers responded to a complaint about 9: 45 p.m. that the protesters, from a group called Men Against Pornography, were trespassing at the Pack Shack, which also sells and rents adult videos and magazines.

A Northern District officer answering complaints about prostitution Tuesday arrested two people who he said were having sex in the woods near the 600 block of Matthews Ave., police said.Mark Christopher Geier, 28, of the 6600 block of Belford Ave. in Baltimore was charged with assignation and indecent exposure. Belinda Mae Freeman, 30, of the 3700 block of Leo St. was charged with prostitution.The officer said he stumbled upon the couple shortly before 2 p.m. The man and the woman differed on how they came to be in the woods, police said.

An unidentified man was shot yesterday afternoon, apparently while sitting in his car on the parking lot of a nursing and assisted-living facility in the Villa Nova section of Baltimore County. County police refused last night to provide information on the shooting, which occurred about 2:15 p.m. outside the 300-resident Augsburg Lutheran Home and Village in the 6800 block of Campfield Road. The victim was not a resident there, according to Glenn Scherer, Augsburg executive director. He said the man drove onto the parking lot of the home and was sitting in his car next to a trash container when another man approached and shot him. Sherer said the wounded man managed to enter the kitchen of one of the home's buildings on the 52-acre complex, where he was aided by a nurse and other staff members as police were alerted.