Man Escaped

A man wearing an Orioles jersey and implying that he had a gun robbed the Bank of America at 7170 Cradlerock Way in Owen Brown village late yesterday afternoon, Howard County police said. The man, described as 20 to 25 years old, weighing about 200 pounds and wearing the jersey, a white baseball cap and wraparound sunglasses, walked into the bank and quietly demanded money from a teller, police said. Bank employees did not see a weapon, but comments the man made led them to believe that he had a gun, said county police spokeswoman Sherry Llewellyn.

An article in Friday's Carroll County section of The Sun incorrectly stated the relationship between the Central Laundry Facility and Springfield Hospital Center. The Central Laundry Facility is operated by the state's Division of Correction and is not part of the hospital.The Sun regrets the error.A 40-year-old man serving 22 years for armed robbery and burglary escaped from custody at the Central Laundry Facility at Springfield State Hospital in Sykesville Wednesday afternoon.Randal Bryson, who has been confined to the Division of Correction since March 1985, was returning to the facility about 4:30 p.m. He had been taken to the House of Correction in Jessup for medical treatment, and bolted from a van when it returned to the Springfield parking lot, correction officials said.

Baltimore County police are trying to determine how a suspect who was wearing leg irons and was handcuffed to a metal bar escaped from the Garrison precinct yesterday afternoon. Police identified the suspect as 27-year-old Damion Latrell Harrington of Owings Mills. He was being held in the prisoner processing area on warrants charging him with falsifying documents, fraud and failure to appear at a court hearing - all traffic-related - when he ran out of the precinct about 12:45 p.m., said Cpl. Vickie Warehime, a police spokeswoman.

A Baltimore man charged in a June burglary at a Columbia business escaped from the Howard County Circuit Courthouse yesterday minutes after a bondsman turned him in on a warrant.Sheriff's deputies, police officers, park rangers, search dogs and two police helicopters spent yesterday afternoon searching a wooded area north of the Ellicott City courthouse for Richard Allen Shrout.By late yesterday, Mr. Shrout had not yet been apprehended, VTC even though authorities had set up roving patrols and closed off the area between the courthouse and Patapsco Valley State Park for about three hours.

A 35-year-old woman died and one of her roommates leapt to safety from a second-floor window as a fire swept through their southern Baltimore home yesterday morning. The woman, Carla Milo, nearly escaped but was unable to squeeze through her bedroom window, where she screamed for help until she died. "She was a girl with a big heart and would do anything for anyone," said her boyfriend, William Dorsey, who left for work before the fire started about 7:15 a.m. Fire officials said they were investigating the cause of the blaze, which caused about $40,000 in damage to the rowhouse in the 3900 block of Brooklyn Ave. Tony Conway, 29, who lived in the house with Milo and Dorsey, said he awoke about 7:20 a.m. When he opened his bedroom door, he was confronted by a curtain of black smoke.

A man robbed a Frederick County National Bank branch office in Mount Airy on Wednesday and escaped with an undisclosed amount of money, authorities said.The man walked into the bank at Mount Airy Shopping Center in the 400 block of Ridgeville Blvd. at 2 p.m., announced the robbery and filled a white plastic bag with money from tellers' windows, state police said.Witnesses described the suspect as a thin black man, 25 to 30 years old, about 6 feet tall with a beard and mustache. He was wearing small round sunglasses, a maroon-and-white baseball cap, maroon-and-white polo shirt, blue jeans and white tennis shoes.

A 25-year-old man charged in North Carolina with kidnapping and attempted rape who escaped Thursday afternoon from a cell in Annapolis District Court was arrested shortly before midnight, county police said. Officers with the Anne Arundel County police, Annapolis police, Maryland State police, and the county sheriff's office were involved in the search for Bonrick Lee Barksdale since his escape about noon, said Anne Arundel police Lt. Francis Tewey. Barksdale was apprehended before midnight near the intersection of Dewey Drive and Sumner Road in the Admiral Heights community, Tewey said in an email.

A man who "managed to break free" from police custody in the parking lot of the Northeast District station near Morgan State University's campus caused university officials to issue multiple alerts to students Tuesday night, according to police. About 7 p.m., a man who had just been arrested on a warrant and was being transported by officers escaped their control in the 1900 block of Argonne Drive and ran off, according to Detective Jeremy Silbert, a police spokesman. Officers immediately began searching for the man. Silbert said he did not know the man's name or why the warrant had been issued for his arrest.

A 48-year-old jailed murderer has been captured more than three months after he escaped from authorities through the rear of a prison bus that had stopped at a red light downtown.Levi Arthur Hudson, who was serving a life plus 20-year sentence for a double murder in 1968, was arrested without incident by FBI agents about 2 p.m. yesterday in an apartment in the 6600 block of St. Vincent's Lane in West Baltimore, the bureau said."It was just good police work" that led to his arrest, said James Dearborn, an FBI spokesman.

A Baltimore man's filmed journey back to the country where he hid from the Nazis will be shown at the Jewish Museum of Maryland tonight, in commemoration of the 62nd anniversary of Kristallnacht. Max Amichai Heppner's family had fled Germany for the Netherlands in 1933, shortly after Adolf Hitler came to power and five years before Kristallnacht, the night when Nazi thugs burned and looted synagogues and Jewish-owned businesses throughout Germany and Austria. The Heppners weren't so lucky when the Nazis overran their adopted country.