Man Fled

A man with a gun and a note robbed a Brooklyn Park High's store Wednesday of an undisclosed amount of money, county police.The clerk called police to the store in the 700 block of Church St. just before midnight and told them a man handed her a note that announced a robbery and demanded money, then showed her a gun in his waistband.The clerk gave him money from the register, and the man fled. Police did not have a complete description of him.Pub Date: 9/13/96

The K-9 unit of Baltimore County Police was called to the scene of an accident in Parkton on Friday to look for the driver of a car who fled the scene. Maryland State Police were the first to respond to an accident on April 27 at 12:47 a.m. on northbound Interstate 83 at Exit 27, Mt. Carmel Road. State police said a 1999 Toyota struck the back of a tractor-trailer and the car caught on fire. The tractor-trailer driver was not injured, police said. Witnesses told police that the lone occupant of the Toyota fled from the scene and ran across the southbound lanes of I-83 and into nearby woods.

A Domino's Pizza store in the Hickory Ridge section of Columbia was robbed Friday night by a man with a gun, Howard County police said. Police said the man - described as black, in his 30s or 40s, and wearing a bandana over his face, a white hooded sweatshirt and baggy jeans - entered the store about 9:40 p.m., showed a chrome handgun and demanded money. The clerk gave up an unknown amount of cash, and the man fled. Police said witnesses saw a compact vehicle leaving the area, in the 6400 block of Freetown Road, at high speed.

A man selling produce at a Westminster roadside stand was robbed at gunpoint Saturday afternoon, according to Carroll County Sheriff's Deputies. The employee with Kern's Produce had been selling produce from the back of his pick-up truck and was seated in the cab taking a break between customers when a man with a gun walked up to the passenger side of the vehicle parked in the 400 block of E. Main Street, deputies said. The man pressed a dark colored handgun against the man's neck while demanding money at about 1:20 p.m., deputies said.

A man who implied he had a gun robbed a Brooklyn Park fast-food restaurant Friday of an undisclosed amount of money.Police said the mustachioed man with a tan and orange bandanna walked into the Kentucky Fried Chicken in the 5700 block of Ritchie Highway just after 9: 30 p.m. with his hand inside his dark-blue windbreaker, demanded money and threatened to shoot a clerk.The clerk handed over money and the man fled, police said.Pub Date: 4/15/97

State police in Westminster are looking for a man who robbed the Eldersburg Martin's Food Store, then fled on a bicycle Sunday. Police said the man entered the store in the 6300 block of Georgetown Blvd. about 12:20 p.m. and approached a cashier with merchandise. After the cashier told him the total purchase price, the man said he was armed and demanded money. The man fled on a maroon bicycle after taking an undisclosed amount of cash. No one was injured. The robber was described as a white male, about 30 years old, 5 feet 10 inches tall and weighing about 180 pounds.

A man with a handgun robbed a Taylorsville convenience store early Friday and fled on foot, said the Maryland State Police at Westminster. A man dressed in black entered the 7-Eleven food store in the 4200 block of Ridge Road just before 12:30 a.m., displayed a handgun and demanded cash from a clerk, police said. No one was injured, and the man fled with an undisclosed amount of cash toward westbound Liberty Road, police said. The robber was described as a black male, age 20 to 25, about 6 feet tall and weighing 160 to 179 pounds.

Police were looking for the man who robbed a Bank of America branch yesterday in Baltimore County. Police said a man entered the bank in the 7900 block of Belair Road in Fullerton about 10:20 a.m. and gave a teller a note demanding money. The man fled with an undisclosed sum and was last seen running south on Belair Road, police said. The robber is described as a white man in his early 20s, between 5 feet 5 inches and 5 feet 10 inches tall, with a slim build. He was wearing blue jeans, a black flight jacket and a "Ford" baseball-style cap, police said.

County police arrested a homeless man on a burglary charge Friday as he fled from a house in the first block of Ferndale Road, authorities said yesterday.The man apparently slipped through an unlocked door shortly after 12 a.m. and was discovered by Barbara J. Wheeler, who lives in the house. The man fled when she began screaming, police said.Police tracked the man with a K-9 dog and found him a few blocks away, "sweaty from running," police said.Officers said he gave a false name when they asked him to identify himself.

When the SunTrust Bank in the 6400 block of Freetown Road in Columbia was held up yesterday, it became the third SunTrust branch that police believe the same man has robbed in less than a month. A suspect described as a clean-shaven white male in his late 30s to early 40s approached a teller about 11:40 a.m. yesterday, implied he had a weapon and demanded money, Howard County police said. He fled with an undisclosed amount of cash, police said. His description and the details of the crime are like those in two other recent robberies - another in Howard and one in Baltimore County, police said.

The man who was involved in two crashes in less than two hours last week in Harford County, including one that killed a woman and her son, might have been arrested after the earlier collision. Troopers acted properly in issuing summonses to Christopher H. Lentz after he allegedly failed to stop at the scene of the first accident, a state police spokeswoman said yesterday. "They took appropriate action based on their observations at the scene," said Elena Russo, a state police spokeswoman.

The Harford County sheriff has ordered a review of departmental policies after the office failed to notify state authorities this week that a man undergoing an evaluation at a psychiatric hospital had been charged with rape in Pennsylvania. Instead, Paul D. McGlothlin, 32, was left unattended in an unlocked room on the open campus of Spring Grove State Hospital Center in Catonsville, officials said. Early Tuesday, he fled the hospital, apparently after cutting through mesh wiring affixed to a window.

Baltimore County police were searching yesterday for two suspects after a 71-year-old man was beaten with his own cane this week in the Stoneleigh area. The attack, which occurred about 11 p.m. Wednesday, has shaken some Towson-area community leaders, in part because several neighbors apparently heard a commotion but did not call 911. The man, who lives in the area, was walking in the 7100 block of Bristol Road, when he noticed a red, four-door sedan pass him and drop someone off, said Cpl. Mike Hill, a county police spokesman.

A Baltimore officer shot and killed a suspected gang member early yesterday morning in West Baltimore after he ran away from police and drew a small-caliber revolver, according to police. The officer, an 11-year veteran who was not identified, initially responded to another officer's call for assistance about 12:10 a.m. at the corner of Smallwood Street and West North Avenue, said Donny Moses, a police spokesman. The other officer had encountered a group of six to eight men, all wearing red T-shirts and red bandanas, and sought to question the men about suspected gang activity, Moses said.

Police were looking for the man who robbed a Bank of America branch yesterday in Baltimore County. Police said a man entered the bank in the 7900 block of Belair Road in Fullerton about 10:20 a.m. and gave a teller a note demanding money. The man fled with an undisclosed sum and was last seen running south on Belair Road, police said. The robber is described as a white man in his early 20s, between 5 feet 5 inches and 5 feet 10 inches tall, with a slim build. He was wearing blue jeans, a black flight jacket and a "Ford" baseball-style cap, police said.

Alfredo Contreras made it safely to Dallas from his home on the Texas coast before the arrival of Hurricane Rita last month. He and his family found refuge with relatives in North Carolina while waiting for life to return to normal in storm-battered Beaumont. But his plans to finally return home yesterday with his wife and two young sons were dashed Sunday night when Contreras was shot and killed in what his relatives said was an attempted robbery during a family visit in the Woodlawn area.

The crime report is a sampling of crimes in Howard County compiled from police. Anyone with information is asked to call police at 410-313-3700. East Columbia Snowden River Parkway: 9000 block. Someone wearing a mask entered Tower Federal Credit Union on Monday and demanded money at gunpoint. The man fled when a customer entered to use the automated teller machine. Centre Park Drive: 8700 block, Long Reach. A man and woman tried to rob a Royal Farm Store about 1:30 a.m. Thursday. They fled when the clerk picked up the phone to call 911. Foreland Garth: 6000 block, Long Reach.

A man attempting to rob the Bradford Federal Savings Bank Friday fled the Ellicott City bank with little, if any, money when an exploding pack discharged tear gas, red dye and red smoke.Less than an hour later, Howard County police detained several people who had been driving on Bethany Lane toward Route 99, but they were later released.By yesterday, no one had been charged.Sgt. Steven Keller, Howard County police spokesman, said that about 11: 15 a.m. Friday, a man held up to a teller at the bank a manila envelope with the message: "I HAVE A GUN!

Bryant E. Davidson, a Baltimore man who was convicted on drug charges last month even though he walked out of his trial, was arrested yesterday in Baltimore, Howard County officials said. County authorities were notified yesterday morning that Davidson, 27, had been arrested on other charges and was being held at the city's Central Booking and Intake Center, said Cpl. Charlie Gable, supervisor of the warrant/fugitive unit for the Howard sheriff's office. Details of Davidson's arrest were unclear yesterday.

An 18-year-old man who fled when his arrest was interrupted by the shooting of a Baltimore police officer Saturday night has surrendered to authorities, police said yesterday. Elliott T. Reed of the 2000 block of N. Fulton Ave. was being held last night at Central Booking and Intake Center on charges of escaping police and possession with intent to distribute drugs. He turned himself in about 11:30 p.m. Monday at police headquarters. Reed had been sought by police since the shooting of Officer Chris Houser, 29, in the 3500 block of W. Belvedere Ave. Houser and several other officers were arresting Reed after spotting him selling drugs, police say, when a gunman fired four or five shots at the officers.