Man Was Beaten

In light of recent attacks on the B&A Trail, county police have stepped up nighttime patrols and arrested 17 people for trespassing on the trail during the weekend. County Executive John R. Leopold ordered the increased bike patrols after a 20-year-old man walking on the trail in the Harundale area after dark Nov. 5 was beaten and robbed by a group of young males. "The trail is one of the most highly prized amenities in the county," Leopold said. "I don't like the fact that people are in fear of being assaulted when they're using this amenity."

Missing Forest Park woman believed in danger City police continue to seek a missing Forest Park mother of three children who was last seen Oct. 28 in the company of her 28-year-old boyfriend, said a Police Department spokesman. The boyfriend's name was not released. Mia Lynn Nichols, 37, of the 3900 block of W. Forest Park Ave. was last seen in her boyfriend's green Acura with tags 6EB B10 and was reported missing the next day, said Agent Donny Moses, the spokesman. "We believe she may be in danger," Moses said.

A Glen Burnie man was beaten and robbed by two men Thursday night but escaped serious injury, county police said.William Correlli, 41, of the 400 block of Old Stage Road was treated at North Arundel Hospital and released, officials said.Mr. Correlli told police he was walking on Quarterfield Road near Route 100 about 10:30 p.m. when two men approached and punched him in the head and body. The men took Mr. Correlli's wallet and ran to a waiting Volkswagen, police said.Severn woman charged in stabbing of boyfriendPolice arrested a Severn woman early Thursday on charges of stabbing her live-in boyfriend, county police said.

A Glen Burnie man was robbed at gunpoint Wednesday as he was withdrawing money from an automated teller machine, county police said.Lawrence Snyder, 34, told police that he was using the ATM outside the Motor Vehicle Administration building shortly before 9 p.m. when a man with a semiautomatic handgun approached and demanded cash.Mr. Snyder gave him an undisclosed amount of money, police said, and the bandit ran north on Ritchie Highway.4 men in white ski masks assault man outside mallA man was beaten and kicked by a group of men wearing white ski masks in an unprovoked attack outside the Glen Burnie Mall Tuesday, county police said.

County police are looking for the gunman who robbed the First Federal Savings Bank of Annapolis on Monday.Police said the masked robber walked into the bank in the first block of West McKinsey Road about 11 a.m. and demanded money. The teller put the money on the counter, and the robber put the cash in a brief case.He was last seen running south toward the Severna Park Library.Police described the robber as a white male, about 6 feet tall, wearing a brown knit cap, a blue coat and faded jeans.

A Frederick man was beaten and slashed Sunday night when three men attacked him in the 7900 block of Nolpark Court, county police said.Gary Wendell Robinson, 33, went to a Nolpark Court address about 9 p.m. and met a man described by police as a former friend.While Mr. Robinson and the man talked, two other men crept up behind the victim. Then all three men beat Mr. Robinson to the ground, kicked him in the head and cut him on the left forearm with a sharp object, police said.Mr. Robinson was treated at North Arundel Hospital for cuts and bruises and released, a hospital spokesman said.

Police reports in baltimore city and county: Southern Baltimore Robbery Police were seeking a man who grabbed a woman, 26, around the neck about 11:45 p.m. Friday as she walked in the 1200 block of Williams St. and stole her purse containing a digital camera, a cell phone, an electronic organizer, credit cards and other property. Assault A man, 24, remained in serious condition at Maryland Shock Trauma Center after he was attacked by at least two men in the 3600 block of 7th St. in Brooklyn.

A man snatched two rings from the hand of a sales clerk in a Harundale Mall jewelry store Thursday.Police said the man asked the clerk in the S & N Katz jewelry store if he could see two diamond rings. As he was being shown the rings, the man grabbed them and ran out of the mall.Police described the suspect as a black man, about 20 years old, 5-foot-8 and weighing 160 pounds. He was wearing gray sweat pants anda yellow shirt.The rings' value is $5,799.GLEN BURNIE MAN STABBED DURING FIGHTA Glen Burnie man received multiple stab wounds during a fight inside the Sierra Night Club in Hanover early Friday morning, police said.

A Glen Burnie man was beaten and robbed of $80 Sunday on the parking lot of a convenience store on Quarterfield Road, county police said.Charles Davis Crook Jr., 37, told police he was at the Dash-In in the 7800 block of Quarterfield Road about 9 p.m. when four men approached and demanded money.As Crook reached for his wallet, the tallest of the assailants punched him in the face five or six times before taking $80 from Crook's wallet, police said.The men fled to nearby woods. Police did not have a detailed description of the robbers.

A man with a threatening note robbed a Provident Bank of an undisclosed amount of cash yesterday morning, county police said.The man walked into the bank in the 7400 block of Ritchie Highway about 11 a.m. and handed the teller a note, police said. The note said that the man had a gun and that he wanted the bank's money in a brown paper bag. No dollar bills or dye packs were to be put in the bag, the note said.The note also informed the teller that if she did as she was told, no one would be hurt.