Man Who Robbed

Howard County police are looking for a man who robbed the Crestar Bank on U.S. 40 in Ellicott City on Tuesday afternoon.Police said a man walked into the bank in the 9000 block of U.S. 40 at 1: 13 p.m. Tuesday and approached a teller station, pulled a handgun from his jacket and announced the robbery.After the teller gave the thief an undisclosed amount of money, the man fled.No one was hurt.The robber is described as black, 30 years old, with short hair, a goatee, crooked teeth and a small mouth.

Police in Anne Arundel County are seeking help finding a man who robbed a PNC Bank branch on Fort Meade Road in Laurel. Police said he walked into the bank about 5:30 p.m. on May 3 and handed a teller a note demanding money and threatening to unleash a chemical weapon. The suspect is described a s white male about 40 years old and standing 5 feet 5 inches tall. He weighs about 150 pounds and was wearing a dark-colored shirt, shorts, dark sunglasses and a red baseball cap. The bank is in the 3300 block of Laurel Fort Meade Road, in Laurel.

Westminster police are seeking a man who robbed the First National Bank in the Crossroads Square Shopping Center of an undisclosed amount of cash about 10 a.m. Friday.Investigators said the robber, who was photographed by the bank's camera, is believed to be the same man who robbed a Baltimore County bank last month.He is described as white, 28 to 35, with blond hair. Police said he wore a baseball cap, aviator-style sunglasses and a white T-shirt.The man gave a note demanding money to a teller and fled after the money was placed in a bag.

Baltimore County police are asking the public's help in identifying a man who robbed a Catonsville liquor store Feb. 1. Police said the man entered The Store, which sells wine, beer and liquor in the Paradise section of Catonsville at 6500 Frederick Road, in the early evening. An employee told county police, who responded at about 7:20 p.m., that a man had pointed a handgun at him and demanded money from the register. The man then reached into the register and took cash from the drawer.

A Baltimore man was arrested Saturday night after a clerk at a Brooklyn Park 7-Eleven store identified him as the man who had robbed the convenience store Friday morning, police said.The clerk called the Northern District about 10:30 p.m. Saturday and told police she had seen the man who robbed the store about 3:30 a.m. Friday. The man had come into the store in the 5000 block of Ritchie Highway a few minutes before the clerk called police, authorities said.Officers broadcast a description of the suspect, who was found at Glade Court near 6th Street in Baltimore.

Police are looking for a man who robbed a Shell gas station in the 8000 block of Ritchie Highway Monday afternoon.Police said the man was sitting on a curb near the station's car wash at 2:13 p.m., then walked into the gas station carrying a short-barreled shotgun wrapped in a white towel. He unwrapped the shotgun and told the cashier to give him some money.The suspect took the money, left the station and walked through a nearby parking lot, police said.

Howard County police have released a description of a man who robbed a High's convenience store in Jessup Thursday afternoon.The man is described as a 28- to 30-year-old black male, 5-feet-8-inches tall with a dark complexion and a light mustache. The man was wearing a turquoise hat and a white T-shirt.He robbed the High's in the 7900 block of U.S. 1 about 4: 45 p.m. Thursday and took an unknown amount of money after telling the clerk he had a gun in a bag he was carrying.Pub Date: 8/19/96

Annapolis city police said yesterday that they were continuing to search for a man who robbed and raped a 39-year-old woman at gunpoint about midnight Saturday near the heart of the state capital. The woman was walking from her car to her house on Stehle Street when she was approached by a man with a black handgun, police said. The woman gave him her purse when he demanded money; then walked her at gunpoint behind some nearby houses and raped her, officers said. She reported the attack immediately, said police, who were working on a detailed description of the suspect.

Maryland State Police in Westminster said yesterday that they were searching for a man who robbed the BB&T bank in Finksburg Plaza. The man entered the bank at Routes 91 and 140 about 10 a.m. Thursday and implied he had a firearm. He was given an undisclosed amount of cash, which he placed in a manila envelope, authorities said. Police said the man might have had a black notebook, portfolio or briefcase with him at the time of the robbery. Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call Metro Crime Stoppers at 866-7LOCKUP or the Westminster barracks at 410-386-3000.

Howard County police are looking for a man who robbed a Woodbine bank yesterday morning. The man entered Westminster Union Bank in the 15900 block of Old Fredrick Road about 10:40 a.m. He announced a robbery and demanded cash, received it and fled. No one was hurt in the incident, police said. Police have released a security camera photo of the suspect, who is described as a white male in his early to mid-30s, 5 feet 10 to 6 feet tall, with dark hair and weighing 140 to 150 pounds. Police and FBI officials are asking anyone with information to call 410-313-3200.

A career criminal whom an irate customer beat with a baseball bat during a holdup of a Fells Point thrift store two years ago was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in federal prison after a jury convicted him of robbery. Mark Lomax, 41, targeted Killer Trash on Broadway three times in eight days. Prosecutors said during his sentencing hearing that the suspect had committed an additional 14 robberies in the span of a month using a collapsible wooden yardstick covered in tape and wrapped in a plastic bag to resemble a firearm.

BALTIMORE (AP) — Federal prosecutors say a man who robbed two Baltimore banks with what he claimed to be were bombs has been sentenced to 14 years in prison. Thirty-year-old Nathaniel Green of Baltimore was also ordered at sentencing on Tuesday to pay restitution of more than $5,000. According to his guilty plea, Green robbed Wachovia banks on West North Avenue and West Pratt Street in July 2010. Each time, Green gave a note to a teller claiming to have a bomb and displayed a device.

Police in Baltimore County are looking for the men responsible for robberies at two PNC Bank branches, one Saturday in a supermarket and another last month at an assisted-living facility for the elderly. In the most recent incident, a man used a note to hold up a PNC branch in a Giant Food market on Loch Raven Boulevard in Towson. The man's face was captured by surveillance cameras shortly before 1:30 p.m. Saturday. A statement issued Monday by Baltimore County police said the man entered the store and passed a note to a bank teller in which he announced that he was committing a robbery.

Howard County police are looking for information that will lead to the arrest of an unidentified white man in his 20s who they believe robbed an Ellicott City bank Monday. According to police, the man entered Howard Bank in the 10100 block of Baltimore National Pike before 10:50 a.m. He gave a teller a note that implied he was armed and asked for cash. After the teller gave him money, the suspect fled. None of the three employees in the bank, which didn't have any customers at the time, was injured.

Maryland State Police in Westminster said yesterday that they were searching for a man who robbed the BB&T bank in Finksburg Plaza. The man entered the bank at Routes 91 and 140 about 10 a.m. Thursday and implied he had a firearm. He was given an undisclosed amount of cash, which he placed in a manila envelope, authorities said. Police said the man might have had a black notebook, portfolio or briefcase with him at the time of the robbery. Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call Metro Crime Stoppers at 866-7LOCKUP or the Westminster barracks at 410-386-3000.

Yesterday's outcome for Antonio L. Murray was never in doubt. Thanks to his conviction on a string of gun possession charges, the former Baltimore police officer knew he faced more than 100 years in prison for robbing drug dealers and arranging the resale of their heroin back on the streets for his own profit. He also knew that the federal judge in the case thought his mandated punishment was excessive but had to impose the time anyway because the law required it. Murray received a prison sentence of 139 years.

Ocean City police and the FBI were searching last night for a man who robbed a bank in the resort yesterday afternoon and fled on a bicycle, police said.Witnesses said the robber, dressed in dark coveralls, a ski cap and sunglasses, entered the Second National Federal Savings Bank in the Midway Shopping Center shortly before 2:30 p.m. He walked up to a window and gave a teller a note demanding cash. The note said the man had a gun, although witnesses did not report seeing a weapon. The teller gave the man an undisclosed amount of cash.

Police are looking for a man who robbed the Second National Federal Savings Bank in Severna Park Friday afternoon.Police said a man walked into the bank, in the 700 block of Gov. Ritchie Highway, at 12:30 p.m. and asked a teller for a loan application.The man followed the teller to the manager's office, where he brandished a handgun and forced them to open the vault. He filled a bag with money and forced the bank employees into a back room before leaving.Police said he was last seen getting into a silver or gray car.He was described as a black male, 40 to 45 years old, 5 feet 10, with a medium build and wearing a gray suit with a green tie and a dress shirt.

Police released yesterday a composite sketch of a man they believe robbed a priest and two workers at gunpoint of several thousand dollars in collection money and threatened to kill a secretary in the rectory of a Northeast Baltimore church Monday. Edwin Day, the Baltimore Police Department's chief of police detectives, said yesterday that police were flooding the area near the Shrine of the Little Flower Catholic Church with extra officers, and detectives were trying to uncover more clues.