Maryland State Police

Maryland State Police are looking for a motorist who struck a 20-year-old West Virginia man as he walked on I-70 in Hagerstown. After the driver left the scene, the struck man was hit by a second vehicle and later pronounced dead. The victim was identified as James Lloyd Weatherholtz of Martinsburg, W.Va. Police say he had gotten into an argument with a passenger while driving westward on the highway shortly before 11 p.m. on Saturday. Weatherholtz stopped just east of exit 29, got out, and began walking away on the left shoulder of the interstate, according to the police account.

Anne Arundel County police have charged a 42-year-old Glen Burnie man with human trafficking and selling the sexual services of a 12-year-old Washington girl who had been reported missing nearly two weeks ago. Derwin Samuel Smith, who lives in an apartment in the first block of McGuirk Drive in Glen Burnie, was ordered jailed Wednesday in lieu of $100,000 bail to await trial. Police were involved in the case as part of the Maryland Human Trafficking Task Force. They said the girl was reported missing May 25 from Washington and was believed to be working as a prostitute.

Police identify body found on golf course 2 Baltimore County police say the body found in a car parked on the grounds of a country club is that of Irving Hurwitz of Pikesville. Hurwitz, 78, had been reported missing by his family on Sunday. County police spokesman Cpl. Mike Hill said a passer-by found the body Thursday inside Hurwitz's 2003 Buick Century on Woodholme Country Club's golf course. Police do not suspect foul play. An autopsy will be conducted to determine the cause of death.

Maryland State Police say a Washington County mother and her son have been indicted on murder-for-hire charges. State police say the indictments were issued by a Washington County grand jury against 67-year-old Grace Marie Fink and her 39-year-old son, Clarence F. Meyers, both of Hancock. Police say that Meyers was conspiring with Fink to murder his former girlfriend, who is the mother of two girls he was convicted of killing. Meyers is in prison following his August conviction for those deaths in a February fire.

Police knew just where to find the 17-year-old fugitive from a Baltimore County detention facility. All they had to do was trace a call he made on the cell phone of his lover - an employee at the center. The boy, a sex offender who had been in custody at a treatment facility in Parkville, fled Monday evening during a sanctioned group outing to a White Marsh movie theater. As Maryland State Police officials told the story Thursday, the boy made his getaway by hopping into a waiting car driven by Tyra M. Greenfield, a 26-year-old youth counselor.

A Baltimore County teenager was killed after veering off the ramp from southbound Interstate 83 to the Baltimore Beltway westbound near Lutherville, according to Maryland State Police. Kwest T. Logan, 17, of the 200 block of Lord Byron Lane in Cockeysville, was found dead about 10 a.m. Monday, shortly after police responded to a report of a possible vehicle in the woods near the exit ramp. A motorist called police after noticing light reflecting off the car while driving in slow-moving traffic this morning, police said.

The National Transportation Safety Board adopted a broad set of safety recommendations Tuesday covering medical helicopters, expanding beyond equipment and technology matters to address the business models of the $2.5 billion industry. The board also recommended extending federal oversight to government medical helicopter operations such as that of the Maryland State Police. The most sweeping change was a proposal that Medicare, the nation's largest insurer, pay only for flights conducted by medical helicopter programs that abide by safety and performance standards that the Medicare program would develop.

City man, 20, fatally shot in head in East Baltimore A 20-year-old man was fatally shot in the head Tuesday night in East Baltimore, according to city police. The man, identified as Gregory Wilson, was found by officers about 11:16 p.m. in the 2600 block of E. Oliver St. lying on his back suffering from a gunshot wound, police said. Wilson, of the 1100 block of Whitelock St., was taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital and pronounced dead about midnight. Police have made no arrests in the case.