Natural Gas Leak

Fires Westminster: Firefighters from Reese, Pleasant Valley and Manchester assisted Westminster at 2: 04 p.m. Monday for a natural gas leak in the 100 block of W. Main St. Units were out 40 minutes. Westminster: Firefighters responded at 9: 29 p.m. Monday for an odor of smoke at Route 97 and Airport Drive. Units were out 45 minutes.

FireSykesville: Firefighters responded at 4: 21 p.m. Sunday to a brush fire on Route 32 at Sandosky Road. Units were out 15 minutes.Sykesville: Firefighters responded at 2: 13 p.m. Sunday to a natural gas leak in the 2000 block of Bandy Ave. Units were out 30 minutes.Sykesville: Firefighters from Gamber and Liberty Road in Baltimore County assisted Sykesville at 12: 30 p.m. Sunday, responding to a natural gas leak in the 2000 block of Ruddy Serra Drive. Units were out 25 minutes.Sykesville: Firefighters responded at 10: 48 a.m. Sunday to a fire alarm in the 700 block of Obrecht Road.

FIRE* Hampstead: Hampstead, Manchester and Arcadia responded for a natural gas leak at the Smokehouse Restaurant on Hanover Pike at 3:17 p.m. Sunday. Units were out for 40 minutes.Hampstead and Manchester responded to a house fire on Ralph Avenue at 3:29 p.m. Saturday. Units were on the scene for 24 minutes. Manchester also filled in at the Hampstead station during the fire.

FIRE* Mount Airy: Mount Airy firefighters responded to a natural gas leak in the 13400 block of Penn Shop Road in Frederick County at 8:45 p.m. Thursday. They were out 47 minutes.Mount Airy firefighters responded to an auto fire in the 11700 block of Old National Pike in Frederick County at 11:58 a.m. Thursday. They were out 13 minutes.

FiresHampstead: Firefighters from Manchester assisted Hampstead at 9: 06 a.m. Thursday, responding to a natural gas leak in the 4000 block of Farmwoods Lane. Units were out 35 minutes.Hampstead: Firefighters from Manchester assisted Hampstead at 9: 45 a.m. Thursday, responding to a natural gas leak in the 700 block of Hanover Pike. Units were out 30 minutes.Lineboro: Firefighters responded at 11: 37 a.m. Thursday to a carbon monoxide alarm in the 4000 block of Falls Road. Units were out one hour.

FireSykesville: Firefighters from West Friendship in Howard County assisted Sykesville at 9: 15 a.m. Wednesday, responding to a natural gas leak at Hawks Ridge Road and Gray Way. Units were out an hour.Sykesville: Firefighters from Gamber assisted Sykesville at 12: 32 p.m. Wednesday, responding to a natural gas leak in the 800 block of Mayfair Way. Units were out 30 minutes.Sykesville: Firefighters from Gamber, Winfield and Liberty Road in Baltimore County assisted Sykesville at 2: 23 p.m. Wednesday, responding to a fire in a bathroom at Oklahoma Road Middle School in the 6300 block of Oklahoma Road.

A Reisterstown man who served one year of a three-year sentence for a 1995 theft conviction had the remaining two years reinstated yesterday after he was found guilty of violating his probation.Steven M. Meyer, 36, of Cockeys Mill Road pleaded guilty July 14, 1995, to entering a Sykesville home through an unlocked garage door and stealing property, court records show.Meyer has not paid restitution of $395 and failed to report to his probation agent as directed, prompting Circuit Judge Raymond E. Beck Sr. to reimpose the balance of the original sentence.

A Union Mills man was sentenced to 90 days in the Carroll County Detention Center yesterday after being convicted of stealing more than $80,000 from a Pennsylvania couple for whom he was supposed to build a house.Dean Spicer Gray, 28, pleaded guilty yesterday but allowed prosecutors to read a statement of facts that could convict him.In exchange, prosecutors agreed to drop several other charges of theft and doing home improvements without a license. Prosecutors also placed on the inactive docket similar theft charges in connection with a Marriottsville victim.