Northern District

In yesterday's editions of The Sun in Anne Arundel County, an incorrect date was listed for the February meeting of the Northern District Police Community Relations Council. The meeting is set for 7:30 p.m. tomorrow at the Northern District police station, 939 Hammonds Lane in Brooklyn Park.The Sun regrets the errors.

The Northern District Police Community Relations Council will meet at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Northern District police station at 939 Hammonds Lane. A representative of the Anne Arundel County Police Special Operations Section will be the speaker.Acting Capt. Dennis Wheeler will also give a report of the activities in the Northern District. If you are interested in what is happening in your community or would like to voice a concern to the Police Department, you are invited to attend.Information: 789-5160.

The Northern District Police Community Relations Council will honor its officer of the year at its Christmas Party at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow.Also on the agenda will be the installation of officers for 1996.Members are asked to bring a covered dish to share with other members. The community is invited.Northern District is at 939 Hammonds Lane.

BALTIMORE CITY* THEFT/ARREST: Northern District -- Police arrested a 21-year-old man who attempted to leave the Rite-Aid pharmacy in the 3100 block of Greenmount Ave. Sunday without paying for cigarettes and a lighter.* BURGLARY: Northern District -- Shortly after the occupant of a house in the 100 block of Taplow Road arrived home Sunday and placed her purse on a table, an intruder stole it. The purse contained credit cards, cash and other items.* ROBBERY: Northern District -- A resident of the 1700 block of Thomas Ave. was standing in the 5000 block of The Alameda Saturday when a gunman got out of a late-model Oldsmobile and ordered him into the car. The victim was robbed of more than $100, a coat and his athletic shoes, all valued at nearly $400, then forced out.* THEFT: Northern District -- A Browning shotgun valued at $400 and two boxes of shotgun shells were stolen over the weekend from a 1985 Toyota parked in the 3400 block of Greenmount Ave.* THEFT: Northern District -- A warrant was to be issued for a man who stole cookies and candy Saturday from the gift shop at Union Memorial Hospital in the 200 block of E. University Parkway.

Citing the success of bicycle patrols in the Northern District, the Baltimore Police Department today expanded the program to the Central and Northeastern Districts.Tomorrow, the department will expand bicycle patrols to the Northwestern District.By fall, each of Baltimore's nine police districts will have a contingent of Bicycle Patrol officers, according to a spokesman.Since October 1992, when bicycle patrols were established in the Northern District, officers assigned to the unit have handled 1,013 citizen complaints and 172 calls for service, and have made 29 arrests, Police Commissioner Edward V. Woods said.

The difference made by a sensational murder case nearly 10 years ago ago can be seen in two photographs of children swimming among coral reefs that hang on a wall of the Northern District Police Station in Linthicum.Another difference shows in a lawyer who has decided that it's silly to scream at his children over a messy room, and another in a woman who, her own children grown, devotes her time to teaching troubled young people how to cope and express themselves.In the decade since mild-mannered Larry Swartz, 17, killed his parents in a blood bath at the family's Cape St. Claire home on the night of Jan. 16, 1984, those close to the youth say the lessons they learned from his story changed their lives.

Northern District 939 Hammonds Lane, Brooklyn Park 410-222-6135 Eastern District 3700 Mountain Road, Pasadena 410-222-6145 Western District 8273 Telegraph Road, Odenton 410-222-6155 Southern District 2972 Solomons Island Road, Edgewater 410-222-1961 Headquarters 8495 Veterans Highway, Millersville 21108

Baltimore CityARMED ROBBERY: Northern District -- A man entered Big Daddy's Beauty Supply in the 5900 block of York Road at 6:40 p.m. Saturday, asked to buy a jar of beeswax, then pointed his coat-covered hand at a clerk and demanded money. He fled with $200.THEFT: Northern District -- The landlord of a building in the 2500 block of Boarman Ave. told police that a former tenant uprooted a 10-foot Japanese dogwood tree from the property last week and sold it for $20 to a neighbor, who planted it in his yard.