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The .38-caliber revolver used to kill a Baltimore police officer Wednesday is still missing, as well as the officer's 9 mm service pistol that was stolen from him as he lay mortally wounded, police said.Investigators yesterday continued to search in a weed-infested field at Chester and Gay streets, where one of the youths charged with killing Officer Herman A. Jones Sr. claims to have thrown the .38.The youth, Herbert Wilson, 17, told detectives he threw the gun into the field after running from the Jung Hing Chinese Carryout in the 1500 block of N. Gay St., police said.

The Baltimore County tactical police officer who shot and killed a Rodgers Forge woman during a 12-hour standoff last month will not face criminal charges, a county deputy State's Attorney said yesterday.Prosecutor Sue A. Schenning said an investigation by the county police department's homicide unit and by the State's Attorney's office concluded that Officer Robert O. Jones, "was completely justified in firing his weapon" at 40-year-old Tambra W. Eddinger, when she barricaded herself in her bedroom with a rifle Sept.

Sidney Sakols, a real estate executive and civic activist, died Sunday of multiple organ failure at Keswick Multi-Care Center. He was 90. He was born in Baltimore and lived for five years in East Baltimore before moving in 1922 to a home in the 800 block of Lake Drive, where he would live until his death. After graduating from City College in 1935, he joined S. Sakols & Sons, the family real estate business that had been established by his father. During World War II, he served in the Army and attained the rank of master sergeant.

ON BOARD THE CHOCK -- Breaking ice is a dogged and fleeting business.Yesterday, the Chock -- a 65-foot Coast Guard cutter out of Norfolk -- pulled away from the dock at Crisfield and pointed her reinforced steel nose with its underwater "hammer" toward Tangier Island, setting off on a route she had already plowed twice in the previous 18 hours.Much of the way, it might as well have been the first time.Wind, tide and the hard freeze overnight had ensured there would be no neat channel of open water to follow.

Two city firefighters were slightly injured early today battling a two-alarm house fire in the 3900 block of Belview Ave. near Garrison Boulevard.Both firefighters were treated at the scene. Their names and assignments were not available.Reported at 2:48 a.m., the fire went to a second alarm at 3:02 a.m. and was declared under control shortly before 4 a.m.Officer Wayne Jones of the Northwestern police district said flames were shooting out of the second and third floor windows of the three-story shingle dwelling when he arrived on the scene shortly after the first of nearly 15 pieces of fire apparatus took up positions in the front and rear of the burning dwelling.

An off-duty Central District police officer died early today after being shot during an exchange of gunfire with two or three men during an attempted robbery at an East Baltimore carryout.Two suspects were wounded in a struggle between the officer and the would-be robbers, investigators said.Officer Herman Jones Sr., 50, a policeman for 23 years, was pronounced dead at Johns Hopkins Hospital from a bullet wound to the pelvis that apparently severed the femoral artery. He died in surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital about 40 minutes after being admitted.

On the streets, they're known as "knockers" for their aggressive style. The Baltimore Police Department calls them "flex squads" - teams of officers given the freedom to chase down suspected criminals in neighborhoods dominated by drug dealing and violence. But as one flex squad's officers cruised the Southwestern District, questions mounted about their activities. Defense attorneys, prosecutors and community members say they have heard for years about allegations of misconduct that included planted drugs and troublesome practices about how suspects were treated and charged.

A Howard County police officer responding to a possible drug deal seized a handgun from an Oakland Mills man during the weekend, police said.About 12: 20 a.m. Saturday, several men standing in the 9600 block of White Acre Road in Owen Brown fled when they saw Officer Michael Jones' car approach, police said.Jones chased them and stopped a suspect. The officer discovered an automatic handgun in the man's pocket, police said.Charged with carrying a dangerous and deadly weapon is Marcus Antonio Davis, 18, of the 9600 block of Basket Ring Road.

A Manchester man was arrested and charged with operating a vessel while intoxicated on Spa Creek, in the Annapolis area, Sunday.Donald E. Keresztenyi, 40, of the 3300 block of Wilhelm Lane was released on his own recognizance for a hearing Aug. 26, according to a spokesman for Maryland Natural Resources Police. Officer Steven Jones reported he observed a boat speeding in a 6-knot-per-hour zone near the Yatch Basin Marina, police said.The maximum penalty for operating a vessel while intoxicated is one year in jail and a fine of $1,000.

Man charged with robbing elderlyCounty police have charged an Annapolis man with robbing two senior citizens outside a Brooklyn Park convenience store in the last three weeks.Robbery investigators picked up Eric Dwayne Henderson, 34, of the first block of Monroe Street Wednesday evening and later charged him with two counts of armed robbery.According to detectives, Mr. Henderson fit the description of the man who robbed elderly persons outside the Lucky's store at Ritchie Highway and Townsend Avenue.