Padlock

City Council President Lawrence A. Bell III made the first foray into television advertising by a mayoral candidate yesterday with a commercial on his crime-fighting efforts in the city.In the 30-second campaign spot, Bell is seen walking and talking with city police officers and residents, mostly on Baltimore streets. Only the voice of Gary McLhinney, president of the Fraternal Order of Police, is heard as he lists Bell's accomplishments in office. The union has endorsed Bell's mayoral bid."

Police logWest Friendship: Quarterfield Drive and Folly Quarter Road: A padlock was cut from the door of a construction trailer Wednesday or Thursday, and tools were stolen.Pub Date: 1/20/97

Police logFulton: 8500 block of Pindell School Road: A rear sliding window was pried at a residence between Feb. 3 and Feb. 8. Jewelry and an unknown amount of cash were stolen. A padlock also was pried off an adjacent storage shed, but nothing was missing.

Police logElkridge: 7700 block of U.S. 1: A green 1996 Ford F50, Maryland tags 54D335, was stolen between 10 p.m. Wednesday and 4 a.m. Thursday.Ellicott City: 2700 block of Patapsco Valley Road: Someone entered a trailer of Schuster Concrete between 7 p.m. Friday and 8 a.m. Saturday after cutting a padlock on the metal doors.Ellicott City: 2700 block of Patapsco Valley Road: Someone entered a trailer and took a tamper -- a machine used to compact dirt in trenches -- between 7 p.m. Friday and 8 a.m. Saturday after cutting a padlock on the trailer.

* Ellicott City: 8300 block of Grove Angle Road: Someone pried off the lock on a storage shed Monday or Tuesday, but nothing was taken.8500 block of U.S. 40: A 1995 white Ford Contour with Maryland tags BJW-165 was discovered missing during inventory at Normandy Ford. The rental car was taken within the past three weeks.* Elkridge: 5700 block of Furnace Ave.: Someone cut a hole in a fence surrounding McGuire Inc., broke the padlock of a storage trailer and stole a trowel machine Saturday.

POLICE LOG* Long Reach: 6100 block of Tamar Drive: Someone removed a padlock from a construction trailer and took a radio and phone between Wednesday and Thursday, police said.

The owner of a Harney general store told state police that someone cut the padlock on his store and stole $200.Luther I. Ridinger, owner of Ridinger's Store in the 5000 block of Harney Road, said the break-in occurred between 6:30 p.m. Tuesday and 8:30 a.m. Wednesday.Ridinger, 74, recently pleaded guilty to molesting six young boys and was ordered to spend his nights in the county jail for the next nine months.He is allowed to work at the store during the day.FIRE* New Windsor: New Windsor equipment responded for clean-up duties in the 2800 block of New Windsor Road at 9:43 p.m. Wednesday.

POLICE LOG* Ellicott City: 3100 block of Normandy Woods Drive: A 1984 Chevrolet Monte Carlo stolen Tuesday was recovered in Woodlawn in Baltimore County the same night.8500 block of Route 40: A maroon 1989 Ford conversion van with Maryland tags ABD58F was stolen from the lot at Normandy Ford between Saturday and Monday. The vehicle had been left there for service.8300 block of Main St.: A window at the office of the Howard County Tourism Council was broken Monday, police said.* Elkridge: 6000 block of Old Lawyers Hill Road: A padlock was pried off a home's basement doors Saturday, but residents are unsure if anything was taken.

POLICE LOG* Turf Valley: Someone stole a $100 cement bird bath from the yard of a house in the 900 block of 220th St. sometime between 10 p.m. Tuesday and 7 a.m. Wednesday.* Pasadena: Thieves stole stereo equipment from a truck and a car parked on the lot of Northeast High School Wednesday morning.* Sunset Beach: Someone cut the padlock off an outside door last weekend to break into a home in the 8400 block of Miramar Road and steal $500 worth of tools.

* Dayton: 3900 block of Ten Oaks Road: Someone pried a padlock from a garage between Feb. 28 and March 9.

On Aug. 18 at 4:30 p.m., Chang K. Yim rolled down the two corrugated metal doors to his liquor store on North Avenue and secured each with locks. Doing the work himself and a half-hour before deadline, he avoided the spectacle of his store being padlocked by a police commander with television cameras rolling. This was the first test of police enforcing the city padlock ordinance that allowed Commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld III to keep Linden Bar and Liquors in Reservoir Hill closed for up to a year.

Korean-Americans protested yesterday a city public nuisance law they feel unfairly targets their businesses, as a judge told the liquor board to review a case involving the first store closed by the rule. In April, the city liquor board decided not to renew the license of Linden Bar and Liquors, in the 900 block of W. North Ave., after hearing community concerns over criminal activity in and around the business, including a homicide inside the store. Yesterday, because of a procedural matter, a Baltimore Circuit Court judge instructed the board to review its decision not to renew Chang K. Yim's tavern license.

Liquor store failed to secure safety In Peter Hermann's Baltimore Crime Beat column "Shopowner's lawsuit may test the city's padlock law" (Sept. 12), Chang K. Yim, the owner of Linden Bar and Liquors, portrays himself as a victim because his store was ordered padlocked as a result of the persistent problem of drug dealing and violence in and around the store. Any action that damages someone's livelihood has to be taken very seriously, and must be undertaken only as a last resort to end a problem that is hurting many others.

The Linden Bar and Liquors on West North Avenue and Jimmy's Carryout on East Hoffman Street are similar in many ways. Neither establishment has windows. Both occupy stretches of Baltimore real estate that residents, officials and everyone else gave up on long ago. The stores are a necessity in neighborhoods abandoned by other merchants, but also contributors to neighborhood blight. And both establishments, according to city police, once welcomed drug dealers and their guns as much as they did the customers and their cash.

I have Wi-Fi and cellular service through T-Mobile, and I'm wondering how best to secure it from electronic interlopers at the next table at Starbucks. Based on your previous columns, I installed the Zone Alarm firewall. Is there anything I need to turn on or off in XP to keep someone from using one of these radio-based systems to peek in my PC or perhaps load in a virus? First of all, remember that you could be sharing a room with gadget-armed hackers with stuff like telephoto digital camcorders, directional microphones and, of course, their own laptops connected to the same hot-spot network.

City Council President Lawrence A. Bell III made the first foray into television advertising by a mayoral candidate yesterday with a commercial on his crime-fighting efforts in the city.In the 30-second campaign spot, Bell is seen walking and talking with city police officers and residents, mostly on Baltimore streets. Only the voice of Gary McLhinney, president of the Fraternal Order of Police, is heard as he lists Bell's accomplishments in office. The union has endorsed Bell's mayoral bid."

Police logWest Friendship: Quarterfield Drive and Folly Quarter Road: A padlock was cut from the door of a construction trailer Wednesday or Thursday, and tools were stolen.Pub Date: 1/20/97

Police logElkridge: 7700 block of U.S. 1: A green 1996 Ford F50, Maryland tags 54D335, was stolen between 10 p.m. Wednesday and 4 a.m. Thursday.Ellicott City: 2700 block of Patapsco Valley Road: Someone entered a trailer of Schuster Concrete between 7 p.m. Friday and 8 a.m. Saturday after cutting a padlock on the metal doors.Ellicott City: 2700 block of Patapsco Valley Road: Someone entered a trailer and took a tamper -- a machine used to compact dirt in trenches -- between 7 p.m. Friday and 8 a.m. Saturday after cutting a padlock on the trailer.

Police logFulton: 8500 block of Pindell School Road: A rear sliding window was pried at a residence between Feb. 3 and Feb. 8. Jewelry and an unknown amount of cash were stolen. A padlock also was pried off an adjacent storage shed, but nothing was missing.

* Ellicott City: 8300 block of Grove Angle Road: Someone pried off the lock on a storage shed Monday or Tuesday, but nothing was taken.8500 block of U.S. 40: A 1995 white Ford Contour with Maryland tags BJW-165 was discovered missing during inventory at Normandy Ford. The rental car was taken within the past three weeks.* Elkridge: 5700 block of Furnace Ave.: Someone cut a hole in a fence surrounding McGuire Inc., broke the padlock of a storage trailer and stole a trowel machine Saturday.