NEWS
By Carrie Wells, The Baltimore Sun | May 20, 2013
A 67-year-old woman struck by a car Saturday night in Parkville died of her injuries early Monday morning, Baltimore County police said. Police identified the woman as Sharon Marie Bialek of Baltimore. Bialek was crossing Putty Hill Avenue on foot in a crosswalk near Harford Road at around 9:30 p.m. with her husband Robert Bialek, 71, when a 2004 Toyota Tacoma turning onto Harford Road hit them, police said. The driver, a 59-year-old man, remained at the scene. Both pedestrians were taken to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center with potentially life-threatening injuries.
NEWS
January 12, 2013
The Baltimore Sun A Parkville man barricaded himself in his home after firefighters responded to a blaze in his yard, Baltimore County police reported. The Baltimore County Fire Department responded to the 4100 block of Link Avenue at 6:15 p.m. The fire was extinguished, and fire personnel attempted to speak to a male resident who had "retreated" to the home when they observed firearms, according to police. The man refused to come out, barricading himself in the home. Police personnel also attempted to speak with him, and eventually the man was taken into custody.
NEWS
By Steve Kilar, The Baltimore Sun | December 15, 2011
A teen boy was killed Thursday afternoon when he was hit by two cars in Parkville, police said. Ryan Isiah Chase, 15, was struck at about 2:45 p.m. near the intersection of Putty Hill and Wilson avenues, police said, and he was pronounced dead a few minutes later. He was hit by one car, they said, which pushed him into the second car. Chase was walking south across Putty Hill Avenue when he was struck. Chase lived on Crabtree Court, about a mile east of the scene of the accident.
NEWS
By Erica L. Green, The Baltimore Sun | November 23, 2012
A Mr. Tire employee is recovering from first- and second-degree burns after a car fire broke out in the Parkville auto repair shop Friday. County fire officials responded to the shop in the 7700 block of Harford Road at around 3:50 p.m. where they saw smoke and flames in the front of the building, and found that a man had suffered burns, according to a release from the department. Emergency personnel took the patient to Bayview Medical Center with non life-threatening injuries, fire officials said.
NEWS
By Jessica Anderson, The Baltimore Sun | November 13, 2012
A man was shot at a Parkville business Tuesday in what Baltimore County police believe was an armed robbery. Officers were called at 3:27 p.m. to a business in the 8300 block of Harford Road, where one man was shot and suffered non-life threatening injuries, said police spokeswoman Cpl. Cathy Batton. She did not know the name of the business. She said police are searching for two male suspects in their 20s, wearing dark clothing and who are armed with handguns. jkanderson@baltsun.com Text NEWS to 70701 to get Baltimore Sun local news text alerts
NEWS
By Jessica Anderson, The Baltimore Sun | March 7, 2013
A Parkville man was federally indicted on charges that he conspired with a man in Iran to export manufactured industrial products from the U.S., state's attorney's office said Thursday. Authorities believe Ali Saboonchi, 32, ran the Ace Electric Company to obtain goods to send them to businesses run by Arash Rashti Mohammad, 31, in Tehran, Iran, and the United Arab Emirates since November 2009, the five-count indictment said. U.S. economic sanctions prohibit exporting to Iran.
NEWS
By Peter Hermann, The Baltimore Sun | June 13, 2012
A man initially thought to be sleeping in his car in Parkville Tuesday evening turned out to have been shot several times and was pronounced dead on the scene, according to Baltimore County police. The victim, identified as Miguiel Anthony Bailey, 22, was found about 6 p.m. in a dark Chevrolet Impala parked in the first block of Mopec Circle, off of Taylor Avenue and east of Belair Road. He lived in the 4700 block of Dark Start Way in Owings Mills. Police said a bystander called 911 and said it appeared someone had fallen asleep or was unconscious in the car. Officers and paramedics responded and said Bailey had been shot several times.
BUSINESS
By Steve Kilar, The Baltimore Sun | June 5, 2012
A local grocery chain and a Philadelphia-based nonprofit have opened a ShopRite in Parkville and are employing hundreds of local residents who had been jobless, the grocery store's owner said. "The community has been very positive about the store and about revitalizing an area of Baltimore County that has been underserved," Marshall Klein, chief operating officer of Klein's ShopRite of Maryland, said by phone Tuesday. The 56,000-square-foot ShopRite of Perring Crossing, in the 2400 block of Cleanleigh Drive in Parkville, opened Friday.
NEWS
By Joe Burris, The Baltimore Sun | December 3, 2012
Baltimore County police said that a woman found fatally stabbed on a street in Parkville on Sunday morning in what is believed to be a domestic dispute attempted to flee her residence before being caught by the suspect. Police are investigating the double killing of Okemia Lastezia Walls, 42, of Parkville and William Henry Cunningham, 50, of East Baltimore. Officials found Walls on the first block of Solar Circle Sunday morning. She was pronounced dead at the scene. Police said that while at the scene they were approached by Okemia Walls' husband, Keith Walls, 45, of Joppa, who they say "admitted his involvement in the stabbing," telling officers that Cunningham was in a home where Okemia Walls lived, on the first block of nearby Venus Court.
NEWS
By Meredith Cohn, The Baltimore Sun | August 22, 2011
Baltimore County police have charged a man with first-degree murder in the stabbing death of another man during an argument over the weekend. Vincent Garnett Forney, 44, of the 1700 block of Forrest Ave. in Parkville was visiting a female friend in the same block Saturday night when Jamari Davon Mathis arrived and there was an altercation, said Detective Cathy Batton. Police say that Forney stabbed Mathis, 38, of the 4000 block of Ridgecroft Road in Baltimore, she said. Police said Mathis tried to drive away in his 2008 Honda Accord but crashed in the woods about five houses away.