Pasadena Man

Anne Arundel County police have charged a 30-year-old Baltimore resident with attempted murder in an incident that occurred early Monday in Pasadena. Raymond Gene Adkins, of the 600 block Ponca Street in East Baltimore, also faces assault charges and is being held at the county detention center. Officers, responding to a 1 a.m. call, found the victim on the front porch of a residence in the 700 block of Duvall Highway. The man was suffering from two stab wounds to his upper body.

As if some weren't already on edge with the prospect of an asteroid passing 17,000 miles from Earth, a meteorite exploded over Russian skies injuring 500 people. Scientists say the two aren't related , but there is a long list of questions many may have beyond that. Here are some answers, according to Richard Henry, academy professor in Johns Hopkins University's Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics and Astronomy: What is the difference between a meteor and an asteroid?

A 46-year-old Pasadena man was killed Sunday morning after he lost control of his car during a drag race and slammed into a tree, Anne Arundel County police said. Stanley Johnson of the 4600 block of Mountain Road was traveling west on Route 100 near Catherine Avenue in his Chevy Camaro about 7:20 a.m. when the accident happened. Police say Johnson attempted to initiate a race with another vehicle and swerved off the road shortly after accelerating. The victim was trapped inside the car, according to police.

A Pasadena man was charged with stealing bronze grave markers that vanished from grave sites in Glen Haven Memorial Park in Glen Burnie, according to Anne Arundel County police. Dustin Landon Grogan, 42, of the first block of Wishing Rock Road, is facing a theft charge, police said Tuesday. He was held in lieu of $5,000 bail, according to court records. Police said they recovered four markers from the cemetery, as well as several related metal pieces, at a home in Glen Burnie, and now are trying to find relatives of the people named on the markers.

Anne Arundel County police have charged a 33-year-old Pasadena man with impersonating a police officer. Joshua Thomas Jones, of the 7900 block of Solley Road, was arrested shortly after the July 13 incident. The female victim told police she was outside her home in the 3300 block of Pescara Court in Pasadena about 9 p.m., when a man pulled up in a white Ford Crown Victoria with large fog lamps. The driver identified himself as a sheriff's deputy, who would be serving a warrant in the neighborhood.

Anne Arundel County police arrested an 18-year-old man Saturday evening after he and a companion were spotted knocking at the door of a home in the 7900 block of Leeds Drive in Pasadena and peering in the windows. Officers responding to a call from neighbors, who said they saw the suspects climb over a backyard fence, arrested Zachary Ryan Mitchell of Pasadena as he was climbing back over the fence, police said. The rear sliding door of the home was open and items inside the house had been disturbed, police said.

Anne Arundel police have charged a 40-year-old man with reckless endangerment and unlawfully discharging a firearm during a five-hour barricade at his Pasadena home Sunday. Barry Wayne Williams Jr. also faces disorderly conduct and resisting arrest charges. Officers were called to the 8000 block of Bussenius Road in the Lake Shore neighborhood shortly after 5 p.m. Witnesses, who reported an extremely distraught suicidal subject, told police firearms had been discharged in the garage and backyard of the home, less than 100 yards from other residences.

An Anne Arundel County police officer shot a Pasadena man in Glen Burnie, according to a county police spokesman. The man, Richard Anthony Malczewski Jr., 20, of the 300 block of Riverside Drive, was sent to Maryland Shock Trauma Center with injuries that were not life-threatening. The officer was on patrol at Elvaton Road and Starwood Drive when he saw a man jumping on the roof of a Pontiac minivan about 10:20 p.m. Thursday, police said. The officer got out of his patrol car and the man charged at him, according to police.

Anne Arundel County police have obtained a warrant charging Darius Keenan Jr., 26, of Pasadena with first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of his father, who was found shot to death in his home on Aug. 12. The warrant was obtained Tuesday after an investigation that took detectives to North Carolina, police said. They said Keenan was located in Charlotte, N.C., after police responding to the family's home the day his father was found dead determined his father's car was missing, and authorities in North Carolina stopped it with Keenan driving.

Anne Arundel County Police have identified the Pasadena man who was killed Sunday morning after he lost control of his car during a drag race and slammed into a tree. According to police, Stanley Johnson, 46, of the 4600 block of Mountain Road was traveling west on Route 100 near Catherine Avenue in his Chevy Camaro about 7:20 a.m. at the time of the accident. Police say he tried to start a race with another driver and swerved off the road just after accelerating. The victim was trapped inside the car, according to police.

A Pasadena man has been sentenced to life in prison for killing his wife as she was preparing to leave him. Anne Arundel County Circuit Judge Alison L. Asti sentenced Stephen Richard Salb, 58, on Friday, agreeing with the sentence prosecutors sought for the July 2011 fatal stabbing of Jill Teets Salb, 38. "It was the ultimate in domestic violence," said prosecutor Anne Colt Leitess. "She was going to leave him and he wasn't going to have that. " Leitess said the victim had nine stab wounds, but more than 100 cuts - which Leitess said indicated that she tried to fight off her husband.

A Pasadena man missing since he left home last Monday night has been found dead near Fairview Beach Park, Anne Arundel County police said Sunday. The body of Thomas Herron, 46, was discovered in a wooded area at 12:30 p.m. Saturday, the apparent victim of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Lt. J.D. Batten said the body had been sent to the medical examiner's office, but that family members said Herron had been despondent and had left the house carrying a firearm. Known for walking his dogs in the neighborhood, he had left his animals behind Monday night.

The former president and CEO of Wings to Go, a fast food franchise headquartered in Severna Park, was sentenced to two years in prison Wednesday for embezzling more than $885,000 from the company to pay for telephone sex and prostitutes over a six-year period, according to the Maryland U.S. Attorney's office. Mark Chandler Goodnow, 56, of Pasadena, must also pay restitution for the money he stole from the company to pay prostitutes in Maryland and to cover the personal expenses and phone sex fees of three Texas women, prosecutors said.

A Pasadena man accused of killing his wife with nine stab wounds and 92 knife slashes admitted Tuesday morning that prosecutors had enough evidence to convict him of first-degree murder. Stephen Richard Salb, 57, entered an Alford plea in the July 2011 slaying of his wife, Jill Teets Salb, 38, in Anne Arundel County Circuit Court. The plea means Salb maintains his innocence while acknowledging he could be convicted. Salb faces life in prison, a sentence prosecutor Anne Leitess said the state will recommend at his November sentencing hearing.

Anne Arundel County police have charged a 30-year-old Baltimore resident with attempted murder in an incident that occurred early Monday in Pasadena. Raymond Gene Adkins, of the 600 block Ponca Street in East Baltimore, also faces assault charges and is being held at the county detention center. Officers, responding to a 1 a.m. call, found the victim on the front porch of a residence in the 700 block of Duvall Highway. The man was suffering from two stab wounds to his upper body.

Anne Arundel County police have obtained a warrant charging Darius Keenan Jr., 26, of Pasadena with first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of his father, who was found shot to death in his home on Aug. 12. The warrant was obtained Tuesday after an investigation that took detectives to North Carolina, police said. They said Keenan was located in Charlotte, N.C., after police responding to the family's home the day his father was found dead determined his father's car was missing, and authorities in North Carolina stopped it with Keenan driving.

Anne Arundel County police have identified a 52-year-old Pasadena man who died in a motorcycle crash in Glen Burnie Saturday evening. Officers found Jason Alton Cockrell lying in a wooded area next to Nabbs Creek Road near Francis Road in the Brightwater Beach community at about 6:45 p.m. He was pronounced dead at the scene, according to police. According to police, Cockrell had just left the Nabbs Creek Caféand was riding his 1998 custom-built motorcycle west on Nabbs Creek Road with two other motorcyclists.

Authorities in North Carolina located the car of a Pasadena man who was found dead in his home Sunday. Officers in Charlotte stopped the vehicle belonging to Darius Keenan Sr., 50, and identified the driver as Keenan's son, 26-year-old Darius Keenan Jr. Keenan Sr. was found in his home dead from a gunshot wound to the upper torso earlier that day by a family member. His car was missing from the home in the 400 block of Harlem Ave., prompting police to send out a nationwide alert for the vehicle.

The Anne Arundel County Police Department is investigating the suspicious death of a 50-year-old Pasadena man, whose body was discovered Sunday at his home. Officers were called at 9:30 a.m. to the 400 block of Harlem Avenue near Catherine Avenue, by a family member who found the man inside the home. Police have released few details but said the victim, identified as Darius Keenan, had suffered "trauma to the upper body. " The homicide unit has taken control of the investigation.