Pasadena Man

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 was sentenced Wednesday to 60 days in jail for leaving the scene of the accident in which his snowplow blade fatally struck retired John Hopkins University fencing coach Richard Francis Oles while he was walking on Mountain Road, a spokeswoman for prosecutors said. Anne Arundel County Circuit Judge Paul A. Hackner placed a remorseful Maximilian Hopkins Bode, 21, on three years of supervised probation and ordered him to perform 20 hours of community service, according to Kristin Fleckenstein, spokeswoman for the county state's attorney's office.

A 39-year-old Pasadena man was sentenced to life in prison — for the second time — Thursday in the contract killing of his fiancee 16 years ago, the Baltimore State's Attorney's Office announced. Robert Dwayne Harris hired a hit man to stage a robbery and murder Teresa Lynn McLeod, who was shot five times in the back in a Southwest Baltimore parking lot, in order to collect on a $150,000 insurance policy, not knowing he wasn't listed as a beneficiary. A jury convicted him of the crime in 1997, after hearing testimony that he may have been the actual trigger man after his accomplice got cold feet.

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.

A Pasadena man was charged Saturday with assault and reckless endangerment after he barricaded himself and fired a weapon inside his residence, according to Anne Arundel County police. Steven Wayne Stanley, 60, faces first and second-degree assault and reckless endangerment charges, police said. The incident occurred around 4:15 p.m. Friday, according to police, when they were called to the 7600 block of Oak Lane in Pasadena for a report of an overdose. There, family members told police that Stanley was agitated and that he had claimed to have taken an overdose of medication.

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.

County police arrested a Pasadena man Monday on burglary and disorderly conduct charges outside a Glen Burnie apartment building, county police said.Leo Otto Stamm, 32, of the 700 block of Powhattan Beach Road was charged with burglary and disorderly conduct.Officers were called to the first block of Ninth Ave. about 7: 30 a.m. to handle a domestic dispute. When they arrived, they found a man standing outside the building, screaming.When officers tried to quiet the man, he told them he had been involved in a break-in at the complex, police said.

If Mike Juskelis had money and Hollywood juice, he'd make a commercial about hiking complete with raging waterfalls and rocky precipices and starring Sean Connery or Catherine Zeta-Jones. Instead, the 61-year-old Pasadena man tries to coax folks outside and onto the region's trails with his website, midatlantichikes.com. A labor of love since May 2004, the hiking site has the feel of a bunch of like-minded souls sitting in a shelter and talking shop while waiting out a passing thunderstorm.

A snowplow driver admitted Thursday that he didn't stop after he'd struck a pedestrian during a snowstorm in January. The pedestrian, Richard Francis Oles, a retired Johns Hopkins University fencing coach, died of injuries he sustained after being clipped by the plow while walking on Mountain Road in Pasadena. Maximilian Hopkins Bode, 21, of Pasadena pleaded guilty Thursday to leaving the scene of a fatal accident. He could receive up to five years in prison and a $5,000 fine when sentenced in November, when four other counts will be dropped.

A 55-year-old Pasadena man was indicted and charged with wire fraud Tuesday for allegedly embezzling more than $885,000 from the fast food franchise for which he served as president and chief executive officer in order to pay for phone sex and prostitutes, according to prosecutors. Mark Chandler Goodnow, who until recently was CEO of Severna Park-based Wings To Go, allegedly diverted funds from the company to pay three Texas women for phone sex, pay the personal expenses of one of those women, and to pay prostitutes in Maryland, according to the indictment.