Pasadena Man

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 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.

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.

Annapolis Police arrested a 30-year-old Pasadena man Jan. 10 for a hit-run-accident that seriously injured a bicyclist in August. Jason Ryan Bowen of Colchester Court was charged with failure to immediately stop his vehicle at the scene of accident involving bodily injury, failure to provide an ID and license, reckless driving, negligent driving and failure to control speed to avoid collision, police said Friday. Bowen also failed to exercise due care to avoid a pedestrian collision.

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.

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.

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 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 21-year-old Pasadena man pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter Thursday for shoving a stranger who couldn't swim into the Inner Harbor in 2008 — an act previously characterized by one Baltimore judge as complete stupidity. Wayne Black, who was 18 when he pushed 22-year-old Ankush Gupta into the water and ran, will be sentenced to four years in prison at his sentencing, scheduled for Aug. 30, per an agreement cut with Baltimore Circuit Judge M. Brooke Murdock. His mother dabbed tears from her eyes as the deal was done, while Gupta's friends and family sat stone-faced on the other side of the courtroom.