Pasadena Man

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.

The body of James Robert Kane, 25, of Pasadena, was recovered from the Magothy River near Dobbins Island by Maryland Natural Resources Police, officials said in a statement Thursday. Kane went missing after a boating accident on July 4. Kane and a woman were thrown into the water after turning their 17-foot boat too sharply, police said. The woman was picked up, uninjured, by a second boat. Kane's body, which was recovered Wednesday morning, was taken to the medical examiner's office for an autopsy.

The Maryland Natural Resources Police are investigating a fatal boating incident after a 25-year-old Pasadena man fell off a 17-foot skiff into the Magothy River in Anne Arundel County, near Dobbins Island Monday. James Robert Kane and a friend were thrown from a Carolina Skiff around 4:30 p.m. after it made a sudden sharp turn, according to NRP. NRP, Anne Arundel County Fire Boat, and the Coast Guard searched the area until sunset using divers and side scan sonar. A Maryland State Police helicopter was also deployed, but the man was not found.

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 29-year-old Pasadena man faces attempted first-degree murder and assault charges after Anne Arundel County police said he and another man fought Sunday inside a home they share near Rock Creek Park. According to police, officers were called about 4:30 that afternoon to the residence on the first block of Bar Harbor Road, where they found Robert Lee Still, 55, suffering from non-life-threatening stab wounds. Still told officers he and Jesse Lee Allgaier had an argument that turned physical when Allgaier attacked him with a knife and stabbed him in the upper body, then fled.

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 23-year-old man was fatally struck by a car in front of the Glen Burnie District Court building Wednesday night, according to Anne Arundel County police. Joshua Paul Reitz of the 200 block of Carroll Road in Pasadena was pronounced dead at the scene at about 9 p.m. An initial investigation showed that Reitz was trying to cross the southbound lanes in the 7500 block of Ritchie Highway when he was struck by a 2007 Pontiac Grand Prix that was traveling in the far left lane and was driven by Clifford Smith, 24, of Glen Burnie.

Anne Arundel County police have identified the officer who shot and wounded a Pasadena man Thursday. Officer Jeffrey Szczeszek, a three-year veteran of the department assigned to patrol in the Eastern District, was placed on routine administrative leave while the shooting is investigated. Police have said that Szczeszek approached a man that he saw jumping up and down on the hood of a minivan about 10:19 p.m. Thursday, and that when the man charged him, he deployed his Taser.

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.