Pasadena

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.

The 40-year-old owner of a Pasadena barber shop became the victim of a robbery Sunday evening, when he tried to lend a lighter to a stranger. His attempt at a good deed ended in armed robbery. As he was closing his shop at about 6:45 p.m., the barber noticed a man lingering at his truck, which was parked in front of the shop in 8400 block of Fort Smallwood Road. When he said the shop was closing, the man asked for a lighter. The victim left the shop and went to his truck to retrieve a lighter.

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 arrested a Glen Burnie man after they responded to a caller telling them that his mother was being held at gunpoint by a former boyfriend, police said. Anne Arundel County police arrested a Glen Burnie man after they responded to a 21-year-old caller telling them that his mother was being held at gunpoint by a former boyfriend, police said. Police said that at about 10 p.m. Friday, they received a call saying that the 38-year-old woman was being held in a bedroom of a home in 200 block of Maryland Avenue by an ex-boyfriend, police said.

A few days before Mother's Day, 20-year-old Jessica Lynn Lee got into an argument with her mother about caring for Lee's baby and took off. It was a familiar, if infrequent, scene between them. They would fight over small stuff - using the computer, following house rules - and Lee would leave. She always came home to Brooklyn Park a few days later, though, sometimes spending the night in the woods near her house or with whomever she met along the way, while her mother cared for infant Maygan.

Anne Arundel County police said they charged twin brothers in connection with finding more than two dozen suspected marijuana plants growing in the backyard of a home in Pasadena. Police said they had obtained a warrant to search a home in the first block of Nicholson Drive for an investigation into marijuana growing there. They searched the home around 8:23 a.m. Sunday and found 26 marijuana plants growing in the backyard and ranging in height from three feet to nine feet, police said.

In the beginning, the Pasadena home purchased by Matt and Jenny Knoepfle was not so much a dream as it was a challenge. "This was a 1940s shore cottage [back when] people were building randomly and then adding on to their houses," said Jenny Knoepfle of the home she and her husband bought on Cockey Creek, which is off the Magothy River. "When we bought this house, our third floor was not here; there were steps to a loft. We knew we were going to rebuild for a family. " Most of the rooms in the bilevel brick structure were crammed on one floor, including a corner kitchen, a dining area, a small living area and an even smaller master bedroom and bath.

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.