Pasadena

The winner of the 39th annual White Marlin Open in Ocean City is set to receive an estimated prize of $1.4 million after reeling in the only white marlin to qualify in the five-day tournament. William "Bill" Woody, of Pasadena, caught the 72-pound white marlin last Wednesday aboard the Blew Bayou. The payout is expected to be $1,429,092, slightly higher than the payout of $1,394,480.50 made in 2007 for an 83-pound white marlin. Woody caught the only white marlin that met the minimum requirements of measuring at least 67 inches and weighing at least 70 pounds.

An accident involving an overturned gasoline tanker at the intersection of Arundel Expressway and Ritchie Highway in Pasadena closed Ritchie Highway in both directions and jammed traffic Tuesday afternoon, according to Anne Arundel County fire and police officials. Both northbound and southbound lanes on Ritchie Highway were blocked to traffic for hours between East West Boulevard and Jumpers Hole Road, said Battalion Chief Steven Thompson, a fire spokesman. At 2:54 p.m., a tractor trailer was turning left onto Ritchie Highway, also known as Route 2, from Arundel Expressway, also known as Route 10, when the 8,000-gallon gasoline tanker it was carrying detached from the trailer, Thompson said.

Anne Arundel County police are investigating the discovery of a body in the woods in Pasadena, police said Tuesday. Police said a man told them Monday afternoon that he was walking into the wood line when he saw what appeared to be a human skull. A team that included investigators and volunteers from Chesapeake Search Dogs and the Mason Dixon Search and Rescue Dogs Inc. then searched the woods behind the 8100 block of Ritchie Highway. Police spokesman Justin Mulcahy said the other remains were found after a search that lasted "a number of hours.

Anne Arundel County Fire Department officials are trying to identify two teenagers, in the aftermath of what appeared to be fireworks or a similar device set off in a Pasadena grocery store. Division Chief Michael E. Cox Jr. wrote in a prepared statement that around 9 p.m. July 27, firefighters responding to a fire call arrived at Food Lion, 350 Mountain Road, to find smoke in the building. He said the store was briefly evacuated. An investigation pointed to a device that had been ignited on a shelf as the source of the smoke, Cox said.

A partly decomposed human head was found Monday in woods behind a shopping center in Pasadena, Anne Arundel County police said. Lieutenant Michael Brothers said police were called about 4 p.m. to the wooded area behind Jumpers Hole Road and Ritchie Highway. No identification was immediately made. Police said the head might be that of a woman, and was taken to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. andrea.siegel@baltsun.com Text NEWS to 70701 to get Baltimore Sun local news text alerts

An argument over an unpaid pool maintenance bill led to the arrest of a Pasadena woman on drug charges Tuesday. Joan Della Lott, 52, was arrested at her Luke Drive home for cultivating marijuana, not for arguing about an unpaid bill. The pool man called police to the home about noon. While mediating the dispute, officers spotted marijuana plants growing in wooden planters on the property, which is near Mountain Road. Police said they seized four plants, nearly 20 feet in length, with an estimated street value of $3,300.

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.

Harry E. Sisk, a retired accountant and Vietnam War veteran, died Saturday of complications from an aneurysm at the University of Maryland Medical Center. The Brooklyn Park resident was 66. Mr. Sisk was born in Baltimore and raised near Patterson Park. He attended city public schools and after enlisting in the Army in 1964, her earned his General Educational Development certificate. Mr. Sisk completed two tours of duty in Vietnam, where he worked in communications. He was discharged in 1968.

John Edwin Brewer, a retired computer engineer and artist, died of congestive heart failure May 26 at Texoma Medical Center in Denison, Texas. He was 73 and had lived in Pasadena. Born in Atlanta, he served in the Navy from 1960 to 1964. Mr. Brewer then earned an engineering degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He moved to Pasadena and was a Westinghouse Electric Corp. systems analyst from 1966 to 1992 at the Linthicum plant. At his retirement, he received a Signature Award of Excellence.