Pcp

A decade ago, the North Laurel-Savage area was seen as the PCP capital of the region. Multimillion-dollar drug labs thrived in southeastern Howard County along Interstate 95, churning out the dangerous, mind-altering substance.Changing tastes in drugs, along with tough law enforcement -- including the April arrest of an Elkridge man charged with importing PCP from California to Howard County -- have broken the PCP trade for now, police say."There are no big PCP dealers left in Howard County that we know of," says Sgt. Keith Lessner, who has worked the narcotics ZTC beat at the Howard County Police Department for 9.5 years.

A Baltimore jury convicted a man of second degree murder for strangling his grandmother to death after he smoked PCP and heard voices warning him of evil people. Demond Tyler, 37, who lived with his grandmother, was at home in the 3200 block of Spaulding Avenue on Nov. 4, 2011 and told investigators that the voices said evil people would not look at him. Tyler then grabbed his grandmother, Shirley Tyler, 67, by the throat and demanded that she look him in the eye. He said the pair collapsed on a bed and she smiled at him, according to the state's attorney's office.

A man and a woman accused by police of being under the influence of PCP while their three children were in the house have been charged with possession of PCP and reckless endangerment, authorities said.A Northern District officer went to the house in the 100 block of Hammerlee Road early Thursday after a man called the police dispatcher on 911 and said, "She's dead," before hanging up.The officer found a woman unconscious on the living room floor of the house. A man was standing above her saying, "She's dead," and three children -- a 4-year-old girl and two boys, 9 and 11 -- also were standing over the woman, crying and yelling that their mother was dead, police said.

According to reader Sandra Klisham, we need less newspaper coverage about the Morgan State University student accused of cannibalism and more about the U.S. soldiers who are fighting and dying in Afghanistan ("Less cannibalism coverage," June 8). She couldn't be more wrong. The reported episodes of cannibalism are just the tip of the iceberg in a society where a lot of people, including those in the military, are searching for the next best high. And It appears recent reports of cannibalism may not be isolated episodes.

A Baltimore jury convicted a man of second degree murder for strangling his grandmother to death after he smoked PCP and heard voices warning him of evil people. Demond Tyler, 37, who lived with his grandmother, was at home in the 3200 block of Spaulding Avenue on Nov. 4, 2011 and told investigators that the voices said evil people would not look at him. Tyler then grabbed his grandmother, Shirley Tyler, 67, by the throat and demanded that she look him in the eye. He said the pair collapsed on a bed and she smiled at him, according to the state's attorney's office.

A Pasadena man was arrested on drug charges Tuesday night after a patrolman found PCP and a pipe in a car parked in the Brekenridge community, county police said yesterday.Officer Harry Peterson was called to the 1200 block of Oak Harbor Court shortly before 8 p.m. to investigate a report of a suspicious car. When he arrived, he saw a Ford Thunderbird with two passengers inside, police said.Officer Peterson said the passenger put a plastic bag between his seat and the center console.The officer ordered the man out of the car, searched it and found the PCP in the bag and a pipe under the passenger seat.

Three Howard County residents were arrested in North Laurel Wednesday night after a drug transaction police say they watched in Washington hours earlier.Police said they learned of a possible drug buy from an informant, set up surveillance on the suspects, then followed them by car to Southeast Washington. There, police said, undercover detectives watched them make an exchange with another person, followed the suspects back to Howard County and called for a patrol officer to stop them on Whiskey Bottom Road.

A Glen Burnie woman has been charged with possession of PCP after police said they found the drug in her home Tuesday.Narcotics investigators said they served a search warrant in the home, in the 7800 block of Leymar Road, about 11:30 p.m.Detectives reported confiscating a small amount of PCP, some cocaine and $258.Toni Lynn Kellner, 32, a resident of the home, also was charged with possession of cocaine, police said.*The following break-ins have been reported to county police:Brooklyn Park:8100 block of Harold Court: Monday, entry gained through door.

The 25-year-old son of Howard County Sheriff Michael A. Chiuchiolo has been arrested in Laurel and charged with possession of suspected PCP, said Laurel police.The arrest is the latest in a string of drug arrests and charges against Jay Michael Chiuchiolo, of Clarksville. He was released into the custody of a third party, said a clerk in the Prince George's County detention center.The younger Chiuchiolo was a passenger in a 1988 Chevrolet Beretta stopped at 9:28 p.m. March 27 in the 1000 block of 8th St. for not having headlights on, Laurel police said.

County police arrested a Glen Burnie man and three others on drug charges early Friday after they stopped their car and found about $800 worth of suspected PCP.Officers said they stopped the 1994 Jeep Cherokee at Ritchie Highway and Orchard Avenue in Brooklyn Park at 2:40 a.m. and smelled chemicals and alcohol.They arrested the driver, Leroy Mueller Jr., 39, of the 800 block of Geis Circle in Glen Burnie, on drunken driving charges, then searched the vehicle and found the alleged drugs, packaged in 11 plastic bags, police said.

Annapolis Police disclosed Saturday that they encountered a city alderman last week while raiding a an apartment where confidential sources had told police that PCP was being sold, an experience the elected official called “harrowing.” According to a statement sent out by police, a confidential informant gave police information about drug activity in an apartment building in the 1200 block of Madison St., and police obtained “no-knock” search...

Anne Arundel County police said a 44-year-old Severn man driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol struck a church with his van and they found PCP in side the vehicle. John Fox Alder of the 8000 block of Clark Station Road attempted to flee from an officer, crashing into the Korean Methodist Church of Love at 1330 Donald Ave. in Severn on Friday, police said. An officer first approached Alder's white van at about 6:30 p.m. in the 7900 block of Telegraph Road when Alder sped off into a nearby field, striking a flag pole and then the church, police said.

Hearing delayed in hit-and-run HEMPSTEAD, N.Y.: An extradition hearing in New York for a man accused in a hit-and-run that killed a McDaniel College student has been delayed until Wednesday. Police in Hempstead, N.Y., said the hearing for Shawron Bibbs, 29, was postponed after a local warrant for him was found. Westminster police say Bibbs was driving a pickup truck that hit a car carrying five McDaniel College students Feb. 6. Thomas Rouleau, 19, of Gilboa, N.Y., died at the scene. Charges against Bibbs include felony negligent manslaughter by auto, felony theft and felony unlawful taking of a motor vehicle.

A 17-year-old Annapolis resident was given a 35-year sentence yesterday for the fatal shooting of an 18-year-old friend Halloween night. Dupree Rashard Williams, who confessed to shooting Jerome D. Hughes with an automatic handgun outside a public housing community, was sentenced to 25 years for second-degree murder and 10 years, to be served consecutively, for use of a handgun in committing a felony. Circuit Judge Philip T. Caroom suspended half of the sentence and said Williams could be eligible for placement at the Patuxent Institution, a state treatment facility for mentally ill prisoners.

Man pleads guilty in fatal crash A 20-year-old Anne Arundel County man who prosecutors said was drunk, high on drugs and speeding when the stolen car he was driving crashed, killing a passenger, pleaded guilty yesterday to a manslaughter charge. Michael Arnell Davis of the 400 block of Monterey Ave. in Annapolis, who is on probation for armed robbery, was driving at speeds up to 100 miles an hour before the Jan. 20, 2007, crash, prosecutors said. Davis pleaded guilty to charges of negligent manslaughter and unauthorized use of a motor vehicle.

I was in my dorm room at San Diego State University, listening to the Led Zeppelin cover of "When the Levee Breaks," when I first saw George Holliday's amateur video of the Rodney King incident on CNN. It looked like those grainy films of Selma, Ala., in 1965, and the brutality turned my stomach. They didn't really talk about Rodney King when I went through the Los Angeles Police Academy a few years later.

A 27-year-old Annapolis man and a 35-year-old Glen Burnie man were charged Sunday with possession with intent to distribute PCP, county police reported.Around 1:47 a.m., an officer spotted a white Chevette parked partially in the northbound lane of Route 10 near Route 648, police said. Two men, seated on the ground next to the car, were incoherent and disoriented, police said. Next to them, an officer found a bottle containing liquid PCP worth approximately $250 to $300, police said.Police arrested Gary Keats, of the 1600 block of Carryback Court in Annapolis, and Edmond Endley, of the 400 block of Glen Mar Circle in Glen Burnie.

One by one, family members stood up in the second-floor courtroom inAnnapolis and told a judge how their lives came to a crashing halt after an accident last year on Ritchie Highway killed two children anda grandmother.They told how Elizabeth Sprinkel, 48, of Severna Park, was in the process of changing her job so she could work part time and be with her grandson, 4-year-old Jordan.They told the judge how 14-year-old Janine Pomichter's mother hadjust married five days before the accident and was honeymooning in Florida, where she could not be reached until three days after the head-on collision.

The panel that sets minimum standards for police recruits across the state is considering a proposal to further ease the rules on prior drug use in order to attract more applicants to short-staffed departments. Supporters of the policy change say it would widen the pool of potential recruits and allow police agencies to consider applicants who might have experimented with drugs earlier in their lives but are now clean. But some law enforcement officials contend that any loosening of the guidelines would send the wrong message about the acceptability of drug use. They say that previous drug use would hurt an officer's credibility in court and raise doubts about a recruit's judgment.

Saying drug use, a chaotic upbringing and a severe beating left a convicted murderer mentally impaired, an Anne Arundel County judge yesterday spared him the death penalty and sentenced the Glen Burnie man to two terms of life without parole for killing his landlady and her daughter-in-law. Anne Arundel County Circuit Judge Pamela L. North said "overwhelming evidence from expert after expert" led her to conclude that Kenneth Ernest Abend, 42, either was unable to control himself or did not fully appreciate what he was doing when he killed Laverne M. Browning, 70, and Tamie C. Browning, 36, nearly three years ago. But Abend's longtime PCP dependence and violence made him far too dangerous for anything but life in prison without parole, North told the packed Annapolis courtroom.