Police Charged

Howard County police charged an 18-year-old resident of Savage with attempted murder yesterday, as the injured victim recovered at Maryland Shock Trauma Center. Terrance Pearson, 19, was shot in the stomach outside an apartment building on White Acre Road in Columbia about 10 p.m. Wednesday, police said. He was reported in serious but stable condition yesterday. Pearson, who lives in the 5800 block of Stevens Forest Road in Columbia, identified the assailant yesterday, police said. Police said that Andre Jamal Gadson, who lives in the 8800 block of Howard Hills Drive, was arrested Wednesday night on drug-related charges.

A Baltimore police officer accepted cash payments and provided protection for a man she believed to be a drug dealer — a man who was actually working with department investigators and FBI agents to build a criminal case against her, authorities alleged Friday. Ashley Roane, a 25-year-old patrol officer in the Southwestern District, agreed to access law enforcement databases listing informants and other sensitive information for the drug dealer, and provided Social Security numbers to him as part of a scheme to obtain false tax refunds, prosecutors said.

County police charged a man who had been banned from Best Buy stores with theft and trespassing Monday in a robbery at the Best Buy in the 6700 block of Ritchie Highway in Glen Burnie.Store security officers saw a man remove 13 compact discs, valued at $141.87, from a rack about 11 a.m., stuff them down his pants and try to leave without paying for them, police said. The security guards stopped him and held him for police.Police charged Michael J. Brushe, 36, of no fixed address with theft and trespassing.

Baltimore County police are investigating a homicide after a victim in a Lansdowne double shooting died days later. James Townsend, 33, of the 2900 block of Bero Road, died Wednesday after suffering medical complications after he and a second man were shot April 27 outside Townsend's home by two suspects wearing masks, police said. The medical examiner ruled Townsend's death a homicide Thursday. The other male victim was treated and released from Maryland Shock Trauma Center, police said.

On Friday morning, Westminster police arrested a 45-year-old man they had been seeking in connection with a drug investigation that had begun in the summer.Wayne Austin Safrit of the 200 block of Stone Road in Westminster was arrested at 11 a.m. Friday. He was charged with two counts of possession with intent to distribute cocaine.Mr. Safrit was being held Friday afternoon in the Carroll County Detention Center on $250,000 bail.Police said the arrest came as a result of an investigation that started in July.

A man who does not have custody of his two young daughters has been charged with abducting them from their mother's Severn home, Anne Arundel County police said.Gerald Hamilton Allen, 37, of Baltimore, was charged with parental abduction, abduction and trespassing.Police charged Mr. Allen with going to his estranged wife's home in the 8300 block of Flintlock Court about midnight Saturday and taking his 3- and 5-year-old daughters without their mother's permission.County police said they located Mr. Allen's car a short time later at Fort Meade and arrested Mr. Allen inside a gymnasium.

County police charged a 36-year-old Baltimore man after an attempt to steal $5,000 worth of computer equipment, including a desktop computer and a printer, from Comp USA in the 6600 block of Ritchie Highway.Police said a man entered the store at about 11 a.m. Tuesday, placed computer equipment in a shopping cart and headed for the store's front exit.The man told store employees he had a work order in the car and would bring it into the store for their inspection after he put the items in his car, the police report said.

County police charged a 31-year-old Davidsonville woman Sunday with assaulting an officer investigating a traffic accident in which she was involved. Shortly before 2:30 a.m., a car traveling south on Riva Road near Governor's Bridge Road skidded off the pavement and hit several trees.Police said it is unclear who was driving. A spot on the driver's-side windshield showed it had been struck, but the woman who said she was driving was not injured. The passenger, Jerry Lynn Reynoldson of the 500 block of W. Central Ave. in Davidsonville, had a cut on his forehead, police said.

Howard County police charged a Woodbine resident with burglary yesterday, saying he wandered into a neighbor's house and fell asleep on her bed.Officials received a call at 7: 08 a.m. Wednesday from a 45-year-old woman in the 15700 block of Bushy Park Road in Woodbine. She reported that she awoke to find a stranger sleeping next to her.Police suspect the man walked into the house through an unlocked door between 2: 30 a.m. and 7 a.m., said Sgt. Morris Carroll, a county police spokesman.Upon their arrival, officers stirred the man from his slumber.

Baltimore police charged a 25-year-old man yesterday in last weekend's triple slaying in Waverly and said last night they had launched a search for the suspect. Otis Edwards III, of the first block of Dowling Circle in Hillendale, was charged in a warrant with three counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted first-degree murder. Police declined to release other information about the suspect or apparent motives in the Feb. 24 shootings, which stunned the North Baltimore neighborhood and led to increased police patrols.

A Pikesville man was seriously injured Friday when he was struck by a sport utility vehicle while bicycling near his home, Baltimore County police said. Melvin Pachino, 52, of the 2700 block of Waco Court, was riding west on Smith Avenue near Carla Road shortly after 11 a.m. when an eastbound Honda Pilot made a left turn and struck Pachino, according to Julia Hardgrove, a county police spokeswoman. The vehicle was driven by Shunji Watanabe of the 7600 block of Carla Road, she said.

A 26-year-old man has been charged in the after hours club shooting last month that left one man dead and others injured, according to Baltimore police. Ricky Horton is charged in the death of Sean Rhodes, 25, of Franklin Square, who was one of three people shot early Jan. 13 at the Ras-a-Ter International Restaurant and Club at 2103 W. North Ave., police said. Horton, of the 4900 block of Edgemere Avenue in Baltimore, faces first degree murder and assault charges. The shooting occurred about 5:30 a.m. as people left the club, marking the second within 14 months, police said.

Baltimore Police have made an arrest in the death of a woman in the 300 block of E. North Avenue late Friday night. On Sunday afternoon, police said Darren Ruffin, 47, has been arrested and charged with homicide in the incident. Police said they responded at about 11:49 on Jan. 18 for a reported aggravated assault. Police allege that Ruffin had been involved in an argument with the victim, Melissa Davis, 44, and during the course of incident Davis was stabbed, police said. She later succumbed to her injuries, and Ruffin was subsequently arrested.

An armed, off-duty Baltimore City police officer was arrested in Towson early Saturday and charged with two counts of reckless endangerment. Baltimore County police said that Matthew David Daugherty, 28, posted $75,000 bail after the incident. Police said they were called to the Rec Room bar in the 500 block of York Road in Towson after an employee called 911 and described a disturbance. "The complainant told 911 that an intoxicated off-duty city officer was being very belligerent and kept saying that he had a gun," the county report said.

Police in Anne Arundel County arrested a man for choking his uncle at a home in Severn and have charged the man with attempted murder. At approximately 7:33 a.m. on Jan. 12, police responded to a 911 report of a fight involving a man choking his 51-year-old uncle with a rope, according to a statement issued by Anne Arundel police officials. Upon arriving at a residence in the 7900 block of Citadel Drive, police saw the men in the front yard and removed the rope from the victim's neck to allow him to breathe.

A 31-year-old Baltimore man has been charged in the killing of one man and the wounding of another in a hail of gunfire at a city intersection early Saturday morning, following a dispute at a night club, according to Baltimore police. Tion Bolden, of the 5200 block of Reisterstown Road in the city's Woodmere neighborhood, faces 10 charges in the case and remains in police custody. Police announced his arrest Sunday, after saying Saturday that they were questioning a person of interest.

Southwestern District police charged a 21-year-old man yesterday with being a drug kingpin after they arrested him while he allegedly was dealing drugs across from Walbrook High School.Police detained the man, who was sitting in a 1988 Ford Taurus at Edgewood Street and Clifton Avenue shortly before 4 p.m. Inside the car, which was confiscated, police found 6 ounces of suspected crack cocaine worth about $6,000, $1,800, a .380-caliber handgun, two cellular phones and a pager.Police then obtained two search warrants, one for a house in the 2100 block of Mount Holly St., where they seized $800 and scale; and another for a residence in the 3500 block of Juneway, where they seized a kilo of suspected crack cocaine, worth about $25,000, a .38-caliber handgun, $2,000 and a 1991 Acura Legend.