Police Chase

The brother of Ed Reed is apparently missing after jumping into the Mississippi River to avoid police. According to WWLTV.com in Louisiana, officers from the St. Charles Parish Sheriff's Office had been pursuing a man in St. Rose, La., Friday. Around 10 a.m., the man was seen jumping into the river. The man is believed to be 29-year-old Brian Reed , Reed's younger brother, according to their mother. Karen Reed acknowledged that Brian Reed has struggled with drug and alcohol abuse.

Cops are starting to talk like the rest of us. The Maryland State Police became the latest law enforcement agency to throw out its cryptic language, directing officers this week to stop telling each other "10-4" and instead just say "OK. " It's a transformation of seismic proportions — veteran officers who in the academy had to memorize the codes and got in trouble for calling in "livestock on highway" instead of a "10-54" will now have...

A police-involved chase that began in West Baltimore ended with a collision on the Baltimore Beltway near Park Heights Avenue, snarling early morning traffic. According to Baltimore City police, officers responded at 6:22 a.m. Thursday to a call about a hit-and-run accident at Lombard and Gilmor streets in West Baltimore. According to preliminary reports, officers chased a vehicle to the inner loop of the Baltimore Beltway, where it ran into a guard rail near Park Heights Avenue.

Rebecca Chona says she was getting her three small children ready to play Tuesday and watching "Good Day Baltimore" when her husband called during a break at work to talk. As they spoke, she was distracted by a report about a Halethorpe man who allegedly fled from police and stole a police cruiser before being shot and killed by officers. Rebecca and Sundeep "Sunny" Chona wouldn't learn for another four hours that that man was Sunny Chona's 26-year-old brother, Munpreet, known to his friends and family as "Monty.

Two suspects have been arrested after police say three youths were shot in Turner's Station in Baltimore County and a lengthy police chase through Baltimore County and City. Three people were shot just after 8 p.m. in the area of Avondale Road and Lee Lawrence Court in Dundalk, said Lt. Robert McCullough, Baltimore County Police spokesman. A city police officer was also injured during the pursuit, city police said. McCullough said the chase began on Dundalk Avenue and continued through Baltimore City to Woodlawn.

Cash reportedly flew out of the window of a car chased by police Wednesday on the Baltimore-Washington Parkway, after a bank robbery in Millersville, police said. Around 10:30 a.m. a man went into the Washington Savings Bank in the 600 block of Old Mill Road, passed a robbery note, received cash and then fled onto Veterans Highway in a red Pontiac Firebird, said Justin Mulcahy, a county police spokesman. The car was spotted near I-97 and the Baltimore Beltway, Mulcahy said.

A police chase that began with a routine traffic violation in Baltimore County early yesterday ended with a woman dead and two other people critically injured in the city.Baltimore police traffic investigators said Victoria E. Marine, 31, was pronounced dead at the scene after the suspect's car did not stop at a sign at North Calhoun Street and West Lafayette Avenue and broad-sided a taxi about 2 a.m. She was a passenger in the cab.The incident began when Baltimore County Officer James Boston saw a traffic violation near the city line on Wilkens Avenue, police said.

Anne Arundel County police chased a suspect driving a stolen vehicle Tuesday but were unable to catch him, police said yesterday.The suspect, described as a white male with dark brown hair and possibly a mustache, and wearing a bright green shirt, was spotted driving the stolen 1990 Mercedes 300 on Brockbridge Road about 10:30 a.m. Tuesday.Two patrol officers gave chase, lost sight of the suspect, then eventually found the stolen car parked in a driveway in the 12800 block of Fernwood Turn.

A Mount Airy man who attempted to outrun state police by driving his 1985 Ford pickup truck at speeds exceeding 100 mph during a 20-mile chase was captured after he entered a cornfield and ran from the truck, police reported.Officers said a man was spotted driving faster than the speed limit on Route 144 in Mount Airy about 2 a.m. Sunday. When Trooper Wesley Herman tried to stop the truck, it accelerated and crossed the line into Frederick County with the officer in pursuit.The trooper said the vehicle made several turns before returning to Carroll County and driving north on Route 27 at more than 100 mph. Police said the driver turned right on Cabbage Spring Road, left on Davis Road and left on Gillis Road, where he was boxed in by troopers.

A 20-year-old man driving a car stolen in New Hampshire led police yesterday morning on a high-speed chase that began after he ran a toll booth on Interstate 95 in Cecil County.The 15-minute, 22-mile chase ended when the car crashed through another toll plaza, this time at the Baltimore Harbor Tunnel.The man, whose identity had not been established by police, and two female teen-age passengers were taken by ambulance to Harbor Hospital Center. Maryland state troopers said their injuries appeared to be minor.

A police-involved chase that began in West Baltimore ended with a collision on the Baltimore Beltway near Park Heights Avenue, snarling early morning traffic. According to Baltimore City police, officers responded at 6:22 a.m. Thursday to a call about a hit-and-run accident at Lombard and Gilmor streets in West Baltimore. According to preliminary reports, officers chased a vehicle to the inner loop of the Baltimore Beltway, where it ran into a guard rail near Park Heights Avenue.

Funeral arrangements for the state trooper killed in an accident on Interstate 95 over the weekend were released Monday, but details about the crash remain sketchy, according to a state police spokesman. Trooper First Class Shaft S. Hunter died Saturday when his cruiser slammed into a tractor-trailer parked on the shoulder near the entrance ramp to Route 32 in Howard County. According to a witness, a motorcycle with a white-helmeted driver raced by, followed by Hunter's cruiser, shortly after 3 a.m. Saturday.

A former Baltimore County prosecutor was convicted Friday of armed carjacking and robbery for stealing a car at knifepoint from two women outside a store in January last year, according to the State's Attorney's Office. Isaiah Dixon, 55, was ordered to the Baltimore County Detention Center and is scheduled to be sentenced June 1. Dixon had worked as an assistant state's attorney for nearly eight years, until July 1997, and was in private practice until he was disbarred in 2010 after a history of drug problems and his arrest in the carjacking.

Two suspects have been arrested after police say three youths were shot in Turner's Station in Baltimore County and a lengthy police chase through Baltimore County and City. Three people were shot just after 8 p.m. in the area of Avondale Road and Lee Lawrence Court in Dundalk, said Lt. Robert McCullough, Baltimore County Police spokesman. A city police officer was also injured during the pursuit, city police said. McCullough said the chase began on Dundalk Avenue and continued through Baltimore City to Woodlawn.

The brother of Ed Reed is apparently missing after jumping into the Mississippi River to avoid police. According to WWLTV.com in Louisiana, officers from the St. Charles Parish Sheriff's Office had been pursuing a man in St. Rose, La., Friday. Around 10 a.m., the man was seen jumping into the river. The man is believed to be 29-year-old Brian Reed , Reed's younger brother, according to their mother. Karen Reed acknowledged that Brian Reed has struggled with drug and alcohol abuse.

Cash reportedly flew out of the window of a car chased by police Wednesday on the Baltimore-Washington Parkway, after a bank robbery in Millersville, police said. Around 10:30 a.m. a man went into the Washington Savings Bank in the 600 block of Old Mill Road, passed a robbery note, received cash and then fled onto Veterans Highway in a red Pontiac Firebird, said Justin Mulcahy, a county police spokesman. The car was spotted near I-97 and the Baltimore Beltway, Mulcahy said.

Perhaps, you can excuse Baltimore police officers if they don't break out into a chorus of "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" June 7 when the Orioles play host to the Toronto Blue Jays.June 7 is the date when a group of officers had planned to hold the 11th annual "Police Chase," a foot race that usually attracts about 1,000 runners and raises several thousand dollars for the Explorer Scouts in each of the nine police districts.But the officers were forced to drop this year's race because it coincided with a ballgame.

Two teen-agers died in a fiery car crash on the Baltimore-Washington Parkway early yesterday after being chased for five miles by U.S. Park Police, authorities said. A 17-year-old passenger in the Dodge Neon survived the accident near Route 32, where the car sped out of control and hit a tree before igniting, police said. The crash closed the northbound lanes of the parkway between Routes 198 and 32 for five hours. The pursuit began about 3 a.m. near the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, police officials said.

A 19-year-old Cambridge man was arrested after leading officers on a high speed chase and triggering a crash that injured six people on the Eastern Shore early Sunday, Maryland State police said. Armand J. Cornish was charged with attempting to elude an officer on foot and in a vehicle, failing to remain at the scene of an accident and driving with a suspended license, among other offenses, police said. Troopers pulled over a 1994 Ford Explorer around 4:30 a.m. in St. Michael's after they saw it weaving and crossing the center line, police said.

Khandaker Shajahan had just closed up his father's pizza shop on Frederick Avenue shortly after midnight yesterday and was sitting in his car when the attack began. A man opened his door and pistol-whipped him. The robber then took the $360 in his pockets and then fled into the night in Southwest Baltimore. But police officers were nearby - including a recently promoted deputy major, Anthony Brown, and Sgt. Robert Brown - who, with the help of witnesses, were able to chase down the robber, authorities said.