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A 16-year-old teen driving a three-wheeler died after striking a tree in Havre de Grace Wednesday night, according to the Harford County Sheriff's Office. Tyler Lee Hickman lost control of the Honda three-wheeler, causing him to hit a pine tree and be thrown from a vehicle, sheriff's deputies said. Deputies arrived shortly before 8 p.m. to the 2400 block of Old Robin Hood Road, where they found Hickman, who had landed in a rocky embankment 10 to 15 feet away from the tree and was suffering from a large laceration to the back of his head.

At least six people were arrested Monday night as police were called from across Baltimore to help disperse a crowd at the Inner Harbor, shortly after two teenage boys were stabbed several blocks away, according to the department. Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi described those arrested as facing minor charges for nonviolent offenses and said they were not connected to the stabbings. He said about 100 teens came to the harbor after Easter Sunday, on one of the last days of spring break for city students.

A state worker was carjacked outside a state building by two men, who led police into Baltimore County before returning to the city and running from the vehicle, city police said Tuesday. The unidentified woman was approached by two men at about 4:30 p.m. outside a building in the 4200 block of Patterson Ave. in Northwest Baltimore, police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said. The building includes offices for the Maryland Health Care Commission. One of the men, Frank Richardson, told the woman, "gimme the keys and I won't hurt you" and grabbed the keys from her hand, police said in a preliminary incident report.

Baltimore County police released more details Tuesday about an incident last week in which a man broke into a house in Glen Arm, exchanged gunfire with a resident and later committed suicide. The intruder, identified as Robert Floyd Buss, a 36-year-old Middle River resident with a long criminal record, knew the couple whose house it was, according to Lt. Robert McCullough, a police spokesman. Buss met the couple, Luigi and Aubrey Alvano, at a hair salon they own in Essex. "It appears that his intent was to rob them," McCullough said.

Baltimore police on Tuesday launched an extensive search and investigation into the disappearance of a 16-year-old girl, involving an elite FBI team and more than 100 officers who scoured a secluded city park for hours. Authorities all but ended their search in Leakin Park around dusk, having found no signs of a body or clues to the whereabouts of Phylicia Simone Barnes of North Carolina, who had been visiting her older sister in Northwest Baltimore when she apparently vanished the afternoon of Dec. 28. Detectives suspect foul play and have said it's a possible the teen was abducted and taken out of state.

Police in Anne Arundel County were looking for a 19-year-old man in connection with a stabbing Monday evening at a Taco Bell restaurant in Edgewater. A girl, 17, who police say was with him at the time of the incident, was arrested shortly afterward. Detectives obtained an arrest warrant for Tyrell Markell Dailey of the 100 block of Tydings Drive in Edgewater. The warrant charges Dailey with attempted second-degree murder, first- and second-degree assault and reckless endangerment.

The amplified music cranked up in the parking lot of the Whiskey Bottom Shopping Center in North Laurel at 5:40 p.m. Tuesday with a loud rendition of the theme from the "Cops" television show, which was very appropriate for the largest of Howard County's 30 National Night Out gatherings. Howard County police cars blocked off the center of the large parking lot. The county's huge mobile command center truck, antennae fully extended, sat behind a 1957 Chevy outfitted to resemble a county police car from that bygone era. Blue-shirted county police officers, bolstered by Maryland State Police, county sheriff's deputies and a man costumed as McGruff the Crime Dog, were everywhere.

The driver of a dirt bike plowed through a red light at a West Baltimore intersection Wednesday and broadsided a red sedan, but the most serious injuries suffered by the car's driver didn't come from the crash, according to city police. A department spokesman said a passenger on the dirt bike quickly hid the cycle in an alley and then returned with friends who beat up the car's driver so severely that he had to be rushed to Maryland Shock Trauma Center, police said. The teenage bike passenger was arrested and faces assault charges.