Police Report

An 18-year-old man confessed to fatally shooting another 18-year-old Thursday night at the first man's Dundalk townhouse, according to Baltimore County police, but told them it was an accident.Police charged Tico Romain Thomas, 18, with first-degree murder in the death of David J. Arnold of Alexandria, Va.According to the police report, officials received a call about a shot fired at the 200 block of Fleming Drive about 8 p.m.When they arrived they discovered Arnold had been shot once in the stomach with a shotgun, police said.

A Pennsylvania motorcyclist apparently suffered a heart attack Wednesday evening before an accident on Littlestown Pike north of Westminster, state police said.Lenny Duane Doan, 37, of Abbottstown in York County was taken to Carroll County General Hospital, where he was pronounced dead soon after the accident, which occurred at 5: 30 p.m., police said.According to a police report, the motorcyclist was traveling north near Bachmans Valley Road when he put his head down on the handlebars of his Yamaha Special 400 and began to lose control of the motorcycle.

A Pasadena woman was in serious but stable condition yesterday after being shot in the chest by a county police officer Sunday night as she was approaching her husband with a kitchen knife. The incident took place during a domestic dispute involving four people and a sword, police said.Police said officers responded about 9: 30 p.m. to a report of a fight between Karen Sue Medura, 40, of 7861 Riverside Road and her husband of more than 20 years, Leon. Police said the cause of the fight had not been determined.

A Baltimore councilman who was swindled out of $20 after giving two women a ride is pursuing a police investigation to find the culprits, saying they "disrespected my office and the people who elected me."Melvin L. Stukes, a 6th District Democrat, said the women told him they would pay him $4 for a ride home Sunday afternoon but told him they needed to get change first. He gave them $20 to change, and the two took off and "never returned," a police report filed Monday says."I let my guard down, and I got had," Stukes said Tuesday.

Two men wearing ski masks robbed a Crownsville lounge at gunpoint Monday night, county police said.According to a report, the men entered Sonny's Lounge in the 1300 block of Generals Highway about 9: 45 p.m. One of them put a silver revolver to a clerk's head and ordered him to give them money from the cash register.The clerk complied. The men left the store with an undisclosed amount of money and drove north on Generals Highway in a red Chevrolet Cavalier, police said.Man robs pizza shop with threatening noteA bandit robbed a Glen Burnie pizza shop of an undisclosed amount of money Monday night, county police said.

Two apartments in West Baltimore's Franklin Square community were damaged by firebombs early yesterday, possibly as part of a neighborhood squabble, police said.No injuries were reported. Two gasoline-filled beer bottles with lighted rags stuck inside were thrown through windows of 1515 W. Fayette St. -- setting curtains on fire in a room where a 2-year-old boy was sleeping -- and 1519 W. Fayette St.The 4 a.m. fire also caused moderate damage to 1517 W. Fayette St., the rental office for the Franklin Square Apartments.

A Meade High School student told police she was sexually assaulted yesterday morning after being abducted in her car from the parking lot of the school on the grounds of Fort Meade.Anne Arundel County police said they were told of the assault after receiving a 911 call about 7: 30 a.m. from a house near the school. The girl was questioned there and then taken to North Arundel Hospital for examination and treatment of minor injuries, police said.The report of the attack prompted police to increase security patrols around the school, and the principal distributed a letter about the incident to all students.

The truck that crashed into a pedestrian bridge over the Baltimore Beltway on Tuesday exceeded permissible height and width limits and never stood a chance of reaching its destination in Canada, state police said yesterday.Had it somehow avoided the Maiden Choice footbridge, the truck and its oversized load was headed for six other bridges around the Beltway that it would have been unable to clear.Police and transportation investigators are trying to determine why the rig's driver, Paul McIntosh of Brussels, Ontario, would set out with such obviously oversized cargo.

State legislators are threatening to withhold $30,000 in federal and state crime prevention grants for fiscal 2000 if a Taneytown police report on serious crimes fails to reach the House Appropriations Committee by July.Carroll is one of four Maryland counties facing loss of the U.S. Justice Department and state grants, which are administered by the Governor's Office of Crime Control and Prevention, according to a report from the Subcommittee on Public Safety and Administration to the House Committee on Appropriations.

It didn't take Baltimore County police long to locate the source of a complaint that someone was launching bombs over a Pulaski Highway carwash. Across the street was a man holding an unexploded, 2-foot-long bomb, police said.But it took hours to empty his Rosedale house in the 1200 block of White Ave. of explosives, chemicals, fuses, tubes, caps and how-to manuals -- an array of paraphernalia so extensive that police evacuated six surrounding houses as a precaution.The fallout from the discovery of a basement lab filled with dangerous chemicals triggered a chain of events that stretched from Monday afternoon into yesterday morning.

A Randallstown man charged with assaulting a 7-year-old at a Baltimore County elementary school is scheduled for trial in District Court on Nov. 19, according to court records. Ronald Andre Matthews, 27, of the 4900 block of Old Court Road was charged with second-degree assault last month after he was accused of pushing a student at Winfield Elementary against a cafeteria wall several times, according to a police report. The incident occurred about noon Sept. 22, witnesses told police.

It's the most recognizable digit in Baltimore. Authorities said that didn't dissuade four young men from ripping Cal Ripken Jr.'s 3 1/2 -foot-tall aluminum number 8 off its base in front of Camden Yards Tuesday night, throwing it into the back of a gray pickup truck and parading it through the city. The men, described in a police report as juiced up on alcohol, apparently got rowdy while stopped on the east side of Patterson Park, and someone called the police to complain. By then, Maryland Stadium Authority guards had flagged down passing police outside the ballpark, and detectives had reviewed a surveillance video showing four young men "pulling and kicking" the sculpture.

Anthony "Tony" Fein, a former Iraq War veteran who is trying to make the Baltimore Ravens as a rookie backup linebacker, was charged with misdemeanor assault on a police officer stemming from an incident at an Inner Harbor restaurant Sunday night. Police went to Johnny Rockets restaurant at 301 Light St. after receiving a report from Inner Harbor security officers about a group of men passing around a large, silver object suspected of being a firearm, but which turned out to be a cellular phone, said Anthony Guglielmi, a police spokesman.

A 28-year-old woman who was slightly injured when her Honda Accord hit a Cadillac Escalade driven by Olympic swimming star Michael Phelps in Baltimore's Mid-Town Belvedere neighborhood is to be charged with running a red light, a city police spokesman said Friday. The woman is identified in a police report as Amanda Elizabeth Virkus of Sandy Spring in Montgomery County. If found guilty of the citation, she faces a $180 fine and three points against her driving record. Virkus suffered neck and shoulder injuries, according to the city Fire Department, and was treated at Maryland Shock Trauma Center and released.

Baltimore County police and federal immigration agents raided a Fells Point bar July 8 searching for four high-powered handguns that authorities said had been purchased by the club owner with the help of a foreign national visiting from the Philippines, according to reports filed Friday with the city's liquor board. The guns, which each cost about $1,200, are described in the reports as FN 5.7 mm pistols manufactured by FN Herstal in Belgium that fire military-style rounds at high velocity, capable of piercing ballistic body armor.

Baltimore Police Commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld III's decision to withhold the names of police officers who shoot citizens is bad public policy, and the city's top cop should admit he made a mistake and rescind it. Mr. Bealefeld justified his decision as a matter of protecting officers from potential harassment and retaliation and told the City Council that 23 threats had been made against officers last year. But it turns out, according to department information requested by The Baltimore Sun's Justin Fenton, that none of the threats considered "significant" by the department in the past two years had anything to do with a police-involved shooting.

The time is 3:30 p.m. Mark Manureman, a maintenance supervisor, hears gunshots in a luxury loft on the 19th floor of Silo Point, a new condominium complex built in an old grain elevator in Locust Point. The cops come and confront the nervous super. "How old are you?" He answers 34. "Why are you shaking?" "Because I saw something I've never seen before." "What?" "I saw a man, and I think he's dead. I didn't know what to do so I called 911." Manureman is really Baltimore Police Officer Ron Teufer.

Here is a recent item from The Baltimore Sun's Police Blotter describing a shooting in Northwest Baltimore: "A male, 19, from Randallstown, Baltimore County, was sitting on a weight bench on the back porch of a house in the 5400 block of Jonquil Ave. about 9:20 p.m. Monday and watching friends play cards when he heard gunshots. As he and his friends fled, the victim realized he had been shot in the left leg and lower back. He was taken by ambulance to an area hospital and admitted. His condition was not available and there was no arrest."

The fatal shooting last weekend of a Baltimore County couple and two of their sons, allegedly at the hands of their eldest son, is not the first gun tragedy to have visited their extended family. More than three decades ago, the sister of the father killed last week in Cockeysville was shot dead in an apparent accident in their Howard County home. Victoria Lynn Browning, then a 15-year-old Howard High School sophomore, died after being shot with a .22-caliber rifle held by her teenage brother, Lee Browning, according to a news report from the time.

Attorneys representing two of the nine juveniles charged in the beating of a bus passenger in Hampden said yesterday that authorities have not presented evidence that shows the teenagers were part of a melee this month that left a woman seriously injured. "The Baltimore City state's attorney's office has provided me with discovery materials which consist of a police report that can be described as lacking in detail, at best," said Jay M. Ortis, who represents a 14-year-old boy charged in the Dec. 4 attack.