NEWS
August 16, 1995
Automated teller machine robberies are to banking what plane crashes are to transportation: High-profile, much feared -- and extremely rare.The American Bankers Association reports one ATM crime for every 3.5 million transactions, higher than the odds of being struck by lightning in a year (one in 2 million). A more independent source, the Baltimore County police, has recorded 12 ATM robberies this year, 1 percent of all county robberies. Of course, when someone is held-up at a machine near your home, you don't forget.
NEWS
By Gregory P. Kane and Gregory P. Kane,Sun Staff Writer | August 9, 1995
Deterring automated teller machine robberies is simple. Just think of the place a mugger would hate and stick a cash machine there.Like, say, a police station.Yesterday, Anne Arundel became the first county in the state to have ATMs in police station lobbies. The machines, run by the Anne Arundel County Employees Federal Credit Union, are open 24 hours a day, seven days a week.Capt. Michael P. Fitzgibbons, the man who came up with the idea, called it a "no-brainer." His boss, Chief Robert A. Beck, labeled it "fantastic."
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By Ivan Penn and Ivan Penn,Sun Staff Writer | April 22, 1994
Howard County's new police substation in Scaggsville is decorated more like a luxurious private home than an old-fashioned precinct house -- with cushioned seats, cathedral ceilings and mahogany veneer doors."
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BY A SUN STAFF WRITER | March 5, 2000
A 19-year-old Columbia man and two companions were looking for the Howard County police station Thursday night so he could turn himself in for a violation of probation warrant, police said. A plainclothes police officer was walking in the parking lot of the Northern District station in Ellicott City when the men asked him where the police station was, police said. The officer noticed "a heavy odor of burning marijuana," according to police reports, and called other officers to the scene.
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By New York Times News Service | September 19, 1993
ROME -- A powerful car bomb ripped through a police station in Catania early yesterday, wounding at least four police officers, one of them seriously. The police said the bomb appeared to have been set by the Mafia.It was the second attack in Sicily attributed to organized crime in the last week. The first was the fatal shooting Wednesday night of the Rev. Giuseppe Puglisi, a staunchly anti-Mafia Roman Catholic priest, in Palermo.The explosion yesterday carved a crater 10 feet in diameter in the street in front of the police station and smashed apartments and automobiles nearby.
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By Jamie Stiehm and Jamie Stiehm,SUN STAFF | January 21, 1998
The city zoning board unanimously approved using city-owned land for construction of a Northern District police station yesterday, clearing the way for the $5.4 million project in the 2200 block of W. Cold Spring Lane.No opposition was registered at the hearing.Groundbreaking will be in the spring, said city planning director Charles C. Graves, with completion expected late next year. The city chose BCI Construction, the company with the lowest bid, for the job.An irregular-sized wooded vacant lot, 740 feet by 493 feet, will be the site of a one-story masonry building with 172 off-street parking places, city documents show.