Reisterstown

A two-alarm fire early Friday morning at an apartment complex in Reisterstown displaced residents of 11 units, Baltimore County fire officials said. Firefighters responded to an apartment building at The Preserve at Owings Crossing, located in the unit block of Caraway Road, shortly after 2 a.m. Friday and observed flames going through the roof, according to officials. The fire was brought under control around 5:30 a.m., officials said. Two people required medical attention at the scene and were transported to Northwest Hospital - one by ambulance and one by a family member, officials said.

Nate Foster stares across the Westminster airfield, a yellow pencil tucked behind his ear and a notepad covered in hand-scrawled flight coordinates under his arm. He just received his pilot's license on Thursday, but the Reisterstown teenager has already turned his sights to distant horizons. While fellow seniors from Friends School squeeze in last afternoons at the beach before classes start Sept. 1, Foster will be flying to California by himself in a cramped, two-seat airplane.

A Reisterstown financial advisor pleaded guilty in federal court in Baltimore on Wednesday to mail fraud in connection with the theft of more than $800,000 from accounts he managed for a child suffering from cerebral palsy and for an elderly client with dementia. Ralph Edward Thomas Jr., 52, a former vice president in a subsidiary of Harbor Bank, used more than $100,000 in stolen money from the child's trust fund to buy a home, the U.S. Attorney's office said. Thomas also obtained three mortgages valued at $205,000 on the home of the child's mother, using her name without her knowledge, authorities said.

A Reisterstown home that sold in September for $1.25 million stood out because of its large, wooded lot. "Most of the properties in the area are on one acre or a portion of an acre," said Susan Hartman, the agent who sold the 10-year-old property. Hartman is with O'Conor & Mooney Realtors in Lutherville and sells residences across the state, she said. But this five-bedroom home sits on a piece of land that is nearly 22 acres, making it one of the largest lots in the Beaverbrook subdivision.

An 80-year-old woman was found dead after a fire broke out in a Reisterstown home Saturday afternoon. Shortly after 4 p.m., Baltimore County firefighters were called to the 400 block of Main St., where they saw heavy smoke billowing from the back of a home, officials said. The firefighters determined the flames were coming from a rear bedroom and began an "aggressive attack" on the fire, the department said. The single-alarm fire was placed under control shortly after 4:20 p.m., about 15 minutes after firefighters were dispatched, officials said.

Baltimore County police are searching for a 15-year-old from Reisterstown who has been missing for nearly two months. Sasha Arianna Samlal, of the unit block of Gloucester Court, was reported missing Sept. 21. She was last seen getting into a small black Honda with tinted windows, with a white sticker on the windshield. A Hispanic male was driving. She is described as an Indian female with long black hair, brown eyes and a medium complexion. She is 5 feet 5 and weighs 140 pounds.

Baltimore County police have discovered a man's body in a wooded area near where the remains of a human hand were found several days earlier, police said. Detectives, with the help of volunteers, located the unidentified body around 11:30 a.m. Saturday near Hanover Pike and Butler Road, said Lt. Robert McCullough. He said police believe the body and hand are the same person, "but additional testing is being done" and police are continuing their investigation. Police returned to the area near the 300 block of Hedgepocket Way in the Reisterstown area, where a landscaper found the hand on a lawn on Wednesday, to conduct the search, after the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner identified the hand as human, he said.

A Reisterstown man suffered severe burns to his back and legs yesterday after he was shocked at a Baltimore Gas and Electric substation while deer hunting in Owings Mills, authorities said.Jim Byers, 34, of the 700 block of Main St., who was bow-hunting, had climbed an electrical tower near Owings Mills Boulevard and Crondall Lane shortly before 5 p.m. when he was hit by 110,000 volts of electricity.Byers was being treated last night at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center burn unit.Pub Date: 10/06/96

A 35-year-old Carroll County man was killed late Thursday when his pickup truck ran off the road in the Reisterstown area and flipped over, Baltimore County police said.Howard William Izzett of the 5300 block of Wendy Road, Eldersburg, was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash, said E. Jay Miller, a police spokesman.Mr. Miller said the victim was driving a 1990 GMC pickup truck westbound on Church Road near Sunnydale Way at a high speed.The victim lost control of the truck, which ran off the left side of the road and flipped over, according to police.