Robber

A Baltimore judge on Wednesday sentenced serial robber William Carr to life in prison plus 30 years, the maximum terms allowed, for the armed robbery and murder last year of a Korean businessman at the Erdman Shopping Center in Belair-Edison. “Had he not been arrested… he would have continued his violent conduct,” said Baltimore State's Attorney Gregg Bernstein, who prosecuted the case alongside Assistant State's Attorney Josh Felsen. Carr, who was released from a 20-year prison term in 2010, was convicted of at least two other armed robberies before he was incarcerated and is facing trial next month in a separate incident that occurred just days before he killed Chong Wan Yim on June 28th.

A man claiming to be selling watches, coins and other items on Craigslist - the Internet version of classified ads - has lured four people to a residential street in Northwest Baltimore and robbed them at gunpoint, according to city police. Two attacks occurred last year, in August and November, but two others were reported to police this month. Police said they believe all the hold-ups are linked - they're occurring in mid-afternoon in the same block on Callaway Avenue, lined with single family homes and green lawns near Ashburton.

A 32-year-old Crofton man was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison Thursday for armed bank robbery, after holding up the same two M&T banks a total of five times and making off with more than $30,000, sometimes wishing the tellers a “nice day” on his way out, according to the Maryland U.S. Attorney's Office. Wearing a hoodie and a neoprene face mask, William Alexander Norbeck burst into an M&T Bank on the 500 block of Solomons Island Road in Prince Frederick in March of last year, racking a 12-gauge, pump-action shotgun and telling everyone to “get down,” according to his plea agreement.

Baltimore police are seeking help identifying a man who on March 15 robbed a Wells Fargo Bank in the 4800 block of Eastern Ave., near Greektown and just west of Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. Police said the man handed a teller a note implying he was armed with a handgun. Authorities did not say whether any money was taken. The assailant is described as a black male in his early 20s, about 6 feet tall and and weighing about 180 pounds. He was last seen wearing dark sunglasses, a gray jacket, and dark jeans.

A man is in custody after he allegedly robbed a cab driver at gun point shortly before 8 p.m. Saturday and forced the driver to take him to various locations, including a Glen Burnie convenience store that the man also robbed, police said. Following the robbery at the Dash In, in the 7800 block of Quarterfield Road, the suspect told the cab driver to transport him to Glen Burnie before he eventually got out of the cab., police said The 24-year-old male driver contacted police.

A Glen Burnie man continued to rob banks in Maryland and in three other states while on supervised release stemming from his conviction in 1997 for robbing banks in Georgia and Florida, according o the Maryland U.S. Attorney's Office. On Monday, U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett sentenced Gary Allen Densmore, 56, to 13 years in prison for his most recent robbery spree, and an additional five years for violating the provisions of his release. Authorities said that Densmore, who pleaded guilty, robbed the Carrollton Bank on Crain Highway in Glen Burnie on Feb. 2, 2011 by handing a teller a note and a bag. He got away with $2,300, and prosecutors said he made his getaway in a stolen vehicle.

A former Glen Burnie man who went on an interstate bank-robbing spree last year was sentenced to more than 13 years in prison by a U.S. District Court on Monday. Allen Densmore, 56, robbed the Severn Savings Bank on Crain Highway in Glen Burnie of $2,300 on Feb. 3, 2011, after providing the teller a demand note and a bag, federal prosecutors said. After fleeing Maryland in a stolen vehicle, Densmore went on to rob banks in Wisconsin, South Dakota and Iowa, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

Philadelphia 76ers guard Lou Williams takes shots on the court, but prevented them from being fired recently in a Philadelphia neighborhood. Williams told the Philadelphia Daily News that he was approached by a gun-wielding man while stopped in his car Christmas Eve. But he talked the gunman out of the crime, then took him to McDonald's. “A guy tried to rob me but decided not to because of whatever I do in the community,” Williams told the paper. “He's a Lou Williams fan, so he didn't rob me.” Williams said the man knocked on the driver's window with a gun drawn.

Baltimore County police have released additional details concerning a police-involved shooting in the 3200 block of Wallford Drive in North Point Monday morning. A police spokesman said that officers were dispatched for a call of an armed robbery in progress and found a man exiting the house via a back porch. The man was armed with a semi-automatic handgun, police said. An officer repeatedly told the man to drop the weapon, but he refused and turned toward the officer, police said.

As the three men rifled through his pockets and upended beds in his Southeast Baltimore home, Moises Pacheco says he spotted a small detail that made him begin to suspect the intruders were not the police officers they claimed to be. One of the men had a walkie-talkie, and it looked like a children's toy, said Pacheco, a native of Ecuador who has lived in Baltimore for the past eight years and speaks limited English. After the men found $1,800 in his wallet — money he says he planned to use to purchase a car — they took off running.