Robber

For the second time in just over a week, a Friendly's restaurant in Anne Arundel County was robbed, police said. Police said that early Monday, a man with a handgun held up an employee who was about to enter the Friendly's restaurant in the 2600 block of Annapolis Road in Jessup. The man, who pulled the hood of his jacket over his head leaving only his eyes and nose showing, forced the worker to take him into the restaurant and give him money, police said. He then ran away. Police spokesman Justin Mulcahy said in an email that detectives will check for similarities between this robbery and others, including the one that took place Oct. 2 at another Friendly's.

Herbert Vincent Sevier, a retired Baltimore County police officer who received a commendation for his role in apprehending a bank robber, died of pulmonary failure Sept. 5 at Franklin Square Hospital Center. The Essex resident was 79. Born in Baltimore County, he attended a one-room elementary school in Back River and later Kenwood High School. He received a GED. Mr. Sevier worked at his family's Shell gas station on Back River Neck Road from 1947 to 1955. He then joined the Navy and was a diesel mechanic on the destroyer tender U.S.S.

The Pizza Hut Express on Route 22 east of Bel Air town was robbed early Saturday morning by a man wearing a black mask. Police are still looking for the robber. Maryland State Police troopers, assisted by the Bel Air Police Department and Harford County Sheriff's Office, responded to the carry-out establishment in the 1200 block of East Churchville Road after employees reported a lone assailant accosted them shortly after 12:37 a.m. Employees told police investigators the masked robber entered the establishment, brandished a knife and demanded cash from the eatery and personal items from the employees.

A man tried to rob a small grocery store in Annapolis Friday night but was disarmed by employees and arrested, police said. Darius Cameron, 26, of Glen Burnie pulled out a handgun in Anita Spanish Grocery Inc. in the 1900 block of Fairfax Drive at about 9:20 p.m. and demanded money from the cash register, the City of Annapolis Police Department said Saturday. A clerk activated the panic alarm and ignored Cameron's demand for money, police said. He climbed on the counter and then attempted to shoot at the clerk, but the gun did not fire.

Baltimore police are asking for the public's help in identifying a man suspected of holding up several convenience stores in the city. At least four robberies have occurred over the past two weeks in the north, northwest and northeast parts of Baltimore — all targeting 7-Eleven and Royal Farms stores. According to police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi, the gunman is considered "armed and dangerous. " Guglielmi said the man typically enters the store during off-peak hours and approaches the cash register under the guise of buying an item.

A 26-year-old Baltimore man was sentenced to eight and a half years in federal prison Friday for using a gun to rob a Carroll County pharmacy of prescription narcotics, the Maryland U.S. Attorney's Office announced. Joseph Wagner pointed a handgun into the face of a Finksburg Pharmacy employee on Sept. 30, 2009, and "and threatened to kill her if she moved," prosecutors said in a statement. A conspirator then demanded drugs, including Ocycontin, Xanax and Percocet, and Wagner bound two employees hands and feet with zip ties, the statement said, while a third employee hid in a back room and called 911. Wagner and the conspirator were arrested one street over, and 75 pill bottles were later recovered from their car, along with zip ties, duct tape, and nearly $1,600.

A gas station clerk who shot and killed a would-be robber at a Laurel gas station in December won't be charged, the Anne Arundel state's attorney's office announced Friday. Prosecutors say that Mapher Amin Ibrahim, 48, acted in self-defense when he shot Josue Alberto Angel, 29, on Dec. 28. Police had said that Angel entered a Chevron Gas Station and Dunkin Donuts in the 3400 block of Laurel Fort Meade Road with the intent to rob the store, and had indicated he was armed. Ibrahim, who was working as a clerk at the store, then shot Angel, according to officials.

Harford County police continued Saturday to seek three suspects in an Abingdon home invasion in which the victim was taken to a local bank and coerced by a robber into withdrawing a "significant sum" of money from her account. Monica Worrell, a spokeswoman for the sheriff's office, said two armed men wearing black ski masks confronted the woman, who had been expecting her mother, when she answered her front door in the 2600 block of Smallwood Drive about 10:30 a.m. Friday. Worrell said the men demanded cash, and when she said she did not have any forced her to drive her vehicle two miles to a bank at the corner of Emmorton Road and Bel Air South Parkway.