Robbery

A 20-year-old cousin of Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake was one of two men fatally shot in separate incidents Wednesday night in Baltimore, the latest victims of the city's relentless pace of gun violence. Joseph Haskins, 20, was shot inside a house just blocks from his family's home in the Northwest Baltimore neighborhood of Forest Park. Police said the shooting appeared to be the result of home invasion robbery, but detectives still were investigating. They said it was unclear whether Haskins was targeted.

Laurel Police report felonies, arrests and property crimes. Prince George's County police report violent crimes and property crimes. Anne Arundel County Police report major crimes City of Laurel Baltimore Avenue, 14100 block, May 5. Theft. Armstrong Court, 400 block, May 5. Motor vehicle theft. Main Street, 600 block, May 5. Theft from motor vehicle. Washington Boulevard, 900 block, May 5. Shoplifting. Main Street, 300 block, May 4. Attempted burglary.

Four male suspects have been arrested and charged in a home-invasion robbery and rape last week in a Woodlawn apartment, Baltimore County police said yesterday. Being held without bail in the Baltimore County Detention Center are Donte Lanard Ross, 20, of the 2900 block of Essex Road in Woodlawn, Devon Mardell Ross, 17, of the 2800 block of Gatehouse Road in Baltimore, Raymond Antonio Vernon, 17, of the 6700 block of Townbrook Drive in Woodlawn and Michael Anthony Long, 16, of the 800 block of N. Luzerne Ave. in Baltimore.

We would like to appreciate the service that was provided by the Laurel Police Dept. on Saturday, May 4, when the following incident happened at Main Street Dental. We received a call from the alarm people on Saturday evening informing us that out dental office alarm had gone off. We called our neighbor who also heard some noise in the basement of the dental office. The police were notified and they came right away. It was a suspected robbery. The police came and surrounded the building in view of catching the suspected robber.

Baltimore City* ROBBERY: Northern District -- A resident of the 900 block of W. University Parkway was about to enter his home Thursday night when he was struck on the back of the head by one of two men, one with a handgun, who robbed him of his wallet, cash, credit cards and watch, all valued at nearly $450.* THEFTS FROM AUTOS: Northern District -- At least seven vehicles were broken into in the 1700 block of Union Ave. Thursday. Taken was money, two hunting knives, two electric drills, clothing, roller skates and a cellular phone, all valued at more than $600.

Baltimore County Police have released photographs of six unidentified people, three men and three women, in connection with the investigation of a June 13 robbery of a Greene Turtle employee, according to a statement released Wednesday. At about midnight, the male employee was leaving work on Restaurant Park Drive near the Owings Mills Mall, police said. The employee told police that he was cutting across the mall's parking lot when two people approached and displayed a handgun, the statement said.

The search for the killers of Baltimore millionaire J. Schuyler "Sky" Alland was at a standstill in the summer of 1992. Whoever executed the businessman for his $80,000 black BMW apparently had gotten away with murder -- not to mention the car.U.S. Park Police Detective Timothy M. Squires was handling the first murder of his career, but he made a bold promise."He promised that he would find these guys," said Dorothy Alland Leighton, Mr. Alland's mother. "He said, 'Even when I retire, I'll continue to work on this case with no pay until I find who killed your son.' "His promise was fulfilled Wednesday when federal prosecutors wrapped up an intricate nationwide investigation into the February 1992 murder with the conviction of the killer, John Graham Bridges, 30, of Norfolk, Va. A co-defendant, Robert Patrick Gray, 25, of Cockeysville pleaded guilty Nov. 5."

The promising young researcher had come to Baltimore from his home in Florida, after attending college in Michigan and working with stem cells in Japan, where he became fluent in the language. Here, he assisted with breast cancer studies at the Johns Hopkins University and was poised to enroll in medical school. He was four blocks from his Charles Village apartment Sunday night when two robbers took his life for cash and a cell phone. Dropped off at Penn Station after a weekend trip to New York to visit his sister, 23-year-old Stephen Pitcairn was talking to his mother on his iPhone at about 11 p.m. and walking north in the 2600 block of St. Paul St. when a man and woman demanded money.

A 20-year-old robbery suspect was in the hospital after being shot in the shoulder early Sunday, Baltimore police said. An off-duty security guard told police he exchanged gunfire with a man who robbed him in the 3600 block of Dolfield Avenue before 3 a.m. The robber fled in a vehicle, police said. Shortly afterward they located a man they identified as the robbery suspect in the 1900 block of Dukeland Street. The off-duty security guard was unharmed.

A 16-year-old Columbia boy was charged in an armed robbery of a man who retrieving mail from a community mail box on Wednesday evening. Police said Dymtro Klopp, 16, of Dove Cote Drive, was with two other teens in the 10400 block of Fair Oaks in Columbia on Wednesday when they approached the victim, placed a gun against the victim's head and demanded money. The victim handed over his wallet, which contained credit cards, gift cards and an undisclosed amount of cash. The victim was able to give police a detailed description of Klopp, which police recognized from other recent incidents.

The robber of the Benson post office on Connolly Road Saturday is believed to be the same man who robbed that post office in December 2012, police investigators say.. An attempted robbery that also occurred Saturday, at the Sovereign Bank branch just south of Bel Air, is not believed to be related to the post office crime, according to the Harford County Sheriff's Office. The bank robbery is, however, likely to be connected to two earlier robberies at the same Sovereign Bank branch.

An armed man in camoflauge jumped the counter of a post office in Fallston and made off with an undisclosed amount of cash on Saturday morning, according to the Harford County Sheriff's Office. The armed robbery, which occurred at the Benson post office about 11:30 a.m., came just hours after an attempted armed robbery of a bank about five miles away in southern Bel Air, according to the sheriff's office. At the post office in the 100 block of Connolly Road, a man wearing camoflauge and holding a handgun entered, announced a robbery and then jumped over a counter before taking the cash and fleeing on foot toward the 1800 block of Harford Road, the sheriff's office said.

A 16-year-old Belcamp boy has been arrested and charged as an adult in connection with a Craigslist robbery earlier this month. Rodney Parker Jr., 16, of the 1300 block of Liriope Court, is charged with armed robbery, robbery and theft. He was arrested near his home by detectives at about 6 p.m. Wednesday, according to a press release from the Harford County Sheriff's Office. On April 6 at 11:30 p.m., sheriff's deputies were sent to the 1300 block of Riverside Parkway and met with a Baltimore man who said that earlier in the day he had responded to a Craigslist advertisement in which he offered to buy a cell phone listed for sale, according to the release.

Harford County sheriff's deputies chased a suspect who fled an armed robbery at a liquor store in the Bel Air area on Friday afternoon and later crashed his vehicle on Route 40 in the Joppa area. The suspect, since identified only as a black male, rolled over a white SUV several times after clipping another vehicle turning at Route 40 and Pine Avenue, Eddie Hopkins, a spokesperson for the Harford County Sheriff's Office said. Hopkins said shortly after 4 p.m. that details about the crime and the ensuing chase are still being gathered.

A 64-year-old man was robbed and beaten with his own walking stick after a group of six teenagers and young men attacked him in a parking lot at the Glen Burnie Towne Center late Tuesday night, according to Anne Arundel County Police. The incident was one of two robberies reported in the area within several hours of one another. The man flagged a patrol officer down about 11:15 p.m. to report the incident near the Toys R Us store in the 6700 block of Ritchie Highway, police said.

A man told police he was tied up and robbed of cash and a handgun in a pre-dawn home invasion in Patterson Place committed by men who flashed a police badge, according to a police report.  The victim told police that at about 5 a.m. on Monday, he heard a loud banging at his front door in the 100 block of N. Montford Ave. and saw two unknown males standing outside the home wearing dark clothing - one who showed a police badge, the report says.  ...

A worker was stabbed in the shoulder when two men tried to rob a KFC on Pulaski Highway in Edgewood around closing time Saturday night, the Harford County Sheriff's Office said Sunday. Three workers were cleaning up about 10:45 p.m. when the two men, one of them masked, forced their way past an employee attempting to lock the restaurant door. One man wielded a large knife, the other carried a handgun. Workers told detectives the man with the knife stabbed a female worker in the left shoulder before fleeing on foot with his accomplice and no cash.

A 24-year-old Abingdon man is being held on $30,000 bail after he was arrested and charged with committing an armed robbery April 6 at an Abingdon convenience store, the Harford County Sheriff's Office said. "Intense media saturation" of a surveillance video and photos of the suspect are credited by the Sheriff's Office with leading to the arrest of Jason William Foland, of the 600 block of Long Bar Harbor Drive. The video and photos were made available earlier this week and were posted on many Internet sites, including http://www.exploreharford.com.

City police have charged a 22-year-old man in a double shooting over the weekend in Southwest Baltimore that killed a 42-year-old woman.  Gerald Gaffney, of the 3500 block of W. Garrison Ave., is charged with first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder and armed robbery counts, court records show. A motive was not immediately disclosed by police, though the charges indicate a robbery. Police said officers were called to the 2700 block of Kinsey Ave. at about 6:45 p.m. for a report of a shooting, and found a 33-year-old man suffering gunshot wounds to his arms.