Robbery

The U.S Postal Service is offering a $25,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of a man involved in an armed robbery at the small Benson Post Office between Bel Air and Fallston Wednesday afternoon. The robbery at the post office, in the 100 block of Connolly Road, was reported at 1:46 p.m., Sheriff's Office spokesman Eddie Hopkins said. According to a follow up news release from Hopkins issued Thursday, witnesses told police a white male entered the post office and posed as a customer.

Anne Arundel County police are looking for three teens involved in a strong-arm robbery Friday night in Laurel. Police responding to an incident at the 3400 block of Laurel Fort Meade Road at approximately 9:40 p.m., reported that a 51-year-old man said he had been assaulted by three teens, one of whom asked for money and punched him in the face, knocking him to the ground. The teens then punched and kicked the victim, whose wallet fell out and was stolen, police said. The three teens fled on foot.

Baltimore County police are searching for suspects who robbed Sobo Gold Buyers on Reisterstown Road last month. Police said an employee of Sobo Gold had walked out the back door of the business in the 700 block of Reisterstown Road on Nov.14 when he was approached by a man with a gun who forced him to return to the store. A second suspect was also involved and the two took jewelry and money and fled on foot, police said. The robbery comes as police are dealing on several fronts with crime related to the high price of gold.

A Baltimore inmate charged with robbery and second-degree burglary walked off a work site Wednesday in the Clifton Park neighborhood. Travis Lee Wildes, 25, was last seen at 12:15 p.m. in a gray jumpsuit with "DOC" written on the back, according to the state Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services. Wildes, who is serving 23 months at the Baltimore City Correctional Center, was on an outside detail that was supervised by a correctional officer. On such details, the inmate are considered a low risk to society and are near the end of their sentences, officials said.

Two men have been indicted by federal prosecutors for allegedly robbing at least three Baltimore area convenience stores with a shotgun. Prosecutors say Quindell Ryeshawn Gardner, 21, and Dion Mitchell Doram, 22, conspired between May and July to commit a series of robberies using stolen cars, with one acting as the getaway driver. On June 21, police say the pair traveled in a stolen vehicle to Hampden, where Doram entered the Royal Farms store in the 1100 block of W. 41 s t St., brandished a shotgun and demanded cash and cartons of cigarettes.

A 29-year-old man was shot in the leg in an attempted robbery on Thursday, Baltimore police said. The victim, who police did not identify, told investigators that at about 4:35 p.m. on Thursday, a black man in his 20s wearing a gray jacket approached him on the 300 block of McMechen St. in the Bolton Hill neighborhood. The man informed the victim he aimed to rob him and tried to, prompting a struggle. The victim pushed away and was shot in the leg. Police said the suspect fled while the victim ran to the 1700 block of Eutaw Place, where someone contacted police.

Once a place to wind down during retirement, Johnston Square Apartments, a gray, fairly new multistory apartment complex for seniors along Greenmount Avenue in East Baltimore, has become a safe house. "The majority of people in here stay in here," said Theo Taylor, who rents one of the more than 200 apartments limited to people age 60 and up. "Don't even go out. At dark, everyone files in here. Don't even come out. They just listen to the gunshots. " It wasn't always like this, said residents who live between the 1000 and 2000 blocks of Greenmount Ave., a half-alive commercial corridor interspersed with boarded-up rowhouses, Chinese restaurants and bail bonds services.

Detectives solved a robbery of a Northeast Baltimore dollar store in part by comparing surveillance footage and a Facebook picture of the suspect that showed him wearing the same shirt.  Federal prosecutors announced that Gerald Jerome Rice, 44, was sentenced to 15 years in prison Tuesday morning after pleading guilty to robbing the Family Dollar store in the 5300 block of Frankford Ave in November 2011.  According to prosecutors, Rice entered...

A 20-year-old East Baltimore man has been charged in the stabbing and robbery of a 60-year-old woman in the Patterson Park neighborhood earlier this month, police confirmed. The robbery was among a rash of such incidents reported recently in the Southeastern District, police statistics show. Over a seven-day period ending Nov. 17, the Southeastern District saw 19 robberies, the most in the city - that compares with just three reported over the same period in the Eastern District to the north, and two in the Northern District.

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.