Second Man

Police Blotter is a sampling of crimes in Baltimore and Baltimore County.Eastern DistrictShooting: A 40-year-old man seeking shelter in a vacant house in the 800 block of Bonaparte Ave. was shot inside the house about 4 p.m. yesterday and was in critical condition at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Detective Christopher Smith of the violent crimes task force said the victim was in the living room when three men, one with a .380 semiautomatic handgun, entered and shot him once in the lower back. The men fled.

A Laurel man was being held without bail yesterday, charged with firing the bullet that strayed into Barbara Walker's home in Severn and wounded her and another woman.Astrel Jacques, 25, of the 14000 block of Chapel Cove Court was charged with assault with intent to murder and a handgun violation.Ms. Walker, 53, of the 8500 block of Pioneer Drive was released after treatment at the Maryland Shock Trauma Center. The bullet passed through her shoulder and struck a neighbor, Magdalene Davis, 38, in the head before it landed in a sofa.

A 20-year-old woman leaving an automated teller machine in Ellicott City Friday night was approached by a man who leaned on the hood of her car and reached into the waistband of his pants, police said.The woman and a 15-year-old passenger began to scream, and the woman sped away from the NationsBank in the 8800 block of Columbia 100 Parkway. She struck the man's vehicle -- described as a late 1980s four-door white car, maybe a Toyota.A second man stood nearby during the 11:20 p.m. incident.

Police arrested a Prince Frederick man Tuesday on charges that he threatened a sales representative from a competing cigarette company with a knife.Douglas Mackay Campbell, 37, of the 500 block of Patuxent Reach Drive was charged with assault, assault by threat and possession of a deadly weapon.Todd Bennett Mattingly, 27, a sales representative for Phillip Morris Co., called police to Southdown Liquors in the 3100 block of Solomons Island Road just before 9: 30 a.m. and told them he had been threatened by another sales representative.

Police are continuing their search for a second man they believe was involved in a bungled robbery attempt Sunday night that led to the shooting death of a Glen Burnie restaurant supervisor.Betty Lou Johnson, 48, of the 7900 block of Telegraph Road in Severn was shot once in the chest after she found two men hiding in a kitchen storage area at the Old Country Buffet, county police said.Shelton Lamont Wood, 22, of the 2400 block of E. Oliver St. in Baltimore and Tia Moique Evans, 18, of the 3000 block of Southland Ave. in Baltimore were charged with murder Monday.

County police arrested a Glen Burnie man early Sunday on charges of robbing a Foot Locker store in the Glen Burnie Mall.Charles Bradley Sommerville, 33, of the 7800 block of Woodside Terrace was charged with armed assault and robbery, first-degree assault and felony theft. He was arrested in the parking lot of Price Club Plaza shopping center in the 500 block of Ordnance Road, about a half-mile from the mall, four hours later.Police said a man walked into the Foot Locker store just before 10 p.m. Saturday, priced a pair of shoes and left.

Police arrested a man Tuesday and charged him with stealing men's clothes and a microwave oven from the Ames department store in Pasadena.William Long, a security officer, told police he saw a man and a woman enter the store in the 8100 block of Ritchie Highway shortly before 5:30 p.m., pushing a shopping cart. The couple put several pieces of men's clothing in the cart, police said.When the cart was full, the couple was joined by a second man, and the trio pushed the cart near the jewelry counter and abandoned it, police said.

Two men -- one with a handgun and both without disguises -- robbed an East Columbia High's store in the middle of the afternoon yesterday, when more than a half-dozen customers were waiting in line to make their purchases."

One man smashed a display case at a Towson Town Center jewelry store with a sledgehammer yesterday afternoon, and a second man grabbed several expensive watches, Baltimore County police said.The robbery occurred about 1:45 p.m. at Radcliffe Jewelers on the second floor of the mall.The men ran through the the mall into the parking garage. Police said they fled in an older model gray Oldsmobile Cutlass with Pennsylvania tags beginning with the letters ATS. They were last seen driving north on Dulaney Valley Road.

County police are looking for a man who walked into a Valu-Food store in the 2600 block of Annapolis Road in Odenton Monday and stole two money orders worth $600.According to police, the man entered the store and asked for the money orders, one for $100, the other for $500, and the clerk printed them before the man paid her for them.When the clerk asked for payment, the man took out his wallet and then asked the clerk how to fill them out. As the clerk showed him the money orders and explained how to fill them out, the man snatched the money orders and fled.

Two to head U.S. attorney's team on violent crimes 3 Two men have been named heads of the Maryland U.S. attorney's office's Violent Crimes Section, which oversees prosecutions and investigations of violent repeat offenders and gangs. Michael Hanlon, deputy chief since the fall, is now chief of the section, replacing Jason Weinstein, who left the office to join the U.S. attorney general's office as a deputy assistant in the Criminal Division. Kwame Manley, who is a prosecutor in a federal death penalty trial that went to the jury Tuesday, will become deputy chief.

Baltimore police dispatchers put out a call just after midnight yesterday that captured everyone's attention: Unit One ... Signal 13. In other words, the police commissioner needs help - fast. The city's top cop, Frederick H. Bealefeld III, was alone in the basement of a Southwest Baltimore rowhouse holding a suspect at gunpoint. A member of his executive protection unit, Peter Sullivan, was upstairs searching the house for a second man with a gun. "I was worried about him," Bealefeld said yesterday, referring to his fellow officer.

Two charged in stabbing of Arundel student Two teenagers have been charged in the stabbing of a Glen Burnie High School student during a scuffle last week, police said yesterday. Brandon Pearmon, 17, was charged as an adult with first- and second-degree assault and with possessing a dangerous weapon on school property. A 16-year-old has been charged as a juvenile with second-degree assault. The victim, a 17-year-old male sophomore whose name was not released, was stabbed in the head with a pair of scissors shortly after dismissal, said Bob Mosier, an Anne Arundel County schools spokesman.

The five men who were shot in West Baltimore on Tuesday night were members of a Bloods gang that has had a history of violent clashes in Baltimore in recent years, city police said yesterday. The victims, who ranged in age from 18 to 20 years old, were walking in the area of Edmondson and Claymont avenues shortly before 11 p.m. when a gray four-door sedan pulled up near them. Police said two men got out of the car carrying weapons - possibly a sawed-off shotgun and an automatic rifle. Police said the gunmen fired several times at the group, striking the men in the lower parts of their bodies.

A man died after apparently jumping into the Inner Harbor on Friday, police and fire officials said. He was found by rescue divers near the 1400 block of Lancaster Street in the Harbor East area, said Baltimore Fire Department spokesman Kevin Cartwright. Rescue crews found the man in the water about 10 to 15 minutes after they arrived on the scene. He was unconscious, and attempts to resuscitate him were unsuccessful, Cartwright said. He was taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he was pronounced dead of drowning, hospital officials said.

Man, 46, charged in City Dock accident An Annapolis man has been charged with several offenses after driving into the harbormaster's office at City Dock, city police said. Roger Andre Donegan, 46, of Tyler Avenue was driving a 2005 Subaru near City Dock at 2 a.m. Thursday when the car jumped the curb and struck a planter, then the building, police said. Donegan was charged with driving while intoxicated, a hit-and-run offense and related offenses. Man beaten, robbed in his driveway An Annapolis man was beaten up and robbed Thursday while he sat in his car in his driveway, police said.

Baltimore police have released a sketch of the second man wanted in the Thursday night home-invasion robbery and rape of a Roland Park woman. The 59-year-old woman worked with police artists to compose sketches of her two attackers. Police had not made any arrests but believed the woman might have been targeted while shopping by two men who followed her home and entered her unlocked front door while she was putting away her purchases.

Maryland State Police and city police officers arrested a second suspect last night in the killing of a man whose body was found in the trunk of a burning car Wednesday in Linthicum. Robert Edward Speake, 18, of the 4900 block of Brookwood Road in Brooklyn was arrested about 7 p.m. after barricading himself in a house on the property of the McLean Construction Co. in the 2000 block of Benhill Ave. in Curtis Bay, state police said. A tip led to Speake's arrest. Speake and a second man, Michael P. Smith, 28, of Glen Burnie, who was arrested earlier, are charged with first-degree murder in the death of Philliip Airey, 36, of Glen Burnie.

LONDON -- British police arrested a second suspect yesterday in the killings of five women who worked as prostitutes in eastern England. Detective Chief Supt. Stewart Gull of the Suffolk County police said a "48-year-old man was arrested at his home address in Ipswich at approximately 5 a.m. this morning. He has been arrested on suspicion of murdering all five women: Gemma Adams, Tania Nicol, Anneli Alderton, Paula Clennell and Annette Nicholls." The suspect was not identified by police, who had also refused to release the name of a suspect arrested Monday.

A masked man put a gun to the head of a bartender at Dizzy Issie's and demanded that she open the register while he counted to five. The man yelled, "Keep down ... don't move" to the 50 or so people at the hipster Remington bar. A second man, also masked, stood lookout at a side door. After prying the till free, the pair ran out with about $800 and hopped into a waiting car. Shaken customers picked themselves up. Several called police, and then everyone cleared out for the night. Police say they believe the same men have held up eight bars in the past three weeks, usually the same way. Either two or three men enter the tavern wearing gloves and masks or bandanas to cover their faces, according to police.