Storage Room

Just as the temperatures were about to soar into the 90s, Annapolis police said a city resident reported his snowball maker was apparently stolen. Police said Wednesday that a resident of the 1800 block of Robert Small Road came to the police station Monday to say that his Sno Master machine was gone from the locked storage room of his basement last Saturday. He had placed it in there in April. There were no signs of forced entry, and family members, who have access to that room, said they had no knowledge about a theft of the equipment, according to police.

Picture a house magnificently perched on a hill in Cockeysville with windows overlooking a garden oasis in the foreground and, beyond, a rippling one-acre lake. There is not another house as far as the eye can see from the top of a stone staircase leading off the home's large deck and winding along an alpine garden path to a swimming pool and gazebo. The path continues onto a stone bridge over a cascading stream with a 17-foot drop over waterfalls sliding toward a pond. Beyond the pebble path, a fanciful teahouse rises up from a grassy plain.

The state fire marshal's office is investigating a Monday night storage room fire at Hahn's of Westminster that brought some 40 firefighters from five Carroll fire companies.The fire was contained to a 15-by-50-foot room used by the company to store boxes at its pork-processing company on Hahn Road, said Bob Thomas, the deputy state fire marshal. Mr. Thomas said the blaze caused an estimated $5,000 in property damage.Mr. Thomas said one of four people working the night shift at the company reported the fire shortly before midnight Monday.

Just as the temperatures were about to soar into the 90s, Annapolis police said a city resident reported his snowball maker was apparently stolen. Police said Wednesday that a resident of the 1800 block of Robert Small Road came to the police station Monday to say that his Sno Master machine was gone from the locked storage room of his basement last Saturday. He had placed it in there in April. There were no signs of forced entry, and family members, who have access to that room, said they had no knowledge about a theft of the equipment, according to police.

Police logElkridge: 5800 block of Bonnie View Lane: Someone broke into the storage room at the Econo Lodge Saturday and stole sodas.Pub Date: 7/17/96

A fire that caused about $10,000 in damage to a Westminster motel yesterday was blamed on carelessly discarded smoking materials, authorities said.The fire, which was confined to an outside storage room, was discovered at 9: 12 a.m. by employees of the Comfort Inn in the 400 block of Western Maryland College Drive, state fire marshals said. No one was injured and about 30 firefighters from Westminster, Reese, Pleasant Valley and Union Bridge controlled the blaze within 10 minutes.Sprinklers in the storage room helped suppress the blaze, fire marshals said.

Two teens accused in the gang rape of a 12-year-old girl at a Woodlawn skating rink Saturday night have been charged as adults, prosecutors said Wednesday. Kadeem R. Santiful, 17, and Tracey W. Hankins, 15, both of Baltimore, are accused of first-degree rape, first-degree sex offense and other charges in the attack at Skateworks. Davon Perry, 24, of Pikesville had been charged previously with the same counts. The girl told police Saturday that the trio had taken turns holding her down and raping her in a room used to store party supplies, and that they had forced her to perform sex acts on each of them.

Burglars broke into the Pasadena Veterans of Foreign Wars Post Tuesday and tried to pry open a safe, county police said.Police went to the post shortly before 4 a.m. after a burglar alarm sounded and found the front door ajar, but no one inside.The culprits used a sledgehammer and two crowbars to pry open a front door, setting off the alarm, and then used the tools to try to break into a storage room, police said. The burglars climbed atop a cigarette machine, crawled through a drop ceiling and into the closet, where they made an unsuccessful attempt to open the safe, police said.

The last of the used furniture destined for the needy had not yet been unloaded yesterday when Bea Gaddy began pondering her next move."This is needed. We now have resources for food. We now have resources for furniture. Housing is the next thing we need," said Mrs. Gaddy, who runs a homeless shelter and soup kitchen in East Baltimore.The furniture -- 333 pieces in all -- was donated by the Cross Keys Inn in North Baltimore, loaded onto several trucks and taken to a storage room in Mondawmin Mall.

Cash box, $75 reported stolen from high school Hampstead police are investigating the theft of club money from a locked storage room at North Carroll High School. A North Carroll Athletic Boosters officer discovered the theft Friday after going to the storage room to retrieve a metal cash box containing about $75, police said. The boosters officer checked with other club officers to determine whether one of them had removed the cash box, police said. Police believe the theft occurred between Jan. 23 and Friday, and that the person responsible had a key to the storage room.

How dreadful. My husband and I are going to the home sometime this summer or fall, assuming that we sell our apartment for enough money. "The home," of course, is assisted living - a nice, bland euphemism. What it means is that we'll be leaving our lovely apartment on the first floor of a condo looking over an Olmsted garden for an apartment on the seventh floor of the retirement home, which is half the size for lots of money. Yes, I know that we're lucky to be able to do this.

The following is compiled from local police reports. Our policy is to include descriptions when there is enough information to make identification possible. If you have information about these crimes, call the Wilkens Precinct at 410-887-0872. Hilton Avenue, 1200 block, 3:30-4 p.m. June 4. Man saw former friend's vehicle parked outside his residence and heard her voice. To avoid confrontation, he went to another section of property. When he returned an hour later, he found his laptop broken and pizza box on chair knocked over.

From the foot of their driveway, Leslie Kopp and Chuck Coltman's three-story, seaside retreat is as imposing a Victorian structure as one is likely to encounter along the shores of Bethany Beach, Del. The exterior is as formal as a portrait of a great-great-grandmother but is tempered with lace-like, gingerbread wooden embellishments. Narrow in width, yet almost five times that in its depth, the 25-foot-wide-by-121-foot-deep structure could easily take its place with the well-kept, mid-19th-century townhouses found in many cities.

A 26-year man who was found dead last month in a basement storage room of an empty Jessup house died from cocaine intoxication, according to a preliminary autopsy report by the state's medical examiner. Elizabeth Schroen, a by Howard County police spokeswoman, said Thursday that "there was no foul play" in Najib Malik Abdullah's death and that police are still trying to determine whether his death was an accident or suicide. Police discovered Abdullah's body April 30 after the owners of the house, located in the 8700 block of Mary Lane, smelled a strong odor coming from behind the door to the storage room.

It wasn't the art heist of the century — "someone came in and took some artwork off the wall and left with it," the vice president of the Towson ARTS Collective said. But it was a big deal for the small nonprofit that promotes local artists and runs classes to teach others how to paint. And so the people who run the collective are trying to turn a discouraging crime into a positive event with a fundraiser to help repay the artists whose work remains missing and improve security at its basement building on York Road.

Attorneys representing the family of a 12-year-old who says she was gang raped at a Baltimore County roller rink assailed last week's release of video surveillance footage and challenged the owners to close down the business pending a review of its policies. Skateworks owners are "attacking the credibility of a 12-year-old rape victim to save themselves from poor business practices," wrote attorneys Janice Bledsoe and Sandra Goldthorpe in a letter to The Baltimore Sun. If they "truly wish to get to the bottom of what occurred that day, they should release all original videos" to investigators, the letter said.

A gunman robbed a Pasadena shoe store of an undisclosed amount of money Saturday, county police said.The man was in the store in the first block of Mountain Road shortly before 9 p.m., asking clerks Gina Barnes, 24, and Andrea Robinson, 23, about shoes. After a brief time, the man disappeared, but Barnes found him in a rear storage room, police said.The man pulled a gun and ordered Barnes to the floor, police said. A short time later, Robinson went to the storage room and also was ordered to the ground, police said.

A 26-year man who was found dead last month in a basement storage room of an empty Jessup house died from cocaine intoxication, according to a preliminary autopsy report by the state's medical examiner. Elizabeth Schroen, a by Howard County police spokeswoman, said Thursday that "there was no foul play" in Najib Malik Abdullah's death and that police are still trying to determine whether his death was an accident or suicide. Police discovered Abdullah's body April 30 after the owners of the house, located in the 8700 block of Mary Lane, smelled a strong odor coming from behind the door to the storage room.

Two teens accused in the gang rape of a 12-year-old girl at a Woodlawn skating rink Saturday night have been charged as adults, prosecutors said Wednesday. Kadeem R. Santiful, 17, and Tracey W. Hankins, 15, both of Baltimore, are accused of first-degree rape, first-degree sex offense and other charges in the attack at Skateworks. Davon Perry, 24, of Pikesville had been charged previously with the same counts. The girl told police Saturday that the trio had taken turns holding her down and raping her in a room used to store party supplies, and that they had forced her to perform sex acts on each of them.

The storage room in Zora Dougherty's consignment shop has been converted into Success in Style's latest fundraiser - Charity's Closet. "I knew I wanted to do something with the space eventually," said Dougherty, owner of Second Childhood in Ellicott City. "At one point, I received services similar to those provided by Success in Style. I knew they could do something great with it." Success in Style, a nonprofit organization, has provided business attire for more than 1,000 low-income women searching for jobs over the past six years.