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By Joan Jacobson and Joan Jacobson,SUN STAFF | September 18, 1999
A Baltimore County jury convicted Ardale D. Tickles yesterday of attempted murder and armed robbery in the shooting of a McDonald's restaurant manager, hours after deputy sheriffs and police subdued Tickles in the courtroom as he walked away from the trial table.The jury deliberated less than an hour before convicting Tickles, 19, who was arrested in the shooting in January after police found a pager rented by Tickles outside the Joppa Road restaurant.Tickles, a resident of the 1600 block of E. Northern Parkway, is awaiting trial in an unrelated murder-for-hire scheme in Howard County.
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By Del Quentin Wilber and Del Quentin Wilber,SUN STAFF | January 14, 2000
The Parkville woman accused of hiring a hit man to kill her daughter-in-law in Elkridge in late 1998 won a victory in court yesterday when a judge ruled that key evidence apparently linking her to the crime could not be used at her trial. Howard County Circuit Judge Dennis M. Sweeney ruled that statements implicating Emilia D. Raras, 63, on an informant's tape recording could be "devastating" because her attorneys would not be able to cross-examine the accused hit man, Ardale D. Tickles of Baltimore.
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By Joan Jacobson and Joan Jacobson,SUN STAFF | December 21, 1999
A Baltimore County judge sentenced a city man yesterday to 25 years in prison for what he called a "harrowing" shooting during a robbery in January at a McDonald's restaurant.Ardale D. Tickles, 20, had been convicted of attempted murder, armed robbery and using a handgun during a robbery. Police said he shot Raymond Gotha three times while Gotha, the manager of a McDonald's on Joppa Road near Loch Raven Boulevard, was trying to open the safe.Circuit Judge Alexander Wright Jr. called Tickles, of the 1600 block of E. Northern Parkway, "a clear and present danger to the community.
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By Del Quentin Wilber and Del Quentin Wilber,SUN STAFF | January 28, 2000
A key witness in the case against a Baltimore County woman accused of hiring a hit man to kill her daughter-in-law testified yesterday that a friend told her he had been paid to carry out the plot. Tanisha Hodge, 26, testified under a grant of immunity from Howard County prosecutors in the trial of Emilia D. Raras, 63. She is expected to testify in the trial of the friend, Ardale D. Tickles, 20. Raras is accused of hiring Tickles for $3,000 to kill her daughter-in-law, Sara J. Williamson Raras of Elkridge.
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By Del Quentin Wilber and Del Quentin Wilber,SUN STAFF | January 14, 2000
The Parkville woman accused of hiring a hit man to kill her daughter-in-law in Elkridge in late 1998 won a victory in court yesterday when a judge ruled that key evidence apparently linking her to the crime could not be used at her trial. Howard County Circuit Judge Dennis M. Sweeney ruled that statements implicating Emilia D. Raras, 63, on an informant's tape recording could be "devastating" because her attorneys would not be able to cross-examine the accused hit man, Ardale D. Tickles of Baltimore.
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By Del Quentin Wilber and Del Quentin Wilber,SUN STAFF | February 1, 2000
A Baltimore County woman accused of hiring a hit man to kill her daughter-in-law withdrew $2,500 in cash from her checking account a few days after the slaying, according to banking records disclosed during her trial yesterday. Howard County prosecutors then tried to link the withdrawal to the man accused of killing the 35-year-old Elkridge mother, contending the cash was deposited into his bank account within weeks of the killing on Nov. 14, 1998. The defense attorney for Emilia D. Raras, 63, of Parkville attacked the alleged connection, and an investigator with the state's attorneys office acknowledged that he could not say whether Raras gave cash to Ardale D. Tickles, the man accused in the killing of Sara J. Williamson Raras of Meadowfield Court.