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A man was being held Friday in the stabbing death of a 26-year-old acquaintance in Woodlawn. A Baltimore County police spokesman said the suspect would be charged with first-degree murder on Friday evening, and that the department would release both his name and that of the victim at that time. The spokesman, William Toohey, said the two men got into a fight shortly before 1:30 a.m. Friday outside an apartment building in the 3300 block of Aurora Lane. "We don't know what they were fighting about," Toohey said.

A 4-year-old girl's plea for help to a neighbor early yesterday led police to the body of her mother, who had been stabbed to death in her two-story Woodlawn townhouse.The body of Rae Antoinette Corpening, 31, of the 7200 block of Sawmill Branch Road was found after her daughter told a neighbor that "her mother needed help," said Baltimore County police spokesman Bill Toohey.Corpening had been stabbed repeatedly, Toohey said. The weapon was not found in the house, he said. Corpening's green Ford Escort was missing when police arrived yesterday, but was found abandoned in Howard County, he said.

Baltimore County detectives are trying to determine who stole $109,000 worth of seafood during four break-ins at two restaurants in the past month. Bill Toohey, a county police spokesman, said $5,000 worth of shrimp and lobster was taken yesterday morning from Breezy Point Seafood carryout in the 9500 block of Philadelphia Road in Essex. The restaurant was also burglarized Oct. 16 and again Oct. 30, when someone got away with $14,000 and $9,000 worth of seafood, respectively. Toohey said police do not believe those incidents are connected to a Nov. 7 burglary at the Windsor Inn Crab House in the 7200 block of Windsor Mill Road in Woodlawn.

A Glen Burnie woman and a man she is accused of hiring to kill her estranged husband for $1,000 to $2,000 were behind bars yesterday after a witness' tip to police thwarted the alleged murder plot, Baltimore County police said. The tip came two days after an attempt on the life of the husband - Rocco J. Battaglia of Arbutus - went awry. He was confronted in what was supposed to be staged to look like a robbery, but the assailant ran off after his shotgun misfired, police said. Cecilia Marie Battaglia, 45, of the 200 block of Shana Road was charged with attempted murder in the alleged plan that targeted Battaglia, 46, of the first block of Colony Hill Court in Arbutus, said county police spokesman Bill Toohey.

A man whose nude body was found in the back yard of a home in the 2900 block of North Wind Road in Cub Hill on Saturday morning was identified yesterday by county police as 31-year-old from the Jacksonville area of northern Baltimore County. But the cause of death for Christopher Agrow of the 2900 block of York Manor Road was unknown yesterday. An autopsy was being performed. The death was classified as suspicious, said police spokesman Bill Toohey. Police were called to the neighborhood about 3 a.m. Saturday when residents reported a man banging on doors and windows.

A woman and the nephew she was walking home from Edmondson Heights Elementary School were struck by a car yesterday while crossing a street in Woodlawn, said a Baltimore County police spokesman.Bill Toohey said Grace Agnes Mitchell, 37, and EmmanuelJefferies, 4, both of the 1500 block of N. Forest Park Ave. in Woodlawn, were crossing Kirkwood Road from Sunset Avenue about 3: 20 p.m. when they were struck by a car driven by a year-old girl, whose name was not released.Toohey said Mitchell, who was thrown onto the car's hood, was taken by ambulance to Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, where she was in stable condition.

Police have identified the body of a man found Thanksgiving Day in Gunpowder Falls State Park as 38-year-old David Alan Heller of Northeast Baltimore. Investigators believe Heller committed suicide, said Bill Toohey, a Baltimore County police spokesman. Heller, who lived by himself in an apartment in the 4300 block of Lasalle Ave., was last seen Oct. 23 and reported missing Nov. 18, Toohey said. About noon Thursday, a father walking with his two young sons found Heller's body partly covered by a plastic sheet in the woods off Belair Road, about a mile north of Forge Road.

A man whose Woodlawn apartment was invaded Tuesday by two men who stole a safe reportedly containing $9,000 was arrested yesterday by Baltimore City police and charged with narcotics and weapons violations, according to a Baltimore County police spokesman.Spokesman Bill K. Toohey said Simmeon Anderson, 21, of the first block of Torlina Court was arrested about 4 p.m. at a house in the 5300 block of Lantern Court in Southwest Baltimore that city police described as a stash house for narcotics.

In two unrelated incidents, a bank and a Coca-Cola distribution center were robbed yesterday by men wearing clothing that led victims to believe they were workers, Baltimore County police said.No one was injured in either robbery."It's not the same guy, the physical descriptions are different," said police spokesman Bill Toohey. "I think it's probably just a strange coincidence."The first robbery occurred just before 9 a.m. at Westview Federal Savings & Loan Association in the 1000 block of Ingleside Avenue in Woodlawn, Toohey said.

A man wanted for failure to appear on a traffic charge held a Baltimore County tactical team at bay near Glen Arm yesterday but surrendered after an officer shot him in the wrist during a confrontation in an attic, police said.Robert W. Yoos, 33, of the 6700 block of Mount Vista Road in northeastern Baltimore County was charged with two counts of second-degree assault and one handgun violation, said police spokesman Bill Toohey.The confrontation began at 3: 30 a.m. when three bail bondsmen went to the Mount Vista Road address where Yoos rented a room, Toohey said.