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By Peter Hermann and Peter Hermann,Staff Writer | December 19, 1993
Two witnesses to a bank robbery in Millersville yesterday helped police arrest a 16-year-old suspect who, police said, later implicated himself in six other armed robberies in Anne Arundel County.Andre Lamar Evans of the 400 block of Glen Mar Circle, Glen Burnie, was charged last night as an adult with one count of armed robbery. Police said evidence on the other robberies will be presented to a grand jury.The Washington Savings Bank in the 600 block of Old Mill Road was held up by a male armed with an unknown type of weapon about noon yesterday, police said.
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By Jennifer McMenamin and Jennifer McMenamin,SUN STAFF | February 2, 2005
Jailed and awaiting trial on armed robbery and attempted murder charges, a 19-year-old Middle River man is facing new charges that he arranged to have two witnesses in that case killed. Joshua Anthony Mumford was arrested Monday night and charged with two counts of soliciting first-degree murder, court records show. Police persuaded Mumford's cellmate at the Baltimore County Detention Center to wear a digital recording device, which captured Mumford refusing suggestions that the witnesses could be kidnapped and held for a while rather than killed, according to court documents.
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By MELISSA HARRIS and MELISSA HARRIS,SUN REPORTER | February 4, 2006
A Howard County teenager accused in the shooting of a 4-year-old Columbia boy as he colored behind his family's living room couch two weeks ago was being held at the Howard County Detention Center yesterday on charges of first- and second-degree attempted murder and assault and of reckless endangerment. A judge denied bail yesterday to Tion Jamaar Bell, 18, of the 8800 block of Tamar Drive in Columbia, who surrendered Wednesday evening in the wounding Jan. 20 of Fahad Islam, a pre-kindergartner at Phelps Luck Elementary.
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By Sarah Koenig and Sarah Koenig,SUN STAFF | August 3, 2002
A Baltimore jury acquitted a 22-year-old man yesterday in a case that exemplifies how extreme witness problems can undermine murder prosecutions in the city. Keko O. Worrell of the 1300 block of N. Caroline St. was on trial in the killing last August of Michael Lockett, 16, who was shot three times in the back in an East Baltimore parking lot as he was riding a bicycle. City prosecutor Gerald Volatile began the trial Tuesday with three witnesses - two of whom had been arrested for being uncooperative and were under court supervision.
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By Laurie Willis and Laurie Willis,SUN STAFF | January 17, 2003
City prosecutors dropped murder charges yesterday in Circuit Court against three Baltimore men after failing to produce their star witness. Wesley Howard Harris, 19, of the 2400 block of Lauretta Ave., Reginald Dorsey, 21, of the 600 block of Claymont Ave., and Jarrod Anderson, 23, of the 5200 block of Cromarty Road, were accused in the death a year ago of Nathaniel Snuggs, 18, whose body was found in an alley in the 1900 block of Harlem Ave. Snuggs had...
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By Edward Lee and Edward Lee,SUN STAFF | May 16, 1996
County police have arrested a Baltimore man on charges of beating a Brooklyn Park man to death last month.Rufus Robert Edwards, 20, of the 900 block of Jack St. was charged with first-degree murder in the death of Thomas Jackson Partain, 38, of the 200 block of Southerly Road in Brooklyn Park.Edwards was ordered held without bail after a hearing yesterday in District Court in Annapolis.Police said officers who were called to an alley in the 5100 block of Kramme Ave. in Brooklyn Park about 2: 20 p.m April 27 found Partain unconscious on the ground.