Woman Told Police

A 26-year-old Harundale woman told police she was raped at gunpoint early yesterday by a man who got into her house through a rear door. The victim called police at 1:51 a.m. to report the attack, telling police she was asleep when a man entered her bedroom and sexually assaulted her, covering her mouth to keep her from screaming and holding a gun to her head as he raped her. He threatened to kill her if she made a sound, the woman told police. After the assault, he left the woman bound in her bed and threatened to kill her if she told anyone, according to the police report.

Anne Arundel County police have arrested a Glen Burnie man and charged him with raping and stabbing a woman he knew from her job. Police said the woman told them she was held in the man's apartment against her will, stabbed and sexually assaulted Monday. Afterward, the woman was forced into her vehicle and driven to the Food Lion supermarket in the 100 block of Crain Highway North, police said. There, without her attacker's knowledge, she alerted the store's staff to contact police, according to police.

Woman reports to police that roommate raped herHoward County police are investigating a Columbia woman's claim that she was raped by her roommate while she was under medication.The 28-year-old woman told police the rape occurred early Thursday, but she reported the incident Saturday, said Sgt. Dave Richards, a county police spokesman.Early Thursday, police said, the woman and a man who lives with her had an argument at their apartment.The woman told police she was raped that night while under the influence of a prescribed medication, Richards said.

Woman, 62, assaulted, robbed at Westfield mall Police were searching for a man who robbed a woman Monday outside Westfield Annapolis mall, according to police. A 62-year-old woman told police she was putting merchandise into the trunk of her car just before 1 p.m. outside Nordstrom when someone approached and struck her in the head with a heavy object and she fell, county police said. The robber fled with a laptop computer, an iPod and jewelry, police said. The man was last seen leaving the parking garage area and walking around the north corner of Nordstrom.

A 28-year-old Arnold woman told police a male friend abducted and assaulted her Christmas Eve.The woman told police she came home at about 5 p.m. last Monday to find a man she had been dating for a few weeks inside her house. Her roommate had let him in.A few minutes later, the woman received a phone call from another man, and the suspect became angry, started yelling and hung up the phone. The man called back, and the suspect answered and started arguing.The woman told police she tried to leave, but the suspect put an 8-inch knife to her neck and forced her into her car. When she tried to escape, the man told her, "If you try that again, I'll slice your throat," the police report says.

A 37-year-old woman was raped Saturday at knifepoint in a Severna Park home, county police said yesterday.The woman told police that a man drove her to a home in the 800 block of Manhattan Beach Road at 1:36 a.m. and raped her. She fled from the house and called police. Police said the woman was treated at North Arundel Hospital and released.Police have a suspect but have not made an arrest.

A Glen Burnie woman told county police that she was raped Saturday night near the Dwight D. Eisenhower Golf Course in Crownsville.The 29-year-old woman, who was treated at Anne Arundel General Hospital, told police she accepted a ride about 10: 30 p.m. from a man driving a two-door, charcoal gray Pontiac Grand Am. She told police that the man offered her a ride from Old Mill Road, just south of Northway Shopping Center, to Annapolis.The woman told police that the man drove south on Route 178 past the golf course then turned onto a secondary road, where the rape occurred.

State police and Harford County authorities were seeking a man who attempted to abduct a woman yesterday afternoon in Bel Air while she walked back to work during a coffee break. The woman, 30, told police she was walking along Agora Drive near Econ Drive about 3 p.m. when the driver of an older-model, green Jeep Cherokee with no front license plate stopped and told her he was looking for his dog. When he showed the woman a photo of a dog, he tried to pull her into the vehicle through a passenger side window, police said she reported.

A Crofton man reported to police that several trees were stolen fromhis backyard this month.Officers said the trees were uprooted and carried away sometime between Feb. 8 and yesterday.The trees were valued at about $150, police said.Police have no suspects.WOMAN IS RAPED NEAR REC CENTERA 24-year-old Annapolis woman reported that she was raped early yesterday near a recreationcenter in the 200 block of Croll Drive, police said.The woman told police she was walking near the recreation center shortly before 2a.m.

Baltimore police were searching for a man who implied he was a police officer before pulling a gun on a woman walking in Roland Park last night.When the woman screamed for help, the man fled in his car, police said. No one was injured.The incident occurred shortly before 7 p.m. as the 33-year-old woman walked in the 500 block of Hawthorne Road, police said.A dark-colored, four-door car, possibly an Infiniti, approached with a blue light flashing on the dash, the woman told police.She told police that she heard a voice from the car order her to put her hands behind her back, then a man wearing dark clothing and carrying a pair of handcuffs emerged from the car.When she asked if he was a police officer, he did not respond.

State police and Harford County authorities were seeking a man who attempted to abduct a woman yesterday afternoon in Bel Air while she walked back to work during a coffee break. The woman, 30, told police she was walking along Agora Drive near Econ Drive about 3 p.m. when the driver of an older-model, green Jeep Cherokee with no front license plate stopped and told her he was looking for his dog. When he showed the woman a photo of a dog, he tried to pull her into the vehicle through a passenger side window, police said she reported.

An 18-year-old woman was in critical condition after being shot in the neck early yesterday in a parking lot at Robert E. Lee Park, Baltimore County police said. After the shooting, the woman walked to a Royal Farms convenience store at Falls Road and Lake Avenue, just north of the city line, and a store employee called police about 5 a.m., said Cpl. Michael Hill, a county police spokesman. The park is north of the store off Falls Road. The woman told police that she had been shot in the park but was unable to answer other questions before being taken to Sinai Hospital, where she remained in critical but stable condition, Hill said.

An 18-year-old woman said she was raped Saturday night while walking near Glyndon Drive and Shirley Manor Road, Baltimore County police said yesterday. The woman told police that a man forced her into a grassy area on the side of a home in the 400 block of Homevale Court about 9 p.m. She said he produced a handgun, forced her to engage in a sex act, then raped her. The man tried to rob the woman, but she told him she had only a few dollars, and he threw her pocketbook back at her, police said.

A man with a history of arrests for robbery and sexual assault in Baltimore County and the city has been charged with raping a 59-year-old woman during a home invasion robbery last week in Roland Park. Chaz Ricks, 20, was arrested late Monday and is being held at the city Central Booking and Intake Center. City police were looking last night for a second man involved in the crime. The woman was still in the hospital last night, police said, because her back was injured in the attack. The Sun does not name people who have reported sex crimes.

The 23-year-old woman who accused a Baltimore police officer of coercing sex from her inside a district station house continued testifying yesterday. Officer Jemini Jones, 29, is the first of three officers accused in the incident to stand trial on rape charges in Baltimore Circuit Court. Trials for Officers Brian Shaffer and Steven Hatley, who are accused of doing nothing to stop Jones, are scheduled to follow. The officers were members of the Southwestern District "flex squad," a specialized group of officers who investigated mostly drug cases.

Teenager is charged as adult with murder A 15-year-old boy has been arrested and charged as an adult with first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of a man during a robbery nearly two months ago at a Walbrook hair salon, Baltimore police said. Kemoni Sterrett of the 3400 block of Bateman Ave. in Windsor Hills was arrested late Wednesday by members of the Regional Warrant Apprehension Task Force as he was walking about two blocks from his home. Sterrett also was charged with armed robbery, theft and using a handgun in the commission of a felony.

A 42-year-old Glen Burnie man who allegedly pointed a loaded shotgun at a mother and child because the woman was blowing her car horn was arrested Monday afternoon, police said.The 26-year-old woman told police she was outside her house in the 1400 block of Dorsey Road in Hanover around 5 p.m. when she honked the horn to get her sister's attention. A man then walked up to her and said he was tired of her blowing the horn, police said.The woman told police she thought the man was joking and she walked into her house.

A 20-year-old Columbia woman told police that she was pulled into the woods in Columbia's Oakland Mills village and raped early yesterday morning, Howard County police said.The victim was taken to Howard County General Hospital and released, police said.The woman told police that she was walking about 1 a.m. yesterday in the 9600 block of Santiago Road toward the nearby Royal Farm Store on Stevens Forest Road.A man stepped out of the woods, asked her the time and then went back into the woods.

A Takoma Park man has been charged in the carjacking of a woman in Elkridge last week, Howard County police said. Police said a man approached a woman about 9:30 p.m. Tuesday while she was pumping gas at an Exxon station in the 6300 block of Washington Blvd. The woman told investigators that the man put an object into her back and demanded her keys. Police said the victim complied, and the man drove off with the woman's purse in the vehicle. Police found the car, a Chevrolet Geo Tracker, in Elkridge on Wednesday.