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In Prince George'sMan gets 25-year sentence for paying for child abuseUPPER MARLBORO -- A Takoma Park man who admitted paying a crack-addicted mother to allow him to sexually abuse her 6-year-old daughter has been sentenced to 25 years in prison.Prince George's County Circuit Judge Sheila R. Tillerson-Adams sentenced Ronald Everette Strouth, 55, to 15 years for a child-abuse count and 20 years -- with 10 suspended -- for a second-degree sex offense. The mother, who was convicted of child abuse, was sentenced Friday to 15 years in prison.

A star lacrosse player who helped lead the Johns Hopkins University to the national tournament last year has been charged with raping a student early Saturday at her off-campus apartment.Brian Joseph Carcaterra, 21, a senior majoring in political science and an All-America lacrosse player, was arrested Monday night by police and charged with second-degree rape and second-degree assault. He was being held last night at the city detention center in lieu of $25,000 bail.The woman told police she believes she was drugged, and investigators said they found an unknown sediment in the bottom of a glass partially filled with white wine that the woman said she had been drinking from.

Police searched Westminster yesterday for a man who abducted a woman from a Baltimore pizza shop Saturday and held her captive 36 hours before she escaped in Carroll County.Maryland state troopers with dogs and a helicopter combed Route 140 after witnesses reported seeing someone who fit the description of the suspect, who police said was armed with a semiautomatic handgun.The 20-year-old woman, who was not identified, told police she had been held bound and gagged for two days in an abandoned city building, then forced to drive to a private gun range in Carroll County, where she said she escaped when the man tried to rape her.Capt.

A woman was raped Sunday afternoon by a knife-wielding man who shoved her into the back of her van in the parking lot of Glen Burnie Mall in the 6700 block of Ritchie Highway, Anne Arundel County police said.The woman told police she was attacked about 3: 20 p.m. She was treated at North Arundel Hospital and released, police said.Police are looking for a black male in his late 30s, approximately 6 feet 1 inch tall, between 180 and 200 pounds, with facial hair on his chin, very short dark hair or a shaved head, and wearing faded blue jeans and a light-colored shirt.

Two more Westminster residents have been arrested on drug charges as part of a four-month undercover operation by city police, authorities said.The investigation was aimed at street-level dealers in an effort to reduce the availability of drugs such as crack cocaine and marijuana on the street, police said. The two arrests Tuesday followed six others during the weekend.Carlos B. Perez, 25, of the 100 block of E. Main St. was charged with possession and distribution of marijuana and was released on his own recognizance Tuesday evening, police said.

Howard County police are looking for a man they say raped a 38-year-old woman at knifepoint in her townhouse in the Wheatfields neighborhood of Ellicott City on Wednesday night.The woman told police she was home alone and that the assailant broke into the house about 9 p.m. and forced her into a bedroom, where she was sexually assaulted.According to a report, the woman told police the rapist fled about 11 p.m. The woman was taken to Howard County General Hospital by police a short time later.

A Pasadena teen-ager was killed Tuesday when a pickup truck skidded out of control on Mountain Road near Ritchie Highway, fishtailed across the highway, vaulted a guard rail and struck a tree.Kelley Ann Airey, 16, of the 7800 block of Rippleview Lane suffered severe head and neck injuries, and died at North Arundel Hospital 30 minutes after the accident.The driver, Curley W. Finch Jr., 20, of the 1500 block of Race St. in Baltimore, was in fair condition yesterday at Maryland Shock Trauma Center with injuries to both legs, his chest and abdomen.

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.

A 22-year-old Brooklyn Park woman was raped Tuesday by a man who forced her into a drainage area in Hammonds Park, county police said.The woman was treated for minor cuts at North Arundel Hospital and released.The woman told police she was walking along Hammonds Lane near Washington Avenue about 11: 30 p.m. when she was approached from behind by a man.The stranger forced the woman into the park near what police describe as a drainage area, threatened her and assaulted her, police said.The man left, and the woman was unable to describe her attacker, police said.

A Baltimore woman was arrested on burglary charges Saturday after a Brooklyn Park resident discovered her walking away from a broken window outside a neighbor's apartment carrying three cartons of cigarettes, county police said.Ronald Walker, 25, told police he heard glass breaking shortly before 8 p.m. in the adjacent apartment in the 5800 block of Ritchie Highway. He said he walked outside to check and saw the woman with the cigarettes. A video cassette recorder was on the ground nearby, police 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.

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.

Stun gun subdues woman with knife Anne Arundel County police used a Taser to subdue a woman with a knife who had locked herself in her Pasadena home and threatened to burn it down. The husband of the 47-year-old woman told police she was suicidal. Officers arrived about 1 a.m. Monday at the house on the 8400 block of Baltimore-Annapolis Blvd. Officers heard a smoke alarm and saw the woman sitting on a bed. After they tapped on the window, she stood and retrieved a large knife from the kitchen.

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 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.

Police were investigating a report yesterday that a woman had been bound and held for three days at a Baltimore County motel. The 36-year-old woman told police about 7:30 a.m. yesterday that she had just freed herself after a man had held her for three days in a room at the Regal Inn in the 8000 block of Pulaski Highway in Rosedale, police said. The woman had injuries on her wrists, and was taken to Franklin Square Hospital Center. Officers found a 40-year-old man in the motel room and arrested him on warrants charging him in an unrelated assault and a burglary, police said.