Theft arrest
A 24-year-old man was charged this week with recently breaking into several vehicles in Arnold and Severna Park.
Police served a search-and-seizure warrant Wednesday at 975 Shore Acres Road in Arnold about 9 a.m. after an investigation into multiple car break-ins in the Broadneck and Severna Park areas. While searching the home, police found items linking a resident of the home to a vehicle break-in on Sackett Court in Severna Park on Oct. 4. Police said other items taken from that vehicle, including a GPS system, iPod and a wallet, had been found at an Annapolis pawnshop.
During a search of the man's home, police also found stolen electronic equipment linking the resident to the Oct. 4 burglary of a garage in the 900 block of Place Court in Arnold, police said.
James Earl Myers Jr., 24, of 975 Shore Acres Road, was charged with two counts of rogue and vagabond, and three counts of theft over $1,000, according to electronic court records.
He was released Friday from the Jennifer Road Detention Center in Parole after posting $5,000 bond.
WEST COUNTY
Teen assaulted
A 16-year-old boy was assaulted Oct. 16 outside a house party in Laurel, county police said.
The teenager, from Hanover, was at a house party in the 3300 block of Horsehead South about 11:30 p.m. when a group of men tried to enter the home.
The homeowner told police he asked the group to leave because they looked like adults and not Meade High School students.
The group gathered on the street outside the home and encountered the 16-year-old boy and his friend.
One of the men in the group punched and kicked the teen, then picked him up and threw him to the ground. The teen struck his head on the ground, bruising the right side of his face and cutting the top of his head, police said.
He was taken by ambulance to the trauma center at Prince George's Hospital Center in Cheverly and is listed in stable condition.
The teen told police he did not know the man who attacked him.
Subway robbed
A Laurel sandwich shop was robbed Thursday night, county police said.
A 36-year-old employee told police a man walked into the Subway restaurant at 3481 Laurel Fort Meade Road about 9:45 p.m. and pulled up his jacket, showing a gun tucked in his waistband. The man demanded cash, and then ran out of the restaurant with the cash.
No other employees saw the robbery and the employee reported the crime at 10:30 p.m., 45 minutes after it occurred.
Police said the robbery remains under investigation.
Crofton Store robbed
A man robbed the Paceway convenience store in the 1300 block of Defense Highway in Crofton Wednesday night, county police said.
Store employees told police that a man came in armed with a dark-colored handgun and demanded money. The employees turned over some cash and the man ran out, police said. Officers were unable to locate him.
The robber was described as a black man, 6 feet tall with a thin build. He was wearing a dark-colored sweatshirt with the hood up, police said.
SOUTH COUNTY
Fire damages home
No one was hurt in a one-alarm residential fire in the 1100 block of Mayo Road Wednesday night, county Fire Department officials said.
Firefighters were called at 11:33 p.m. and found smoke coming from the rear of the two-story, single family home, said Division Chief Michael Cox, a county Fire Department spokesman. It took 26 firefighters 20 minutes to get the fire under control.
Officials believe the fire started in the basement, but the cause and damage estimates are still under investigation, Cox said.
NORTH COUNTY
Information wanted
County police are seeking the public's help in identifying a man who shot an elderly man Oct. 7 during an attempted robbery in Glen Burnie.
The 73-year-old victim was walking in the 1400 block of Madison Park Drive about 8:35 p.m. when a man with a gun walked up to him. The two men struggled, and during the altercation, the elderly man was shot once, police said. He was taken to Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore.
The elderly man's condition has since improved, and police said he has provided detectives with a description of the man that shot him.
The man is described as a dark-skinned black man in his late 20s to early 30s. He is about 6 feet tall with a thin build, short Afro style hair, with possible facial hair. He was carrying a revolver.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Detective Joe Goldberg at the Northern District Station at 410-222-6135 or Metro Crime Stoppers at 1-866-7LOCKUP. Callers may remain anonymous.
Electronics stolen
About $8,000 worth of electronics was stolen Oct. 14 from a car parked at a Hanover hotel, county police said.
A 43-year-old Lovettsville, Va., man had parked a white 2005 Toyota Tacoma outside the Loft Element Hotel at 7522 Teague Road about 12:30 p.m. The man was inside the hotel until about 4:30 p.m. to work on the hotel's phones and computer, police said.
When he went back to the truck, he noticed the passenger-side window was broken and several items were missing, including a Dell laptop computer, a Garmin GPS system and a phone-card system.
Cabbie assaulted
A man put a trash can over a cab driver's head in Hanover on Oct. 17 afternoon after skipping out on the taxi fare with his friends, county police said.
The 52-year-old driver for Diamond Cab picked up four men and one woman in Federal Hill in Baltimore about 2:40 p.m. He was asked to drop the five passengers off in the 1700 block of Theale Way in Hanover.
When the cab arrived at the address, the men and woman got out and walked away without paying, police said. The driver walked after the group, and saw them walk into the garage of a home.
One of the men, described as white with a heavy build and wearing a blue and white baseball T-shirt, picked up an empty trash can and put it over the cab driver's head.
The cab driver told police the men and woman owed him $49.80 for the ride. Officers knocked on the front door of the Theale Way home, but no one answered.
The incident remains under investigation.
Sprinkler vandalized
Someone damaged an irrigation unit at a Pasadena golf course last weekend, county police said.
The maintenance superintendent of the Compass Point Golf Course at 9010 Fort Smallwood Road discovered the system was damaged on the seventh hole of the course about 8:30 a.m. Oct. 17.
He told police someone entered the course, found the Toro satellite irrigation unit, pried the latch, and smashed the computer circuitry that controls the unit.
The cost to repair the damage is about $2,000, police said.
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