Police Beat for October 25

ANNAPOLIS

Woman robbed

A woman was robbed early yesterday morning on Bay Ridge Avenue near Monroe Street in Eastport, city police said.

Just before 7 a.m., a man approached the woman and indicated he had a weapon. He took $61 from her and ran on Madison Street toward Brashears Street, police said.

Police searched the area, but did not find the suspect, who was described as black, about 5 feet, 9 inches tall and in his 30s. He was wearing a black hoodie, black pants and white shoes.

Assault with brick

A man was assaulted with a brick early yesterday morning on Tyler Avenue, city police said.

At about 2:15 a.m. police found the victim bleeding from his head. Witnesses said the suspect fled, police said.

The brick was taken as evidence.

Further details were unavailable last night.

Tips taken

A teenage boy stole the tip jar Friday morning off the counter of the Eastport Plaza Deli, located on Chesapeake Avenue, city police said.

The suspect was described as black and about 16 years old. He was wearing a white T-shirt and blue jeans. He fled on a small black bike toward downtown Annapolis, police said.

The tip jar, a 32-ounce white cup, contained about $35.

NORTH COUNTY

2 hurt in crash

Two people were taken to hospitals yesterday afternoon after a car crash at Ritchie Highway at Crain Highway, county fire officials said.

Two vehicles collided at the Glen Burnie intersection at 3:25 p.m. One patient was taken to Baltimore Washington Medical Center in Glen Burnie with minor injuries, and the other, a 17-year-old girl, was driven by ambulance to Shock Trauma in Baltimore.

Further details were not available.

Cabbie assaulted

A man put a trash can over a cab driver's head in Hanover on Oct. 17 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 Pointe Golf Course at 9010 Fort Smallwood Road discovered at about 8:30 a.m. Oct. 17 that the system was damaged on the seventh hole of the course.

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.