Police Beat for November 12

ANNAPOLIS AREA

Man robbed

A city man was robbed on Allen Drive in Annapolis Tuesday night, police said.

Police said the 39-year-old landscaper told them he was walking home from the store around 10:20 p.m. when two men got out of a car parked in front of 2045 Allen Drive. Both men were armed, one with a gun the other with a knife.

The victim told police one of the men hit him in the head with his elbow while the other grabbed a cell phone from the victim's belt.

The culprits demanded the man's wallet, which he gave to them, and then drove off in the car.

In addition to the $65 cell phone, the robbers made off with the man's wallet, worth $25, and its contents: $94 and personal papers including bank information.

An investigation is continuing.

NORTH COUNTY

Robbery arrest

A man was charged Nov. 1 with robbing a Glen Burnie convenience store, county police said.

Police said a man walked into the 7-Eleven in the 7100 block of Ritchie Highway at about 10:40 p.m. Police said he pointed a gun at a clerk, demanded cash and then ran out of the store with the money.

Officers searched the area and found a man matching the image captured on surveillance video walking north on Crain Highway, police said. Police said they interviewed the man and determined he was involved in the crime.

Walter Richardson Humple III, 18, of 107 Greenway St. N.W. in Glen Burnie, was charged with armed robbery, first-degree assault and theft under $1,000.

He is being held at the Jennifer Road Detention Center in Parole on $250,000 bond, according to electronic court records.

Burglary arrest

Two men were charged Nov. 3 with trying to break into a Hanover apartment, county police said.

A woman told police a man tried to pry open the front door of her apartment in the 2100 block of Piney Branch Circle about 10:30 a.m. The man was then seen driving away in a white Acura.

An officer saw a car matching the vehicle description nearby and pulled the car over. Two men inside the vehicle were arrested.

Tyrone Milton Cooper, 23, of 1278 Holbrook Terrace N.E., Washington, D.C., and Marcus A. Davis, 23, of 215 Anacostia Ave. N.E., Washington, D.C., were each charged with first-, second- and third-degree burglary and destruction of property.

Guns, coins taken

Someone broke into a Glen Burnie home Oct. 29 and stole $15,000 worth of gold coins, guns and other items, county police said.

A 55-year-old man and his wife were looking for their camera on Oct. 30 when they noticed it was missing from their home on Dero Drive. While the man searched the home, he began to notice other items were missing.

He went to the master bedroom closet and discovered two lockboxes containing three handguns were gone, police said. It was then the man realized his home had been burglarized and called police.

The man told officers he believed the home was broken into on Oct. 28 while he was at work and his wife was shopping with their children.

His wife said everything appeared to be normal when she returned home that day. Police searched the home and discovered the screen on the kitchen window was ripped and a door that leads from outside to a bedroom was unlocked.

Missing from the home was a collection of gold coins, family jewelry, a camera, a Garmin GPS unit and two lockboxes containing a .38 Charter Arms revolver, a .357 Magnum Derringer and a .22 H&K revolver.

Basement hosed

A man reported Oct. 29 that someone flooded the basement of his Pasadena home while he was on vacation, county police said.

The man said that sometime between Oct. 12 and Oct. 14 someone placed a garden hose in his dryer vent and ran water through the hose. The water flooded the man's Sandbar Lane basement.

A neighbor saw the hose in the vent and turned the water off, but the flooding already had caused $25,000 in damage.

The man told police he had no idea who would have wanted to flood his home.