Police Beat for July 13

Pot, gun charges

City police arrested two Edgewater residents last night after finding suspected marijuana and a handgun in their car after a traffic stop in the Woodside Garden neighborhood.

While officers were working a crime-prevention detail, they saw a car run a stop sign at Skippers Lane and South Cherry Grove Avenue.

Officers stopped the vehicle and then called a K-9 unit to the scene. After the dog alerted on a bag in the car, officers found two bags of suspected marijuana inside along with $45 in a plastic bag, an unloaded Smith and Wesson .38-caliber pistol and several rounds of ammunition.

Jason Leslie Isaacs, 21, and Kelsey Iddins, 20, both of 406 Beach Drive in Edgewater, were arrested on drug distribution and firearms charges, police said.

Drug arrests

A traffic stop in Annapolis led to the arrest of a man and woman on various drug charges, county police said.

Police stopped a vehicle at the intersection of Hillsmere and Harbor drives around 2:30 p.m. yesterday.

During the stop, police smelled suspected marijuana coming from the vehicle.

Police searched and found 71 grams of suspected marijuana, worth about $710. Police also found drug paraphernalia and a large amount of cash inside the vehicle.

Austin Smale, 18, of the 100 block of Indian Drive in Annapolis, and Monica Peterson, 20, of the 21000 block of Punch Point Road in Sherwood, Md., were each charged with numerous drug-related offenses.

Jewelry heist

An Annapolis resident reported a fire safe containing more than $20,000 in jewelry missing after moving into Park Place from New Jersey.

The 29-year-old victim told police Sunday that she had moved into her condominium at 5 Park Place on June 26. She reported the incident on Sunday.

As she was unpacking boxes two days later she discovered a cardboard box, containing a fire safe and the jewelry, was gone. The missing jewels included a gold diamond ring, a pearl necklace and other jewelry.

She said security video shows the box being taken off the moving truck, but not being removed from her condo.

A check with the friends who helped her move, and calls back to New Jersey, did not turn up the missing items. Also missing were a grill and computer printer.

There were no signs of forced entry into her residence.

An investigation continues.

Converter copped

An Eastport man reported the catalytic converter was hacked from under his Toyota 4-Runner late Wednesday night.

The Americana Drive resident called police Sunday. They found the converter had been sawed off the vehicle.

Neighbors in the area said they did not hear anything unusual that night, police said.

Drug bust

City police patrolling the Madison Street area, known as an open air drug market, arrested an Annapolis man on drug-distribution charges.

Around 11 p.m. Friday officers spotted a man suddenly walk away as they approached. Officers gave chase and caught the man as he attempted to enter an apartment.

They noticed a chemical odor about the suspect, similar to that of PCP.

They said they found a wet cigarette, called a "dipper" on the street because it is a cigarette dipped in liquid PCP, in the man's pocket.

They also said they found approximately 4.5 grams of crack in two baggies in his pockets, along with several smaller empty bags of the sort used for packaging hits of crack.

Junior Lamont Diggs, 33, was charged with possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine, possession of crack, possession of PCP, and trespassing on public housing.

Theft victim busted

A Harwood woman was busted for drug paraphernalia in Robinwood on Friday after flagging down police to report a robbery, police said.

Joyce Annette Holcomb, 50, was driving a Dodge pickup on Taylor Avenue around noon Friday when police saw her waving her left arm out of the window and telling approaching officers she had been robbed.

Both police and Holcomb got out of their vehicles, and police saw her toss a baggie away from her truck as she exited it. The baggie was found to have half a gram of crack in it.

Holcomb seemed nervous, out of breath, and was shouting at officers as she told police a man reached in her vehicle and stole her Coach purse off the front seat, police said.

After repeatedly being asked if she was in the neighborhood to buy drugs, Holcomb admitted that was the case. She told police she bought some drugs from a man, who after selling them to her, grabbed her $350 Coach purse.

The purse also contained Percocets and Fentanyl, a powerful painkiller, police said.

Police also found an empty baggie on the truck floor plus a piece of copper scouring pad, which police said is often used as a screen for crack pipes, next to the driver's seat.

Holcomb was arrested on drug paraphernalia charges.

MILLERSVILLE

McDonald's robbed

An employee was robbed at a McDonald's restaurant in Millersville on Sunday night, county police said.

The 18-year-old employee told police he was working the drive-through window in the 600 block of Old Mill Road around 9:30 p.m. when a man pulled up in a vehicle.

He said the man pointed a handgun at him and demand cash. He handed over the money and the man drove away.

Police searched the area but could not find the suspect.

He is black, in his 20s, and was wearing a rag around his head.

WEST COUNTY

2 hurt in fire

A 20-year-old woman and 4-year-old girl suffered smoke inhalation when a fire ignited at their Severn home yesterday morning, county Fire Department officials said.

Firefighters were called to the 1400 block of Watts Avenue around 7:10 p.m., said Division Chief Michael Cox, a county Fire Department spokesman.

Crews found smoke coming from the one-story, single-family home. The blaze was contained inside a wall and firefighters quickly extinguished the fire.

The woman and child were taken to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore for treatment for smoke inhalation in the hospital's hyperbaric chamber, Cox said.

Pedestrian robbed

A man was robbed a gunpoint while walking in Severn on Sunday night, county police said.

The man told police he was walking near a playground on Carriage Drive at Gallop Way around 11 p.m. when another man walked past him.

The man quickly turned around and walked up to him from behind. He pointed a handgun at the man, demanded money and ordered him to the ground, police said.

The robber took the man's cell phone and ran away.

He is black, in his mid 20s, about 6 feet 1 inch tall, and was wearing a hat, a brown jacket, white tank top, scarf and blue jeans.

NORTH COUNTY

Stolen car recovered

Four teens jumped out of a stolen vehicle and ran from county police in Glen Burnie yesterday afternoon.

Police caught two of the teens and charged them as juveniles and are trying to identify the two teens who got away.

Around 1:30 p.m. an officer patrolling Hiddenbrook Drive and Elvaton Road saw a yellow, two-door Chevrolet Cobalt speeding down the roadway, police said.

The driver was not wearing a seatbelt and the officer also discovered the vehicle had stolen license plates.

When police tried to stop the car, it accelerated and turned down a dead-end street in the 300 block of Canterbury Court.

A teenage girl and three teen boys got out of the car and began to run. The officer caught up with the 16-year-old girl from Glen Burnie and a 15-year-old boy from Pasadena.

Both were charged on juvenile citations with unauthorized removal of property and theft.

Police said the driver and another passenger escaped.

The driver is black, 5 feet 8 inches tall, with a medium build and short hair. He was wearing a dark T-shirt and blue jeans.

The passenger is also black. He is 6 feet 2 inches tall, with a thin build. He was wearing blue jeans and a light T-shirt.

The investigation is ongoing.

Fleeing teen caught

A Pasadena teen was charged with stealing a motor scooter and fleeing from county police Friday when an officer tried to stop him for recklessly driving the stolen moped.

Just after 11:30 a.m. an officer on routine patrol in the 8100 block of Ritchie Highway, near the Pasadena Plaza shopping center, noticed a teenage recklessly riding a red moped.

Police said the driver left the shopping center and drove through a closed construction zone on Jumpers Hole Road.

The officer turned on his emergency lights and tried to stop the moped. But the driver continued, turning into a parking lot in the 100 block of Mountain Road. Police said the teen abandoned the motor scooter in a wooded area and ran through the woods.

Several officers spread out in the area and found the teen in the 1200 block of Cedarcliff Road in Glen Burnie.

Police learned the scooter, worth $2,500, belonged to an employee of the Pasadena Plaza shopping center. The owner of the scooter didn't know it had been stolen until police told him.

The 16-year-old boy, of the 7800 block of Levy Court in Pasadena, was charged as a juvenile with theft, fleeing and eluding police and other traffic offenses.

Woman robbed

A woman was robbed while getting into her car at a Glen Burnie shopping center Sunday evening, county police said.

Around 6:40 p.m. the 31-year-old woman put shopping bags into the trunk of her car parked in the 300 block of Hospital Drive. She was getting into her car when a man suddenly opened the passenger side door and grabbed her purse, police said.

The woman fought back and tried to hold onto her purse, but the man struck her and snatched the pocketbook.

He rode off on a 10-speed bicycle toward Hospital Drive. The woman suffered minor injuries.

Several officers searched the area but could not find the suspect.

He is Hispanic, between 20 and 30 years old, with a light beard. He was wearing black basketball shorts and a white tank top.

3 teens arrested

Three teens were charged with assaulting and robbing a 15-year-old girl in Glen Burnie on Friday night, county police said.

Officers who were called to the 7900 block of Ritchie Highway around 8:50 p.m. for an assault found a 15-year-old girl lying on the ground.

She told police three teenagers she knew, two girls and a boy, punched her and threw her to the ground. She said they then kicked and stomped her before taking some of her personal items and running away.

The girl told police she had an ongoing feud with the three teens.

Officers searched the area and found the suspects in the 7700 block of Baltimore-Annapolis Boulevard.

The victim was taken to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, where she was listed in stable condition yesterday morning, police said.

Macy Colclough, 16, of 277 McGuirk Drive in Glen Burnie, was charged as an adult and a 13-year-old girl and 15-year-old boy, both from Glen Burnie, were charged as juveniles with first- and second-degree assault and robbery.

Attempted robbery

Two teens attempted to rob a woman in Glen Burnie early Saturday morning, county police said.

The woman was walking in the 200 block of Wilson Boulevard SW around 12:15 a.m. when two teenage boys walked up from behind.

One of the boys pointed a black revolver at the woman and demanded her money. When the woman said she had no money, the teens ran toward Glen Heights Avenue. The woman was not injured.

The teens are black. One is 5 feet 7 inches tall and the other is 5 feet 10 inches tall. Both boys were wearing white tank tops and blue jeans. Both also were wearing white shirts, which they used to cover their faces.