Arundel Digest

Man charged with attempted murder

ANNAPOLIS - A city man was arrested Saturday and charged in connection with a September shooting on Croll Drive, city police said.

At about 9 p.m. Sept. 8, police were called to Croll Drive for the report of a man, 20, suffering from a gunshot wound. When they arrived, they found Tyreus Brown, who lived nearby. He told police he did not know who shot him, police said.

After an investigation, police issued a warrant for the arrest of Orlando L. Lea, 21, of Annapolitan Lane, in connection with the shooting. On Saturday, Mr. Lea was charged with attempted first-degree murder, police said.

He was arrested without incident.

Glen Burnie student stabbed at school

Glen Burnie - Two teenagers were charged with assault after police say they stabbed a Glen Burnie High School student in the head with a pair of scissors on Friday.

The male student was involved in a fight with two other teenage boys when he was stabbed while school was being dismissed at 2:15 p.m. Two staff members broke up the fight, which was in front of the school.

His injuries were not deemed life threatening, but he was taken by ambulance to Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore as a precaution.

He was released later that night, said Bob Mosier, county schools spokesman.

Brandon Pearmon, 17, was charged as an adult with first- and second-degree assault and possessing a dangerous weapon on school property. Another boy, 16, was charged as a juvenile with second-degree assault, police said.

Bay Bridge span closures announced

The Maryland Transportation Authority this week has a series of lane closures in place on the westbound span of the Bay Bridge, because of ongoing construction.

The westbound span will close at 8 p.m. each night starting tonight for deck replacement and other preservation work and will reopen at 5 a.m. the next day through Saturday.

During this time, two-way traffic will operate on the eastbound span. There are no scheduled eastbound lane closures, officials said.

During this preservation project, steel plates are placed across the westbound travel lanes so the bridge can reopen to traffic each morning. Overhead lane signals on the westbound span will have temporary outages and drivers should stay alert, officials said.

Repaired buoy goes back into Patapsco

PASADENA - The solar-powered informational buoy damaged by gunshots this summer is back in the water at the mouth of the Patapsco River, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Friday.

Using a crane, NOAA officials launched the $120,000 observational buoy, part of the Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail, at Ventor Marine in Pasadena.

The buoy cost about $7,000 to repair, said Kim Couranz of NOAA's Chesapeake Bay office. It's powered by four solar panels, three of which were vandalized. The top buoy was also damaged.

No one has been charged in the July incident.

The buoy monitors meteorological, oceanographic and water-quality data, which is transmitted in real-time to a Web site and hotline accessible worldwide.

An oral history of Captain Smith's travel around the Chesapeake Bay also accompanies the data, so scientists and boaters can compare present-day conditions to those he observed.

- From staff reports