Sunday, February 10, 2013
Police have some tips for residents "before the burglar comes."
Howard County Police Capt. Daniel Coon visited with residents in Ellicott City's Dunloggin Neighborhood earlier this week to talk to people about residential burglaries. Along with specific information about their neighborhood, he shared some general advice for people to keep their homes safe, including a brochure from Maryland Crime Watch. Make your home look (and sound) occupied: Be a good neighbor: Install good locks ... and lock them: Secure your windows: Change the locks 'at the drop of a threat': Don't welcome burglars by telephone: Don't open your door to anyone with no business inside: Man's best friend repels burglars: Don't advertise your vacation plans: Tell the police: Write down the serial numbers for you electronic devices:
Monday, December 31, 2012
The 28-year-old is accused of breaking into four homes, one on the day after Christmas.
Howard County police have arrested an Ellicott City man in connection with a string of December burglaries. Kenneth William Vollmerhausen, 28, is also awaiting a trial for two April Howard County burglaries, and pleaded guilty in Carroll County Court in early December to a first-degree burglary there. Howard County Police arrested Vollmerhausen in connection with a burglary on Dec. 21, when a woman returned to her home on the 2600 block of Melba Road in Ellicott City to find a GMC truck in her driveway. According to police, a man holding her jewelry confronted the woman as she approached her home. The man threw the jewelry at her, police said, and he got in the truck, driving into her fence as he drove away. During the investigation, …
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
This information was obtained by the Howard County police department.
Howard County Police are looking for two teenagers in connection with an armed robbery in Laurel. According to police, the victim was sitting in his car on the 9300 block of Canterbury Riding just after midnight on Saturday when a young woman asked to use his phone. According to the victim, when he gave her the phone, a young man approached him, showed a gun and demanded money. The victim surrendered his wallet and money, according to police, and then the suspect demanded the keys to the victim’s vehicle. The victim handed over the keys and the suspects fled toward All Saint’s Road. Police say they are looking for: Sometime between last Wednesday and Saturday, suspects used a sprinkler head to force a back window open of the Glenwood …
Thursday, September 20, 2012
This information was supplied by the Howard County Police Department
Less than a week before summer's end, Alex's Snowball and Ice Cream Stand in Woodbine was broken into, according to Howard County Police. Sometime between Monday night and Tuesday morning, suspects pried open a side door, then pried open the cash register, taking money from the store on the 16000 block of Frederick Road, according to police. The suspects also pried open a safe on the second floor, and took money from it. Police say the suspects also tried to get into the main office, but could not pry open the front door. Sometime between Monday evening and Tuesday morning, suspects entered a house on the 5000 block of Worthington Manor Way through an unlocked garage, according to police. The victim reported a laptop computer stolen from …
Friday, May 4, 2012
Friends of Mary-Marguerite Kohn are praying for her survival.
Even with hope, dealing with the shooting of Mary-Marguerite Kohn was filled with grief, friends and Episcopal church members said. “She brought so much joy and life to our department … it’s hard to see someone with such gifts to be taken away so needlessly,” said Sharon Cheston, who was Kohn’s advisor at Loyola University. Kohn received a PHD in pastoral counseling from Loyola in 2009. Cheston said Kohn’s family is gathering and that Kohn has been “annointed,” an Episcopalian ritual similar to Catholicism’s “last rites,” performed when a person is dying, or gravely ill, according to About.com, a New York Times Company website. “It's hard even if you have a lot of support and a lot of love and a lot of faith,” Cheston said. “It's still …
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Douglas Franklin Jones, who used St. Peter's food bank, was found dead in the woods Thursday after two women were shot at the church.
Police have identified the body of a suspect in the church shooting Thursday evening in Ellicott City as that of a man who visited the church food pantry. Howard County Police say Douglas Franklin Jones, 56, was found dead in a wooded area near St. Peter’s Episcopal Church with a handgun near his body. Police say he died of a "self-inflicted gunshot wound." Brenda Brewington, 59, of Ellicott City was found dead and Mary-Marguerite Kohn, 62, of Arbutus was found with gunshot wounds in an office at St. Peter’s. Police said Kohn was in "very critical condition." Police said Jones had regularly been visiting the church’s food bank, but recently he had become “belligerent and argumentative.” Police say Jones’ disputes with the church may have …
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One woman was shot to death, the other wounded inside St. Peter's Episcopal Church.
Update 3:00 p.m. Police Friday afternoon identified the body of a man found in the woods near an Episcopal church in Ellicott City where two women were found Thursday night with gunshot wounds. Howard County Police say Douglas Franklin Jones, 56, was found dead in an area near St. Peter’s Episcopal Church with a handgun near his body. Police morning identified two of the victims in the shooting in an Ellicott City church as an Episcopal priest and a church employee. Police say Brenda Brewington, 59, of Ellicott City was found dead on the scene at St. Peter's Episcopal Church Thursday night. She is listed as an administrator on the church's website. Mary-Marguerite Kohn, 62, of Arbutus was found with a gunshot wound and taken to the …
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Thursday, December 22, 2011
Police say a woman stole from someone's front porch.
Waiting for your holiday package to arrive? You might not be the only one. Howard County Police say a woman has stolen at least one package left on the front porch of an Ellicott City house. The victim had a surveillance camera and caught the whole thing on tape, which was released by police. According to police, a delivery company dropped off a package Friday on the front porch of a house on the 8200 block of Weston Drive at about 9:50 a.m. An hour and a half later, a surveillance camera at the house recorded a blue, two-door sedan pulling into the driveway. The video shows a woman getting out of the passenger side of the car, taking a package, putting it in the trunk and getting back in the car. The suspected thief is a white woman, …
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