Search for Suspected Door Kick-in Burglars Continues

Sheriff's Office says leads dried up after investigating "kind of a flophouse."

  The search for a pair of suspected burglars wanted in Howard County for their possible involvement in a string of daytime door kick-in burglaries continues after they failed to show up at a bail hearing on Nov. 15, law enforcement officials said. The Howard County Sheriff's Office is leading the search for Joseph Leo Baumgarten, of Pasadena, and Dianna Marketti, of Dundalk. "We sent some deputies out, they backtracked them out all the way to the Dundalk area where they hit a dead end at an abandoned foreclosed home... kind of a flophouse," said Mark Verderaime, of the Howard County Sheriff's Office. "That's where it went cold." "They're still looking into it. [Deputies] have probably hit three, four locations, and talked to some people, …

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