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Two men arrested in kidnapping, pit bull attack
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Two Baltimore County men were arrested Thursday in an unusual attack on four victims, Anne Arundel police said.
Renardo Williams, 25, of Parkville, identified himself as a police officer when he approached a 19-year-old man and 17-year-old boy at a Royal Farms convenience store in the 8400 block of Fort Smallwood Road in Pasadena, police said.
Williams displayed a handgun and ordered them into his vehicle, where Joseph West, 25, also of Parkville, was sitting with a pit bull.
The victims were driven to the end of Cloverhill Road near Sunset Elementary School, where West watched them, as Williams approached two other victims, a 21-year-old man and a 15-year-old boy, police said.
Williams again said he was a police officer and began punching the two additional victims.
Williams ordered the pit bull to attack the 15-year-old, who was bitten on each leg, before he and the 21-year-old fled, and the first two victims were released, police said.
Williams was charged with kidnapping, police impersonation, second-degree assault and reckless endangerment. West was charged with second-degree assault and reckless endangerment.
Police said the relationship between the victims and suspects is unclear.
Suspects arrested in string of attempted grocery store robberies
Anne Arundel police arrested two Pasadena suspects in connection with the robbery of a Pasadena woman who was followed to her house from a Food Lion grocery store.
William Haynes, 31, and Steven Cochran, 51, also are linked to two attempted robberies, one each in the parking lots of the Safeway and the Lauer’s Supermarkets in Pasadena.
Haynes is charged with robbery and attempted robbery among other charges, and Cochran with three counts of receiving and using a stolen credit card.
Seven men arrested in Laurel prostitution case
Seven men were arrested Thursday for soliciting prostitution in North Laurel along Route 1 as part of a sting, Howard police said.
Those charged were Bryan Greene, 21, no fixed address; Gary Lee, 46, of Laurel; Boniface Satu, 41, of Savage; Sadiq Masih, 53, of Laurel; Luis Toribio, 22, of Columbia; Lazaro Mares, 35, of Columbia; and Donald Wooten, 51, of Fort Meade.
