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Baltimore teen charged in robbery with knife
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A 15-year-old Baltimore boy was arrested early Tuesday morning after robbing a couple at knifepoint in Brooklyn Park, Anne Arundel police said.
The juvenile took a cell phone from a woman who was walking out of a 7-11 store on Ritchie Highway about midnight, police said.
The woman’s husband tried to retrieve the phone, but the juvenile pulled a knife and ordered the husband to give him money.
The teen then told the husband he would stab him if he tried to use a pay phone to call police.
The victims ran to a safe location and contacted police, who saw a male matching the description of the suspect on a porch on West Jeffrey Street. After chasing him on foot, police caught him and found the stolen cell phone in his possession, police said.
The suspect was charged as a juvenile with second-degree assault and robbery with a deadly weapon. — Carolyn Peirce
Eighth person enters guilty plea in D.C. tax office scandal
Patricia Steven, 73, of Harwood in Anne Arundel, became the eighth defendant to plead guilty in the D.C. property tax fraud scheme this week, U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod Rosenstein said.
According to her plea agreement, Steven used fake checks given to her by a District of Columbia Office of Tax and Revenue Authority employee to steal nearly $9 million between June 1990 and November 2007, although she admitted the total loss could have been as high as $20 million.
During that time, she purchased at least four Jaguar cars, at least two residential properties, and diamonds and other jewelry worth more than $150,000. She cashed District checks ranging from $3,559 to $490,000.
Steven faces up to 30 years in prison and heavy fines. — Freeman Klopott
