Staff reports, The Examiner
2008-07-04 07:00:00.0
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BALTIMORE -

Police: Fake cop tried to enter Annapolis school

St. Mary’s School in Annapolis was placed on lockdown after a man impersonating a police officer tried to enter the school, Annapolis police said Thursday.

Kevin Ludlam, 29, of Melrob Court, was arrested Tuesday and charged with impersonating a police officer and disrupting school activities.

A woman driving on Main Street at Conduit Street about 8:30 a.m. told police that Ludlam approached her car and told her that he was an undercover police officer. He then tried to open her locked car doors, police said.

Ludlam then tried getting into the school through separate entrances, but both doors were locked, police said.

He then went toward the open door that arriving students were using, and the woman shouted to school staff members that a suspicious man was trying to enter the school.

School officials locked down the school, and officers later found Ludlam on Green Street near Main Street, police said.

He told officers that he was just trying to stop the woman from running a red light and that he wanted to ask her on a date, police said.

Ludlam was being held at the Detention Center in lieu of $75,000 bail, police said.  – Carolyn Peirce

Explosive bottle thrown at fireworks stand

Anne Arundel police called in a bomb squad Wednesday night after an explosive bottle containing green liquid was tossed at a fireworks stand.

The Anne Arundel Fire Haz-Mat Team and a bomb squad from Annapolis City police took samples of the liquid from the bottle about 11:40 p.m. in the area of Benfield Road near Jumpers Hole Road, police said.

A caller had notified police that a car drove by and threw the bottle out the window, making a loud explosive sound. The caller said a similar incident earlier in the evening had not been reported to police. The caller provided a Maryland tag number and vehicle description, but officers could not locate the vehicle, police said.

Authorities did not yet know what chemicals were used to make the bottle explode. – Carolyn Peirce