In a neighborhood where burglaries have risen in the past year, a police captain talks about the investigation and safety.
In one year, there have been more than 30 residential burglaries in the Dunloggin neighborhood, according to Howard County Police Northern District Capt. Daniel Coon. Police are asking for residents’ help, not only to find suspects in some of the open cases, but also to limit some of the preventable crimes. Eight of the 32 burglary cases have been closed by arrest, Coon said Wednesday night at a Saint John's Community Association meeting at First Lutheran Church. Police have suspects in five of the burglaries – “We have a pretty good idea who it is, but are still gathering evidence.” In the remaining 12 – including this Dec. 28 burglary – police do not have suspects, Coon said. Dunloggin is not unique in its recent increase in burglaries…
Hundreds of people showed up at a hearing to share stories of power loss, frustration.
Early Tuesday morning, residents in several Ellicott City neighborhoods briefly lost power. The timing of the outage provided a brief reprieve of laughter during a three-hour hearing later that evening with the Public Service Commission in which residents discussed the ways they said unreliable power service had affected their lives. The hearing is part of a PSC investigation into reliability issues in some of the older Ellicott City neighborhoods. David Rubin has lived in the Font Hill neighborhood for two decades during which, he testified, he’s had “at least 100 outages from as brief as five seconds up to eight consecutive days, following Irene.” He told Public Utility Law Judge David L. Moore that power outages are particularly …
An Ellicott City sign warns local residents about a crime in the area.
Thieves, beware, residents are on to you. At least that's the case in the Dunloggin neighborhood where a big sign, on St. Johns Lane, near the intersection of Route 103, is warning people to lock their doors. This month to date, there have been seven thefts from vehicles in Howard County Police beat A-3, not including four reported incidents in Centennial Park, according to police spokeswoman Sherry Llewellyn. The A-3 beat encompasses an area bound by Route 108 to the south, Columbia Pike to the east, Route 40 to the north and a border that runs somewhat parallel to, and just east of Manor Lane. In April, there were nine such incidents in beat A-3, with one of those reported in Centennial, according to police. In March, there were 14 …
Craig H.
8:23 am on Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Seriously, I mean..."coming from Oella"!? Hahaha, too funny...yes, Oella, that giant cesspool of neerdowells, by virtue of being on the other side of the Patapsco and--pardon the cliche--the wrong side of the tracks, from the fantasy land that is HoCo...puh-leeze... more ›