Arundel couple charged with animal cruelty

Achance visit to Baltimore by a Utah dog lover led to a Glen Burnie couple’s being charged with animal cruelty for keeping a number of dogs in sickening conditions. Charges issued Saturday against Rebecca Wolfe, 32, and Cameron Whitaker-Nelson, 26, include running a dog kennel in the basement of their home, where they stored the animals in what police described as squalid conditions without enough food or air. “I was horrified. The smell punched you in the face like a sledgehammer,” said Lisa Simmons of Riverton, who came to check on the dogs after a friend heard she was coming to Baltimore. “Word got out and other dog owners asked me to check on their dogs that were also at Olympian Kennels,” the name by which Wolfe had been promoting herself online and on social media, Simmons said Tuesday. No one answered the phone Tuesday at Olympian Kennels, and no attorney is listed for the owners in court records. The investigation is continuing. Police asked that anyone with information contact Animal Control Officer Lisa Wolfe, who is no relation to Rebecca Wolfe, at 410-222-3929. the first food hall in Howard County, according to the developers of the project. The Common Kitchen will feature indoor and outdoor seating for about 50 people and garage door-style windows that can be opened on warm days, said GreenStone Ventures II, the developers. They did not say publicly which vendors would be part of the project, except that they would be “locally owned, independent business[es].”