3 arrested in string of 76 robberies

Three Baltimore City men were arrested March 1 after a string of at least 76 commercial armed robberies in the region starting in late November, the Baltimore County Police Department said Tuesday. Officials connected the three men to at least 54 armed robberies in Baltimore City, at least 18 armed robberies in Baltimore County and at least four armed robberies in Anne Arundel County. “It’s 76. Seventy-six robberies,” said Baltimore County Police Chief Terrence B. Sheridan. “[That’s] a lot of potential for harm to people.” Dontrell Eric Glover, 27, of the 1800 block of W. Saratoga Street, Milek Anton Rankin, 25, of the 2500 block of Hollins Street, and Marquis Davon Moore, 32, of the 100 block of Thomas Guidera Circle, were arrested. Court records allege the men stole thousands of dollars in cash and other items, including video game systems. The trio targeted shops like GameStop and fast food restaurants like McDonald’s and Burger King, court records show. Rankin and Moore do not have attorneys listed in online court records. Arthur M. Frank, the attorney listed for Glover, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. According to charging documents from the District Court of Maryland for Baltimore County, Glover told police he drove Rankin and Moore to “multiple locations” where the two committed robberies. after an evaluation at MedStar St. Mary’s Hospital Emergency Department in Leonardtown on Sunday, according to the St. Mary’s County Health Department. Officials feared that others in the emergency room around the same time could have been exposed to the disease. Most Marylanders aren’t at risk for contracting measles. And compared with other states, a relatively low percentage of Maryland children are not vaccinated against the disease. But the rate of unvaccinated children entering kindergarten in Maryland has nearly doubled during the past decade amid a nationwide trend against vaccination, leaving more people at risk of contracting the potentially life-threatening disease. The airborne disease spreads through coughing and sneezing, and measles microbes can live in the air for up to two hours after an infected person has left the area.

Speed limit lowered on B-WParkway

The speed limit on the Baltimore-Washington Parkway has been lowered to 40 mph between Maryland routes 197 and 32 to calm traffic and give drivers more time to react to poor road conditions, according to the National Park Service. Despite placing more than 60 tons of specialized asphalt to patch potholes on the parkway, the Park Service reports the roadway continued to deteriorate, particularly last month. “We know this is a frustrating situation for drivers who rely on the Baltimore-Washington Parkway,” Park Service Superintendent Matt Carroll said. The Park Service is in its eighth year of a 10-year full repaving of the highway. It has repaved the section from the Washington boundary at New York Avenue, north to the Patuxent River Bridge near the Route 197 interchange. Repaving from routes 197 to 198 is scheduled for the fall, and the rest will be completed in 2021. The Park Service blamed the “extensive pothole hazards” on record rain in 2018, multiple freeze-thaw cycles this winter and difficulty keeping patches on roads during snow plowing.