Harford man gets life sentence for sexual assault

A man who has been convicted of sexually assaulting two women in less than a year between 2005 and 2006 in Harford County received a maximum life sentence Thursday for one of the attacks. Glenn Joseph Raynor, 49, formerly of Forest Hill, was sentenced by Harford County Circuit Judge Judge M. Elizabeth Bowen to serve a life sentence plus 10 years for sexually assaulting an Abingdon woman in July 2005, according to the Harford County state’s attorney’s office. Raynor was found guilty of a first-degree sex offense, second-degree sex offense and a third-degree sex offense by a jury on Sept. 4. According to court records, his public defenders have already filed a notice of appeal. In a news release, the State’s Attorney’s Office noted that in addition to the sentence being the maximum, “it was ordered to be served consecutive to the sentence that he is currently serving for another sexual assault that took place in April of 2006 in Bel Air.” In that case, Raynor was found guilty of first-degree rape and two first-degree sex offenses by a jury in 2009 and sentenced to a total of 100 years in prison. He has been incarcerated at Western Correctional Institution in Cumberland, according to the Department of Corrections online inmate locater. from the car, which police were going back to collect Friday afternoon, police said. The chase began when Baltimore County police received a request from Newport News, Va., at 12:14 p.m. to check for the vehicle in Essex. Police did not immediately release additional details. — Jessica Anderson The Anne Arundel County Democratic Central Committee called Friday for County Executive Steve Schuh to ask for the resignation of Councilman John Grasso over posts about Muslims on Grasso’s Facebook page. Schuh, running for reelection, and Grasso, a candidate for District 32 state Senate, are Republicans. Grasso apologized publicly this week on Facebook to his constituents and privately via text to Rudwan Abu-Rumman, president of the Anne Arundel County Muslim Council, after a string of posts he shared about Muslims in September were brought to light. For AACDCC chairman Patrick Armstrong, that apology isn’t good enough. “I looked back at his timeline going back to 2017 and there’s a series of offensive things,” Armstrong said. “There are posts attacking Obama and his children and his wife … things about Muslims and 9/11. There’s a pattern we’re seeing and I don’t think an apology is going to cover it.” In an email to the Democratic committee's subscribers titled “Steve Schuh stands with racists,” the AACDCC asks Schuh to disavow Grasso and demand his resignation. The posts Grasso shared in September include a photo with the words “One nation under God, Not Allah. America is not a Muslim nation. America is not an Islamic nation. America is a Christian nation,” and a link to a Cambodian website titled “Share if you think President Trump should ban Islam in American Schools.” In response to the AACDCC’s request, Schuh’s campaign said the county executive would continue to endorse Grasso. Grasso has apologized and agreed to meet with the county Muslim council as Schuh’s campaign requested in a statement Wednesday. The Anne Arundel Republican Committee did not respond for comment Friday when asked if it supports Grasso.