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• Baltimore Detectives Seeking To ID Person Of Interest In Rape & Home Invasion Case
• Police Investigating Home Invasion In Baltimore County
• Share Your Festive Photos Of Howard County Pets With Patch
• Man Charged with Murdering 17-Year-Old in Home Invasion is Denied Bail
• Mother mourns 18-year-old daughter killed in brutal North Baltimore home invasion
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Project Safe Neighborhoods is the centerpiece of the Department of Justice’s violent crime reduction efforts. PSN is an evidence-based program proven to be effective at reducing violent crime. Through PSN, a broad spectrum of stakeholders work together to identify the most pressing violent crime problems in the community and develop comprehensive solutions to address them. As part of this strategy, PSN focuses enforcement efforts on the most violent offenders and partners with locally based prevention and reentry programs for lasting reductions in crime. As stated in his plea agreement, Thomas is also a suspect in at least 17 violent crimes, including robberies, home invasions, and carjackings that occurred between July and October 2017. In many instances, victims report an assailant of Thomas’s description pointing a silver automatic handgun or black handgun to carry out various violent crimes.

At least two of the four suspects have been arrested by police, while two other suspects are still at large. "I think it's unsettling. It feels very violating for neighbors," McKown said. "Obviously your home is your castle for most people and it's a safe place to be." BALTIMORE --Baltimore City Police are investigating reports of an increase in home invasions in Canton and other southeast Baltimore neighborhoods. More than one neighbor is planning to be extra vigilant after this happened so close to home.

Baltimore Detectives Seeking To ID Person Of Interest In Rape & Home Invasion Case

"They sent her upstairs. I told her to comply," the witness said. On October 22, 2017, the stolen vehicle was recovered in the 3600 block of Dudley Avenue in Baltimore City, Maryland. The Baltimore City Police Department processed the vehicle for latent prints and discovered several prints that matched Thomas’s known fingerprints. "He pushed me. I'm back. He entered. He says, 'No, on, get out of my house,'" Lopez said. According to one neighbor, the suspect started to argue about cutting her grass, then tried to force his way into the home. Ring cameras and cellphones captured the suspect going door-to-door on Lynview Avenue.

Smith said the cases are not connected, but the culprits do have something in common. Police are investigating what they believe is a targeted, drug-related incident that started as a home invasion and ended in the deadly shooting of a Baltimore woman. The survivor told WJZ the brutal crime happened while a baby was in the room with the victims. According to his plea agreement, on October 21, 2017, Thomas forcibly entered a Baltimore City, Maryland residence where he brandished a weapon that resembled a firearm, demanded money, and demanded the keys to the victims’ vehicle. In compliance with Thomas’s demands, the male victim gave Thomas $500, his car keys, and walked Thomas to his vehicle located in the garage.

Police Investigating Home Invasion In Baltimore County

Officials did not know how the suspects got into the home, police said. Investigators don't believe this was a random incident, and one of the people who was staying at the home may have been the target of the crime. BALTIMORE --Baltimore County Police are searching for three suspects wanted for an armed home invasion.

The Howard County Police Department is investigating an armed robbery that involved taking the victims to another jurisdiction. "For that to happen to them is just it's odd and kind of scary so I just want my children to be safe," neighbor said. In the police report, officers note they met a woman who said she was attacked by three men wearing masks, one of them armed. The incident happened hours after someone beat a 90-year-old woman and left her for dead in a home invasion in northwest Baltimore.

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The suspects then ransacked the home and stole several valuables. Baltimore City Police say in the first two weeks of March, there were at least four reported home invasions in southeast Baltimore, including Brewers Hill, Canton and Upper Fells.

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Man Charged with Murdering 17-Year-Old in Home Invasion is Denied Bail

Residents in the neighborhood are heartbroken over what happened to the family, but there's also a determination to take action. BALTIMORE -- A deadly home invasion rocks a usually quiet neighborhood. In addition, the prosecutor added that Epps was living in a neighboring unit of the victims’ residence with his girlfriend. An alleged dispute between the defendant and one of the male victims took place two days prior to the fatal incident. Officials are investigating a home invasion that occurred Wednesday morning in Columbia, in which the victims were taken to Baltimore City, according to the Howard County Police Department.

While these charges would likely merge after trial, thus preventing a person from being sentenced multiple times for the same act, prosecutors often take advantage of multi count criminal indictments for use as a bargaining chip down the road. For example they may agree to drop most of the charges in exchange for a plea, when in reality the defendant could only legally be sentenced on one or two. A senior couple robbed at gunpoint Wednesday night during a home invasion in Highlandtown is fighting back. They're active in the Canton business community and in their neighborhood, which is a block away from Patterson Park. Wednesday, an armed, masked man threatened to kill the couple inside their home on Rochester Place. This case is part of Project Safe Neighborhoods , a program bringing together all levels of law enforcement and the communities they serve to reduce violent crime and make our neighborhoods safer for everyone.

Officers are still investigating and believe several people came into the home, shot two of the victims, assaulted another victim and fled the scene. Once inside, the suspects demanded money from two victims, who were assaulted and forced into a vehicle, police said. People who live along Rossville Boulevard in Rosedale woke up Sunday morning to a crime scene at the house. A woman living in the home who was not injured during the incident, but experienced a medical event that required her to be taken to a hospital for treatment, police said. "I was surprised this morning," Conten said of seeing police crime scene tape cordoning off a portion of the block when he awoke Friday morning.

Subsection C makes it illegal to break into another person’s home with the intent to commit a theft, and a violation of this law could result in a 20-year maximum jail sentence and a conviction for first degree burglary. Lawmakers took it one step further in section D, by labeling the act of breaking into another person’s home with the intent to commit a violent crime as a home invasion. A violation of the home invasion law carries a stiff 25-year maximum penalty, and in many cases it will be charged simultaneously with other offenses such as burglary, assault and theft.

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Police said several men went into the home, demanded drugs and money, then shot and killed the woman when she ran away while the home was being ransacked. WJZ Investigator Mike Hellgren came to WJZ in the spring of 2004. Solid reporting credentials and a reputation for breaking important news stories have characterized Mike's work. Degree in journalism from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism and grew up partly in both Chicago and Louisiana.

The latest breaking updates, delivered straight to your email inbox. Bullock believes residents have to communicate with each other and police in hopes of preventing crime. "It's crazy. I mean, nothing around here like that has happened around here that I've heard of. Nothing like it," said resident Robert Jacobs. Epps appeared in court with his defense attorney, Ann Marie Gering, who requested her client be released on house arrest, living with his cousin.

Area residents like Andrew Conten, who's lived in the area for 42 years, said the neighborhood has changed drastically in recent years. "It looks like there's a drug nexus to this," said Baltimore Police spokesman TJ Smith. Smith said the incident is not related to recent attacks involving women in the Park Heights neighborhood in northwest Baltimore.

One neighbor told the 11 News I-Team he pulled a knife trying to force his way into her home. There are a variety of defenses that are specific to burglary cases that are no always ideal in home invasion cases. This is because there is often an eyewitness to a home invasion case, who many times turns out to be the alleged victim.