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PASADENA - A 19-year-old Pasadena woman was assaulted Thursday night as she walked along Catherine Avenue in the Green Haven neighborhood.

In what police are calling an attempted abduction, the young woman reported she left her mother's house around 11:30 p.m. to walk to her father's house off Catherine Avenue.

As she walked along the road near 209th Street, a red four-door vehicle stopped and let a passenger out. The vehicle circled around, then parked on the side of the road. Another man got out, grabbed her in a bear hug, dragged her toward to the vehicle and put her in the back seat, county police said.

He tried to tear off the woman's clothes. She fought back and was able to get out of the vehicle after kicking one man in the face. She escaped and returned to her mother's house. Her father flagged down a county policeman yesterday morning to report the incident, county police said.

The suspects are described as two white males. The driver was thin built in his 20s, and the other heavier set in his 40s.

An investigation is continuing.

Glen Burnie man sentenced for murder

ANNAPOLIS - A Glen Burnie man was sentenced to 40 years in prison on Wednesday for the murder of another man in the parking lot of an Annapolis apartment complex last July.

A dozen members of the defendant's family and more than 50 members of Cole Collins' family gathered to see Tyrone Williams, 40, sentenced for the shooting.

Williams was convicted of first-degree murder in March after his attorney argued the shooting was in self-defense and the neighborhood was a "battle zone."

Williams had been drinking at his girlfriend's nearby apartment that night when someone told him his teenage cousin had been beaten by a mob, according to testimony. Williams slipped a gun into his front pocket and went outside to face a crowd of 30 to 50 people still milling in the street at 3 a.m.

When Mr. Collins tried to confront him, Williams fired the gun, sending a bullet into Mr. Collins' neck and killing him at the age of 24.

Gun discovery leads to robbery charges

PASADENA - An 18-year-old Bel Air woman was arrested for shooting a Pasadena man during an attempted robbery last week after the gun used in the crime was found in a friend's bedroom.

On July 25, county police were called to Mountain Road on an attempted armed robbery and shooting. Stanley Anthony Brown of Pasadena had been shot in the arm during the incident.

Two days later police were called to 229th Street in the Green Haven neighborhood of Pasadena where Veronica Marie Sampson's mother had found a loaded .32-caliber revolver in her bedroom.

Ms. Sampson, 16, was arrested for underage possession of a firearm. While she was in custody at Eastern District headquarters, Mashawnda Angelia Slater walked into the station wanting to talk about Ms. Sampson's arrest.

After she told different stories, police determined it was she who had used the gun in the attempted robbery. Ms. Slater was arrested and charged with first-degree assault, attempted armed robbery, reckless endangerment and use of a handgun in the commission of a violent crime.

Explosives found on shoreline

SEVERNA PARK - Richard and Maureen Roden were walking along the newly placed rock shoreline behind their home in the Round Bay neighborhood last weekend when they noticed a fluorescent yellow tube poking out between two boulders.

The 8-inch tube and two others turned out to contain dynamite.

Within minutes, dozens of emergency personnel, including crews from the county Fire Department, Annapolis bomb squad, Coast Guard and an Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms unit, were swarming the shoreline on Luna Lane Saturday, said Battalion Chief Matthew Tobia, a county Fire Department spokesman.

The Rodens explained that as part of an erosion project, a contractor last week had installed roughly 150 tons of rocks along the shoreline of the Severn River. Apparently, some explosives used at the quarry to break larger boulders into the smaller rocks that now line the shore remained unexploded, and tucked into the granite, Chief Tobia said.

Crews evacuated all residents within 1,000 feet of the 30-foot-long shoreline, said neighbor Ron Wineholt.

Mr. Wineholt got the call he could return to his home at 5 p.m.

About 9 pounds of explosives had been removed from that site, Chief Tobia said.

It is unclear how much additional explosive material has been found since, but the Rodens suspect there is much more under the 5 feet of rocks spread along 30 feet of their shoreline.

As of yesterday morning, the rocks, some marked with orange spray paint, remained. While the community waits for a contractor to remove any remaining explosives, security guards are making sure no one goes near the rocks.

"There is a security guard in our back yard to keep an eye on the site, yes, but that doesn't get the rocks out of here," Mr. Wineholt said.

- Staff reports

New Kennel club organized in county

MILLERSVILLE - Anne Arundel County is getting a new kennel club with the start of the Kennel Club of Anne Arundel, formed by people interested in American Kennel Club conformation and performance events for their dogs. The new club has the number of members needed to become an official club authorized to hold dog shows in the area.

Its first official event is a B Match, or practice dog show, starting with registration at 8:30 a.m. Sept. 21 at 470 Ski Lane in Millersville.

Teens can learn about showing a dog at the Junior Showmanship competition and clinic and can compete in a practice show. There also will be canine good citizenship tests, health tests and a microchips clinic.

In order to raise money to put on a first-rate practice show, the club is holding a garage sale starting at 7:30 a.m. Aug. 9 at 570 Brightwood Road in Millersville. Professional dog show participants will be selling dog-related items as well as regular garage sale items.

For more information, visit www.KCAA-MD.com or call Karen Haggins at 410-729-7953.