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June 28, 2011

Guns, lawn care equipment seized in AA County

Anne Arundel County Police are searching for the owners of thousands of dollars worth of tools, lawn equipment and guns that were discovered during a search of a Lothian home where two people were arrested, The Sun's Liz F. Kay reports.

Police detectives have been investigating a tip received in May that a resident in the 1100 block of Mount Zion Marlboro Road had been dealing drugs and accepting stolen goods as payment, according to a police spokesman.

Among the 180 items found in the home and detached sheds on the property include a U-Haul car dolly, 49 long guns, snow blowers, generators, power washers, weed eaters, leaf blowers, chain saws, power drills, circular saws, concrete saws, nail guns and fishing rods.

Posted by Justin Fenton at 11:27 AM | Permalink | Comments (2)
Categories: Anne Arundel County

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This looks like the contents of my father-in-law's shed...

Posted by: sean | June 28, 2011 12:08 PM

What the hell, why would you take all that junk instead of cash? Yeah it's worth something, but trying to pawn 180 things yourself is probably riskier than stealing them would be.

Posted by: chrrr | June 28, 2011 1:52 PM

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Peter Hermann started covering news for The Baltimore Sun in 1990, first in Anne Arundel County and, starting in 1994, reporting on the Baltimore Police Department. In 2001, he was assigned to Jerusalem as the Baltimore Sun's Middle East correspondent. He returned in 2005 as an assistant city editor overseeing crime coverage. In 2008, Peter returned to the beat as a daily reporter and blogger. A recent BBC report featured him in a segment on the harsh realities of covering crime in Baltimore.

Coverage will focus on crime trends, problems in neighborhoods in the city and elsewhere, profiles of victims and police officers and try to offer readers a fresh perspective on one of the most vexing issues facing Baltimore and its future.

Contributing to this blog is Justin Fenton, who joined The Sun in 2005 and has covered the Baltimore City Police Department and the criminal justice system since 2008. His work includes an investigation into Cal Ripken Jr.’s minor league baseball stadium deal with his hometown of Aberdeen, a three-part series chronicling a ruthless con woman, coverage of the killing of five Amish children at a schoolhouse in Nickel Mines, Pa., and a job swap with a British crime reporter to explore differences in crime-fighting. A special report looking into how city police handle rape cases led to sweeping reforms that changed the way sexual assaults are investigated in Baltimore. He was recognized as the best reporter in Baltimore by the City Paper in 2010 and by Baltimore Magazine in 2011.

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