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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1999
Page
2
A Middletown woman reports two fraudulent telephone calls. In the first, a man claimed rising phone rates and urged switching providers from a three-seller company with a middle initial meaning Service. She checked with Bell Atlantic. A second call, from a “very official, kind man,” demanded her VISA number to activate it. she refused and prepared to call the card’s number on the back.
Maryland State Police report a routine seat belt stop on U S 40 A led to drug charges against Jon D. Jarrell 20 of Boonsboro. A license check showed suspension and troopers found a 12 inch glass pipe for smoking marijuana. He was charged with possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia and released on personal recognizance.
Maryland State Police charged Derrick Carter, 18, of Smithsburg, and a 17-year-old with arson burglary theft and malicious destruction after a fire destroyed Mount Aetna Country Store. Fire officials estimated $350000 damage. Carter awaited a bail hearing and the juvenile remained in detention.
A Bengal tiger wandered a Jersey suburb for hours and was shot by police after attempts to tranquilize failed. Officials suspect the animal escaped from Joan Byron-Marasek’s Tigers Only Preservation Society near Interstate 195. Authorities found 17 of 23 tigers. discrepancies cited, and a fence violation summons issued. Neighbors recount eerie smells and shock at tigers near homes. Byron-Marasek, a former circus handler, defends her private refuge as a devotion to big cats.
Frederick forecast shows tonight partly cloudy with lows in the 30s and highs in the upper 40s to lower 50s. State forecast calls for mostly cloudy tonight with a chance of showers, highs in the 40s and 30s overnight. Extended outlook expects showers and snow showers far west Thursday, then mostly sunny Friday and Saturday with mid 40s to 50s highs and chilly 25 to 35 lows.
Rain and snow spread from the south to the Carolinas and Maine with mixed precipitation in the Great Lakes and Pacific Northwest. Showers, thunderstorms, and gusty winds to 40 mph are forecast along the Gulf Coast and northern plains while dry but cloudy conditions persist in the Southeast and Tennessee Valley.
Montgomery County state’s attorney Douglas F Gansler urged life without parole for two murder cases. He seeks life for Garrett Eldred Wilson charged with smothering his infant son for insurance money and for Wilson’s alleged murder of his daughter Brandi Jean Wilson. He also pressed life without parole for Hadden Irving Clark in the Michele Lee Dorr case, noting Clark already serves 30 years for a different murder.
Mount Airy officials debated whether the town should assume maintenance of stormwater ponds. The town runs 15 ponds while 12 are kept by homeowners associations. The town attorney said no legal obligation to take over, but consistency urged. discussion set for the next meeting.
In Rockville Montgomery County police and a K-9 unit evacuated the White Flint Mall for about an hour after a 1:30 p.m. call about a suspicious package. Fire and police investigators searched the area but nothing was found.
A 27 year old Gaithersburg man Nelson Palmer Jr of Alliston Hollow Way was arrested Jan 27 on two counts of indecent exposure authorities said.
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