From the Harford County Sheriff’s Office:
On Wednesday 03/20/13 at 9:30pm Harford County Sheriff’s deputies responded to the Subway at 225 Brierhill Drive in Bel Air, for a report of an armed robbery.
Deputies made contact with store employees who advised they were preparing to close when customer entered the store. They observed the suspect approach the counter displaying a gun and demanding cash receipts from the store. The suspect was given an undisclosed amount of cash after which he fled from the store on foot in the direction of the Seasons Apartment complex.
The suspect was a white male, 20-29 years old, pale complected, thin build, 5’6”-5’10”, 140lbs, wearing jeans, a gray hooded zip-up sweatshirt with pockets and the hood pulled up over his head and had a black bandana covering the lower half of his face. There were no injuries reported.
Anyone with information is asked to call Detective Det. Tammy Burns at 410-836-5043; and we have Crime Stoppers link too which is:
Anyone with information regarding the crime who wishes to remain anonymous may report their information online at http://www.harfordsheriff.org/wanted, by phone to Harford Crime Solvers at 1-888-540-8477, or by texting Metro Crime Stoppers at “CRIMES” (274637). Qualifying tips submitted to the tip lines below that lead to a conviction may be eligible for up to $2,000 in rewards.
“pale complected, thin build”
Druggie looking for his next fix, so sad……..
Did this person have a background check and a Md. permit for his choice of weapon? Was he in a possible “gun free zone” when commiting this crime?
If he were required to have his fingerprints taken before he purchased his handgun, I’m sure this crime would have never occurred.
You just have to love the irony here. While every store in the green brier center has now been robbed this year and various other folks have been robbed (see last weeks Dollar store employee robbery in the Daggar) and the strong drug trade continues in the parking lot and behind Safeway, the cops are still raising money for the State of MD on Todd Rd. behind Safeway.
So is writing tickets to hard working middle class people more important than solving a rash of robberies? I guess the police will abandon their revenue agent duties when someone gets killed down there, because you know it is just a matter of time.
Hey police, when you are sitting in the driveway behind the shopping center waiting for your next big ticket, look in your rear view mirror, behind you, up the hill and you may just catch a drug dealer. I know it doesn’t help your paper writing goal for the month, but those of us that pay your paycheck, will be much appreciative of your crime solving efforts.
Sounds like you know how to easily catch every criminal, why dont you show the police how its done.
I could catch the drug dealing thugs and amatuer robbery thugs at that shopping center. Just give me a work van with a company logo on the side and let me sit there for a few nights and you’ll be amazed at what you see going on in the parking lot and behind the stores. The problem “man-up” is that you can’t catch criminals if you are not looking for them. When you are sitting in a drive -way behind the shopping center looking for speeders, then you are blind as to what else is going on around you. This is a political conversation, not a police conversation. MD needs every stream of revenue it can get. Ticket $$$$$ and ticket court cost $$$$ can be spent. Locking up bad people cost $$$$$$. Very simple.
Harford County is now the new Prince George’s County Annex
Ever since they tore down the race track and built that ugly eye sore of a mall things have been going south in this county. They paved paradise to put up a parking lot…
By the way newcomer, it’s Bel Air, not Belair.
He’s been here awhile Otto. Look up from your prune juice every now and then
Oh my I have been driving on Bel Air rd all these years and never knew it……
Get a clue otto….
When you live somewhere your whole life, it’s kinda scarey to watch areas that you once considered safe……..to become very seedy.
Sorry Safeway, only during daylight will I stop by your store.
It’s all because of that darn walmart at plumtree. No one is safe anymore.
Touche Bob – 2 can play your childish game.
That entire neighborhood is being infested and the source of the infection is obvious. Blight begins with a single seed and then the surrounding neighborhood becomes less desirable due to fear and reputation and then the surrounding neighborhood also becomes blight and so and so on. It doesn’t take long to transform a nice neighborhood into a mess. Thanks housing authority – great work.
Let’s rename that area……..hmmmmmmmmmmmm….how about “Essex North”?
Essex, Dundalk, Greenmount – there’s a bunch of them and all were once decent places to live.
Thanks Bob.
I hope they hurry up and get the gun bill passed and it will stop all of this gun violence. If the community can just hang on another week or until this legislative session ends all of these robberies with guns will be illegal and we can all feel safe again.
Too bad in MD only the cops and criminals carry guns. Other states where law abiding people carry guns criminals think twice before they pull a gun on someone.
I am a citizen of the US, I reserve the right to protect myself, my home & family! I am an upstanding person with no record! I don;t think any of these gun rules & laws are going to fix the probelem! criminals are exactly that, criminals! as long as guns are stolen from homes, sold on streets, we will always have this problem! I agree with going back to the old west! all i have to say is, there will be no warning shot!
Legalize drugs, then natural selection will occur and decrease the surplus population.
Armed robberies in Bel Air were unheard-of only a few short years ago. I think the real problem here, which no one has yet addressed, is that the apartments near that shopping center are accepting Section 8 vouchers for subsidized housing. I think that’s the core reason why we’re seeing these holdups and other crimes occurring in this area: we’ve imported drug addicts into the community. I hope the law enforcement agencies in this county can find some way to address this situation before an innocent person gets killed.
You are right, but law enforcement shares some blame. Their priorities have been mis-directed into an area that benefits no one. They need to focus their attention towards community policing in neighborhoods with spikes in crime. The problem is that it requires them to get out of their comfortable police cars and that isn’t going to happen.
Heroin High is right up the street from that farm store. That whole area has been a drug infested mess of rich kids living in big houses with nothing better to do all day than get high while the parents are at work. When mommy and daddy finally kick them out, they move into the subsidized housing down the street and this is what you get.
You can’t get subsidized housing by just showing up at the rental office. There’s a waiting list and only about 25% will be given the vouchers – they give priority to veterans, the elderly, families with children so being young, healthy, single and white won’t get you a free house so I promise you children who grew up in “big houses” are not the ones committing the felonies in that area. Give me one shred of evidence; real evidence, not just your anecdotes that the crime is home grown? You know those same “big houses” had kids that grew up around there 10, 20 and even 30 years ago and there were no armed robberies…so tell me again that the crime comes from the established surrounding neighborhoods.
FWIW – Actually I was working in the neighborhood directly across the street of CMW. The homeowner told me to lock my truck up as she said the neighborhood was crawling with kids that constantly steal stuff out of the neighborhood’s car. Her wallet was stolen in her driveway during the day.
That would be the development known as leeswood. The kids go through like locusts when school lets out. Children with mommy and daddies disposable income make it Heroin High….
Anyone that doesn’t know this isn’t from the area so money tree Stuff it. 😉
Nobody doubts kids commit crimes but the crimes being committed; serious crime with guns, etc. are not being committed by teenage kids attending C Milton or Southhampden Middle. Kids did drugs when I was in school too but almost nobody committed strong arm robberies to get their drugs, particularly if as you say there’s a lot of disposable income in the family so Jim stuff it. Wanting to blame holdups and robberies on suburban kids is just stupid because it’s not true.
People that live in that area and don’t have rose colored glasses on know exactly where the criminals live. It’s all in one apartment complex.
The cops know it. The neighbors know it. The businesses around there know it. Apparently there’s next to nothing we can do about it either. As soon as they flush one out another one moves in. It’s a revolving door for criminals and unfortunately it’s not always the residents, but their friends and visitors that become a problem. We had a section 8 next door when I lived in the city – the lady that lived there was fine, but her nephew and cousin and every other person that eventually moved in were problems for everyone. It started with her and her 2 kids and ended up with 5 adults and a bunch of kids – we could never tell exactly how many people were living in the house.
Whether a parent is wealthy or poor, that I guarantee you is not always fueling the childs drug habbit or criminal activities. These kids now a day have so many things accessible to them in school, we are all clueless. Half of them are selling it to make their own money & the parents have no clue! I have a teenager, life really sucks for both her & us as parents at the moment! I make it a point every day to be in her business whether she likes it or not! I give her $2/a day for lunch! that is it! she needs something she asks for it!
Now there are some scary kids out there & usually the company your child keeps, depicts their actions! Remember the ole saying-Monkey see/Monkey do? Do i relly think these kids have the guts to commit a serious crime with guns, maybe! depends on the company they keep & how they are all acting! Now if we all were able to carry & protect ourselves, i gurantee you would see some kids crap their pants if you turned the tables & were armed when they try to rob you! The same with these drug infested areas where you have these drug dependent pieces of crap, whose home BTW we are paying for as well as there Free GOV Phones they are making their drug deals on! The whole thing erks my nerves! Don’t rob me or anyone else because you don’t want to go to work or learn to support yourself! Bottom line not income or parents create these monsters! its what they see, who they hang with that has all the influence on these kids & the path they choose to go down, they all have the chance to make the right decisions that would change their lives, it is a matter of what how they choose to live life! I just don’t understand society now! my father would have killed me if i did any of these things.
TMT those kids grow up and keep their heroin habits till they meet an untimely early death. Take a trip down to the harford hilton detention center some time, it full of 20 something white boys from the finer sections of harford county doing time for drugs. If graduating high school was a cure for drug addiction your world would be just a wonderful thing. Sorry to burst your bubble but reality is quite different.
The cops have known for years that gangs have infiltrated Greenbrier Apts and have chosen to look the other way. I don’t know if this is the Sheriff’s Dept area or Bel Air Town Police, but either way, the problem is well known and being ignored.
Unfortunately, one young innocant man down there has already died and if history is a judge, nothing will be done until there are more innocent deaths.
I bet they live over in the Seasons of Bel Air area!!!!!! Try checking that area, since they fled that way.
You might notice there is never a get a way car, so what do ya think?
Just like the old Golden Ring Mall and Fontana Village. They’d rob the stores in the mall and run across RT 7 right into the hood.
One day, driving home, the cops were sitting at the entrance to Fontana Village and there was a huge pile of license plates. They were stopping all the cars, coming and going, and confiscating the illegal tags. Hilarious…..
That’s what aggressive policing is all about Steve. They would never do that here, too worried about the criminal rights. That is why they sit on the middle class side of Brier Hill and write tickets to home owners. Image if they sat accross the road in the apartment lot how much real impact they could make cleaning this mess up.
Welcome to Harford County. Land of Jesse Bane’s “Hug-A-Thug” social policing program!
Cecil County Folk not tking it anymore! The last two who robbed Landhope received a hell of a surprise! One tackled in the parking lot & the other was followed by someone while on the phone with the popo to tell them
Wear the vehicle was! & the last house someone tried to rob, well the criminals were greeted by the homeowner armed who advised the robbers he was armed & prepared to use his weapon if they made entry! This is not the way life is supposed to be, however we have reached that point in society that we all need to protect ourselves!
Money tree, its true, hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil, is not the way to go my friend. It is happening, and will continue to happen, drugs are out of control. Addicts will sell their sole, and there are addicts in high school. Dont be fooled by age, drugs dont care how old you are.
No death penality in Maryland anymore.
If they break into your home – don’t leave a living witness or you’ll be the one in jail.