Baltimore police were searching for a man who tried to rob a guest at a downtown hotel after gaining entry into her room by posing as a maintenance worker.
The attempted robbery occurred about 9:30 a.m. Wednesday at the Marriott Inner Harbor at Camden Yards hotel in the 100 block of S. Eutaw St., said Anthony Guglielmi, the department's chief spokesman. A woman was sleeping in her room when a man dressed in an outfit resembling a maintenance uniform knocked on the door and said he was there to fix a problem, according to Guglielmi.
The woman opened the door and the man went into the bathroom, she told police. The woman became suspicious and started asking him questions, at which point he pulled out a silver handgun.
"He told her, 'Don't yell, don't scream,' " Guglielmi said.
But when the woman saw the gun, she began to yell and reached for the hotel phone, according to Guglielmi. The man flipped through the woman's suitcase before leaving the room without any of her possessions, she told police, and he fled in an unknown direction.
Police were seeking a black man with a medium complexion who is in his early 40s, about 6 feet 2 inches to 6 feet 4 inches tall and wearing a dark baseball cap, navy blue jacket and pants, and black boots.