Another cabdriver robbed in Aberdeen
For the second time in as many days, a cabdriver has been robbed at gunpoint in Aberdeen, police said yesterday.
Two men, one of them armed with a silver handgun, demanded money from the driver, who had been dispatched to Defense Drive near East Bel Air Avenue about 3:30 a.m. yesterday, police said. Both men, who were wearing hooded coats, fled on foot with an undetermined amount of cash.
A similar armed robbery occurred at about the same hour Tuesday in the same neighborhood, police said. The two robbers were described as possibly a male and a female.
"We are not sure at this point if there is anything to connect the robberies," said Sgt. Fred Budnick, spokesman for the Aberdeen Police Department. "We don't know whether two people are working together or if one is changing partners."
The cabdrivers in both incidents worked for the same local cab company, which had reported an attempted nighttime robbery last week, police said.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Aberdeen Police Criminal Investigation Unit at 410-272-2121.
Mary Gail Hare
Man pleads guilty in sex case
A 36-year-old Montgomery County man pleaded guilty yesterday in U.S. District Court in Baltimore to enticing a 15-year-old girl from Severn to have sex with him, federal prosecutors said.
Michael Lawrence Manoly of Clarksburg could be sentenced to between five and 30 years in prison followed by a lifetime of supervised probation. He will be sentenced May 30.
Prosecutors said in a statement that Manoly began e-mailing the girl, who was 14 then, in February 2006 and used the screen name "Kevin." The prosecutors said Manoly told the girl he was 25 and that they met "and engaged in sexual relations on several occasions."
Authorities said they searched Manoly's residence in Clarksburg and the victim's house in Anne Arundel County on Jan. 19 and recovered two laptop computers, both belonging to the suspect, that contained "numerous images of child pornography." There also were images of the victim, prosecutors said.
Man charged with exposure
A 64-year-old man with a history of exposing himself in public has been charged with committing a sexual act as he watched children at a McDonald's restaurant playground in Crofton, Anne Arundel County police said.
A woman at the restaurant on Route 3 told police she saw the man shortly after noon Wednesday sitting in his car alone and watching children who were using the restaurant's playground.
The woman gave officers the car's license number. Officers matched the car's registration to that of Donald M. Yates of the 1700 block of Gunwood Place. They took the witness to his home, where she identified Yates, and he was arrested, police said.
He was charged with indecent exposure and was released on personal recognizance from Jennifer Road Detention Center.
Yates has previous convictions for indecent exposure in 1992 and 1996, according to electronic court records.
GUS G. SENTEMENTES