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Harford cab driver stabbed near Bel Air; assailant remains at large

Just hours before Harford County Sheriff Jesse Bane told a group of Abingdon residents that crime overall is down in Harford County, a taxicab driver was stabbed and robbed in the Bel Air area.

Bane was hosting one of his town hall meetings at the Abingdon library, about five miles south of where the cab driver was assaulted early Saturday morning, in the area of Crescent Knoll Drive and Fountain Green Road (Route 543).

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The assailant was still at large Tuesday afternoon, Monica Worrell, public information officer for the Harford County Sheriff's Office said. The cab driver has since been released from the hospital, she wrote in an e-mail Tuesday morning.

Around 1:35 a.m. Saturday, sheriff's deputies responded to the area of Crescent Knoll Drive and Fountain Green Road east of Bel Air near C. Milton Wright High School, for a report of a robbery and serious assault of an ABC Company cab driver.

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The taxicab driver, Robert E. Donley, 53, of Aberdeen, was assaulted by a fare who had demanded money after he was picked up in the 1600 block of Chester Way Court in Bel Air and driven to Crescent Knoll Drive and North Fountain Green Road, according to a sheriff's office news release.

The assailant, described as a white man in his mid 20s wearing all black and a black hooded sweatshirt, fled the scene in an unknown direction after stabbing Donley in the upper torso, according to the release.

Donley was originally transported by ambulance to John Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in Baltimore by members of the Bel Air Volunteer Fire Company for his injuries. He was later transferred to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore.

Anyone with information regarding the crime is urged to submit a tip online at http://www.harfordsheriff.org/wanted phone Harford Crime Solvers at 1-888-540-8477 or text "CRIMES" (274637) – begin the message "MES" and then add information.

All tips can be anonymous. Qualifying tips that lead to a conviction may be eligible for up to $ 2,000 in rewards.

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