Crime & Safety

Crime Roundup: Wandering Toddler Leads to Neglect Charges

The following arrest information was supplied by the Baltimore County Police Department. It does not indicate a conviction.

Charges are pending against a Catonsville man after a toddler was found wandering around a Baltimore National Pike auto dealership last Friday morning.

When employees arrived at the dealership on the 6700-block of Baltimore National Pike, they found a toddler wearing a diaper covered by shorts and no other clothing.

Police were called at 10:40 a.m. For the next two hours, police canvassed the neighborhood around the car dealership, according to Lt. Nancy Storke, deputy commander of Precinct 1/Wilkens. The police did not receive a report of a missing child.

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A police officer spotted an open apartment door and children’s toys on the 120-block of Westerlee Place, and upon investigation found the child’s father and another family member asleep inside an apartment.

According to Storke, the child’s mother dropped off the child with the father at 4 a.m. on her way to work in Pennsylvania. The mother was notified, and the child was returned unharmed to the father until the mother was off work.

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In order to walk from the father’s home to the car dealership, the toddler walked about four blocks and crossed up to five streets. The child was not hurt in the incident.

A charge of child neglect is pending against the father, who the police declined to identify.

Burglaries in the Catonsville Area

A number of bicycles, air conditioners and other inadequately secured property has been stolen recently, including the following incidents:

July 9:  Two mountain bikes taken from a patio on the 6100 block of Northdale Road sometime between noon and 8 p.m.

July 5: Between 9 a.m. and 8:30 p.m., an unknown person entered a residence on the 600 block of Orpington Road through an unlocked door and took a laptop computer.

July 5: Sometime between 1:30 p.m. on July 4 and 8:45 a.m. on the July 5, someone took two air conditioning units from Doctor Vision Works on the 6400 block of Baltimore National Pike, valued at a total of $1,100.


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