Police briefs

Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2007

Johnnie William Raines, 30, of Lexington Park was jailed Monday without bond on six burglary charges from incidents in November and last week throughout central St. Mary’s County.

Charging papers allege Raines stole cigarettes and money from Russell’s Store in Valley Lee, a cash register and money at Charlie’s Deli in Lexington Park and DJ equipment, speakers, a computer and money from First Pentecostal Church at Patuxent Park.

Raines also was charged with stealing a television and other items from Shawn Allen Davidson’s home at Patuxent Park, a saw and other equipment during a second break-in at Davidson’s residence and a Beretta firearm and other property at Sean Kelly Hunter’s home in the neighborhood.

Raines attempted to break into St. James Store and Pub south of Hermanville, charging papers allege, and stole a shotgun owned by Charles McConnell from an unlocked vehicle in the Essex South neighborhood.

‘‘The defendant ... advised all the items stolen in the various burglaries were sold on the streets of Lexington Park for currency or traded with various area drug dealers for cocaine,” according to charging papers filed after St. Mary’s detectives Julie Yingling and Charles Earle located and arrested Raines on Sunday night along Great Mills Road.

The cash register from Charlie’s Deli was found and recovered, court papers state, from a stream off Indian Bridge Road.

Child’s hair burnedat Spring Ridge MS

St. Mary’s sheriff’s deputies allege that a 13-year-old child at Spring Ridge Middle School used a lighter last Thursday to set another 13-year-old child’s hair on fire in a hallway.

The suspect was released to a parent’s custody to await action by juvenile services authorities on charges of second-degree assault and disruption of school activities filed by sheriff’s deputy Eva Jones.

Burglary, assault alleged

Joseph Wayne Bosse, 25, of Mechanicsville was released on $20,000 bond after his arrest on charging papers alleging he went into a woman’s trailer home in Leonardtown on Friday and tried to push her toward a bathroom.

The woman broke free and called 911 from the bathroom, court papers state, and St. Mary’s sheriff’s deputy Patrick Handy found the suspect hiding in another bathroom and charged him with first-degree burglary and second-degree assault.

Bosse also was charged with the possession of cocaine.

Three charged withmailbox destructions

Maryland State Police report that three Mechanicsville men were arrested Sunday in a traffic stop in Clements on charges from damages to 15 mailboxes earlier that day near Helen, Morganza and Leonardtown.

Jeremy Andrew Vojacek, 23, Casey Evan Sheckels, 21, and Jason Andrew Jackson, 21, were released on personal recognizance on the charges filed through the investigation by state police troopers J.T. Pilkerton and sheriff’s deputy T.D. White. A large construction hammer was found, court papers state, in the Honda car driven by Vojacek. Damages to the mailboxes were estimated at $1,500.

Morganza man, 43,charged with assault

State police report that Terrence Llewelyn Mason, 43, of Morganza was charged with second-degree assault and misdemeanor drug offenses after the Nissan Sentra he was driving almost struck state Trooper J.L. Linger as the suspect allegedly fled from a traffic stop Sunday in Hollywood.

Other troopers set ‘‘stop sticks” on Route 245 to stop the vehicle, a police release states, and cocaine and drug paraphernalia were found during a search.

Reward offered in probeof burglary in Leonardtown

Law officers in St. Mary’s are seeking the public’s help through the county Crime Solvers program in their probe of a break-in between Saturday and Monday morning in Leonardtown, where an undisclosed amount of money was stolen from a Mountain Mudd kiosk off Point Lookout Road.

Citizens with information about this case and other crimes in St. Mary’s County can collect a cash reward by calling Crime Solvers 24 hours a day at 301-475-3333.

They can withhold their name and later collect their reward through a number-identification system.

St. Mary’s County Crime Solvers is a nonprofit organization that assists law enforcement in solving open investigations that may not have been closed without the extra incentive of anonymity and an offer of a reward of up to $2,000, providing the information leads to an arrest or indictment.

The Crime Solvers board of directors meets for about one hour on the second Thursday of every other month at 7:30 p.m., in the conference room of the sheriff’s office at 23150 Leonard Hall Drive in Leonardtown. To be considered for membership on the board, attend a meeting or call the sheriff’s office at 301-475-8008.

John Wharton