Baltimore County?s six-year effort to shut down a Lutherville body shop continued Tuesday in a tense hearing that involved allegations of assault, racial epithets and a “creepy” neighbor documenting the saga on videotape.

Cited at least five times with fines totaling $145,600 for allegedly operating a body shop on land zoned for residential use, Steven Galasso appeared before the county?s Board of Appeals in the latest tangle of administrative and court cases since 2001.

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