Man tries to rob officers using knife, tear gas Sandy Stancil picked the wrong people to try to hold up.
According to authorities, the 51-year-old Hyattsville resident approached two people at the Sunoco gas station at 4836 Kenilworth Avenue in Edmonston around 11 p.m. Tuesday. Stancil pulled out a knife and a can of tear gas and demanded money, Edmonston police said.
His targets were off-duty D.C. cops. They did not comply with Stancil’s demands. Instead, both officers pulled out their own weapons, identified themselves and ordered Stancil to the ground. He’s charged with attempted robbery.
Mall security guard accused of stealing safe
A Maryland mall security guard has been charged with stealing a safe from a kiosk at the shopping center.
Anne Arundel County police said a safe was reported stolen Sunday from the Gold Rush kiosk at the Arundel Mills Mall in Hanover. Surveillance footage led police to suspect a mall security guard, 22-year-old John T. Cook IV.
Police said gold jewelry and cash that had been in the safe were recovered from Cook’s Millersville home and another residence in Glen Burnie.
Hearing postponed for alleged East Coast Rapist
A preliminary hearing for the suspect in a series of violent sexual assaults along the East Coast has been delayed.
Aaron H. Thomas, the alleged East Coast Rapist, will not appear in court until March 1, according to the Prince William County Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court clerk’s office. A hearing had been scheduled for Wednesday.
Thomas was apprehended in Connecticut in March. He is suspected in up to 17 attacks in Virginia, Maryland, Rhode Island and Connecticut between 1997 and 2009. He is facing trial in Prince William County for a Halloween 2009 attack on three teenage girls in Dale City.
— Emily Babay and Scott McCabe
