in harford county, jeff hager, abc 2 news. >> the teen is being held at the harford county detention center on no bond. meanwhile, his stepfather has been charged and released. >>> baltimore's police department has launched an internal affairs probe into a marriage proposal. it isn't the actual proposal that is being investigated, it's the improper use of a police boat and helicopter that were part of the proposal. abc 2 news terry owens explains. >> reporter: marybeth, this is a story that everybody is talking about. as we first reported last night at 11, it all happened on the inner harbor and involves state delegate john cardin, the nephew of u.s. senator ben cardin. he says he wanted to make his fiancee's night perfect. his plan to propose to her on a boat august 7th. but that proposal apparently involved having a baltimore city police department helicopter hover overhead as city marine police pretended to search the boat. no one is saying how that was arranged, but police

tonight abc 2 news jeff hager has more on what may have sparked the latest incident of violence against a parent. >> instant photos, hamming it up with his sister, 15-year-old stan smith, junior looks like your average teen, not a kid capable of an adult-sized crime, attempted murder. >> i've known him for eight years. he is not the type of person. >> reporter: smith's friend jessica says stan may have stopped one day last month when he pick upped a baseball bat, approached his stepfather when he was working on the lawn, and proceeded to strike at least twice, breaking lonnie's hand in the process. >> he was transported to upper chesapeake by ambulance. and the step-son was arrested at this point. >> reporter: initially arrested on juvenile charges and released, smith is now being charged as an adult with first- degree attempted murder. she says her friend had been the target of verbal abuse, and he even waved a fist about that the teen probably took as a threat. >> he probably wanted to fight him but he was too scared because he was older than him. >> reporter: the 15-year-old suspect

in charles village, jeff hager, abc 2 news. >> prosecutors received the results of the suspect's dna sample exon rate just 24 hours before his trial was set to begin. >>> tonight a man is behind bars for allegedly trying to have sex with someone he thought was 13-year-old girl. but girl turned out to be an undercover state trooper. state police say christopher foebbel approached their imaginary 13-year-old in an online chat room. he made arrangements to meet the girl for sex yesterday, but police were waiting and they arrested him. he is charged with solicitation of a minor. if convicted, he could face up to ten years in jail. >>> the court of special appeals has upheld the dismissal of reckless endangerment charges against five counselors at a school for troubled juveniles where a baltimore teenager died. the court ruled that a carroll county judge did not err when he dismissed the indictment. the counselors at bolingbrook school were accused of waiting 41 minutes to call police after 17-year-old isaiah simmons was restrained by staff and became unresponsive. the lawyers argue that

federal regulators seized bradford bank on friday, and today, as abc 2 news jeff hager reports, its nine local branches tried to maintain business as usual. >> reporter: driving by its main branch in towson you couldn't spot any panic in the customers coming and going from bradford bank. but there is some uncertainty. >> i actually closed the account today. moving to a more convenient location. >> reporter: signs of the century-old thrift will soon be replaced by those of m&t bank bank. but an ombudsman from fdic says bradford account holdlers still be able to conduct their business as usual. >> they can continue to use their atm cards. they can continue to write checks and need to continue the make their loan payments. they need to continue to do all the business that they have always transacted with the bank. >> reporter: the fdic took over the bank after failed loans stripped it of the money it needed to continue to operate safely. and m&t bank bank agreed to assume its deposits and assets. >> i wasn't aware of it until two days later. it concerned me a little. but i have a lot of fai

abc 2 news jeff hager spoke with jay forest's family today about the incident which cost one man his life and the other his freedom. >> reporter: greta forest's brother died at the wrong end of a police revolver, and then the officer who pulled the trigger claimed her nephew, jay forest, had tried to wrestle her gun away from her as well. he spent more than five months in jail before she admit head played no role in the incident. >> he lost his barbershop. he lost custody of his newborn baby. he lost his partner. he lost a lot. >> reporter: now the family is also raising questions over how that same officer shot and killed 61-year-old joseph forrest. his sister claims the female officer approached her brother from behind during a domestic dispute, and her bright orange and yellow hair coupled with multiple ear and facial rings made it difficult to identify her as a cop. she believes the confusion fueled the fatal confrontation. >> he was trying to keep her from killing him. that's what he was trying do. she's going to kill. and all he trying to do is keep her from killing him. >> rep

abc 2 news jeff hager reports, the defendant claims he is innocent, but his own words convicted him. >> reporter: the distraught mother of 23-year-old kiheem taylor emerged from the courthouse claiming his innocence. >> he is not no perfect team, hard headed at times, but i believe he is innocent. i don't see him doing nothing like this. >> reporter: neither the teenaged boy locked inside the car's trunk nor the 18-year-old girl raped and forced to do other sexual acts over a two- hour period actually saw taylor's face that october night either. he was wearing a mask. but then a recorded telephone call from the detention center, taylor would break the case wide open. everyone knew that this crime was callous and heinous. the victims gave us that. the question was who was the masked man, and the defendant when he made that phone call admitted he was the masked man. >> reporter: in a call to a friend, taylor said, quote, man, if brian wore a mask, we wouldn't be in none of this. he went on the say since he didn't ejaculate inside his victim, he couldn't be charged with rape. he was wro

tonight abc 2 news jeff hager speaks with the man, freed after six months behind bars. >> reporter: jay forrest is a free man again, but it will take time to regain his life. >> i'm out of jail, but i don't know where to go from there. i lost custody of my child. i have no place. i lost my job. >> reporter: jay's uncle, joseph forrest died at the wrong end of a police revolver when a female officer shot him during a domestic dispute in february. that same cop accused jay of struggling to get her gun, later testifying that she had been mistaken. >> i lost my uncle, you know, and i'm sitting here for nothing. then you tell people that no one believes you. >> reporter: forrest says he feared for his life as detectives used heavy-handed tactics during his interrogation. >> and he kept saying to me "you know your uncle is dead, right." and i'm crying, saying, man, i can't believe that. he said you know your uncle is dead. why you keep saying that? then he says to me, he says to me, "well, if you people wouldn't act like animals, we wouldn't have to kill you." >> reporter: correction officers

we're still fighting. >> reporter: in mount vernon, jeff hager, abc 2 news. >> the club is open from 9 p.m. until 2 a.m. from thursday through saturday, and from 6 to 10 on sunday nights. and it has attracted an increased police presence since last year's shooting. >>> more budget cuts are on the way as the governor outlines more than 45th million dollars that will get the ax. at a news conference this morning, a governor says that this latest round of cuts will include furloughs and layoffs. the number of furlough days will be based on salary, ranging from three to five days with an additional five days off for holidays. >> for those employees who are going to be affected, they're all moms and dads. they're all dipping out of whatever savings they had to send their kids back to school. it is not something that we do because we enjoyed doing it. it's something we do because it's necessary in order to protect maryland and get us through the other side of this recession. >> 205 state employees will be laid off and 159 jobs will remain vacant. the rest of the cuts will come from aid to

now as jeff hager reports, car dealers hope the government refuels its most popular economic stimulus plan. >> reporter: jerry drove from pikesville to bel air in his 1999 gmc jimmy, and he may never drive it again. >> we need to get rid of this car and need to get rid of it today. >> reporter: the cash for clunkers program finds the back lot of this dealership filling up with junker, while new cars with high gas mileage and low price tags are disappearing out front. >> we're actually working with our manufacturers today, trying to get our cars brought in, and trying to get supplement cars at the current time. because it's been a huge success. >> reporter: the program allows car owners or the trade in gas guzzlers for up to $4,500 in trade value towards new gas- saving models. in the month of july, the jones junction auto group took in almost 250 vehicles in trade, and will be submit paperwork to what is officially known as the car allowance rebate system, or cars, for about a million dollars. coming off one of the hottest car buying weekends in the last year, some car deals are start

as jeff hager report, it appears the elderly victim took a fatal misstep that placed him right in the path of an suv. >> reporter: with police cars lining hammonds ferry road and paramedics rushing a severely injured pedestrian to a nearby hospital in vain, george corbett spotted something that told him his long time tenant and close friend john fetters hand been injured. >> when i went down there last night, i saw where his hat was in the road. >> it appears fetters was walking on the sidewalk in the dark next to the road, when the 68-year-old apparently lost his footing. >> a steep bank there, and he must have slipped and gone into the road. >> reporter: fetters died en route to st. agnes hospital, and now police are searching for the driver of the vehicle that struck him and left him to die. >> this vehicle ran over this man. and kept on going, did not stop and render aid. one of the things we're concerned about at this point is the person may not have even realized that they even ran over the man. >> reporter: residents say the narrow two-lane road and steep- banked sidewalks have

jeff hager joins us with why the program has shifted to a lower gear. jeff?reporter: there are still plenty of people with the gas guzzlers out there, but they're all looking for gas savers. and those cars are quickly disappears from the lot. you can get up to $4,500 in trade for your clunker, and it's worth more dead than alive. >> taking real junk off the road. >> reporter: rick fuller recalls the man who recently traded in a 1987f-150 pickup truck. >> he bought it a little over a year ago for $500 to do some yard work, but he followed the program, and got less than 18 miles a gallon combined and we gave him $3,500 for it. >> reporter: but there are big holes appear manage the lot. even though congress has added $2 billion to the program, it appears demand is tarting to outstrip supply. comprised of 14 different franchises: >> the problem is inventory. because, you know, we've had such a rush and cars that qualify for the clunker program, a lot of the cars were running very low on the lots. and it's not just us. it's everybody. >> reporter: even with the fo

jeff hager take as look -- takes a look at those plans. >> we used to have a lot of camp outs here. it was just a very, very active military housing development with lots of kids. it was very fond memories growing up as a child here. >> reporter: rob reviews what's left of washington court. a military housing complex. the ground of the massive buildup of world war ii. vines began choking the very life out of the buildings that remain. >> it shows it from the start. >> today marks the beginning of the end of that type of neglect and problems for a community that deserves a lot better. >> reporter: david craig has spearheaded the push to level the complex replacing it with almost 200 town homes. a few years ago, the feds balked at the high cost of rebuilding the development. economic stimulus dollars now make washington a willing partner. it will come just in time for the base realignment to bring tens of thousands of workers back to the aberdeen proving ground. >> 40% of abg is in edgewood. we've got three different entrances. one's five minutes from here that goes into abg. so i can

in baltimore city, jeff hager, abc 2 news. >> dr. alonso was unavailable for comment and doesn't want this tube distrack. we want your two cents on this story. do you think dr. alonso should pay back his bonus? vote on the pole on our home page, abc2news.com. >>> bail denied for two teenagers charged with that racially motivated beating. they appeared for a bail review hearing this morning. they face charges, including attempted first degree murder and theft. the teens, along with 28-year-old calvin lockner were arrested for the beating of 67-year-old james prospective et privet t. >>> a 42-year-old maryland man is one to walk aaron from the plane crash this morning. they found the copilot and pilot from pennsylvania at a nearby bus stop badly burned. >> we were able to egress the airplane as it was consumed by fire. i was pleased to hear that they survived. you're concerned when you say somebody is transferred to the hospital with burns, you're obviously concerned but i am told that they are going to survive. >> the plane was carryi

and that's where jeff hager joins us live. jeff?> reporter: well, marybeth, rain or shine, literally, we've had cloud bursts here within the last hour. now the sun

jeff hager, abc 2 news. >> thank you, jeff. >>> a terrible discovery in baltimore turns into a homicide investigation. a local business owner has died after being found bound by zip ties inside his canton vending business. constantine dino frank died after being taken off life support on tuesday. he was found facedown and bound july 29th in the vestibule of precision vending in canton. police say he managed to get one hand free, but apparently suffered a stroke during his struggle. >> the investigation revealed that there was some money taken out of a private safe of his that was located in an office. right now we have no suspects, no people of interest. but we are getting good intelligence from the family and from employees. >> frank's death is being jointly investigated by the homicide unit, and citywide robbery. he also owns pool halls and shopping centers in baltimore county. an autopsy is being performed. >>> a former band director at howard county high school has been sentenced for molesting a female student. robert johnston taught at mount hebron high for 35 years. he pleaded gui

as abc2 news jeff hager reports, she blamed the young man. >> reporter: a domestic dispute brought the officer to this baltimore neighborhood where she shot and killed 61-year-old joseph forest after an apparent struggle for her gun. >> one shot was fired at this time. two the -- to the suspect. both the officer and suspect fell to the ground. at that point the suspect was witnessed going after the officer's weapon and additional

as abc 2 news jeff hager reports, it appears the elderly victim took a fatal misstep that placed himthe path of an suv. >> with police cars lining hammonds ferry road and paramedics rushing a severely injured pedestrian to a nearby hospital in vain, george corbett spotted something that told him his long-time tenant and close friend john fetters had been injured. >> when i went down there last night, i saw where he was laying in the round. >>

in baltimore county, jeff hager, abc 2 news. >> and if you have any information about the crash, you're asked to call baltimore county police at 410-307-2020. >>> community leaders respond to an alleged hate crime. the brutal beating of an elderly man. police say 28-year-old calvin lockner and at least two other white men beat 76-year-old james privett tuesday night. privett and his wife were fishing at fort armistead park in south baltimore. police say lockner and the others shouted racial slurs as they knocked privett to the ground and beat him with a bat. investigators say lockner's nickname is hitler, and that he bears tattoos linking him with white supremacist groups. today the mayor and other civic leaders condemned what happened. >> we all have to speak out and speak up, and say it is not acceptable in our community. and we must stand together in opposing this kind of act going on. >> the nickname of the individual that is in custody is hitler. so he glorified in that. and we cannot continue to glorify that. >> the victim remains hospitalized with injuries to his head and face. h

in baltimore county, jeff hager, abc 2 news. >> anyone with information on the suspect's identity is asked to call the baltimore county police department at 410-307-46- 2020, or metro crimestoppers at 1-866-7-lock-up. >>> tributes continue to pour in tonight for senator ted kennedy. the last surviving brother of a political dynasty died at his home on cape cod after battling brain cancer. terry joins us now with reaction from local lawmakers. >> reporter: marybeth, president barack obama says an important chapter in the country's history has ended. many are hailing ted kennedy tonight as the greatest united states senator of our time. he is being remembered as a champion for the poor, senior citizens, and health care for all americans. and maryland senator barbara mikulski says senator kennedy was a fierce add for equality, who changed the world for the better. kennedy was 77 and served some 46 years. flags at the world trade center in downtown baltimore are at half-staff in memory of kennedy. >> making sure that this country is open to justice and equality for all people. he really

in east baltimore, jeff hager, abc2 news. >> by the way brown defended another man who allegedly tried to take the same officer's service weapon four years before this most recent incident. >>> a man charged with murdering a woman in a liquor store last november has been declared not criminally responsible. 23-year-old david briggs walked into the store and stabbed 24- year-old iesha in the neck. she died a short time later. the attack was random and briggs did not know his victim. he has been committed to the hospital in jessup. >>> the mayor of baltimore is charged with perjury and faces trial on november 9. it was scheduled for september but the delay was needed after prosecutors got a new indictment. this inclimate includes new evidence against -- indictment includes new evidence against dixon. her attorneys plan to file a new motion arguing that the state prosecutor has abused the grand jury process. >> we're going to get a little bit more discovery under the new charges and once we go through that, we expect we'll be filing a new motion at least with respect to the grand jury as

. >> jeff hager, abc 2 news. >>> the state is lobbying health insurance companies to cover the cost of the two-shot h1n1 vaccine for students, and the government will provide it free to those without coverage. and as four million college students move into dorms for the new school year, there is growing concern about possible youth outbreaks on college campuses as well. universities across the country are said to be stocking up on masks and hand sanitizers. we want your two cents do. you think maryland schools are ready to handle swine flu outbreak? log on and look on the right side of the home page to vote in the online pole. >>> the agent for tony fein says his client was profiled by police over the weekend. police say the 27-year-old linebacker was arrested on sunday evening after he allegedly assaulted a city police officer. security officers at the light street pavilion at harbor place say they thought fein passed a gun to a friend, but it turned out it was just a cell phone. when city police went to investigate that. >> say fein shoved the officer. fein's agent says he was profil

in randlestown, jeff hager, abc 2 news. >> kiera mckay graduated from randlestown high school in 2002 and had recently enrolled in classes to pursue a career in the medical field. >>> no criminal charges will be filed in the death of two teens struck by a light rail last month. conner peterson and kyle wankmiller were walking on the tracks when they were struck and killed by a train near the lutherville station. the incident was an accident. mike hill says the operator and other witnesses were interviewed. >> the detectives talked to the operator, talked to several witnesses, looked at the evidence that you all know of, the videotape from within and outside of this light rail train. and in that, you know, this driver said he didn't see them. >> hill does say the witness captured on tape that they wanted to talk to never came forward. >>> tonight police are looking for a driver who hit a baltimore city police officer and a woman. it happened just before midnight in southeast baltimore near east monument. we're told the officer only has minor injuries. however, the woman was dragged by

. >> reporter: in randallstown, jeff hager, abc 2 news. >> police are withholding the suspect's name, but they say she an 18-year-old baltimore man who is currently listed in serious condition at shock trauma. she expected to face charges, including manslaughter, reckless endangerment, and auto theft. >>> charges will not be filed in the deaths of two teenagers hit by a light rail train near lutherville last month. police say they finished their investigation, and they found no evidence that anything criminal happened. conner peterson and kyle wankmiller were walking on the tracks near the lutherville station when they were hit from behind. baltimore county police say they have no reason to believe the driver did anything wrong. >> you know, the driver said he didn't see them. there are some environmental issues that also took place in this investigation, such that detectives, you know, looked at -- the officers saw under the sunlight at that time of day, at that turn in the tracks and where those tracks were, exactly what the operator would have seen. >> police say they checked the c

abc 2 news jeff hager spoke with the alleged victim today. >> reporter: you can see him on his myspace page. but the teen behind the picture, anthony palmerino can usually be found perched on a school at a popular cyber cafe. when he walked out into the parking lot on sunday, someone was waiting for him. >> we were standing out there, and george comes out of nowhere. why did you try to delete mimi? i didn't touch his myspace. >> reporter: but someone did. he acknowledges someone deleted the friends on his myspace page adds a joke. but police say he didn't find the humor in it, only rage. >> he came right towards me and pulled out his knife. and i jumped back. i was really scared. >> reporter: the owners of the cyber cafe say they have an open door policy and indicater to students and professionals. they say this is an isolated incident. >> it's a community atmosphere. so many people visit us. however, as a community atmosphere, people tend to try to build that community up. >> reporter: but just as people you meet on the web may not be what they appear to be, the same may be true here.

and now as jeff hager reports, the city is once again looking for help from annapolis. >> reporter: vacationingbaltimore, the cox family narrowly missed the shooting at the light street pavilion saturday by a matter of minutes. >> we were down here until about 9:30

jeff hager, abc 2 news. >> police say once captured, the convicted thief will face new charges, including attempted first-degree murder, assault of a law enforcement officer, and escape. the deputy is in stable condition, undergoing tests at johns hopkins medical center. >>> now to the latest on the car crash involving olympic champion michael phelps. baltimore police say the other driver was at fault. they say a woman driving a honda ran a red light and crashed into phelps' cadillac escalade. it all happened at the intersection of biddle and calvert streets about 9:00 last night. phelps was not hurt, although the woman driving the other car was taken to the hospital as a precaution. police say alcohol was not a factor in that crash. >>> a former howard county postal clerk has pleaded guilty to a stamp theft scheme. prosecutors say it netted more than $600,000. many of those stolen stamps were sold online at discount prices. marvin foster of rosedale pleaded guilty in federal court for stealing the stamps between june of 2008 and march of this year. he faces up to five years in prison. se

so far as abc 2 news jeff hager reports, the suspect has focused on a single neighborhood in catonsville reporter: a flasher appears outside a bedroom window, and exposes himself to a woman inside. now a sketch of the man appears in the building's window at this complex on rambling oaks

at the inner harbor, jeff hager, abc 2 news. >> critics say most of the proposed legislation, get tough measures fail in annapolis and committees dominated by public defenders and defense attorneys. and harbor place issued this statement statement. the safety and well-being of our shoppers, retailers and employees remain our top concern at harbor place and the gallery. the center continues to work closely with the baltimore city police department, and constantly evaluates our safety procedures. >>> we want your two cents. what do you think needs to be changed to make the inner harbor safer? to share your comments log on to anson 2 news.com and look on the right side of our home page. >>> police are searching for suspects in a deadly shooting, or stabbing rather in college park. it did not involve students. it happened just before 4:00 this morning at a 7-eleven in the 8900 block of rhode island avenue. terry joins us with details on what happened. >> reporter: marybeth, police got a call about two men lying in a parking lot. they were flown to a nearby hospital, where one of them died.

tonight jeff hager spoke with the man's family, and has more on the whole ordeal, and how police endedhe standoff. >> reporter: police broke down the door, and tear gas canisters blew out the windows, as they pulled 3-year-old william doerfler out of his home and arrested a suspected armed robber, who has now been identified as cecil bailey. the victim's son learned of his father's fate after the barricade had cleared, surrounding his house on mary avenue. >> he was sitting out here feeding the birds, and somebody ran across here, picked him up, ran in his house, ran upstairs and put him in his bedroom. >> they didn't threaten his life? >> patiently they did. they just said stay in the room. i'll leave you alone, you leave me alone. >> reporter: the ordeal began when the men decided to rob this gas station on bel air road at gunpoint. but it proved to be a task more difficult than they ever imagined. in this exclusive video, you can a man brandishing a weapon, forcing the owner to the back of the store. meanwhile you see the other suspect dragging the cashier across the room, and repea

. >> reporter: in randallstown, jeff hager, abc 2 news. >> police are withholding the suspect's name, but they say she an 18-year-old baltimore man. at last word, he was in serious condition at shock trauma. it's expected he'll face charges, including manslaughter, reckless endangerment, and auto theft. >>> graphic and disturbing images to show you now. but images that police hope will help them catch whoever is responsible. this 8-month-old kitten named gabriel was found this week badly burned and beaten on garrison avenue. a witness says several kids threw bricks and rocks at the cat, and then set it on fire. the kitten was able to put out the flames by rolling around, but a witness says the kids lit her on fire again. the snyder foundation is also offering a $1,000 reward for anyone who comes forward with information that leads to the conviction of the people who did this. if you have any information, you're asked to call the barcs animal shelter at 410-396-4695. and that cat was found not too far from where officials are already investigating at least two other gruesome cases of a

. >> reporter: at the inner harbor, jeff hager, abc 2 news. >> and here is part of a statement sent out by harbor place. the safety and well-being of our shopper, retailers and employees remain our top concern at harbor place and the gallery. the center continues to work closely with the baltimore city police department, and constantly evaluate our safety procedures. >>> and coming up on abc 2 news at 6, we'll take a look at why some local leaders are tracing the violence at the inner hasher to a failure to get tough on gangs and guns in annapolis. and we want your two cents in your opinion. what needs to change to make the inner harbor safer there is always room for your two cents on abc2news.com. >>> one man is dead and another hospitalized after a stabbing in college park near the university of maryland campus. the incident did not involve students. it happened just before 4:00 this morning at a 7-eleven in the 8900 block of rhode island avenue. abc 2 news terry owens joins us with details. >> reporter: marybeth, when police arrived, they found two men lying in the parking lot, both