An unearthly coincidence put Mason Carter behind bars last fall. Last month, a second one set him free. Carter, 17, of Street, was arrested Oct. 26 after police claimed he broke into a Fawn Grove, Pa. home six days earlier, shot a man, terrorized his wife, and stole their car before fleeing into Harford County. […]
UPDATE: Motorcyclist Killed Following Collision with Dump Truck in Fallston
A 24-year-old Bel Air man was killed Tuesday morning after his motorcycle collided with a Harford County work vehicle on Harford Road, police said, one day after the formation of a local law enforcement agency task force aimed at curbing severe traffic crashes. Samuel Agostini, 24, of the 300 block of Locust Lane in Bel […]
Police Report Indicates Boniface Son Returning Home at Time of Fatal Crash
Harford County Sheriff’s Office investigators on Tuesday shed additional light on the accident which claimed the life of County Council President Boniface’s son a day earlier, indicating that the crash on the family’s Darlington farm may have occurred in the early morning hours as the youth was returning to his home. Benjamin Boniface, 20, was […]
UPDATED: Son of Harford County Council President Boniface Killed in Early Monday Morning Farm Accident
The son of Harford County Council President Billy Boniface was killed while driving a family pick-up truck at their Darlington farm early Monday morning, police said. Benjamin Boniface, 20, was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash, reported at approximately 4:50 a.m. on a private road on the Boniface’s Bonita farm, according to Harford […]
Harford County Sheriff’s Office Citizens Police Academy, Week 15: Firearms Training System and Graduation
The weight of the Glock 9mm feeling strange in my hand, my partner and I step out of our patrol car. The call came in for an individual lying on the cement in an aqueduct near a busy overpass. A pair of tunnels under the road stretching away to the right, we approach the prone […]
Harford County Sheriff’s Office Citizen’s Police Academy Week 14: Youth Services Division, Self-Protection Strategies
There has never been a school shooting in Harford County—but in the last 10 years, there may have been at least one close call. Speaking before the Harford County Sheriff’s Office Citizens Police Academy Tuesday night, DFC Khalid Mitchell related a story which occurred years ago at C. Milton Wright High School. Mitchell has been […]
Gahler Announces Candidacy, Claims GOP Frontrunner Status in 2014 Sheriff Election
Four days after retiring from the Maryland State Police, Jeff Gahler has staked out a new job for himself: frontrunner. Gahler announced his candidacy in an e-mailed letter just before midnight Tuesday, saying he hoped to revive what he called “a true grass roots effort,” one which fell 3,086 votes short of unseating incumbent Democrat […]
Harford County Citizens Police Academy, Week 12: Traffic Unit, Special Response Team
Driving along Route 1 on his way to the liquor store, the man realized he’d missed the turn into the parking lot. So, already heavily intoxicated, he did what seemed logical: he stopped in the middle of the road and threw his car into reverse, heading back to the store, located not far from the […]
