County police used a DNA sample to connect a man with July a hit-and-run crash that injured a bicyclist in Glen Burnie.
The wreck occurred July 14 in the northbound lane of Crain Highway near Georgia Avenue when a car hit the 41-year-old bicyclist from the rear.
The bicyclist was rushed by ambulance to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore with serious injuries.
The car, described at the time as a small gray Chevrolet or a Saturn, left the scene with damage to its right front and windshield.
The driver was described as a white man with a beard, wearing a ball cap and wire-rimmed glasses.
Four days later, police were called to the Walmart parking lot on George Clauss Boulevard in Severn to check on an occupant of a Chevrolet Cobalt. Police said the car matched the description of the vehicle from the hit-and-run incident.
The car was towed and a search warrant was executed that found a ball cap and wire-rimmed glasses in the car. DNA evidence also was taken from the exterior of the car.
On Dec. 29, police learned the DNA evidence from the car matched DNA from the bicyclist.
On Wednesday, police arrested the car's owner, John Corelli, 57, of Brookmont Drive in Baltimore.
He was charged with leaving the scene of an accident causing serious injury, not returning to the scene of an accident and other charges, police said.
GAMBRILLS
Driver killed
County police have identified the driver fatally injured Tuesday in a head-on crash on Route 3.
Angela Biggins, 35, of Gaithersburg, was traveling in the wrong direction at 8:30 p.m. when her Toyota Corolla struck a Mercedes driven by Garrett Rosario Grill, 18, of Crofton.
Grill's car ended up in a ditch, but he was not injured.
Biggins is the first traffic fatality in the county this year.
The crash remains under investigation.
Linthicum
Bomb squad called
A portion of Nursery Road in Linthicum was closed Friday morning after a bomb squad was called to investigate a suspicious device.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives was serving a state search warrant with county and Baltimore City police in the 800 block of Nursery Road when officers discovered a device with "suspicious wires," ATF special agent Dave Cheplak said. The group was participating in a firearms investigation and there was concern that the device could be an explosive, he said.
The device turned out to be harmless, Cheplak said. The scene was cleared within 90 minutes and nobody was arrested.
Search warrants were served at several other locations at the same time as part of the ongoing investigation, he said.
MILLERSVILLE
Shooting probed
An unidentified man called police claiming he had been shot just before 3 a.m. Wednesday morning off Veterans Highway, police said.
The 26-year-old man told police he had been shot earlier near the intersection of Harpers Mill Road and Veterans Highway. He drove to Crucible Court nearby and called 911.
Firefighters arrived and treated him for a "penetrating wound" to the upper torso and transported him to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore with serious injuries.
Police believe the injury was not life threatening.
Both police and fire official were vague in their description of the case as the scenario described by the victim remains under investigation.
GLEN BURNIE
Stabbed, robbed
A man was stabbed and robbed while walking along Crain Highway early Wednesday morning, county police said.
The victim, 42, told police he was walking in the 500 block of Crain Highway when a man approached him asking if he wanted to buy drugs.
A struggle ensued and a second suspect joined the fracas. Both suspects assaulted the victim, who sustained a minor stab wound to his leg, police said.
The suspects stole money from the victim and fled the scene.
The victim was taken to Baltimore Washington Medical Center in Glen Burnie for treatment.
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