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Baltimore County; South Baltimore; Ocean City; Teacher accused of having sex with student; Man pleads guilty to stomping puppies to death; Hurricane Jose might bring dangerous surf

Capital - 9/16/2017

Baltimore County

Teacher accused of having sex with student

A Baltimore County high school teacher has been arrested and charged with having sex with an underage student in his classroom and at Liberty Reservoir during the spring, police said.

Scott Martin Nawrozki, 54, a resident of Fallston, was charged with sexual abuse of a minor, second-degree custodial child abuse, fourth-degree sex offense by a person of authority, and fourth-degree sex offense vaginal intercourse by a person of authority. Online court records did not list his attorney.

Police said the student disclosed her sexual activity with the teacher at Milford Mill Academy high school. She allegedly told police that several sexual encounters occurred on and off of school property in May and June, including during a free period in the teacher's classroom and around Liberty Reservoir. She also said they sent nude photographs to each other, police said.

Nawrozki was being held at the Baltimore County Detention Center. Anyone with information is asked to call police, 410-853-3650.

South Baltimore

Man pleads guilty to stomping puppies to death

A 22-year-old man from Odenton faces as much as six years in prison after pleading guilty Wednesday to stomping puppies to death in front of young children, prosecutors said. Donald Yearwood pleaded guilty to felony animal cruelty charges over a violent eruption on the evening of Nov. 9, 2016.

He was sleeping in the basement of a home in the Brooklyn neighborhood of South Baltimore and awakened by yelping puppies upstairs. Several children were playing with four puppies, which were just a few weeks old. Upset that he couldn't sleep, Yearwood took the box of puppies, dumped them on the floor and stomped on their heads, prosecutors said, then threw the puppies down the basement stairs. The children ran screaming from the house.

Witnesses said Yearwood left with the puppies from the back of the house in the 3700 block of 10th St., prosecutors said. Two hours later, a woman called police to say her children found a box of puppies in a dumpster at Benjamin Franklin High School in South Baltimore.

Yearwood was charged with 24 counts of animal cruelty and mutilation. He is scheduled for sentencing Oct. 19.

Ocean City

Hurricane Jose might bring dangerous surf

Hurricane Jose was expected to strengthen over the weekend, bringing potentially dangerous surf and rip current conditions from North Carolina to New England by early next week, the National Weather Service said Friday afternoon.

The center of the storm, which had sustained winds of 75 mph on Friday, was forecast to remain well east of the U.S. coast, although tropical storm-force winds could approach the Outer Banks on Monday, the weather service said. The chance of direct impacts father north was increasing, but it is too soon to know the magnitude or location, forecasters said.

Luis Rosa, a forecaster with the weather service's Baltimore-Washington office, said Jose was expected to pass Ocean City early Tuesday afternoon, but its center would be more than 200 miles offshore.