Shots Fired At Pasadena Home: Police Report

PASADENA, MD — A man fired shots at a Pasadena home on Saturday afternoon, police say. The Anne Arundel County Police Department arrested the accused man, John Andrew Cardinali, on gun charges.

Neighbors called police to the unit block of Johnson Road around 2:30 p.m. after hearing gunshots. Witnesses helped police identify the home that the shots came from.

Police say somebody inside that home fired a gun into the ground to demonstrate the firearm. Nobody was hurt. Officers seized the gun, a HEC .357 pistol, and arrested Cardinali.

Cardinali, 53, is charged with having a handgun on him, carrying a loaded firearm, possessing a gun in his vehicle, toting a loaded handgun in his vehicle, firing a gun in a home and committing an act of reckless endangerment. None of the six charges are felonies.

Cardinali was released on recognizance. His case does not yet have a listed trial date.

A police report says Cardinali is from Greensboro, a small town in Caroline County. Court documents list his address in the unit block of Johnson Road in Pasadena.

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