Argument Outside Bar Ends in Shooting Threat, Arrests: Police

GLEN BURNIE, MD — A couple from Pennsylvania faces weapons charges after reportedly threatening to kill customers outside a Glen Burnie bar during an argument, police say.

The scuffle was reported about 1:20 a.m. Monday in the parking lot at Sidelines Bar, 105 Chesapeake Center Court in Glen Burnie, according to Anne Arundel County Police.

Witnesses and victims said an intoxicated person fell onto the couple’s vehicle, which started an argument. During the exchange, Michael Blair Ceresa, 27, reportedly took a pistol from the passenger compartment of the vehicle, pointed it at several people and threatened to kill them.

Ceresa, of the 200 block of Erie Avenue in Glassport, PA, and his companion, Alayna Eve Rhodes, 24, from the 200 block of North Monongahela Avenue in Glassport PA, then drove away, police say.

Witnesses gave officers a description of the alleged assailants and their vehicle. An officer saw the vehicle driving onto the lot of the Extended Stay Hotel, where the couple’s vehicle was stopped.

When police searched the vehicle they found a Ruger 9mm pistol in the passenger compartment with a full magazine for the pistol, along with a loaded Glock .40 caliber pistol in the trunk of the vehicle.

Both suspects were arrested and transported to Northern District.

Ceresa was charged with: first-degree assault, handgun in vehicle, handgun on person, handgun in use of felony, disorderly conduct, and reckless endangerment.

Rhodes was charged with handgun in vehicle and disorderly conduct.

The bar's owner said the people involved in the fracas had no contact inside the business and Sidelines had no involvement in the incident.

»Photos of suspects Michael Ceresa, left, and Alayna Rhodes, courtesy of Anne Arundel County Police