Wednesday, October 19, 2005

October 19

The Ink reports five murders this week, bringing the total to 214.

A 32-year-old man was shot three times in the chest in front of Woodington Market in Southwest Baltimore.

More on the shooting death of Kenneth Brian Kertesz. A source believes that the shooter, Michael Wayne Baxter, mistakenly believed his girlfriend was having an affair with the victim.

By now everybody knows about the Egyptian store owner and the thing about the tunnels. As of last night the FBI had found no evidence to corroborate the threat, though four people were arrested on immigration charges at businesses with Middle Eastern connections.

It's rare that the news makes one feel actually, physically queasy, but today's pervert roundup might just: A Cecil County middle school teacher has been arrested for "inappropriately touching" the thigh of an 11-year-old student. A 62-year-old Carroll County jail guard and the county's 2004 Correctional Officer of the Year was charged yesterday with sexually assaulting a minor. And a 20-year-old nursing home employee sexually attacked a 90-year-old resident.

Stolen cars, things stolen from cars and a pizza delivery guy robbed by a man named Eqhosa Ehigiamysoe in the blotter.

A doctor in Potomac, Pradeep Srivastava is accused of evading $16 million worth of taxes.

In the TDR Law Summary, insurance fraud, a federal civil rights inquiry into the Sept. 30 shooting of Dany W. Rosales, and Ehrlich's Zen koan: "If people don't feel safe, we don't have a state. We don't have a culture or society."

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

When I was a child, I thought I'd like to grow up to be well-read, with a diverse background and always open to new thoughts and exciting possibilities. In other words, a person of interest.

Little did I know that all you really needed to qualify was to be of Middle Eastern descent and living among some ignorant Americans.

Y'know, really, if the country's gonna get bombed, Baltimore's a pretty sensible place to start.