The man shot to death at Greenmount and 27th was a 50-year-old cab driver. The murder rate is now at 262.
The Ink is back, cataloguing the deaths of Rashard Thomas, 19; Talib Damon, 21; Timothy Ford Jr., 23; Damian Mitchell, 28; Brian Keith Jones, 18; Mohamed Abukar Barre, 26; Jonathan Coles, 23; Byron Lee Bell, 24; William Lowe, 43; and an unidentified person; but oddly, not Troy Marine or Raphael Grady.
Judge Charlotte M. Cooksey ordered Raymont Hopewell held without bail this morning following a bail review hearing. Hopewell was charged with three counts of first-degree murder on Tuesday. The court set a preliminary hearing date of January 19, 2006 in Wabash District Court. The Sun reports that Hopewell is also now charged with the September 2 rape of a 63-year-old woman. Amelia Tabron, an elderly survivor of an (alleged) attack by Hopewell recounts her struggle in the Sun.
What the?! According to this CP story, plainclothes police broke into David Scheper's house without a warrant, ate three pizzas, left the boxes, took $1,440 and some antique guns that they later used as props in an unrealted case, did $3,700 of damage and arrested him and his female roommate for discharging a gun when they mistook the detectives for home invaders.
A traffic stop at North Chester and Lafayette ended with a 33-year-old suspect shot in the jaw and arm.
Following the Supreme Court decision, charges were officially dropped against Leeander Blake.
Girl-on-girl carjacking action in Lothian.
In Parkville, police raided the Let's Play arcade and removed 20 poker machines.
The blotter is rife with theft.
In an Op-Ed in the Post from Sunday, former Governor Parris Glendening discusses the racial and geographic disparities of Maryland's death penalty, and calls Ehrlich's reinstating of executions "simply wrong."
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Not true -- four of the five elderly murder victims were written about in the Sun shortly after their deaths. None were in the blotter. The four had stories (some short) written about them. One victim, Sadie Mack, had a lengthy story written about her soon after her killing this year.
Really? I remember a Sadie Mack story, but when I searched the archives back to 1990 I didn't come up with a single result for any of the victims except the recent three stories. If you have any links, please post them.
It was Scheper's roomate, not his girlfriend. Guess coppers have nothing better to do then to bust in people's homes instead of busting drug dealers.
My bad, I shouldn't assume everybody who lives together is "involved." Though I do think they'd make a cute couple.
2 officers killed in randallstown. suspect has surrendered /sp?
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/crime/bal-officer1221,1,5117642.story?coll=bal-local-headlines
Guys, I posted a ... quite lengthy... response to Elliott's criticism. Sorry if I'm not sufficiently entertaining, but as you'll see, I'm just really fed up with Baltimore's tacit support of criminality. It's veiled in incompetence, but not even an imbecile could accidentally run a system of law enforcement this poorly. It's really about complicity. Foolish me, I was raised with a dislike of crime.
Oh, and I forgot to add, by way of solutions, if police are going to be evaluated based upon crime stats, I'd certainly take the precaution of not collecting those stats through the officers being evaluated, as we do. Falsification becomes endogenously emergent in that circumstance.
I love your lengthy rants, Galt. At least you care enough to rant. And I think we all can agree-- we need more officers on the streets, we need to enforce witness-intimidation laws like crazy, and of course, we need to keep violent offenders locked up. Apparently Hopewell has an arrest record as long as your arm.
BTW, the rant in question was posted on yesterday's Comments page.
Good ol' WJZ just reported at length on the double murder in Frederick Co. ... of sheep.
No sheep on this link farm.
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