Thursday, March 30, 2006

March 30

28-year-old Baltimore City police officer Dante Hemingway was shot in South Baltimore's Westport neighborhood while working undercover. A "person of interest" was hit in the leg, and another suspect is being sought.

After two corrections officers were stabbed at Jessup, Ehrlich is holding a "prison safety summit" to address violence in Maryland prisons.

Almost missed this:
Julie B. of the Sun covering the Jeff Raymond/Matt Stoffel story. I'm with you, Nancy Kelly: "the state's attorney is not the victims attorney ... It's a crime, not an accident ... whether it's a stranger or your best friend, when you kill someone, you need to be held accountable." Barf: "I wish we could be 5-0 for Matt."

18-year-old Martin Michael Morgan was was sentenced to life plus 29 years for murdering Wade Walker at a Northwest Baltimore takeout restaurant.

William Muldrow, 61, got 19 1/2 years for running an OxyContin ring.

Three entrepreneurial college students from Indiana were much luckier. After being stopped in AA County with 103 boxes of cold and allergy meds (which they were planning to take home and resell to meth manufacturers), they were released because Maryland doesn't have any laws preventing bulk purchases of psuedoephedrine products. A federal law will go into effect next week.

A 30-something black guy with a tattoo on his neck has robbed two Dundalk Royal Farmses.

Thomas C. Springer was indicted for a year-long bank robbery spree.

Pasadena girl: nobody touched the hoo-ha after all.

A Dundalk father-and-son pair, both named Odell Edward Phipps, pleaded guilty to sexually abusing three girls between 1973 and 1997.

Anonymous source: in the Amanda Johnson case, she wanted to plea and the state "can't force someone to not plea. The state initially asked for eight years. Then asked for five years. The judge came up with five years suspend all but 90 days. The State objected to the sentence, not the plea."

Teenager Tyler Bauer is suing the Frederick TGI Friday's for "200-thousand" for letting her drink illegally, which led to her to falling on her face in the parking lot.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

So, in the very first test case, Judge Glynn gutted the witness intimidation law. Great! Whatta judiciary.

taotechuck said...

That dastardly RoFo robbin' hood also reportedly hit a convenience store in the city. Wonder if this was the Porn 'n' Pabst Palace that Jay was asking about a few days ago?

Maurice Bradbury said...

I'm really surprised about Glynn and shocked by that sentence-- I would expect, especially because he's the Big Guy down there, he would want to set an example, especially with the first intimidation case, especially because it was a white girl. This was a chance to say, if you intimidate witnesses, be you a drug dealer or somebody's psycho white-trash girlfriend, we will take it seriously. But since it's all case-by-case and I wasn't there, there's no way to know what happened for sure, I guess. Maybe she's a single mom to a nest of foster children or something.

Those RoFos get robbed constantly-- if that was your chain, BTW, wouldn't you position your security cameras so they could actually take a picture of someone's face, as opposed to the top of their hat? Toss some dye pellets in the money bag?

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