Tuesday, April 4, 2006

April 4

The second suspect in the shooting of undercover cop Dante Hemingway is not 17, nor is she named Brittaney, Britney or Brittany Johnson: she's 20-year-old Sherray Douglas, and why she had the detectives {sic} personal cell phone number is a mystery.

As diversity dwindles among the ranks of police, some wonder if a shackled, stuffed Abu (the Disney® monkey) is some kind of statement. (Like maybe "... they cut off your ear if they don't like your face/It's barbaric, but, hey, it's home!")

Judge Nathan Braverman granted Vickie Mengel's motion to modify her sentence and granted her a Probation before Judgment. There are no new terms or conditions. The southwestern district police officer was convicted February 14 of illegal gambling and fined $150 for her involvement in a November poker game in Northeast Baltimore.

Yesterday's murder victim was identified as 23-year-old Victor Richards. And there's plenty of other violence in the blotter.

Wayne Bond, the 18-year-old killer of Derald Guess, will be sentenced June 2.

Ronnie "Skinny Suge" Thomas was arrested for assault and robbery.

Cars are being stolen left and right in the Northern.

A man in a Salisbury Denny's got glued to a toilet seat.
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Nine residents of Baltimore and Hagerstown were indicted on federal cocaine-dealing-related charges.

A Cecil County cop is in hot water after swiping some knockoff designer handbags from the evidence room.

MTA bus driver Francisco Rivera, convicted of felony theft for selling black-market bus passes, will go to jail for two years.

Baltimore County police found a sweatshirt they believe belonged to the rapist of the 90-year-old woman.

The Examiner arrives tomorrow; it announced itself Saturday by indecorously littering thousands of lawns with advertisements, which may soon be illegal (wait, isn't it already an ordinance?) Anyway, the Examiner will target rich people who don't like to read, as well as the Sun's advertisers by selling space at a discount. The competition is more bad news for the Sun, which has been struggling to integrate its Internet presence with print operations.

My connection is back!

7 comments:

Emptyman said...

The Sun is run by rich people who don't like to read, making Sun management the Examiner's prime audience.

Remember when the local newspaper wasn't a laughingstock? When it consisted of something other than sports, wire copy, and syndicated pap from the Mother Ship?

Maurice Bradbury said...

Hmm, no, that was before my time.
have you heard the Sun ads where they say they have "350 local reporters"? Which is worse: if it's a lie or if it's true?
I wonder about the Examiner. Dropping six papers a week on people's lawns no matter if they want them or not sounds seriously annoying.

Anonymous said...

Laughingstock paper for a laughingstock town, no ?


Baltimore isw highly regarded for what it could be; it is denigrated, however, and rightly so, for what its leaders persistently ensure that it will be... nothing.

Anonymous said...

Interesting story about police intimidation of a south Florida reporter...

http://cbs4.com/local/local_story_086232143.html

Maurice Bradbury said...

Wow, that Florida story is terrifying. It's easy to forget sometimes the terrifying amount of power police have-- power to kill you or make your life hell.

Anonymous said...

I'm glad I live in Howard County where police corruption is dealt with at the early stages...

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/howard/bal-ho.internal05apr05,0,5583517.story?coll=bal-local-howard

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