Jury selection in the Adan Canela and Policarpio Espinoza case is complete. At 12:35pm the court swore in a 12-person panel, plus six alternates. Opening statements began at 2:15 p.m. today in room 234 Courthouse East. Testimony will begin 9:30 a.m. Monday, July 3.
D'oh! The holding company of Baltimore County Savings Bank lost $6.9 million(!) to a check-kiting scheme.
A Coast Guard inspection in Baltimore revealed that ship operator PCM used a 'magic pipe' to take a big oily dump in the bay. Rear Admiral Bone seeks punishment.
The assault, deadly weapon, escape, and false imprisonment trial of loco hombre Rodney Bethea, 21, is scheduled for 1:30 Monday afternoon at Hargrove District Court, courtroom 5. Court documents allege that on April 13 Bethea, while being interviewed by police at the Northeast District Police Station following a CDS arrest, struck an officer in the head with a halogen light bulb and ran from the interview room and into a civilian employee's office, holding that employee against her will. Bethea remains held without bail.
Burmese refugee Tialhei Zathang (left, LA Times) got 25 years for stabbing hs wife in front of their two children. He's now a man without a country.WBAL has more on the Oakenshawe home invasion. Do you know a 20-something black man with tattoos on each wrist?
A home invasion in Woodlawn, and a lot of muggings, armed robbery and theft in what's now the Tyrone special.
A Bethesda woman, Ellen Violet Griever, has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of her newborn.
UB Law School students are helping young truants get to class.
ps. don't forget to wear bug spray and dump out your garbage juice ... the mosquitoes are off the hizzy out there!
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well, shoot. no open windows or fresh air for me this summer.
That's right. Lock your doors, lock your windows, lock your car doors, keep your car windows rolled up, don't leave anything on your car seat or on your porch or in your yard or visible from your yard inside the house, install cameras in your birdhouses, don't talk to strangers, don't answer the door, check the sex offender registry daily, shred all of your mail after you read it, walk to your car with your keys between your fingers in case you need to gouge someone's eyes out, wear heels in case you need to stomp on toes...
cybes,
Welcome to my world. In every other city I've lived in, the criminal behavior was the exception. Here, it's the rule.
It feels like I'm living inside Central Booking, 'cuz everyone around here is a hoodlum.
Seriously, if you parachuted anywhere near this number of hoods into the middle of any decent city, they'd call out the national guard. I consider Baltimore an emergency zone.
I encourage the Governor's office to make the declaration.
Cy, I know, or at least hope, you're tongue in cheek. Galt, if you're serious that's just sad.
Rodya,
Let me guess,... you don't live in the 'hood, do you?
Have you been stabbed in your own doorway and waited while you bled for an hour for the police to even respond?
How many gunshots/robberies/break-ins have there been on your block in the last 90 days? 15 where I am.
Yeah, I'm darn serious. I don't guess you know what it's like to be in the middle of the war zone. All the time. It's quite different from the experience from just passing through.
Baltimore City government abets unlawful conduct. The State of Maryland needs to restore the rule of law here in the same way that the courts have had to order the schools and the housing authority to abide by state & federal law.
Basically, Baltimore municipal government is an expression of local disregard for the basic rights enjoyed by the residents of the nondisastrous counties of Maryland. It is charged with upholding those rights here and it doesn't wish to be held responsible for its poor choices.
So, I get to live in a third-world country, just like Detroiters.
"Have you been stabbed in your own doorway and waited while you bled for an hour for the police to even respond?
How many gunshots/robberies/break-ins have there been on your block in the last 90 days? 15 where I am."
Given this, why do you still live there?
Um, because I'm entitled to live where I choose, free of theft and violence. It's a right, not a privilege.
Under Maryland law, these acts are unlawful. Under Baltimore law, the police department is affirmatively charged with detecting and preventing the commission of crimes, among other things. If they choose not to do so, they are remiss and should be compelled by the state to obey PLL 16-2.
Now, if Baltimore City government comes to the conclusion that it hasn't adequate resources to comply in particular areas, that's fine. Delineate and declare them to be an emergency zone, and let the Governor take over. Return the authority for policing to someone competent to discharge his responsibilities thereunder.
Now, I fully understand that probabilistically, the likelihood of a crime occuring without the intercession of an officer is not zero. But in my area, it's more like 90%.
Please understand, when you ask "why not move?", it's essentially the same as conceding the city to the criminals. Because Mr. O'Malley hasn't the guts to wage the war, it falls upon the State of Maryland to do so. In the end, I will take up arms personally before I'll be run off my land.
Baltimore is a third-world municipality, and the legitimacy of third-world governments devolves upon their citizens when they fail on the most basic services, those involving basic law & order.
Baltimore, in particular, lost its claim to legitimacy many years ago. The only reason City Hall hasn't been burned down is that so many here are in on the take.
Baltimore: Get Over On It.
Here's a perfect example: why are UB Law volunteers serving as truant advisors?
There used to be something called a truant officer, whose job it was to do this.
Along the same line of thought, why is it that is I want the school to be ready for kids in the Fall, I have to go volunteer to paint it. Where's the building super?
I know it's not the case that the school system has no staff, because the payroll is positively bloated.
What's wrong with public employees being required to do the damn job or be canned forthwith?
Galt, thanks! No, you're right, I don't live in a war zone, I haven't been stabbed, robbed, broken into, all of that since I've lived in Baltimore. I consider myself blessed? lucky?
I'm not really sure what I meant by sad other than that it's a painful way to live, always having to worry about those possibilities/realities. And you have every right to live where you like. And for as long as you like, no doubt. It's sad that it is that way for some people. And you probably don't have it as bad off as some people. You've got a computer and a phone line (unless you're fortunate enough to be able to pay for cable!) and you seem to be well educated (I know you don't like to throw your doctorate around, but let's be honest, you got one). Maybe painting the school would be a good example of belonging to a community and caring for it rather than locking yourself inside and hiding from it. But I'm just speckulatin', I don't live in your neighborhood (or even know about how many breakins/shootings there have been in my neighborhood within the past week. It didn't even occur to me to check into it much, probably because I haven't had the experience of being stabbed in my front doorway for probably no good reason) and you're right, I don't think I live in a war zone. And I'd never think about encouraging you to move unless living there was somehow ruining your life or driving you to decide to take up arms against your neighbors. . .
Somehow the grind emerges when one believes the City is or could be a pleasant place since the city is fully able to be (there is a rather disturbing structural decay that indicates it once was) but yet it isn't when one walks out of the house after dark or in the areas which aren't titled "Better Waverly." That's odd. That's confusing. Pretend it's safe or pretend it's a war zone. It is hard to sort out the rotters (unless they do such awful things it's easy to see them). So 'throwing back the lemons' and advice like 'there's them that's got to go' and presumably them's that got to stay, just doesn't work here (until after the fact, which amounts to civil erosion for everyone.)
What's a person to do? A PhD never hurt anyone I think but, hey, there are plenty of ordinary people getting kicked around unnecessarily in Balto. Why should they be burdened with checking death stats to know when it's safe to go out? or checking their birdhouses - I like that, thanks NYT.
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