A body (193?) has been found near the railroad tracks around Wabash and West Belvedere Avenue in Northwest Baltimore.
The Baltimore City Grand Jury indicted Davon Pearson, 19, for first-degree murder and conspiracy to murder. Court documents allege that on August 3, 2006, Howard Tavon Jones was found with a fatal gunshot wound to the head and Pearson was identified as the person seen in the area at the time gunshots were heard. An arraignment is scheduled for September 29.
WJ's story of William Langley, 49, sentenced to life in prison plus 20 years, consecutive for murder and a handgun count. A Baltimore City jury convicted Langley June 2, 2006 of first-degree murder and use of a handgun in the commission of a crime of violence for the killing of Korean immigrant Nae Chun Pak, 46 at Cherry Hill Friedchicken Carry-out NFish. Langley had been out of jail for less than a year and had served time for murder.
Wicomico County is seeking to protect itself from adults and the activities certain peep-show-like rooms induce them to engage in which are unlawful (nudge, nudge), as Dewey Beach deals with a 17-year-old compulsive flasher.
Harassment and threats at the courthouse, and that's just in the Clerk's office. [sub. required]
"Nine of the 10 employees of the [Baltimore city circuit court] jury division signed grievances against [Jury Commissioner Nancy Dennis and her lead worker, Cheryl Reese] in June and requested a transfer. Last month, jury division employees staged a lunch-hour walkout along with union members.
The jury division employees allege that Reese set unrealistic expectations with respect to their workload and engaged in verbal harassment.
Dennis, the employees allege, is often absent from the office and has changed the policy with respect to jurors who fail to appear for jury duty so that the employees were asked to handle an additional 400 to 500 calls a day.
Reached by telephone last week, Dennis declined to comment on the allegations.
Jury division employees said last week that they welcomed Reese's transfer."
A family beating in Crofton, some toughs in a cab and tossed dresser drawers in the Annapolis Police Beat.
Baltimore police officer Quandra Johnson allegedly committed credit card fraud, had goods shipped to the Western, named several other officers as accomplices.
Anna Ditkoff: 76 of 2006's homicides have been closed.
Lots of armed robbery in the blotter.
Julie Bykowicz on the city's littlest murder witnesses.
The city's best-armed preteens are at Thurgood Marshall Middle.
In AAC, Jose Amaya pled guilty to stabbing Angela Holland.
A dead woman was found in Carroll County.
Best. Web find. Ever. From 8-12 p.m., mdscanner.com streams various local police and fire frequencies!
Why we love this town: Apparently Comptroller W. D. Schaefer's bizarre "old-fashioned hair makes the man" remarks were not an off-the-cuff thing! He was quoted as saying something nearly identical (yet nonsensical in a different way) to Post columnist Marc Fisher!
Is he
1. genuinely senile
2. having a big joke on everyone
3. commenting on the gender wage gap?
Whatever-- if Janet was my client I'd have her in a granny gown with a team of trannies serving up dog treats at the ASPCA this minute!
...speaking of the elderly and elections, AARP will be hosting an O'Malley/ Ehrlich debate Setpember 14 at 10 a.m. at the Greenspring Avenue Holiday Inn.
Even the Sun get confused sometimes.
Int'l:
In Japan, Amaterasu Omikami Imperial line assured (for now) with birth of Chrysanthemum prince.
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The city of Boston has recorded about 50 murders for the year-to-date as of this writing, we have maybe 191.
The District of Columbia has fewer murders and is in a state of crime emergency because of them. When will our politicians be called to the carpet for our outrageous level of violence? And no, I don't care how bad it was ten years ago. Remember, that was nationwide. There is no excuse for the level of crime here.
Y'know, ordinarily the Police Commissioner has more knowledge of how to go about crime control than the civilian readers of a frickin' blog.
Baltimore - 'Get In On It.'
Galtimore - Snit In On It!
I'm picturing Galtimore City in my mind (crowded lil' place that my mind is). A pillory at every major intersection. Community service workers sweep the broken glass and crack vials accumulated over the years from the sidewalks. Oh, and when broken windows and grafitti'd walls are repaired, they stay that way. Nary a murder has been committed in a public place for years because... the hoodlums were already arrested for lower level part I offenses and sentenced to jail terms. And witnesses feel comfortable going to court for the same reason: most of the bad guys are in a place where they cannot hurt us. Oh, and judges live in the neighborhoods where their sentencees hail from, so they behave as you or I would. Police officers are relatively well thought of and have been fixtures in the communities they serve for many years, occupying the role of neighbor as well as public servant. Galtimore's finest.
Siggghhhhhhhhhhhh.......
We should totally bring back the pillory.
Are 'long guns' a phallic symbol or what? Seems to me most of those rifles used in crimes are owned by people who do not really care what the General Assembly tells them is legal. Or the police. Or the courts.
The way to start gun control is for parole officers to raid homes and violate felons for possession of firearms, including the 'mobile' ones that are frequently handed off among members of a posse. Start with the worst gun-owners first. Then look at how dangerous the residual weapons are.
Just a link fix: The "best-armed middle schoolers" story links to the story about the city police department's resident identity thief.
A tough day for the Po-Po in the Examiner:
Letters to the Editor
Editorial
It's nice that someone in the local media thinks there's a story here.
i like how all the news sources keep calling him william langley "of parkville," when a google maps search that takes two seconds reveals that pickering drive is located entirely within the city limits.
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