A five-month-old Cecil County boy was murdered.
Sad: a hit-and-run driver hit and killed a child in a stroller.
Police have arrested a 15-year-old boy for allegedly stabbing his 17-year-old brother to death this morning in East Baltimore [249]. The 17-year-old stumbled out of the house, collapsed and died on the 1100 block of North Chester.
At arraignment today, Shanda R. Harris pled not guilty to reckless endangerment. Court documents allege that between July 1, 2005 and July 30, 2006 Harris allowed convicted child sex offender Melvin Jones access to her children after being notified that he was a registered child sex offender. The decomposed body of her 15-yar-old son, Irvin, was found July 31 in a wooded area at Clifton Park Golf Course after he'd been missing for three days. Shanda Harris remains held at the Baltimore Detention Center on $50,000 bail. A jury trial is scheduled for February 15, 2007 before Judge Allen L. Schwait.
The U.S. prison population has hit a record high, with 7 million people in jail or on probation or parole.
Samuel Pounds, 30, of the 2800 block of Sanafae Avenue, pled guilty today to one count of reckless endangerment. Judge Kaplan sentenced Pounds to 18 months in prison and three years of supervised probation, and ordered Pounds to complete a parenting, submit to drug and alcohol screening, complete an anger management course and to stay away from the victim and the victim's family. On October 27, 2006 a co-defendant in this case, Tia Whitehead, pled guilty to one count of reckless endangerment. The court set a sentencing date of December 27. Reckless endangerment carries a maximum prison term of five years. On June 16 Pounds chained a 15-year-old-girl to a bed in an upstairs bedroom at a house in the 3200 block of Beehler Avenue. The girl was not discovered until three days later.
A double shooting on the 3000 block of White Avenue and Harford Road, a shooting on the 1000 block of West Lanvale, a shooting on the first block of South Conkling; no one was killed. Also a murder arrest, a boy shot with a paintball gun and lots of robbery.
Can I get a witness? With only two people working the relocation program, and many witnesses refusing protection or to stay out of their old neighborhoods, knocking off witnesses can be remarkably easy.
A fourth teen was arrested for stabbing Paul Jones. A fifth suspect, 16-year-old Antoine Martin, is still at large.
A 16-year-old Glen Burnie boy was stabbed in a fight over a cell phone.
Michael Sapko of Arbutus pled guilty to possession of 86 images of sadistic child porn.
A police-involved auto accident on Fulton and Pratt last night.
Sun: criminals are becoming more forensic-science saavy.
20 comments:
hey how'd the norris show go? i'm an idiot and forgot to get up in time to listen. :(
I really doubt that parenting or anger management courses will make Samuel Pounds any less terrible a person or father. What they ought to do is forcibly sterilize him so that he can never father any more children.
John Gaumer should have spent a little less time watching stupid shows like CSI and a little more time reading the local news. Then he would've known that if he'd murdered that poor woman in Baltimore City instead of in the county he'd probably be looking at some half-assed sentence that would leave him eligible for parole in a few years. Thank you Patricia Jessamy.
Fine, I think... but I can't hear myself so I don't actually know... It seemed like we didn't have much time to really get into everything, it was like two minutes per topic. One of my friends said i let the dudes interrupt me too much.
Gaumer certainly wouldn't have to fear the death penalty in the city.
well what kind of stuff did you talk about?
Death penalty? You mean the unlikely one applied to murderers or the de facto one applied on the streets to residents?
Since when do classes of any sort mitigate violent crime? This is more of the Mel Gibson/Michael Richards nonsense: "I'm not responsible because I'm going to get needed counseling."
also, when they say "33-hundred block of Chester Street" do you think they mean 300 n. chester or 300 s. chester? stupid associated press.
FYI, the police department has made absolutely no progress in hiring officers since this article appeared.
I wonder why the crime has not decreased?????????
Fire Police Commissioner Lenny Hamm, Mayor Dixon, and begin the journey to a half-decent quality of life in the Other Baltimore.
The bit about anger management classes reminds me of something I heard about a year ago. Someone was interviewing Singapore's executioner and he said something like "capital punishment is complete rehabilitation." That is an attitude I admire :)
oh wow, they meant 1100 block! how did they get so far off?
where'd you hear that?
Wuts up ya'll, I'm a random blogger from Oakland, CA who yes just got hooked onto The Wire. I was jumpin around different articles/websites about the show and came across this one. Great blog by the way. The record prison number is nuts, yet totally understandable with our country's criminalization of drugs.
Yall probably have been asked this question before, but does Wire stay true to Baltimore? or does it have an alienating effect? I've read that the writers are pretty down to earth guys, who seem to know what their writing about even tho their white. Do you the feel the show is postive or negative for your city?
I know from some of my experiences growing up and living Oakland, they are very spookily similar to the show. As another recovering industrial city, Oaktown faces the same problems as Baltimore and any other recovering major American city. The rampent murders, gangs, drugs, extremely shitty public schools, hack politicians with no guts to actually get shit done, etc. Yet vibrant music and art scenes with a growing number of young yuppies buying up property. Cept Baltimore has two amazing sports stadiums, and a football team that comes to play, unlike the Raiders these days.
Keep up the great work on the blog. Thanks for your time...
Hi drummer,
I lived in Oakland for the three years I went to Mills. Go Cyclones! A white-girl preserve surrounded by razor wire (ThanksGawd).
The Wire errs on the positive about the city; if it was the truth it would be unwatchable.
Oakland has wonderful weather, perfect proximity (Berkeley, SF) ... you don't know from rampant murders. Sip some Peet's Major Dickanson and spill some on the ground for your homies out East!
About those stadiums. The government paid for them to distract people from the fact that the schools were underfunded and poorly managed (by a city state partnership that neither side takes responsibility for).
The Wire has many fantastic characters (as in, from a fantasy). Some of the plot twists also could not happen, (like the defacto decriminalization of drugs).
However, Simon and Burns know the police culture and the street culture in this town so well that they can paint a very realistic context before they invent some unbelievable characters or situations. In other words, the background is so convincing that they suspend the viewers' disbelief.
I thought the whole "free zone" drug thing DID happen, back in the Shmoke era. It's not true?
No, after being elected in 1988 mayor Kurt Schmoke "proposed easing many drug laws and repealing others--in part to undercut the black market, in part to focus resources on reducing demand."
He built these ideas as a lead prosecuter in Baltimore City, but was outranked by national drug czar William Bennet.
The rogue police commissioner decriminalizing drugs was an invention of The Wire, but the concept was based on the actual political context of Baltimore in the late 1980s and early 1990s. "Schmoke." himself played the part of a health commisioner advocating that the "Free Zone" be adopted as policy.
But that is what I mean by suspended disbelief. The series is so grounded in Baltimore police and street culture that the inventions of the show seem so realistic.
If we wanted to accustom Marines to urban warfare in a hostile environment before sending them to Fallujah, we could have sent them first to good ol' Baltimore. We never legalized drugs here. Just murder. We're going to end the year with three times the number of murders in Oakland.
We have over 50 times the incarcerated population per capita of the nation as a whole and we need more jail cells. Our teenagers cannot handle fractions, but they sure understand what percentage comes off a sentence for 'good' behavior.
We have nearly as many murders each year under 20 years old as Oakland has in total for all age groups. And they're on the rise.
If you're a fan of The Wire I'd recommend that you read David Simon's "Homicide," which he wrote about his experience covering the BPD homicide unit in the 1980s. A lot of what you see in The Wire is based on stuff that Simon saw during his time as a reporter.
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