Wednesday, June 11, 2008

June 11

CP's Edward Ericson Jr.: Jose Morales has served very little time in the hoosegow in spite of being arrested more than 30 times, convicted of five felonies and facing accusations of theft, domestic assault, drugs, attempted murder, identity theft, a baseball bat attack, burning an SUV, bad checks, unlicensed contracting, a link to murder #42 and gross and willful hair gel violations.

Two shootings in the Blotter: " A man, 28, was shot about 1 a.m. yesterday while standing with several other men on a front porch in the 3000 block of Spaulding Ave." and "An 18-year-old man was standing in the 300 block of S. Addison St., near South Fulton and Wilkens avenues, about 12:20 a.m. yesterday when a gunman shot him in the upper right leg." and WTF is this about?:
Police were seeking a man who used a sledge hammer to shatter the driver-side window of a Ford pickup truck parked in the 900 block of N. Collington Ave. about 2:40 a.m. Monday and attempted to hit the 56-year-old male occupant. ... About two hours later, the same man attacked a woman with his fists and a baseball bat near the scene of the first incident.
Two perps, Kinlaw "Baby Boy" Jones, 19, and Erica Ammenhauser, 21, pleaded guilty to an attack on Marine reservist Michael LaMaris Simms, 18.

The two- and three-year-old children shot on Monday are recovering at Hopkins.
(nitpicky peeve: "toddlers" are 12-24 months of age)

Chaz RicksFormer rape suspect Chaz Ricks, right, may have been cleared of the Roland Park home invasion and rape, but he's going to face trial for a robbery and sex offense in the county that he confessed to city detectives during questioning down here.

More on the bust of Phillip Robinson Winkfield, son of a federal judge who may soon be getting a different kind of Federal Express package.

McDonogh Eagle Lewin Powell III, 16, was indicted for killing his mother, Donna Campbell-Powell. He's charged as an adult.

It's Wednesday, so don't forget to read the Ink!

"Four Prince George's County youths, ages 14 and 15, have been charged with first-degree murder after they 'laid in wait' for a 56-year-old man, knocked him to the ground and kicked him so viciously that he died two days later."

El Jizz: "when fire swept through [Keith] McMahon's Greenspring Valley home in January, most people called it a tragic loss, until federal alcohol, tobacco, and fire arms agents took a closer look."

... and now, "12 nude, middle aged, mostly out of shape, jewish men, discreetly covered by cats!"

9 comments:

ppatin said...

Ple bargains in the murder of Marine reservist Michael Simms, who was stabbed to death in the unit block of S. Chapel Street last year. As usual the sentences are pathetic.

Cham said...

Ink is so last week.

burgersub said...

if the ink is so last week, what does that make the sun? once again this week the ink reports a murder that i, for one, never read anything about anywhere else.

John Galt said...

Jose Morales is the posterchild for rightminded people avoiding Baltimore like the plague.

You cannot argue that the criminal justice system here is functional when it's already had so many swings at the ball and whiffed every time.

The cumulative institutional incompetence is manifest.

Cham said...

Burgersub:

What do you mean you missed a murder report? How could that be? 2 corn-fed white girls were gunned down in Oklahoma, didn't you know? Stop the presses! Interrupt TV programming! Get the megaphone! It's horrible, it's terrible, that brutal blood thirsty murderer! That shouldn't happen, we need to be safe.

Oh.... some black kid murdered in Baltimore? never mind.

John Galt said...

This just in from Charles Village: Dry Cleaner robbed by knife-wielding hoodlum shoots offender.

ppatin said...

What's that, a law-abiding citizen used a firearm to defend himself against a criminal? But, but, but, I thought that guns were evil!

Big kudos to the gutsy man who stood up to a thug and refused to be a victim. The only sad part of this story is that the hoodlum is expected to survive. It was also pretty stupid of him to rob a business at 32nd & St. Paul at 1:45 in the afternoon.

BTW, the PD's response sounds like typical promotion-of-victimhood BS.

""In this case, store owner comes away unscathed and stops a robbery in progress. You never want to criticize what someone does to save them from injury, but it's certainly something people should consider carefully before they run out and purchase handguns," Sterling Clifford of the Baltimore City Police Department said."

That's right, just allow yourself to be robbed, beaten, raped and murdered instead. God-forbid that people take some responsibility for their own safety.

John Galt said...

Another cabdriver shot in a robbery a Beechfield & Frederick in SW.

John Galt said...

Double-homicide on the 1500 block, Moreland.