- On Friday night, Keyva Bluitt was shot inside a blue Toyota then pushed out of the car in the 800 block of Battery Ave. in Federal Hill.
- Marcus Caldwell's mom found her son's body in the driver's seat of a minivan early Sunday morning in the 3200 block of Sequoia Ave.
- The body of a tattooed white woman was found by a Pigtown jogger just after noon on Sunday in the 1300 block of Nanticoke St. Police are asking the public to help ID the woman.
- An un-ID'd man was fatally shot at 8:30 last night in the 500 block of Bloom St. It's the second murder on that block in three days: 21-year-old Brian Goodwin was killed there on Thursday night.
- Around the corner from where Bluitt was killed on Friday night, a un-ID'd man was shot to death just after closing time on Sunday morning. Residents reported gunshots, but nobody found the body until a jogger stumbled across it (not literally, I hope) at about 5am on Sunday.
Luke B.'s Examiner article on the Federal Hill murders includes a charming quote from Federal Hill's City Council Member William Cole IV: "One murder is shocking. Two is beyond shocking." Hey, Cole, if you think that's shocking, you should try paying attention to what happens to your constituents around North Ave. or Franklin St.!
The accusations against the BPD from Bryant Worrell's family continue: "They don’t want anybody seeing him because they’re covering up something. This makes you hate police, it makes you not want to trust them."
Holy Pulitzer, Batman! The Sun ran a follow-up story on Milton John Barnes III, the Woodlawn apartment manager who is still in critical condition after being shot on Thursday morning. The article doesn't say much more than that, but police do need information if you happen to have any.
The second teenage escapee from the "secure" Victor Cullen Center was captured Friday a few blocks west of the Avenue in Hampden.
Two perverts got some federal time: Frank Pierce Young, age 78, got 3 months; William Lee Burdette, Jr., aka "HornyMDOlderguy," got more than 11 years.
Apparently, churches and zoos are good targets for theft.
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Would the Worrell family please STFU already, and would the media please stop portraying Bryant Worrell as a victim? If he was retarded, as his mom claimed, then why the f**k was he allowed to have a gun?
It sounds like Bryant Worrell inherited his intelligence (or lack thereof) from his mother.
So...when is the secret service and the CIA going to get involved...?
the most overheard claim in baltimore: "it's not his fault, it's _______________'s (suggestions: the police, the city, heroin)."
also, what exactly does developmentally disabled even mean anymore? if it has anything to do with not being able to read at grade-level, then there is no use for the distinction in this city.
This isn't really crime related, but has anyone here tried using an electric rat trap? We've had rats getting into our garbage cans outside recently, and judging by the amount of rat shit between our house & the neighbors the vermin have been quite active. There's a product out there called the Ultra Rat Zapper that looks pretty nice, but before I drop $40 on it I want to make sure it works as well as they claim. The reviews on Amazon all seem very positive.
I haven't used anything electric but have you tried using the city rat rubout services? I use the online system whenever I see rat burrows and they come out and fill them in and put down poison. That usually takes care of it for awhile. Probably the only reason it doesn't take care of it more permanently is that my neighbors do not understand the concept of a trash can.
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City rat rubout doesn't work. Skip it.
Rat prevalence is a function of 1) food and 2) habitat.
Rats will not live more than about 100 feet from a persistent food source. If your cans are the food source, don't put food garbage out until maybe 12 hours before pickup. Or, seal it in tight-fitting metal cans with lids.
You might be just one of several food sources. If your neighbors all rat-proof their garbage habits for 100 feet around you, the rats will vanish and the nest will be abandoned.
If a ready food source persists within 100 feet, you will have rats.
Putting the food garbage out only shortly before pickup tends to work well, if neighbors reciprocate.
ppatin,
If you see rat burrows in your neighbors' backyards, report it as a "Housing Inspection- Rodent Infestation" service request. The owner can be cited and required to fill the burrows.
Good old fashioned rat-traps work too. Many people suggest using peanut butter as bait, but I've learned the hard way that birds also like peanut butter. One of my neighbors has been more successful baiting them with hot dogs.
If you want to just off the suckers, set out a paste of peanut butter and aqua-green rat pellets (an anticlotting agent). They love the stuff,... and then die.
But it will have the same effect on dogs, so make sure it's only rat-accessible.
I agree with Galt that "Rat Rubout" requests are generally ineffective, but I have seen results when I've filed housing inspection service requests. Two of my neighbors had to replace their concrete patios as a result of the city citing them for burrows.
Rat Rubout won't really do us any good because I have no clue where the rats are coming from. I live on a street full of hundred year old houses, so the vermin could be anywhere. I'll try the poison + peanut butter trick, my previous experience with mouse poison hasn't been too good (I've heard that unless you get the exterminator grade stuff it's useless) but it sounds like it's worth a shot.
I've also learned that it's way cheaper to buy poison in bulk from Grainger. If you can get 10-15 people on your block to contribute (like my neighbor did) it would work to about $10/person.
http://www.grainger.com/Grainger/items/1VJT3
The closest Grainger store is located at 8820 Citation Rd- near Pulaski Hwy and Rossville Blvd.
Well hell... as long as we're talking about pests instead of crime, does anyone know a good exterminator?
Bugout is good and very honest. They did our termite inspection when we closed on our house, and they made a housecall when we had a rat in our kitchen. I think the housecall cost us about $75.
http://www.bugoutinc.com/
Hooray for Rod Rosenstein!
http://www.examiner.com/a-1454708~Baltimore_man_pleads_guilty_in_3_slayings.html
On the subject of Nancy Worrell & Co., the nut just doesn't fall far from the tree. While the son, Bryant, who was on probation when shot by police, has a history of burglary, theft, drugs, and alleged armed robbery, Ms. Worrell was recently charged with possession of non-marijuana drugs.
Let's look at Ronnie Ware Jr, a juvenile into 'the Lifestyle' who was murdered a few days back. It seems that Ronnie Ware Sr. has a recen history in armed assault and open warrants at the same address at this time.
Meanwhile, his mother Claretta Taylor, while mourning her grandson's passing, was sufficiently inept at handling her household that she voluntarily signed her overencumbered house into a mortgage fraud, seeking a means of eating her cake and having it too. I'm sure the neighbors will miss all the criminality when she's evicted.
My point is that as a matter of demographics, many, many Baltimoreans are just not responsible enough to raise children. And as long as they are permitted to do regardless, we as a municipality will continue to pop out disasters waiting to happen like the two deceased.
Developmentally-disabled is a clinical term subject to tremendous abuse. Let's just recognize that a truly large proportion of underclass Baltimore is functionally incompetent to live like civilized human beings.
Electric traps have not worked for me or anyone I know in Baltimore. I returned mine to Home Depot and they said they had had quite a few come back.
Bluejay:
I have a small electric mouse trap that actually works pretty well. We're pretty careful about food sources inside the house so we don't have too many mice to catch, but I have managed to fry several of the little bastards with it. One thing with electric traps is that for a real infestation you have to leave them with bait in them but turned off for several days. Mice & rats are a smarter than they look, and if they see one or two of their buddies getting zapped then they'll become wary of the trap. That's not an issue if you only need to kill one or two, but if you have a lot of vermin to kill you need to make them feel safe in the trap before you turn it on.
also: someone must have been very bad, as like ten cops were whaling on him while he was down on the sidewalk on Charles this morning at a hair past 10.00 am. They wouldn't do that if it weren't called for, I assume. Yay Justice!
If you have any extra warfarin around, its the same thing as traditional rat poison. But yes, the clotting inhibitors should work, but mind you you'll have to clean up the aftermath.
We decided to avoid going with poison for now. The risk of having a rat dying inside the walls isn't worth it at this point. If metal trash cans combined with trapping don't do the job then we'll probably give poison a shot.
Thanks for the referral, Meph. I'm battling a crew of extremely tough fleas. They've survived two rounds of flea-bombs, and they didn't even care when I threatened to tell the neighborhood dealers that the fleas are snitches.
Hmmmm. That was a lot funnier in my head.
Has anyone seen the article about Kevin Johns being ordered out of prison and to the care of DHMH?
http://wjz.com/local/kevin.johns.prison.2.755029.html
This is my favorite part: "In the meantime, Johns will stay locked up in Maryland's toughest prison until the agency now controlling him finds a way to control him."
Ha.
Another good use for Warfarin.
The Grand Jury hearings on Mayor Dixon have begun.
Kevin Johns should be put in the same cell as Trayvon Ramos.
Have you tried the Frontline? Fleas bite the dog and then jump off and die before they hit the floor. It's really fun to watch.
Rats. Been there done that. Dealing with rats requires a long term strategy to be effective.
If you have a lot of rat activity, it means there are burrows nearby and it will not be hard to locate the burrows. Deal with the homeowner directly or get the city to deal with it, or if it is a vacant-- just do it yourself.
Another thing you can do is to make sure that your garbage cans are sturdy and have tight fitting lids. Never put trash out without tight-fitting lids overnight. Of course, it will mean that all of your neighbors have to do the same thing-- consider talking to each of them. One guy I know even made a flyer in english and spanish with advice on garbage. If you make a flyer, it has to be a cartoon with minimal sentences and 2nd grade reading level.
Finally, rats like to follow the same paths and congregate in the same places every night. They just follow the smell of their droppings and piss. I have found that hosing down the back of my house regularly has helpful when I had problems.
Forget about traps-- your problem is not with one or two rats. If you have a rat problem you have dozens. An electric trap is laughable.
Forget about poison-- you aren't going to kill enough of them. There is plenty to eat in the alleys and a warfarin pellet just isn't as tasty as a rotten piece of fried chicken or crab carcass.
"Forget about traps-- your problem is not with one or two rats. If you have a rat problem you have dozens. An electric trap is laughable."
Yeah, but killing rats is so satisfying. It's sort of like capital punishment, I know a few executions won't make a difference but it still makes me happy to see the bastards fry.
I'm following most of your other advice BTW. All trash will now go in a metal trash can with a proper lid, and we're asking out next door neighbors to do the same. Getting the entire block to cooperate will be tough, but as long as the rats aren't congregating directly around our house then we'll have eliminated the worst part of the problem.
ppatin,
For those neighbors who don't use trash cans and/or lids, you can file a "Housing Inspection- Trash and/or Weeds- Occupied" service request. I used this service request to report a rental house that was illegally dumping trash in our alley. About a week after I filed the complaint, the landlord delivered two new trash cans.
Mr. Meph.- if I may nitpick, I'd be mighty surprised to see the rental house come walking out on its foundation to dump garbage.
We can probably agree that in fact it was the rental household which dumped in the alley. That behavior would be the responsibiliy of Sanitation Enforcement, rather than Inspection. They will then examine the trash for evidence of the address and fine the dumper, rather than his (presumably innocent) landlord.
On the subject of cans, frankly, most of my (fairly respectable) neighbors have gotten tired of having their cans stolen or crushed under the trash truck and just set garbage out in black bags shortly before pickup. It works. No rats. But you cannot have it sitting around for days prior to pickup.
In my part of town the alley are fairly narrow and there's no room for trash trucks to swerve to avoid empty cans. They just run them over, especially if you're away at work. (work? what's that mean?) So, I have cans, just to satisfy code. They stay in the basement, where they are safe.
Its fairly hypocritical for the government which destroys the cans to then mandate that they be replaced constantly. And the sanitation people admit it.
Please do not take the usual Baltimore easy way out and transfer responsibility away from behavioral offenders to inanimate objects or their owners just because it's easier.
This is part of why Baltimore is so ethically compromised: doing the right thing is always harder than the most convenient.
Galt,
I don't know if you've visited 311 Online recently, but sanitation inspection was merged under housing. I know this for a fact since I (along with my community association) have met with the mayor's head of sanitation (whom I have been impressed with so far).
And yes, I was referring to a rental "family". Thanks for the correction, Professor. And correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure that the rental family is cited for the first trsh-related offense.
Finally, I resent you accusing me of taking "the usual Baltimore easy way out". I've tried to communicating with these tenants before I filed a complaint, but they don't speak English. So what the hell do you suggest that I should have done?
Didn't Helix say that you're a landlord who has been in and out of housing court? Perhaps this explains your hostility? Why do you live in this city again if you hate it so much?
If they don't speak English it does make it diffcult. The real problem is probably that they are poorly behaved underclass, who will pretty much always behave like animals when among that sort of population.
Solution: chase them the hell out of Baltimore as a significant population category. Start by aggressively enforcing immigration laws. Kill Section 8 certificates (not so much a problem for illegals) citywide And for god's sake start assigning police manpower according to the local prevalence of criminality.
If I'm correct, the occupant is cited for a dumping (under Sanitaion Enforcement), not a violation (under Inspection).
The Inspector would instruct the Landlord to come clean a Violation and to re-supply the cans & lids, which means the tenants will probably just reoffend.
I don't mean to be nasty. It's just that mostly, Baltimore's problems are its people, not their stuff. But Baltimore doesn't seem to be willing to call Jose on the carpet and tell him "No dump-o in the alley-o. No Basura aqui!"
Baltimoreans are more inclined to assign blame to some thing or babysitting duty to its owner. Things almost never solve problems. And no one private really wants the privilege of babysitting these idiots. In most civilized places, that babysitting role rests squarely with the police. Here, the police keep trying to excuse themselves from dealing with the huge idiot population because it would take an army of babysitters.
And so it does.
Baltimore has a little under a hundred thousand resident idiots. So, it needs maybe 10,000 cops, sanitation cops, school police, transit police, etc. if you don't want to tolerate uncivilized behavior.
Baltimore wants to cheat and operate A-list neighborhoods (where you're not supposed to set out rancid garbage to sit for a week) and B-list neighborhoods, where it's tolerated until someone bitches. Then it's tolerated everywhere but that exact location where someone bitched and only so long as they continue to bitch.
Basically, it's about authorizing ghettos.
What would I prefer to see you do? Instead of objectifying your displeasure into the bricks (or their owner, who presumably hasn't dumped any garbage), recognize that what you really want is for all of the underclass (and otherclass, for that matter) dumpers to be punished promptly and proximately as and when they pull this sh!t, regardless of where they do it.
Universal enforcement.
It is the conduct that is to be demonized, which is inextricably linked to the offender, not his address. Punish the person. If you're diligent about it and you do it citywide, THEY WILL LEAVE.
That's the solution. Otherwise you're just pushing them from more vocal neighborhoods to less.
I want this City to improve. Uniformly. If there are neighborhoods in which it cannot enforce basic behavioral expectations, CLOSE THEM. Evacuate them.
But this idea of differential enforcement of the law,... it's unAmerican. You can have different laws in different jurisdictions. But it's simply wrong to arbitrarily choose which behaviors to allow depeding upon circumstance.
Some mark the codification and standardization of law as the start of civilized society. Baltimore represents a backslide.
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