Sunday, February 8, 2009

Weekend

WBAL: murder victim Lemuel Wallace was disabled and living in a group home, was probably killed by someone he knew

Former Air Force senior airman Rico Rodrigus Williams was indicted for second-degree murder and three counts of tampering with a witness in the 2005 beating death of Army sergeant Juwan Johnson in Germany

"Baltimore's crime lab suffers from inadequate funding, spotty recordkeeping and broken equipment, according to an independent audit"

QTD: "All these hundreds of DNA exonerations across the country have demonstrated to anyone who’s paying attention that there are far more innocent people in prison than anybody could imagine"

Dixon's "considering the first major shuffling of police resources throughout the city in decades."

"veteran prosecutors Donald Giblin and Doug Ludwig are being promoted to lead the homicide and police misconduct divisions, respectively."

Facebook & MySpace blocked at the statehouse! "'This is like China,' said Sen. James C. Rosapepe"

Maryland’s largest-ever pharmaceutical-trafficking case was built by Federal intelligence specialists working in a former department store in Johnsontown, PA
(FYI: hydrocodone= Vicodin)

Irony corner: "A state delegate who once proposed special 'DUI' license plates for drunken drivers has been convicted of a drunken driving charge."

MoCo police are asking for the public's help to identify a homicide victim

7 comments:

Cham said...

Regarding reshuffling the police districts...it's about time. There is one district that has very few murders and others that are overwhelmed.

ppatin said...

What do you know, I was right about Donald Giblin being promoted to chief of homicide.

ppatin said...

Out of curiosity, what exactly does the Violent Crimes Impact Division do?

ppatin said...

Just being anal retentive, but Vicodin isn't quite the same thing as hydrocodone. It's a combination of hydrocodone and acetaminophen (the stuff that's in Tylenol.)

Unknown said...

Violent Crimes Impact Divisio (VCID) is the former OCD. They are supposed to focus on areas with increased violent activity and look for drug activity as well as handgun crimes. Basically - they do "jump outs" all day and night. Once in a while they get lucky and actually jack up somebody that is wanted but udually they just make arrests that later go awya because of 4th amendment issues and bad stops.

ppatin said...

Jack:

Thanks. It sounds like we'd be better off if VCID was abolished and their manpower was used to beef up patrol.

Sebastian-PGP said...

That Rosapepe idiot finally did something...first thing he's had approaching a thought since he bought his way into the seat.