Sunday, October 18, 2009

Barricade situation this morning

A reader listening to county police radio at 2:30 this morning reported a barricade situation last night in Owings Mills:
Though he wasn't mentioned by name, they referred to him
as the  just demoted police major from Baltimore  city. It was a pretty extensive thing, a staging area was set up at a local school, negotiators brought in, requests for floor plans of the house he was in and calling some friend of his from Rodgers Forge  to come and try to talk to him ... The original call was for a "suicidal suspect" and the address was on Eiderdown Ct,, 21117.
Unconfirmed reports ID the barricaded officer as a former deputy major from the central district.
Says a source, "The standoff started around 1:30 a.m. and lasted until 11:30 a.m.; he had to be Tased and was taken to a hospital."

7 comments:

ppatin said...

The Archdiocese of Wilmington (which includes MD's Eastern Shore) has filed for bankruptcy protection. Guess they shouldn't have let pervert priests molest kids...

Anonymous said...

Yes. I think it is a great justice to hand millions of dollars from the parishioners of Wilmington to shysters.

ppatin said...

It sucks that lawyers will be making money on this, however maybe the church shouldn't have tried so hard to cover up abuse by their priests. Sanctimonious hypocrites...

Cham said...

The dioces filed for protection one day before a child abuse trial was to begin. That's like saying, "Na na na, you can't get your hands on my money even if you were abused and molested. Ha ha ha"

What a church, what values, what integrity! With a 100 active lawsuits there probably is some truth to the allegations. Well, if they can no longer cover the wrongdoings up at least they can make sure their wealth is secure.

ppatin said...

Cham:

If they hadn't filed for bankruptcy then a few big jury awards or settlements could've meant that a small number of victims would get millions while most end up with nothing. I'm the last person to defend the Catholic Church, but the civil court system does a pretty terrible job of providing "justice" to anybody, and criminal cases like this are very, very difficult to prosecute after such a long period of time. Oh well, at least if the archdiocese is bankrupt they'll have fewer resources that they can devote to undermining reproductive freedom or opposing the death penalty.

Cham said...

This way nobody gets any money. You're right ppatin, it will be fair.

ppatin said...

I never said it would be fair.

Also, filing for bankruptcy doesn't absolve them of responsibility as far as I know, although I'm certainly no authority on the intricacies of bankruptcy law.