Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Settling for less

More city lawsuit payouts TK*, including $375k to the family of Edward Lamont Hunt, unarmed and fatally shot in the back in the parking lot of the Hamilton Park Shopping Center in 2008 (You might remember ... Officer Thomas Sanders was charged with manslaughter, but acquitted) and $36,600 for an army reservist who didn't get his job back after his service.

Five-time felon McKenzie White got 19 years in the federal pen after his latest attempted robbery that was stymied by his clever would-be victim and his quick-thinking dad.

A disturbing number of citizens robbed by teenagers in the latest Baltimore Guide police blotter

Timothy Ray Berry of Owings Mills copped a guilty plea to illegal possession of weapons and explosives: he shot a kid in the leg with a BB gun, which led the FBI to search his house and find his stash of C-4 explosive material, an M-800 pyrotechnic device, containers of potassium nitrate and potassium chlorate, smokeless shotgun powder, model rocket igniters and motors, pool chemicals, various fuse materials, PVC and metal pipe of varying lengths and pipe fittings. (And he would've gotten away with it, if it wasn't for that kid!)

Stealing donations from the United Way? That's low, Dorothy Shields Talbot.

The death of a 57-year-old inmate at the North Branch Correctional Institution was ruled a homicide, the medical examiner say Lewis J. Thompson Jr. was strangulated.

How much would it cost to tear down the city's vacant buildings? Oh, take a wild guess.

1 comment:

ppatin said...

Re: the Baltimore Guide blotter

It's disgusting that this kind of thuggery takes place, but WTF is up with the guy walking through the Perkins Homes at 10:30 PM with a laptop? I would never walk through that festering abscess after dark.