361 posts we did this year. Cray cray!
So, here's a quick recap of the year's most interesting nuggets. The 197th homicide file for 2011 was Phylicia Barnes. Her accused killer, Michael Johnson, was set to go on trial August 13 of 2012, but various postponements and motions have us started 2013 with no jury seated yet.
About this time last year, the cover was closed on the slim novella that was Adam Meister n' Frank Conaway keruffle, but not before Team Conaway brought toilets and megaphones to Meister's house, distasteful anti-Semetic sentiments were bandied about and Meister posted a classic AfrAm article that noted Frank Conaway's arrest for wife-beating 40 years ago.
DNA evidence helped bring about the conclusion of the Skateworks gang-rape trial, the leader of the crew that victimized a 12-year-old girl got 10 years.
February brought reports of drones crisscrossing the Baltimore skies, 1999 Owings Mills High grad Majid Khan pleading guilty at Gitmo and promising to snitch on other detainees (so will he be going to the 15th reunion, or what?) and the (presumably) accidental death of 13-year-old Monae Turnage, who was shot to death by a 13-year-old boy playing with a gun he found under his mom's bed. The boy, his 12-year-old friend and their mom* Vernoica Alford (like the plea!) buried Turnage's body under trash bags, and for reasons unknown city officer John Ward put the murder weapon in his car. The 13-year-old was sent to a juvie facility for >3 years.
In March, SRB told BHO that she's not going to enforce the country's immigration laws. City police officer Daniel Redd pleaded guilty to dealing heroin from the NW district police-station parking lot, in September he got 20 years. The second trial for the brothers Travers and Tremayne Johnson kicked off. The boys were accused of setting a pit bull on fire, in April a jury took an hour to find them not guilty. Travers has also faced burglary, 2nd-degree attempted murder and handgun charges, he's on probation. In August Tremayne was arrested and charged with drug possession. Saint Patrick's Day revelry lead to a caught-on-video beatdown that made national news. And charges were dropped in the case anti-abortion activists hate to love, that of two eeeeeeee NJ doctors who started late-term abortions in the Guido state and ended them in Cecil County. Where they kept a freezerful of fetuses. And three nine-year-old girls and an 8-year-old boy were removed from school in handcuffs after they tried to drown a kid.
In April, life in prison for Malcolm Pulliam, who shot the owner of the Blessed Productions hair salon in the head four times, the blessed woman's life was saved by her blessed hairdo. ... and I wonder what happened to the blogging crackhead at The Relapse Diary, who posted for three months then stopped? Speaking of relapses, boozy-cruisy Carl Snowden was arrested -- on 4/20, no less-- puffing on a blunt in a car parked by Druid Hill Park with the windows down (and in the company of a sex offender). He was convicted on charges and got 60 days in jail (suspended, of course), and retired (meaning, departed with pension, I assume) his job as head of Gansler's Civil Rights division in the Attorney General's office last week (a no-show job if I ever heard of one). He is/was also the chairman of the Annapolis Housing Authority.
In May, TAB blogged about Towson's hipster bandit, who turned out to be one Jason Lee Hadelman, a bohunk yokel career stick-up guy from York, PA in "disguise," likely busted by his FB self-portraits. More static between certain members of the local African_american activist community and certain chosen people as the Shomrim case wrapped up, with Hebrew hammer Eliyahu Werdesheim found guilty of second-degree assault and false imprisonment * and given no jail time for hopping out of his Miata to break a suspicious-looking teenager's arm. The 15-year-old victim, Corey Ausby, refused to testify against him. Jeff Barnd was revealed as the voice behind right-wing push-poll robocalls*.
June brought the hundredth homicide of the year, and a photographer punched at HonFest by a large bald man with a pink pimp chalice (wonder if they ever found that guy?) Hampton Mansion's for a "Slave for a Day" event was renamed after the Park Service got angry phone calls. TAB and I went and shot some guns. And Joan Pratt took the mayor to task for the purchase of $659,000 worth of video phones.
In July, a circumcised man flashed a Roland Park housewife. Gregg Bernstein's son Owen was arrested for hijinks and brawling. The 104th homicide victim was named Yarndragus. Murder charges were dropped* against the alleged co-founder of the Dead Man Inc. prison gang, Perry "Saho the Ghost" Roark, but he pleaded guilty to racketeering and other charges in exchange for life in prison. A 36-year-old HIV-positive man, Steven Podles, used the app Grindr to find and have condomless sex with a 13-year-old boy.
August brought the boozy wreck of Don Dwyer's pleasure boat, The Legislator. Pimp Daniel O'Brien kept his dirty money in a Hennessy box. Sterling Parker, 61, was killed in a dispute over some small children he was babysitting,* wonder whatever happened in that case? Trikki Rikki Spector's illegal billing of the city for her commuting costs to her own district came to light, and nobody cared. Patterson high basketball phenom, 5'7" 147 pound Aquille Carr was arrested for beating on his baby's mom. He was sentenced to some classes at the House of Ruth. Carr finished out the school year at the Princeton Day Academy in Lanham, MD, apparently didn't lose his scholarship and is settling into his dorm at Seton Hall right now.
Hood draping! Napkins as toilet paper! In September a CP cover story schooled us all on the ways of Charles Village's shady ladies. Handlebar moustaches! Pot planes! Stash houses! Scores of conspirators faced charges in the massive Nicka conspiracy. The murder of scientist Peter Marvit (still unsolved) terrified the Herring Run Park area. The police-involved killing of drug addict Anthony Anderson inflamed tensions on the East side.
The fall seemed to bring on an uptick in crimes against women. There was the murders of Ahjee Herrod, 18-year-old Tashawna Jones and 57-year-old sedan driver Queren Thomas. In October a jogger was raped in Fell's Point. In spite of old allegations that he threw a mug at a lover, Anthony Batts was confirmed as commissioner. Tyrone Alson shot his girlfriend in the head. And 51-year-old Deborah Simon was stabbed to death in her home on Washington Blvd.
November was the election, same-sex marriage, slots and BHO, oh my! Accused child-killers Policarpio Espinoza and Adnan Canela's third trial began. Elmo's creator, Kevin Clash, faced the first of what would eventually be four underage-sex accusers. And the imprisoning of Saho the Ghost in July didn't stop some Dead Mans from harboring drugs and an alligator.
Finally, December. Congratulations for reading up to this point. The Spectator Standoff, the manhunt for the woman who drove over Delma Barnes, a "not criminally responsible" for skitzoid cannabal Alexander Kinuya... and if you want any more you'll have to read the archives yourself.
So, here's a quick recap of the year's most interesting nuggets. The 197th homicide file for 2011 was Phylicia Barnes. Her accused killer, Michael Johnson, was set to go on trial August 13 of 2012, but various postponements and motions have us started 2013 with no jury seated yet.
About this time last year, the cover was closed on the slim novella that was Adam Meister n' Frank Conaway keruffle, but not before Team Conaway brought toilets and megaphones to Meister's house, distasteful anti-Semetic sentiments were bandied about and Meister posted a classic AfrAm article that noted Frank Conaway's arrest for wife-beating 40 years ago.
DNA evidence helped bring about the conclusion of the Skateworks gang-rape trial, the leader of the crew that victimized a 12-year-old girl got 10 years.
February brought reports of drones crisscrossing the Baltimore skies, 1999 Owings Mills High grad Majid Khan pleading guilty at Gitmo and promising to snitch on other detainees (so will he be going to the 15th reunion, or what?) and the (presumably) accidental death of 13-year-old Monae Turnage, who was shot to death by a 13-year-old boy playing with a gun he found under his mom's bed. The boy, his 12-year-old friend and their mom* Vernoica Alford (like the plea!) buried Turnage's body under trash bags, and for reasons unknown city officer John Ward put the murder weapon in his car. The 13-year-old was sent to a juvie facility for >3 years.
In March, SRB told BHO that she's not going to enforce the country's immigration laws. City police officer Daniel Redd pleaded guilty to dealing heroin from the NW district police-station parking lot, in September he got 20 years. The second trial for the brothers Travers and Tremayne Johnson kicked off. The boys were accused of setting a pit bull on fire, in April a jury took an hour to find them not guilty. Travers has also faced burglary, 2nd-degree attempted murder and handgun charges, he's on probation. In August Tremayne was arrested and charged with drug possession. Saint Patrick's Day revelry lead to a caught-on-video beatdown that made national news. And charges were dropped in the case anti-abortion activists hate to love, that of two eeeeeeee NJ doctors who started late-term abortions in the Guido state and ended them in Cecil County. Where they kept a freezerful of fetuses. And three nine-year-old girls and an 8-year-old boy were removed from school in handcuffs after they tried to drown a kid.
In April, life in prison for Malcolm Pulliam, who shot the owner of the Blessed Productions hair salon in the head four times, the blessed woman's life was saved by her blessed hairdo. ... and I wonder what happened to the blogging crackhead at The Relapse Diary, who posted for three months then stopped? Speaking of relapses, boozy-cruisy Carl Snowden was arrested -- on 4/20, no less-- puffing on a blunt in a car parked by Druid Hill Park with the windows down (and in the company of a sex offender). He was convicted on charges and got 60 days in jail (suspended, of course), and retired (meaning, departed with pension, I assume) his job as head of Gansler's Civil Rights division in the Attorney General's office last week (a no-show job if I ever heard of one). He is/was also the chairman of the Annapolis Housing Authority.
In May, TAB blogged about Towson's hipster bandit, who turned out to be one Jason Lee Hadelman, a bohunk yokel career stick-up guy from York, PA in "disguise," likely busted by his FB self-portraits. More static between certain members of the local African_american activist community and certain chosen people as the Shomrim case wrapped up, with Hebrew hammer Eliyahu Werdesheim found guilty of second-degree assault and false imprisonment * and given no jail time for hopping out of his Miata to break a suspicious-looking teenager's arm. The 15-year-old victim, Corey Ausby, refused to testify against him. Jeff Barnd was revealed as the voice behind right-wing push-poll robocalls*.
June brought the hundredth homicide of the year, and a photographer punched at HonFest by a large bald man with a pink pimp chalice (wonder if they ever found that guy?) Hampton Mansion's for a "Slave for a Day" event was renamed after the Park Service got angry phone calls. TAB and I went and shot some guns. And Joan Pratt took the mayor to task for the purchase of $659,000 worth of video phones.
In July, a circumcised man flashed a Roland Park housewife. Gregg Bernstein's son Owen was arrested for hijinks and brawling. The 104th homicide victim was named Yarndragus. Murder charges were dropped* against the alleged co-founder of the Dead Man Inc. prison gang, Perry "Saho the Ghost" Roark, but he pleaded guilty to racketeering and other charges in exchange for life in prison. A 36-year-old HIV-positive man, Steven Podles, used the app Grindr to find and have condomless sex with a 13-year-old boy.
August brought the boozy wreck of Don Dwyer's pleasure boat, The Legislator. Pimp Daniel O'Brien kept his dirty money in a Hennessy box. Sterling Parker, 61, was killed in a dispute over some small children he was babysitting,* wonder whatever happened in that case? Trikki Rikki Spector's illegal billing of the city for her commuting costs to her own district came to light, and nobody cared. Patterson high basketball phenom, 5'7" 147 pound Aquille Carr was arrested for beating on his baby's mom. He was sentenced to some classes at the House of Ruth. Carr finished out the school year at the Princeton Day Academy in Lanham, MD, apparently didn't lose his scholarship and is settling into his dorm at Seton Hall right now.
Hood draping! Napkins as toilet paper! In September a CP cover story schooled us all on the ways of Charles Village's shady ladies. Handlebar moustaches! Pot planes! Stash houses! Scores of conspirators faced charges in the massive Nicka conspiracy. The murder of scientist Peter Marvit (still unsolved) terrified the Herring Run Park area. The police-involved killing of drug addict Anthony Anderson inflamed tensions on the East side.
The fall seemed to bring on an uptick in crimes against women. There was the murders of Ahjee Herrod, 18-year-old Tashawna Jones and 57-year-old sedan driver Queren Thomas. In October a jogger was raped in Fell's Point. In spite of old allegations that he threw a mug at a lover, Anthony Batts was confirmed as commissioner. Tyrone Alson shot his girlfriend in the head. And 51-year-old Deborah Simon was stabbed to death in her home on Washington Blvd.
November was the election, same-sex marriage, slots and BHO, oh my! Accused child-killers Policarpio Espinoza and Adnan Canela's third trial began. Elmo's creator, Kevin Clash, faced the first of what would eventually be four underage-sex accusers. And the imprisoning of Saho the Ghost in July didn't stop some Dead Mans from harboring drugs and an alligator.
Finally, December. Congratulations for reading up to this point. The Spectator Standoff, the manhunt for the woman who drove over Delma Barnes, a "not criminally responsible" for skitzoid cannabal Alexander Kinuya... and if you want any more you'll have to read the archives yourself.
Justin Fenton 
