Addicts in Charge

Why Baltimore is a mess, reason 597:
"Addicts put in charge" in rat-infested recovery housing centers. Also see CP's report on BBH from September: "We Are Not In the Housing Business"
(Lolz: BBH's housing director says house managers face "pretty rigorous criteria ... you have to have at least 60 days of clean time.")

Related: "Youth counselor [Ronald Piper Scott] pleads guilty to heroin distribution, conspiracy"

Down at the federal courthouse, The Louis Berger Group, Inc., an engineering firm that worked in Iraq and Afghanistan, agreed to pay $69.3 million to settle fraud claims

"S. Baltimore shooting possibly a botched drug deal, police say"

Edgewood a "killing zone"

FBI ISO M&T bank robber

It's a HoCoFoSho! Fifteen alleged "johns" arrested in sting .. and the Sun is naming names!

Drunkards and snowbirds

A man beaten at the Westport Light Rail station has died; other homicide victims from this past week named as Jerry Harden, 21, (the man found inside a burning apartment on McClean Blvd. Fenton notes, "Harden is the second person killed this year at the apartment complex") Kevin Anderson, 30, and Malcolm Hill, 53.

Three more suspects arrested for robbery/ beatdown of drunkards by the Intercontinental hotel

Have you been injured in an accident? "A Baltimore City jury has awarded $4.1 million to a woman and her 8-year-old son who alleged that the negligence of University of Maryland Medical Center doctors caused his cerebral palsy."

Postal inspectors fighting uphill battle against drugs in the mail

The MD state police is still fighting the release of vehicle-stop documents related to the NAACP's "driving while black" lawsuit, one that in some form has been dragging on since 1992(!)

Brendan Kearney: years-in-the-making $600k courthouse report is "justice decayed", har har har

Judge denies tax cheat Jack Stollof's plea to winter in Palm Beach

Robocalls tied to Ehrlich Employee Jules Henson

Fenton says the Election-night Robocalls telling O'Malley voters to "relax" and stay home election night have been linked to longtime-Democrat-turned Ehrlich consultant Jules Henson.

Fenton says,

"Henson’s other clients in this election included a state senate candidate from Baltimore facing no opposition, a delegate candidate who lost in the primary, a PG county executive candidate who lost in the primary, a PG county council member who lost in the primary, an Anne Arundel county council candidate who lost in the primary, a Baltimore County council candidate who lost in the primary, and a city sheriff’s candidate who lost in the primary.

Update: Henson has 'fessed up. "It never said 'don't vote'."

.. meanwhile, "carjacking suspects on the loose"

Turns for the worse

A man was stabbed to death and his apartment set on fire in the 7000 block of McClean Boulevard

Man shot to death at 215 South Woodyear Street

Eight homicides last week

Word of the day: misprision-- aka not snitching on somebody's felonious azz

Very sad story of a teen who got 18 months for murder in the CP's letters page

"A former Baltimore police officer was sentenced to five years in federal prison Wednesday for assaulting a 17-year-old and falsifying documents to cover up the attack"

Wrestling champ to be tried as an adult following brawl at the Loyola/Calvert "Turkey Bowl"

Mario's mom: assault never happened

Victor Frierson, 56, gets jail time and restitution for stealing from nonprofit

Looks like no MD constitutional convention after all

Stolen cigarettes, food in the Northern

Ramona Moore Baker = out!

52-y/o JROTC instructor: I did not have sex with that 17-year-old

Carrol County man pleads guilty after feds find more than 2 million child porn images

"Relax, everything is fine"

Fox reports, "Police are investigating the murder of man in Northeast Baltimore. It happened around 9:30 last night in the 2500-block of Robb Street. The victim was shot several times & found lying on the front porch of a home. He later died at Hopkins & has not yet been identified. No suspects are in custody. This is the 186th murder in the city so far this year."

Alan Chavis, 16, murdered last week, had been reported missing by his mother two weeks before

Anybody get an "O'Malley has already won" call last night? ... if the source of the calls is ever found, what laws would apply?

After official victory, Bernstein goes from "outside looking in" to preparing to "roll up sleeves," "drill down deep" and "hit the ground running". (Hope he also plans to bring a "mop and bucket" to clean up all the "rat turds.")

Arrest made in attack of drunk guys in front of the Intercontinental Hotel

Hewray, sluts at the mawl!! Also damages threshold raised for jury trials, Orphan's Court judges have to be members of the bar, but "fate of constitutional convention not clear"

Stolen-car driver Charles Johnson, 19, who killed two teen parents and their friend, never issued a driver's license

FBI investigating a noosed Cabbage Patch kid in Laurel.

A U of MD writing teacher with "a passion for firearms" arrested for murder in St. Mary's County

Page Croyder: laywers aren't the cure for human stupidity

wars we're ignoring

Fenton has more on murdered tow-truck driver Andrew Joyce. Said the victim's dad: "We think about these poor boys overseas fighting in the war, but we've got a war going on in the inner cities of this country, and it's a war we're ignoring."

and more on the victims of the stolen-car crash: two were 17-year-old parents of a 5-month old baby

Meow meow trippin ballz, meow meow

UnID'd victim killed in the 500 block of Mosher Street
Update: Victim ID'd as 23yr old tow truck driver Andrew Joyce.

Three teens shot, one killed in Halethorpe
Update: Murdered teen ID'd as 16-year-old Dequan Travonte Burks

Windsor Mill post office evacuated on account of suspicious package

Sad: Three people killed by teenager driving a stolen car in Federal Hill. Infuriating: the driver "was on probation for a theft charge in Baltimore County. In October 2009 he was convicted and sentenced to 18 months in jail, with all but 12 months suspended, and was placed on probation through March 2011. He has since been picked up on two violations of that probation." I thought Baltimore county actually took that kind of thing seriously?

"10-year-old boys found responsible in puppy's beating death" Related: TDR notes that O'Malley and Ehrlich are both quite happy to not talk about the DJS

Rockville designers to SCOTUS: video games deserve First Amendment protection

Hot Euro trend: new legal-ish drugs with names like "Meow Meow" & "Ivory Wave" and "Pi Panes."

Extra credit essay: "What pit bulls can teach us about profiling"

Debtors prison

Looks like you can still get thrown in jail over a unpaid non-child support debt

Bad for your health

Woman in her 20s shot to death in the 2300 block of Braddish Avenue at about 3 a.m.

Cell phone's GPS system catches thief-- but Sprint wants victims to pick up his gab tab

Ya think? "Police suspect alcohol a factor in Washington Monument crash" also see "Study: Alcohol more lethal than heroin, cocaine"

A Treat for You

Golden.

Judge Martin P. Welch

Judge Martin P. Welch was named the new chief judge Tuesday.
Prevas' funeral was lovely, BTW. As lovely as a funeral can be, anyway.

A verbal argument in the 400 block of South Vincent Street leads to a possible homicide

Cancer-scam victim talks to WBAL

Jury indicts lumpy-faced Gary Latham for murder of septuagenarian taxi driver John Sandy

Baltimore tapped for domestic violence pilot program

WTF? Prison official pleads guilty to taking cash from inmates.. and burying it in a junkyard?

Hermann has more on Prevas' final case

Touchy-feely school volunteer posed as Lady Liberty on his Facebook page

BB shooter

Kid shot in the face by long range BB shooter.

But it was a really cute pug!

WTF? County woman who bilked Facebook friends out of cash by claiming she had cancer, then used the money for a pug and lawn services, got 15 years + restitution today.

"Twice convicted of murder, man gets off again"

A would-be burglar shot in the leg in a York Rd. Store (on the same block that once housed the Afro Hut)

ACLU sues MD State Police over officer's use of the n-word

Lawyers get foreclosure training

wacky! If you miss a letter and type "baltimorecrime.blogpot.com" instead, this is what you get.

Barf.

Coppin State track star shot in the chest in the Mondawmin mall parking lot

Evil child-abusing-and-pornographing Middle River couple John F. Nicklas IV and Shannon L. Honea to get at least 50 years. More details to make you puke on your shoes.

And if that didn't set you to yacking, how about this guy at the MoCo library?

Prevas Funeral Arrangements

The arrangements for Judge Prevas:
This Thursday the 28th will be a viewing at the Leonard J. Ruck Home, 5305 Harford Road in Hamilton from 3-9 p.m. Then Friday from 10:30-11 he will lie in state at the Greek Orthodox Cathedral of the Annunciation, 24 W. Preston St., 21201, followed by services and internment at the Greek Orthodox Cemetery off of Windsor Mill Road.

his proper obit from Jacques Kelly

and eulogies from friends in The Daily Record

and finally, here's the judge at karioke (at 1:20):


and pps., the Judge's final judicial act was to give 50 years to a well-deserving a-hole. From the SAO:

October 27, 2010 – In one of his last judicial acts on Monday, the Honorable John N. Prevas sentenced Antoine Epps, 21, of the 5500 block of Force Road to 50 years in prison following his convictions in September for armed carjacking, robbery and gun counts. Judge Prevas sentenced Epps to 30 years in prison for the armed carjacking count, a consecutive 20 years for use of a handgun in the commission of a crime of violence count and a concurrent 20 years for the robbery deadly weapon count. A Baltimore jury convicted Epps September 10, 2010. The sentencing hearing conducted by Judge Prevas was his last judicial decision; he left the bench shortly after this hearing complaining of chest pain and died later that day. As he left the bench, he told attorneys waiting to start a trial to be on call.

On July 24, 2009, Terrence Royster gave a ride to defendant Antoine Epps and one of his friends. When Mr. Royster arrived to the location identified by the suspects, an unknown co-defendant pulled a gun on the victim and Antoine Epps removed the keys from the ignition. They then ordered Mr. Royster out of the vehicle and robbed him of some of his possessions. Mr. Epps began beating him with a handgun. After beating Mr. Epps, the defendant’s ordered him into the trunk of his vehicle and drove him around the City for about an hour.

When they finally stopped the vehicle, the defendants again ordered the victim out of the vehicle, made him strip naked, and continued to beat him with the handgun. According to the victim, he was hit over 50 times with the handgun. After they left, the victim walked and crawled to a nearby home trying to obtain help. Police located him in a fetal position, bleeding profusely from his head.

4 murders, 15 hours, 6 stories

Four murders in 15 hours, including two teenagers

The Baltimore Brew has six stories about Judge Prevas

Slate: "Associating minorities with crime is irrational, unjust, and completely normal."

RIP Judge Prevas

Judge Prevas has died.

Don't call it a comeback...

"'Culture of Poverty' Makes a Comeback"

Two woman strangled on Winterbourne Road

This is scary place, according to one woman who was strangled and left for the dead on the same spot where another woman suffered the same fate five years later.

A man fatally shot in the head in the 2100 block of West Fayette St. at 3:30 in the afternoon Saturday, a 20-year-old man fatally shot on E. Monument Street Saturday night.

Your tax $ at work: deputy mayor hires the Urban Land Institute to figure out why the West side still sucks.

Tarheel given 10 years for transporting stolen guns

Florida's Attorney General has begun an investigation into five for-profit colleges, including the local University of Phoenix

It's official

Tribune CEO Me-so-Randy Michaels is out.

School employee weapon sales

A part time city college employee tried to pick up some extra cash by selling an assault rifle to an undercover officer.

Testo found guilty

Didn't call that one! In spite of a lying cop, no body and a mullet-ectomy, county jurors have found Dennis Testo guilty of second-degree murder of his wife, Tracey Leigh Gardner-Testo.

Life for Steven T. Hollis III, the 3rd perp accused of stabbing 18-year-old Steven Parrish. Said Hollis, "Steven is gone, but he's still my best friend."

A rare not-guilty-by-reason-of-being-batshit-crazy verdict in PG county for a guy accused of killing his wife and a guy he thought was her lover (but wasn't).

Two shootings last night

Srsly? Parents can rent a drug dog to find kids' stash

“Paxil! Paxil! Hennessy and Paxil! Weed!"

Officer Tommy Portz, 32, was killed after rear-ending a fire truck.

Creepy! Alleged Essex home intruder Troy Thames lived only three blocks away from house he broke into, and is wanted for groping a 12-year-old

Speaking of ew, Bel Air High football players forced to miss two games after being accused of teabagging freshman team members, "disturbing acts almost too disgusting to repeat." Almost never killed a fly, Kelly McPherson!

Clyde Blamberg not impressed by clergy's call to sign their arms-dealers' code of conduct

Postal worker pleads guilty to stealing cash, checks and gift cards from the mails

Michael Kenneth Williams' depression cure: “Paxil! Paxil! Hennessy and Paxil! Weed!"

"Hampden merchants warm up to methadone clinic"

another police officer hurt

Western district officer critically injured responding to emergency call.

"Keep your head up, yo"

Turns out the victim in the Rosedale Panera parking lot was the alleged perp's stepfather. The 15-year-old, Timothy Criner, will be charged as an adult with first-degree attempted murder, though the stabbing may be justified as Panera's soups taste like re-heated spooge filtered through a whore's bedsheets, and anyone who would feed them to a child deserves a slow, painful death.

Life for Jerome Williams and Charles Y. McGaney in the Harris case, 65 years for Gary Collins.

The Ink on last week's four murders

Religious leaders protest at Clyde's Sport Shop, and Clyde is not pleased.

CP: "Federal money is expanding drug treatment in Baltimore--and causing providers headaches."

The Testo case has gone to the jury

Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services defends its actions in the Willie Featherstone case

Helen Holton talks ethics at Loyola U. HALLELUJAH!

Media blabber: Tribune Exec Me-so-Randy Michaels* poised to resign.
*this link is probably NSFW.. depending on where you W

Don't miss: Larnell Butler's letter to the CP on the Jessamy/Bernstein race

Punching cops is bad for your health

Jerome Ira Stal became the eleventh person to plead guilty in a federal investigation of pawn shops that were used for money laundering.

Melvin J. Yates claims that Howard County cops gave him a beat-down after he struggled with them during an altercation in April.

A 15-year old allegedly stabbed a man in the parking lot of a Panera (yuck) in Rosedale.

The feds convicted a Singaporean man of trying to smuggle weapons to the Tamil Tigers. Good thing for him he wasn't busted back home in Singapore!

Ken Harris's killers will be sentenced tomorrow. No word about the SA's office seeking life w/o parole, which is odd since from what I recall they were convicted of first-degree felony murder.

Testo testo-fies

"I never laid a hand on her"

Piece by Hermann about murder victim Louis Scott mulls over the eternal Baltimore question: with so many murders, how does a reporter decide who to write about?

Shady?

The city seems to be in no hurry to release details on how millions in Pimilico's racing impact fees has been spent.

Shocker: Alleged Cop Killer Had Rap Sheet

Sian Ricardo James, accused of killing city detective Brian Stevenson over an (illegal) parking place, then going to Power Plant Live, is due in court in December to face assault, false imprisonment and rape charges. He's also a fan of "Family Guy" and "Two and a Half Men."

City officer killed over parking space

Detective Brian Stevenson, 38, was killed in Canton after he got into an argument over a parking space and was hit in the head with an object

also a Dundalk man is charged with raping a girl he met on MySpace

motion to dismiss denied in Testo case

Patient deaths prompt questions at Perkins

Murder suspect arrested after he shot himself in the leg

Hampden robbery suspect nabbed

Police ID Oakenshawe murder victim as Travis Lane, 19. ("Fun" fact: Northwood used to be a segregated shopping center and was the site of a sit-in by Morgan students in 1960)

"Low crime, high anxiety in Roland Park"

Police officer critically injured

A city police detective was critically injured during a fight while celebrating his birthday.

Because you were not effing depressed enough already

Father charged with choking 6-month-old infant to death

AG Eric Holder vows to enforce federal drug laws if CA voters legalize the pot.

Three murder convictions

Marquise Evans, James Wesley Spriggs, and Craig Bobian were all recently convicted of first-degree murder in separate cases. Evans got life plus 20 years, Spriggs got life and Bobian will be sentenced on December 1.

BTW, I see lots of life sentences but hardly ever hear about someone getting life w/o parole in the City. Is the SA's office reluctant to go for LWOP?

City taxpayer question of the day

Q: Why does a city pension board trustee fly to Miami for three days at taxpayer expense to meet with representatives of an investment firm that has offices in Philly?

A: Because city taxpayers are footing the bill, and since you don't have to tell where you stayed on their dime, you can pick a swank hotel and live it up.
B: Because the pension fund is $300 million in the red and you need a break from the stress
C: Because you paid this firm millions for worthless investment advice and now they owe you dinner by the pool
D: All of the above

Wife swapping

Not much neighborly love in Finksburg, after two men end up dead in an apparent murder suicide.

Drunken frat boy runs newspaper into ditch

Another Tribune Exec (and not the tittays guy, Randy Michaels) has apologized for sending out a memo about "sluts" (hey, that video's a classic!)
Now titties guy has suspended slut guy, and the site Jezebel has more on a former employee's harassment claims, including "saying she had been bitten on the neck by Mr. Michaels and that he walked through the office wearing a sexual device around his neck."

.. and now all afternoon we're going to be wondering what the hell kind of device that might be

Sluts n' Mullets

Eight murders this week, says the CP

The trial of mulleted murder suspect Dennis Testo continues, and TDR's Danny Jacobs has more on "no body" cases

Police are ISO suspect in Hampden store robberies

Clerical error almost cost inmate 14 extra years on his sentence

Oh, great: "Willie Featherstone is a sexual predator, but he keeps getting out of prison."

Rilly? Portfolio.com says Baltimore's income growth is 3rd-highest in the nation.

ps. what's better than this blog? This blog en francais!

NY is considering a crisis-pregnancy-center-signage bill similar to Baltimore's

eine kleine Nachtwunde

A guy stabs two at Oktoberfest

Four or five murders this weekend: adult male and Park Heights and Shirley; Daryll Hood, 22, 4700 block of Shamrock Avenue; Travis Lane, 29, found dead on the 3500 block of Calvert Street; Dennis Waddell, 1600 block of Warwick Avenue; James Ingram, 3000 block of Presbury Street; and a suspiciously dead guy in a vacant in the 800 block of North Fremont Avenue.

UM professor to review Baltimore police arrests

Smoochy lesbians ejected from Ravens game (ps. happy coming out day to our more closeted readers!)

Media blabber

Tribune CEO accused of offering a waitress $100 to flash her tittays to "senior colleagues"

East Oliver update

The drug dealers have moved from the park and are not camped out in front of a funereal home.

Left to die

A shooting victim was left to die in an alley in Oakenshawe.

Senior slain

78-year-old retired bus driver Sterling Palmer was stabbed to death in his home in the 2600 block of Edison highway

Don't check your email

with a laptop stolen from a dorm room...

Guilty

Guilty verdict in Harris case.

Verdict in Harris Trial

.. to be read within the hour

Mellow majorly harshed in Eastpoint

Police say it's the largest drug bust ever in Baltimore County, netting 478 marijuana plants, 640 pounds of processed weed, $12,000 in cash, and nabbing a couple of people.. one who sounds rather familiar
UPDATE: Hermann says it's "not the largest after all."

news of the crazy: a couple of star-crossed Dorchester County teens accused of trying to kill the gal's parents.. and her dad is standing by her.

...an investigation following the death of a teacher at Cheltenham reveals the juvenile facility "lacked — and continues to lack — basic security equipment"

... police are ISO Gary Latham, 27, for the murder of an elderly man in the 3500 block of Elm Avenue

"At prison book club, a former child soldier finds an audience that can relate"

Unfrickinbelieveable Waste & Sloppiness at DJS

Bykowicz reports an audit found the Dept of Juvenile Services lost $3 million due to "improper documentation" (yeah right) and ps., "The agency's failure to submit contracts to the state Board of Public Works on time, meanwhile, forced the spending panel to approve nearly $150 million in agreements after work had already begun."
And pps., says the dept spokesman, it's all Ehrlich's fault.

For a little backgrounder on leadership at the DJS, see the CP's "Juvenile Disservices"

Omar's comin

Michael Kenneth Williams to give a free talk tonight at Morgan State, reports the Brew

Jury in Ken Harris case deadlocked, ordered to keep deliberating

BPD Tweets: "HOMICIDE - 2354 SIDNEY AVE/ADULT MALE VICTIM FOUND INSIDE OF LOCATION"


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And a man and a woman shot last night on Claflin Ct. in Cherry Hill, the woman was shot in the back and died at Shock Trauma


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Albert Snyder vs. Westboro Baptist Church Inc. et al.

Albert Snyder vs. Westboro Baptist Church Inc., et al. to be heard by the Supreme Court of the U.S. tomorrow morning

Harris jury asks about guns

Second day of deliberations ends with note from jury asking about the gun used to kill Councilman Harris.

HALLELUJAH!

Helen Holton pled "no contest" to a campaign finance violation this morning, a deal that will let her run for re-election next year. HALLELUJAH! HALLELUJAH! HALLELUJAH! Apparently God would rather have Carl Stokes heading the finance committee.

.. in other news
a report says trying juveniles as adults is counterproductive; an 18-year-old charged with killing a 16-year-old father-to-be in Edgewood (HarfCo); "Weekend without any killings ends with school police officer shooting"; and a fatal shooting in Fredneck; fingerprints ID a homicide victim found in Landover.

Council special...

Reduced rate for double parking, maybe

Alibi

A post-trial analysis of the defense of the alleged Harris killers.


.. also see Fenton's "Conspiracy theories swirl in closing arguments of Harris trial"

It's for real! Loopy septuagenarian Frank "Papa Bear" Conaway is running for mayor a 3rd time. Comment: "I can see lots of bear cubs getting no-bid contracts in Baltimore's future."

Enhancing skills to get an edge

Suspects and victim in the stabbing at Security Square Mall are students at the North American Trade School there. Wonder what they were studying?

TDR: Ken Harris case is to the jury

speaking of mental

What is going on with all of these teen suicides?
Is 50 cent behind this?

Mario Goes Mental!

R&B one-hit wonder Mario arrested after going crazy on his mama

Teardrop tattoo

Did accused killer Jerome Williams get a teardrop tattoo after councilman Harris was shot to death?

A-holes du jour

Closing arguments in Harris case ... and it's to the jury

Five indicted in Hopkins identity theft scheme

Smirking dude linked to 2007 murder by DNA

Officer Patrick Dotson got 10 years (all but 18 months suspended) for firing his handgun at a bar fight

New anti-perv laws take effect

Butterfingers Bureaucrats Bungle Bank Payments

TDR's Brendan Kearney uncovered a banking mistake that cost the city $600,000

Despicable them

Roommates Manuel Guttierez and Jaime Calderon charged in Cockeysville murder of Jose Ramirez

Soon the fill the next cell: store clerks who shamelessly flaunt flagrant violations of the no-plastic-bag law

Better late than never Dept. Washington Monthly's: Too Weird for The Wire: How black Baltimore drug dealers are using white supremacist legal theories to confound the Feds

Anne Arundel guy gets church volunteerism as part of drunk-driving sentence

Hebrew Wooed Negro Vote

Data shows a lot of voters crossed racial lines in the State's Attorney's election, including white people who voted for Jessamy

Dropped charge in Harris case

Prosecutors want to drop the most serious murder charge in Harris case.

Life without parole for Bloods gang leader Timothy E. Rawlings Jr., who ordered a hit on an 18-year-old fellow gang member Steven Parrish because he thought was gay

and an uniD'd woman found stabbed to death in east Baltimore

Hangman's Noose, Favored Fan, White Flight Pattern

Someone really ought to run a "Red Line" tour

Serial killer?

Interesting details from William Brown's interview with police, a man who killed two women and nearly murdered another.

Wire Creator Wins MacArthur 'Genius' Award

poses mournfully in front of rowhouse

Quality reading

If you haven't read Antero Pietila's Not in My Neighborhood, you really must. Finally got my copy on Saturday and couldn't put it down all weekend. Full of fascinating facts, not just about how housing segregation and blockbusting, but crazy tidbits, like before 1904, Baltimore didn't have an underground sewage system, just massive cesspools. Also MLK Jr. apparently actively avoided Baltimore, for reasons unknown. And apparently Pennsylvania Ave used to be main street!

Charges dropped againt helmet cam man

Judge tossed wire tap charges against the motorcyclist who caught a State Trooper behaving oddly, then posted it on Youtube.

White supremacist Calvin E. Lockner received a 31-year prison sentence today for assaulting an elderly black fisherman at Fort Armistead.

Lots of shootings this weekend. The current tally is five wounded and one dead.

The family of Sarah Foxwell have asked that outgoing Wicomico County State's Attorney Davis Ruark stay on as lead prosecutor in Thomas Leggs's capital murder trial.

AAAAAAAiiieee!

"Piece of tongue key evidence against killer" at the Perkins hospital

Aieee!

Fill in the blank: the "Preppy burglar" looks a lot more ______ up close!

... and the weekends' shootings spawns more of the same-old discussion.

Slashing

Weird tire slashing spree in Frederick targets only "light colored" vehicles.

A guilty verdict for Karl Marshall Walker Jr., a teacher who wrote a 8-year-old sexually explicit "love" letters is MD's first conviction for sex abuse without evidence of physical contact & sets precedent for pervs of the future

Dead witness in Harris case

Witness in Harris case who was killed last year made a contrary ID in ATM video

Gentlemen on the verge of a nervous breakdown

A guilty plea for assault, a hate crime and an attack on a corrections officer from Calvin Lockner, accused of a racially motivated attack on a septuagenarian fisherman last year. Enjoy what may be one of your last quotes from Jessamy's Deputy Division Chief of Communications & Governmental Affairs, Joe Sviatko (who is not an attorney, WBAL fact checkers): "It's safe to say that this is a plea agreement that we feel really good about because were going to get this person off the streets for 31 years."
We'll miss you Joe!

A new commander for the sex offense unit, one who "doesn't have experience with sex offense investigations," but "officials believe that may be a plus given the past problems in the unit." heh heh, sex unit.

HoCo police will buy 7 pairs of Blucher mocs for whomever finds the "Preppy Burglar".
UPDATE! He was nabbed and named as Jeremy Matthew Hall, 30, and Fenton & Hermann are "doing some background checking to see who this man is what he does for a living." Yes, do tell!

Sweeping away drug dealers

After they clean up the damn playground, they're going right back home to their fancy clothes and fancy cars. They’re just trying to look good for the cameras.

Oh, Jesus, there's some new bail bondsmen in town (thanks CP, and thanks readers for voting us Baltimore's 3rd-most-beloved blog!)

more on the raid

Hopkins shooter discussed killing himself a week before shooting.

Sounds like somebody has a case of the Mondays

Five people got shot on Monday night. It sounds like none of them were fatal.

The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner got a fancy new building.

A new start for police after Jessamy?

Wicomico County needs to figure out who will try the death penalty case against sex offender/alleged kidnapper and murderer Thomas Leggs after Davis Ruark lost his re-election bid.

Hopkins shooter

Police are searching the home of the Hopkins shooter in VA. Looking for suicide notes. etc.

Media Blabber

The Johns Hopkins News-Letter steps in it big time, garnering national press for two lovely pieces: one by Managing Editor Greg Sgammato on how much he hates to see "fat chicks at a Hopkins party," another by one Javier Avitia on the advantages of "Banging Under the Influence," topped it off with half-assed non-apology. Grooming some real charmers over there!

Yes, I know, not a crime, stick to crime reports, etc etc.

Sunday morning death

Two fatal shootings early Sunday morning.

Rage against the machine

Maybe Berstein's win will put a dent in the city's political machine?

Saturday crime news

State Senator Ulysses Currie pleaded not guilty to federal corruption charges.

Triple stabbing on an MTA bus in West Baltimore.

Gregg Bernstein will be holding a press conference in the 300 Block of 26th Street (between Calvert and Guilford) at 4pm.

A Concession to Dignity

Short and sweet, good for her. Golf claps. She's put in a long career as a public servant and ought to jet off to St. Bart's and go put her toes in the sand.
More from the Sun.

How wonderful to imagine this blog played a small part in such a golden moment!

ps., what an interesting coincidence, our first Jewish State's Attorney, immediately before Yom Kippur.

Lonely?

chat live with Justin Fenton at 12:30, then then bitch to Dan Rodericks at 1

Congratulations, taxpayers, you paid Margaret Burns $52 an hour to stand on the courthouse steps and talk smack about the ballot count.

More from Hermann

Friends like these...

WTF?! County police say a Reisterstown couple locked a woman in a bathroom for a year (a "friend"? Are you sure that's the word you're looking for, Jeff Hager?)

Murder/suicide at Hopkins Hospital

The son of patient killed his mother than shot himself after he shot a Hopkins doctor in the stomach.

Doctor shot at Johns Hopkins

A physician at Johns Hopkins is in critical condition after being shot by a man who was unhappy with his mother's medical treatment.

Doctor shot at Hopkins

Shooter still inside the hospital.

Give it up, lady!

Thousands of missing votes, sheesh! Lawsuit, I am like so shur. File it right next to that ethics complaint about Bealefeld's sign!

UPDATE: after a day of counting ballots, Bernstein's lead widened .

"It's unclear if [Jessamy]'s now satisfied with the integrity of the election, but [head of the elections board] reiterated that all votes were in except for the remaining absentee ballots left to count and the provisional votes."

The mask

Witnesses didn't know the color of the mask worn by the gunman who killed Councilman Harris.