Unhooked?

Is the city's tow industry crooked and need of repair?

84, 85, 86, 87

A flurry of recent city homicide victims were identified;

#84: Payton Rivers, 34
#85: Maurice Gray, 35
#86: John Kelly, 25
#87: Durran Banks, 25

As well as two previously unknown victims that were not disclosed by police: 27 year-old Anthony Sherman and 57 year-old Kevin Jones.

Baltimore states attorney Gregg Bernstein revealed his new division Friday. The "Major Investigations Unit" will investigate repeat violent offenders, and will be headed by Thiruvendran Vignarajah.


Police are still ISO missing firefighter recruit Rodney Goggins Jr.

An 80 year old woman is in the hospital after a pit bull visciously attacked her.

Police have arrested 23-year-old Anthon Lavar Diggs for the May 21st murder of Jalil Al-Salim.

An KFC robbery turns into a attempted murder in Harford County when a female employee is stabbed by a would be robber.

When you can't trust "e-gold," what can you trust? The U.S. Attorney's Office has seized over 19 million dollars and is looking to seize 8.6 million dollars from e-gold, Ltd.

Mysterious!

Bernstein is holding a press conference at 4 today to "announce the formation of a new unit and to introduce the division’s chief."

Lawyers gone bad

Attorney Stanley Needleman has been charged with stealing a law textbook from a judicial clerk.

The trial of Gahiji Tshamba starts today. Two other police officers are prepared to testify that Tshamba appeared drunk when he put a dozen bullets into Tyrone Brown.

A shooting on E. Eager Street and a burnt body in Northeast Baltimore.

83 murders so far this year, and it looks like Lois Smyth has the dubious honor of being the second white Baltimore murder victim of 2011.

Police arrest two brothers in Pikesville double homicide.

First-degree murder conviction for the 2009 death of Kenneth Johnson at a family cookout. This looks like a rare case where city prosecutors are seeking life w/o parole.

Another burned kitten. Stories like that are really too depressing to comment on.

Looks like it is legal to take pictures of the Light Rail after all.

Yet another depressing story. Darian Kess was a promising wrestler in high school but then screwed up and started breaking the law. He cleaned up his act, got cancer and beat it, and then was stabbed to death in a home invasion.

School fighting

Teachers are getting their collective asses kicked in city schools, according to recent injury claims.

Your tax dollars at play

City pension board charges taxpayers for 6 night stay in South Beach to attend a two-day conference.

Goldbergian 80

At Liberty Heights & Eldorado aves, a man in an SUV is shot to death then mowed down a pedestrian, who survived with a broken leg.
Will we ever find out who was gunning for the driver and why? .. unlikely, but you never know...

Firefighter -v- trans

A Baltimore city firefighter who got into a physical altercation with a transsexual woman was awarded a nice chunk of change by the city despite the objections of CC President Jack Young

RIP

12-year old Sean Johnson died of his injuries on Thursday night, two days after he was shot.

NS Sherlock

Report from the Urban Land Institute slams Mayor's pet development projects, agreeing with everyone but the mayor and her tax-break-crazed developer comrades that the West Side can't support large retail.

Page Croyder comes out of her shell to rail against Bernstein's prosecutors for letting Turtle the carjacker off easy

Kids these days

17-year-old Dashawn Brown stabbed to death in the 3100 block of Edmondson Ave (in a house? on the street?)

An undercover detective posing as a 14-year-old boy in Florida nets a BaltCounty children's entertainment magician in a sex sting.

.. and we're number 5! Crime is down, but not here as much as elsewhere.

So Appalled!

Have you seen these mind-boggling revelations about the extent of domestic spying?!basically every e-mail you ever sent is on a government server. Did we fight the cold war to be East Germany?! Puketifying! I surely hope there will be a vast and wide swath of citizens protesting at whatever Baltimore courthouse this will be in on June 13.

Speaking of training

The mayor's office wants to know if teaching city cops to bust someone in the Vegus nerve is worth the cash.

Training days for ASAs

Keeping his campaign promise, Bernstein hired a training director for the ASAs.

19 year old shot and kiled

19 year old shot and killed near Brooklyn Homes.

Snoop Pleads Not Guilty

She's too pretty to go to jail!

The guv pledges his support to legal protections for transgendered people; the Sun has related video

Marylandiana: a Cecil Calvert half dollar on sale at PropertyRoom.com. Who was that confiscated from, I wonder?

A sweet little missive

in the archives from September 13, 2007:

People make mistakes. Wheather their criminals or what they are human. And the comments affect the family. Let them do their time who are u to say anythang. To kia family my heart goes out to u for your lost. Things never shoulda turned out this way. Darrell is family and never will our backs by turned on him. Wish we could go back and change it. Both families are severly damaged.* missing you relly*

(I wonder why that particular archive page attracts memorials?)

Heifer McPsycho Indicted for Hate Crime

An indictment in Baltimore County on hate crime charges and felonious assault for Teonna Monae Brown, 18, and for her 14-year-old alleged accomplice in juvy court. If convicted Brown could get 20+ years on the hate crime charge, says JZ.

Remember Stephen Pitcairn?

His alleged stabber Lavelva Merritt cut a deal with Bernstein & Co "for a total of about 15 years followed by three years' probation"

And Fenton Tweets, "Body found in the Inner Harbor last week identified as Wayne Paige, 25, of Pikesville, who went missing from Baltimore County on May 7."

Man shot to death

3:05 a.m. Saturday, Marble Hall Road in New Northwood, says Laura Vozzella(?)

Shooting: 1600 block Vincent Court. Adult male shot in the ankle, says police FB

Youth jail delayed, and Bernstein fires Jessamy's community coordinators

.. and $4.3 million in anonymous donations flowed into the 2010 state election cycle, reports Julie B. Hmm!

Ha to the ha ha!

That Belinda!
Belinda Conaway's mutarded lawsuit against Adam Meister has hit the AP-- From the Fred News-Post:

Baltimore councilwoman sues blogger for libel

BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore Councilwoman Belinda Conaway is suing a political blogger and his publisher for $21 million for libel and defamation over a column that alleged she did not live in the city.

The suit filed Tuesday alleges an Examiner.com column by Adam Meister is meant to fool the public into thinking that Conaway lives in Baltimore County and force her out of office.

On election documents, Conaway lists a Baltimore City address used by several members of her politically active family.

Conaway’s attorney, Thomas Maronick, said Wednesday that the Randallstown home in Baltimore County is listed on tax records as a primary residence since Conaway and her husband file jointly and he lives there part-time. He said Conaway is seeking to correct the records.

Conaway said this could happen to anybody.

Meister said he backed up his allegations with documents and is honored to be sued over the matter.

Justin Jimenez, a spokesman for Denver-based Examiner.com, said the company has no comment and hasn’t been notified of the lawsuit.

Yes, it could happen to any lyin' tax cheat, Belinda Bear!
I hope the IRS makes an example out of you & you do get forced out of office-- though who would want that office? The seat is up for election this year? ...... any takers?

six people

shot in seven hours

The Boys are Back at It

A fatal shooting in Westport ended a 12-day homicide-free streak in the city. It also ends a streak of a week of almost all female stories on the blog.

E E Baltimore

Emma Eileen was the name of the woman who was found in the Jones Falls. She was 66 and the wife of "prominent" bishop Wilbert Baltimore of Anne Arundel county. Says a BCrime commentor, "She was forced to live with the shame of her husband's "double-life." She suffered pain and abuse at the hands of the individuals who supported her husband and covered for him. This looks like foul play to me...please do some digging into this case and the history of this family. Its better than a Lifetime movie."


.. no word on the owner of the bones in the Hampden basement

Your tax dollars at work: Big bucks for a shrub

8k just approved to maintain a shrub.

Really?!

Blogger Adam Meister says that a Sun reporter called to tell him that Belinda Conaway plans to sue him and Examiner.com for $10 million.. oh shiz, now it's $21 million! ... over this story about her tax credit. ha!
She must be getting political advice from Pat Jessamy, heh.

Hopkins students mowed down

Benjamin Zucker and Rachel Cohen were struck at St Paul & 33rd, are both expected to live.

Life + 3 Years of Cleaven Williams

Says the State's Attorney's office, for first-degree murder and possession of a deadly weapon.

Woman in the water, bones in the basement

Woman's body found in the Jones Falls, close to Meadow Mill Athletic Club and right downstream from the Fox 45 newsroom.

And a contractor found bones in the basement of home on Elm Avenue in Hampden.

It's Midwife day, hon

It's international midwife day, and birth activists from Baltimore and elsewhere are driving down en masse to the Alexandria courthouse this morning to support locally based midwife Karen Carr during motions of her manslaughter trial.
UPDATE: says ‎In Service to Women (Legal Defense Fund for Karen Carr, CPM):

"Today Karen Carr, CPM worked out a plea deal. She will have no jail time after already serving 6 days upon her arrest a few weeks ago. However, she has many fines to pay including the prosecution's costs. Please continue to help us with donations. We will give a total cost update soon. Thank you for your support."

An uptick in violent stabbings, including two fatal last week of 16 total stabbing fatalities so far this year.

Bernstein's first city case a 66.6% victory

Phylicia Barnes was murdered

says the medical examiner

Phoenix retrial postponed

Tuesday Roundup

Guilty pleas for the major leaders of the BGF in
Federal court the other day.

Two of the three Baltimore police officers charged with kidnapping and flase imprisonment are convicted...of misconduct.

Keep an eye out for Josetta Hill, a city woman wanted for a 2008 double homicide.

Police arrest James Cureton, 21 in the killing of innocent civilian Tanise Ervin back in March.

A teen in Hagerstown is sentenced for his part in a tragic shooting of
a toddler.

A bizarre case is unfolding in Jessup as a man, Identified as
26-year-old Najib Malik Abdullah is found dead in home next to his 5-year-old son.

Police academy shake-up?

Looks like the BDP is re-organizing the police academy.

Gamble family still waiting

The family of Sean Gamble, who was killed outside of Select Lounge in January by police, gathered in front of City Hall this weekend because they've yet to get a single phone call from any city official.

Walk a mile in these...

Teen settles with parents of Christopher Jones for undisclosed sum - and
$150 shoes.

Two Baltimore police commanders were cleared in investigations of an abandoned vehicle and a "loaned" handgun.

Jersey Shore cast members rob Bel Air paintball store.

Masks? Dark clothing? If it can happen in Pittsburgh, it can happen here.

There may be no crime here, but somebody dumped 30 pet rats at a Hagerstown school. The big question - who owns 30 rats? Voluntarily, I mean. I lived in Mt. Vernon, so I had plenty of little grey buddies, but they didn't "come when called," thank Gawd...

Sanity and its discontents

"Person found dead in basement after fire in Southwest Baltimore"

Deener man who killed his landlord because he thought he was a warlock sent to mental hospital

Steven "JR" Blackwell accused of laundering money by buying winning lottery tickets, among other means

From the blog-o-sphere, the poignant "Phylicia Barnes and the Black Girl's Burden"

Two arrested for robbing rent-payers in Cockeysville

In other news, "Transgender rights in the spotlight in Maryland and Texas" (Texas is trying to revoke transgender marriage rights); in Towson, men raised money for RAINN by walking a mile in high heels; and Australia is banning porn featuring flat-chested women.

Need to dress more manlier? Police magazine reviews 2011's tactical pants collections.

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Man shot to death in Brooklyn last night

The Ink recaps last week's 10 murders

More deets on the Monday night harbor teen thing (at least a hundred teens on the street, six people arrested, two teens stabbed-- but so totally not a riotous mob, mkay?)

Toted teen's relatives testified in trial yesterday

292 months for alleged heroin conspirator "Bun Rock"

Ten years for alleged crack/heroin dealer Robert Peterson, and 15 years for alleged gun-toting 5x con Marquis Battle (what, no fun nicknames?)

Two oldsters indicted for massive metal theft

Control yer effing dogs, people! 106 stitches and 12 staples for kindergartner shredded on city furlough day

Schools locked down in AAC on account of barricade situation (now "resolved")

Apparently we have tea partiers, and they're totally pissed about the in-state tuition thing

What the?! DC perv managed to get his pedophilia on while incarcerated in the federal penitentiary in Marion, Illinois

Duane Davis something something

El Jiz says alleged "terlit bomber" Duane “Shorty” Davis had his day in court, whatever that means

Tuesday roundup

Police say that the other body found in the Susquehanna unrelated to Phylicia Barnes; 53-year-old man Darryl Harper went missing in March from VA after threatening suicide.

Well that doesn't sound good for team Bernstein: "Teen says he wasn't beaten, choked by officers accused of kidnapping," testified that he lied to 911 dispatcher

Harbor teen gathering downgraded from riotous mob, upgraded to "melee"

Joshua Freeman, 22, found guilty of kidnapping and assaulting a woman

$30 million gift to U of MD law school

"Md. lawyer admits laundering drug proceeds"

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Man shot to death on Bentalou St. off of W North Ave

Why do we have to cut city services?

City employees filed 19,000 injury claims in four years, cost us a couple hundred mil...

Riot downtown?

At the least "large groups" of teens that got "a little wild," said the Twitterers @juliemore, @justin_fenton, @baltoSpectator, with a juvenile stabbed in the side & bus-sized paddy wagons. Also a large blackout in on the East side.

Riddle me this...

Can a same-sex couple married elsewhere invoke spousal privilege in MD?

.. and no bail for McPsycho heffa Teonna Monae Brown. I assume it took four days after the beating to charge her because it took her that long to be identified, or is that naive?

in other news, the law firm that had signed on to defend DOMA has withdrawn, most likely fearing the backlash of having "unpopular clients"

The 4th circuit 4th Circuit affirmed that a posthumously conceived child can’t get benefits, here's the case

The City that Breeds notes a TDR update of the Jason-Zink-tip-pooling scandal

Charles Village follies

Courtesy of JHU security:

Below is a report from the April 25 JHU Security Daily Incident Report.
 
Armed Robbery – 2900 Blk. Wyman Park Drive (southwest side) – On April 24th at 1:18 AM, a junior undergraduate walking through a grassy area was approached by two males. One male was in possession of a dark colored handgun and demanded the victim’s property. The victim relinquished his wallet and backpack containing a Netbook computer. The suspects fled on foot north on Wyman Park Drive. Baltimore Police searched the area with negative results. There were no injuries and the investigation is continuing.  Security Bulletin SP#4 is forthcoming at www.jhu.edu/~security .
 
Armed Robbery of Non-Affiliate – 2700 Blk. St. Paul St, northwest corner– On April 25th at 4:25 AM, a non-affiliated male was waiting at the MTA stop and was approached by two males. One male displayed a silver and black handgun and demanded money. The victim relinquished his wallet containing credit cards as well as his cell phone. The suspects were last seen fleeing east in the 100 block of east 27th St. Baltimore Police and campus officers searched the area with negative results. Investigation continuing. Security Bulletin SP#5 is forthcoming at www.jhu.edu/~security .
 
Theft – 3200 Blk. N. Charles St.– Between April. 20th at 9:00 PM and April 21st at 3:00 AM, a laptop computer was taken from an undergraduate student’s unlocked room in the house. The student declined to have Baltimore Police notified. Investigation continuing.

Teonna Monae Brown

.. is the perfect subject for me to use as I try to figure out Photobucket

.. Gawker & the Smoking Gun are all over this story, reporting that Brown had been arrested before, for attacking a patron at the same restaurant, punching a mom in the face, hitting her with an umbrella, and yanking off her wig! WTF?!
(.. wonder if that is a plausible defense against hate-crime charges, that Brown had also attacked a brown-complexioned woman with a uterus in the same place.. she's an an equal-opportunity psychopath!)

And here's Vernon "Charm" Hackett, the winner who took credit for filming the attack on his Facebook page.



more comfortingly, here's Vicky L. Thoms, who tried to stop the attack

.. in other news, police say two of last week's murders may have been committed by one suspect

A Middle River man got 30 months for birth certificate/passport fraud

Four shot to death overnight?

That's what the news says...

Beating victim speaks

Chrissy Lee Polis talked to Jill Rosen, worker who made video fired.

A shooty spell

Five people shot in the last couple of days,

BCFDL734 tweeted *CUTTING* Box 13-19 unit block w Preston St adult male stabbed FIRE/EMS Units responding and treating

McD's beating victim a trans woman

The Bilerico blog reports that the person beaten at the Rosedale McDonalds was a man biological male transgendered woman.

Dumb love

Search of lawyer Stanley Needleman's office uncovered <$600,000.. in addition to the $120k they found at his house.

Testimony continued yesterday in the stranded-teen case with the second alleged victim taking the stand to describe how one officer laughed as the other threatened him.

Puke. In Carroll Co, Donald Previa found guilty of killing his girlfriend's 8-month-old baby. So tired of reading this same story over and over-- hey ladies, just because you're boning some guy does not mean he'll make a good babysitter!

Doug Gansler doesn't want you to drink Snoop Dogg's "Blast"

Essay by design professor/Bolton Hill resident Callie Neylan: "When You're in Love With a Broken City"

Not Baltimore but can't resist: "What's dumber than getting a tattoo on your ass of the Tasmanian Devil chugging a beer while peeling out in a hot rod? Getting a full chest piece that recreates that murder you committed"

and

Meet the guy who beat speeding tickets with photo time stamps & math skillz

Phylicia Barnes = found

The Sun confirms that the body found yesterday is hers

uh oh

Jayne Miller reports that one of the bodies found in the Susquehanna has a tattoo similar to Phylicia Barnes'.

.. and Barnes' dad told a CBS affiliate in North Carolina that the body is hers.

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A man shot to death "on the 14th floor of the Hanover Square building, a high-rise housing complex for seniors and the disabled, reports Liz F. Kay"

The Ink has last week's four murders

What to think of this story: Karen Carr, Baltimore midwife is being charged with involuntary manslaughter in VA after a baby she delivered died. Carr was not licensed to practice in VA, and her patient was 43, premiparous with a breech baby.

Bodies found yesterday near Conowingo Dam

MD makes strides towards transparency.. kind of

Oh puleeeze! Ruxton residents freak out what Sheppard Pratt proposes putting a halfway house in the hood. Because only poor people should have to live near one of those. And Federal Hill residents are challenging some liquor licenses.

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Unid'd man, rear alley of the 500 block of Schroeder St.

DNA has linked Baltimore County's Nankisoor Ramnath, found guilty of murdering his wife in 2008, to the rape of a mentally challenged woman.

County police are ISO this flasher. Could someone please explain to me the appeal of flashing people/schoolgirls?

"An employee of a bail bonds shop on Eastern Avenue has been charged with shooting a man who was fleeing the store after getting into an argument over fake gold" .. do you think he cuts his own hair?

Fenton asks some questions of a cute 25-year-old Russian who gave money to SRB & O'M

& happy 4/20, stoners! Here's a pot story round-up from Mother Jones. And "duh" of the day, The American Independent asks "Is Big Pharma set to corner the American market on medical marijuana?" .. and I wonder how many people were arrested in Baltimore City for marijuana last year? Anybody know?

People who beat people

Tales of dissed robbers in the N. Baltimore Patch blotter

Drunken Irish-bar patron crashes into Timonium BP station in the Messenger blotter

Brick, umbrella, pocketknife, bat, stick & bottle in the Baltimore Guide blotter

A Seven-Bullet Weekend

A 49-year-old man was shot in the back yesterday evening in the 5300 block of Wabash Ave.

A man involved in a car accident near Hanlon Park had been shot in the head, for a total of seven shootings in the city this weekend (accounted for so far)

The mom of stabbing victim Andre Volkman is pleading for information about the man and woman her son was seen arguing with near Lexington Market on April 8

Lede of the day: "Not long before police say Brittany Norwood stabbed and bludgeoned Jayna Murray to death last month inside the Lululemon Athletica store in downtown Bethesda’s high-end shopping district, the two were the perfect sales team."

Another legislative recap & political news rundown from the Maryland Reporter

The Daily Record editorial board (whomever that might be) is officially anti-DP

Page Croyder on how a judge found it legal for the daughter of a county councilman to bite an officer

Bernstein says he picked the shoeless-teenager case because the head of the police misconduct unit had retired. He's also been in office for 100 days now, and I have yet to get a single press release.

Women stabbed at Rockville Nordstrom awarded "nearly" $1.6 million

Eenteresting: The City That Breeds says a new site, AskFuzz, is Baltimore-based and lets readers ask questions of anonymous cops. They're also looking for cops to answer questions.

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Unidentified man, Decker Avenue, 3:40 a.m.

Also a 19-year-old shot in the thigh soon after midnight

And three people shot Friday in Sandtown-Winchester

Dundalk man allegedly shot by his neighbor after allegedly parking in said neighbor's driveway by accident

A 16-year-old was arrested for the murder of Teon Dobbs in Landsdowne, spurring jiz readers to offer the world lots of enlightened & elevated philosophical discourse on the matter

Clusterage

So let me get this straight: the three cops that Bernstein is prosecuting will all be tried together, but two of the defendants are having a jury trial, and one (the only white one?) is having a bench trial. Never heard of such a thing & must agree with a commentor, if the point of the SA prosecuting a case is to show ASAs how it's done, why not pick something more typical? Or is the whole point just to show the world that Bernstein and the police aren't in bed together (in spite of the fact that he and the mayor's liaison to the police are literally in bed together)? Or is the whole case so bizarre and technical he feared some ASA would ef it up?

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The city's 53rd murder victim of this year was a 24-year-old woman found shot in the head and chest behind apartment buildings in the NW.

One Syron Abdullah, aged 20, arrested for the murder of Jhoma Blackwell, and allegedly stealing and pawning her video game systems. Abdullah was also charged three years ago with raping a 13-year-old.

A triple shooting and crazy car chase Wednesday linked to a fight at Dundalk Middle School; the jizz has mug shots of the Camaro-driving superwinners Charles Robinson and Quincy Alford, and bonus video footage of Robinson's big fat hairy gut slopping out of his drawers.

Fenton reports that 1990s drug 'kingpin' 'Great Billy Guy' is in 'trouble' again.

Ten years for a 21-year-old who allegedly conspired to rob a drug dealer

Motions expected to continue today in that case Bernstein is trying.

The MD Gazette's take on General Assembly winners & losers.

Paging Maurice Levy

The law offices of Stanley H. Needleman were raided by the Baltimore PD and possibly the Federales this morning.

.. in other news

Police say they are closing in on a suspect in the murder of Jhoma Blackwell.

Neighbors and Joan Floyd help keep the Nancy Schmidt case alive.

Police are ISO these brazen robbers, and arrested these.

Two traffic tickets for Jeannette Marie Walke, who mowed down cyclist Nathan Krasnopoler

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency issued cease-and-desist orders against eight mortgage bankers

The endless case of Lee Stephens

The Maryland Court of Appeals has rejected a pre-trial appeal by Lee Stephens. He is one of the two inmates accused of murdering Maryland House of Corrections CO David McGuinn in July 2006. No trial date is set, but it sounds like the judge is free to schedule one now that this appeal has been dismissed. Stephens's co-defendant still has a pre-trial appeal pending.

Uncharted lands

INteresting! The AP reports that Gregg Bernstein is going to try his first case this week, of three police officers accused of dropping off teenagers in the wilds of HoCo and the East side. (Wonder how 3 officers and 2 incidents = one case?)

$13.

Life (aka >35 years) for 19-year-old Troy Taylor, who killed 72-year-old Charles Bowman, a security guard at the Baltimore Afro-American newspaper and a Vietnam vet, shot to death at the Yau Bros carryout in the course of being robbed of $13.

Millions for horse tracks, a 50 percent increase on the booze tax, in-state tuition for undocumented immigrants, pot decriminalization for the chronic and more on Sine Die in Annapolis

Alleged carjack victims describe the "creepy feeling," "scary eyes" and hamhanded gearshifting Isaiah Dixon subjected them to.

"Council calls hearing on lead-paint judgments"

Manslaughter conviction for Sian James

and nobody's happy

Man shot by police today after stealing handgun from Bank of America guard in Federal Hill
(good gracious that's a lot of verbiage from Justin Fenton in one day.. this is why you should never try or be good at anything, you'll get worked like a carnival mule.)

.. and more from Nick Madigan on the conviction of Frederick A. Christian

Christian Guilty

in the murder of Jerryell Myesha Foster, reports Fox. Last week Christian took the stand and accused police of tampering with evidence. Friday, county ASA Rachel E. Karceski decried the defendant's "Lies! Lies! Lies!"

In other news, you can bring your dog to an outdoor restaurant, but management doesn't have to serve your butch-looking girlfriend.

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Two murders this weekend

Former county prosecutor Isaiah Dixon about to go on trial for carjacking (??)

Holy yikes! Glen Burnie woman allegedly awoke to the sight of this crackhead trying to strangle her

Speaking of prosecutors, last month SCOTUS threw out a $14 million award for an exonerated death row inmate, who published a very sobering op-ed in the NYT yesterday. (And yes, Harry F. Connick Sr. is Jr's dad, if Wikipedia is to be believed!)

Poignant! BaltCo's 14 court reporters to leave by this summer & be replaced by robots (aka remote-controlled digital recordings).

UFOs in Glen Burnie? Nazis at the mall? Fenton on the fascinating finds in the FBI's Baltimore files

And it's the last day of the 428th session of the general assembly, and Linskey & Bykowicz recap your winners & losers. Bite it, fracking!! And this just in, a state health care exchange.

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Oh fer ef's sake! Dwight Taylor, 25, was shot to death while waiting to get a haircut at 200 W. Saratoga St -- 5 p.m. right there in the Central District, like two blocks from the Daily Record! Police Tweet that CitiWatch cameras caught the suspect, who is in custody.

It doesn't get much Baltimorier than this: search of Patapsco Park didn't find Phylicia Barnes, but did turn up a man's body.

In Fell's Point a man was stabbed after bumping into someone at the RoFo

County police are ISO a-hole Antonio Marquis Johnson, who broke into his ex-gf's house and assaulted her 3-year-old son

Unshockingly, the Sun is all for in-state tuition for illegal/undocumented immigrants. (Comment: "figure out a way to do something with people whoe brake laws. Its not difficult")

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Police Tweet "OVERNIGHT HOMICIDE: 4900 Blk Bowland Ave. (Northeast District), 1:20am, 31 year-old male stabbed in the chest" -- but now I can't find the report of the demise of the stabbing victim at Lexington & Paca... did I hallucinate that?

Judge Nance says the city's gun registry is unconstitutional

Alleged killer of David McGuinn asks for a delay, which was denied, but then the C of A ordered a stay

and Baltimore Spectator is podcasting from Patapsco State Park, where an on-the-ground search for clues in the Phylicia Barnes case is underway, even though police apparently have no specific tips

Op Ed: Drug courts are not the answer

Torbit findings to be released soon

Prosecutors say they will release their own findings on the friendly fire killing a police officer and bystander soon.

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Police FB'd that this stabbing at Lexington & Paca was fatal.

Fox reports that the jury "deliberated for almost seven hours today" in the Jerryell Foster case

Free Snoop!

FINALLY Felicia Pearson is out on bond

Downtown, Sian James took the stand and cried, more from the Daily Record

and why did Rep Donna Edwards (D-4th, down around PGC & MoCo) quote White Stripes lyrics on the House floor?

City DOT workers fired

7 employees terminated after the IG"s office found them drinking on the job.

M.I.A.

Yet another missing teenager! County police are ISO Chalese Jenelle Brown, 16, last seen in Parkville. (And flickr will apparently no longer let me post pictures to this blog, so until I find another hosting service I guess there will not be any)

Three people shot last night.

Eric Rich, 28, charged with attempted murder after allegedly dumping scalding water on old people he thought were stealing drugs

Final vote expected today on that parole-for-lifers bill.

It sounds like the evidence in the case of Lee Edward Stephens, alleged killer of correctional officer David McGuinn, meets MD's new standards for the death penalty .. but will he get it? (& if he does, what are the chances of some kind of protocol ever being worked out?)

PGC police fatally shot an ax-wielding man outside of a day care center.

Who owns your e-mail cloud?

Congrats to Justin Fenton and a couple of other people, up for a national Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc award for the "City Rape Stats Questioned" story

I can has justiz?

The woman shot in Reservoir Hill was ID'd as Keenya Jordan, a case manager for disabled adults.

Four witnesses plus 911 tapes in the Sian Jones trial today. The Sun also reported earlier the fucktarded circumstances that allegedly led to the perp feeling threatened.

A conviction for Tracy Denise Queen in the tutoring-fraud scheme uncovered by Baltimore Brew reporter Joan Jacobson.

Jemini Jones' former attorney Janice Bledsoe to head Police Integrity Unit

Cameras bust a North Avenue drug deal. ... must be a rare event for it to make the news

Mistakes were made

The city OKs $75k in spending to pay for probe of the Club Select shootings

Man murdered on Monday ID'd as Christopher Bullock, 24

Trial set to begin today for the killing of Detective Brian Stevenson. Update: trial started with Sian James' lawyer claiming that his client felt threatened. After he walked to the parking lot because his friend's girlfriend called him, incensed that he didn't respect her right to save a parking place by standing in it. Stupidity. Astounding.

Officers Chris Funk and Matthew Ryckman were cleared in the shooting of an unarmed police informant

Family of Haines Holloway-Lilliston, killed in a high-speed chase, are suing the city for $40 million

A three-hour hearing for a motion to dismiss the State Center lawsuit.

And the city is on the hook to pay for a new paint job for a resident's car

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A homicide last night in the 600 Blk Lennox St. (Central District), 1:15am, "adult female shot multiple times."

The Ink has last week's seven murders, plus case updates

Dundalk murder victim's finacee told the Patch's Ron Cassie that the accused, her brother, was trying to protect her and her fetus

Glad to see the Dooce's Cold Case files covering the 2008 murder of Remington septuagenarian Nancy Schmidt

Was William Torbit's funeral too over the top?

VA court upholds the use of warrantless GPS tracking devices. Though I guess law enforcement still needs a warrant for someone's cell phone tracking records?

Ed & Van: "A British ex-con was sentenced to 78 months in prison—-quite a bit below the 120-month mandatory minimum—- for scheming to export cocaine from Baltimore to London."

Lee Farkas, the former chairman of the mortgage company that financed many a flipped house in the southeastern is now on trial in Alexandria VA for fraud

Bicyclists are biking from Bmore to A-town this morning in support of a bill that would create the new offense of manslaughter by criminal negligence

Yesterday the in-state tuition bill passed the House Ways and Means Committee

If you're a drunken weenus at an O's game, here's where you're going to go

MD police seminar focuses on "sexting." That doesn't sound good to you? Well, what if I threw in a picture of my cock?

And in national news, the FBI has released hundreds of pages of files re. the murder of the Notorious B.I.G. ... though so redacted you can't really read anything.

It took a year

For police to serve a warrant against a high level DPW supervisor and sex offender after his step daughter reported that he beat her in 2010.

The evening dismal

Feeling good? Had a great day? There's a cure for that...

Nick Madigan covers the murder trial of former used-car salesman Frederick A. Christian, accused of killing Jerryell Myesha Foster and dumping her body in the wiles of Virginia.
(.. I remember this case, and while a search of the archive turns up stories of a man found dead on a burning couch, a 5-year-old shot by a gun he found under the couch, a pissy drunk on the couch, knives stashed under the couch and a 16-month-old killed by a couch, can't find the archive.)

HoCo jewel thieves used the stolen car of city murder victim Derek Jones.

A state appeals court won't hear appeals in the case of children who sued Saint Joseph's Society of the Sacred Heart claiming a priest was their father.

Man's ass glued to terlit seat at Elkton Wal-Mart

Look before you turn

Injured cyclist Nathan Krasnopoler is not expected to recover.

The death toll from this morning's shootings has gone up. Current tally is two dead, five injured.

Tuesday, Bloody Tuesday

One man killed near the 3400 block of Powhatan Ave. and six others injured in shootings all over town in one single hour this morning, reports Yeganeh June Torbati

Very sad: co-workers testify that murder victim Jerryell Foster came to the job with her face black, blue and swollen before she disappeared

A Waverly resident attacked with a hammer in the Patch blotter

SRB: it's not possible to pay lead-paint claims

Justice4Safety's David Udoff ponders what makes a murder newsworthy

Police tow scam

Now expanded and may include insurance fraud.

Ladies' night victim ID'd

"Ladies' Night" victim ID'd as Charles Johnson, 24. And was the club open again Saturday night?

On the scene gruesome details from Burboun Street

a"bloodbath" inside the club

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The BPD says "UPDATE: 4/2/11, 1:00am, 300 block of Guilford Avenue. Four men were stabbed inside of a night club. A 24 year old man has died as a result of his injuries. Homicide detectives are investigating" ... Sun reports it was ladies' night at the Bourbon Street Ballroom, which went on lockdown after the stabbing; a lady was Tasered when she tried to leave.
Oh, what a night.

"A man stabbed outside a Dundalk house just after midnight this morning has died, county police said."

In Glen Burnie a jockey's girlfriend pleaded guilty to "slaying" 52-year-old Debra Lynn Gill, and "retaliation against a witness", though it sounds like the jockey was the one who did the actual slaying.

And a 46-year-old woman was arrested for robbing a Wachovia.

43, 44

43: Unidentified man killed at 6000 block of Moravia Park Drive

44: Unidentified man killed at the intersection of Winchester St. and North Carey St.

A teen girl was attacked and sexually assaulted in broad daylight Thursday.

Teen beats grandmother in head with hammer

Happened this morning in North Baltimore

One crime is never enough

City worker who the IG caught partying on the clock at SJ Deli is caught again abusing tax dollars.

"The city is burning down"

Jhoma Blackwell's mom had some choice words for city officials

Murrell Alfred Hearns Jr., 31, shot in a Pigtown parking lot, died of his injuries

What the?! A mother and her son were both arrested for the murder of Reginald Wragg

East Baltimore developers to City Council: mistakes were made. Relocated resident: "You gave me nothing but heartache"

Don't Drag Race

Donneil Raeburn's trial for a fatal drag-racing accident on I-70 began on Tuesday.

Gun stolen from businessman registered to police commander. I had no idea that the owner of Arcos was "politically connected." They did have good Mexican food a few years ago.

Classics

In Edgewater, a man was arrested after a stand-off in which he swung a sword at officers

A knife fight over a pee bucket in the Baltimore Guide blotter

Fifty years ago, says Baltimore or Less, police busted a stripper for dancing provocatively with a snake. The dancer's lawyer said it was strictly art.

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The man shot at the Frankford Gardens Shopping Center at 5400 Sinclair Lane has died

More details on the fatal stabbing in Remington-- Fenton Tweeted that she was 16, WJZ says she was an 18-year-old nursing student, IV says "teenage woman"-- and the murder of Gregory Davenport, who (Lord forgive me) sounds like he had it coming.
UPDATE: The police ID'd the victim in Remington as Johma Blackwell, 18

Fenton also dropped by a creepy/sad memorial for 48-year-old Mary Williams, killed in one of our many if-the-killer-had-been-in-jail-like-he-was-supposed-to-be-this-wouldn't-have-happened murders.

Last week's three murders in the Ink

Shomrim is being sued for assault by "notorious gadfly" Leonard Kerpelman

TDR says the city council held a hearing re. East Baltimore Development Inc. last night. Also in politics, The CP visits elected officials' homes, SRB cut $65 mil from the city budget, the Senate Leader says the odds of the "trans bill" passing are "next to none (rallying certain commentors against the "homopromo" lobby), and the House Minority Leader said multiple poaching bills are "overkill". And, reports JZ, "A man on trial for sending Governor Martin O’Malley a threatening email is getting a groundswell of support."

& finally quote of the day from Fark: "Perhaps Justice Scalia wouldn't get in car accidents if he rode a horse, like the Founding Fathers intended"

more details on stabbing

teenage girl was stabbed to death...

Fox says..

"Breaking News: Baltimore City Police are investigating after a woman was found dead inside a home on Huntingdon Ave. We have a crew on the way and will bring you more information as it becomes available."

This can't be happening

A supervisor is suspended without pay for allowing DOT employees to party all the time.

ugly, dangerous, depressed and angry

40 years for 20-year-old Donald Vaughan, who slithered between the cracks of probation supervisors and sexually assaulted a Canton woman and slashed her neck with a knife. He also pleaded guilty to a 2007 rape, and faces charges related to two rapes in VA.

30 years for Taron K. Melvin (including five years without possibility of parole ...ooooo) for the murder of Shawn Williams, 28.

The city council approved the new district map. More details from Patch.com on how this affects the North side (there goes Belinda Conaway's neighborhood...!)

The MD Senate passed the wine shipping bill 45-0.

The Dooce is starting a new cold case news series next Tuesday

That's-a interesting: Caesar's Den, Chiapparelli's, Da Mimmo, Sabatino's and Vaccaro's have joined a lawsuit against the State Center project

"Baltimore is ugly, dangerous, depressed and angry, according to national lists."

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was ID'd as Steven Oglesby, 17.

Melee this weekend that started with a girlfight at the Sheraton

and a food delivery man was robbed and stabbed

‘Whether he’s Mother Teresa or a sex offender, he earned the money’!

So says the lawyer for Dennis Mclaughlin, the sex offender and ex-city employee who was paid sick leave courtesy of city taxpayers while serving out a sentence for sexually assaulting a 13 year-old girl in a seedy motel room.

"Good, minimal protections"

At least we don't live in Uganda! The House passed the "Trans Bill," which will make it illegal to discriminate against a bio-dude who looks like a lady or vice versa when it comes to jobs or housing (though it is apparently still legal to kick someone of questionable gender off of a bus, out of a restaurant, out of the mall, etc.). Interestingly, supporters included the two Dels. who waffled on same-sex marriage, Sam Arora and Tiffany Alston.

And a "questionable death" at 36th and Falls this morning

Re. the county murder arrests announced on Friday, Hermann notes that the Jan 8 murder of Nathan Bowles hadn't been disclosed to the public in the first place, and asks "What made Friday the perfect day to release weeks- and months-old news?"