A 16 year old boy suffered from a nonfatal offense when he was shot last night in Northeast Baltimore.
Who will test the testers? Apparently the American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors/Laboratory Accreditation Board will.
In a twist of irony beyond hilarity, Anthony P. Wallnofer wrote the rule he's accused of allegedly breaking. You'd figure he'd have been smart enough to draft a loophole...
Daily Blotter, where it notes $30 worth of soft drinks stolen in Pikesville. What, tap water wasn't good enough for you?
Anna Ditkoff tracks the murders in Baltimore as few others can do, noting two from this past week in the process.
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
#142
Ink: former professional boxer Eddie VanKirk, 45, was shot by a crackhead on November 19 of last year and died on June 22 of this year; his death has been ruled a homicide.
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Grand jury: "bupe" safe, effective
State police: let's just throw out that ACLU lawsuit, shall we?
Harley David, son of a bitch*!
*anyone who gets that reference gets major points!
State police: let's just throw out that ACLU lawsuit, shall we?
Harley David, son of a bitch*!
*anyone who gets that reference gets major points!
Fan-freaking-tastic: Issues at the BPD crime lab may be a factor in the case of little dear Brandon Grimes.
Crooked government officials working in Baltimore? Kind sir, surely you jest!
Holy Pasta Fagioli! 5,000 gallons of Olive Oil spilled into the harbor and had to be cleaned up last night.
"Would you like my wallet to go with that pepperoni?"
And our daily crime blotter tells us what it is to be malicious, criminal, and male...
Crooked government officials working in Baltimore? Kind sir, surely you jest!
Holy Pasta Fagioli! 5,000 gallons of Olive Oil spilled into the harbor and had to be cleaned up last night.
"Would you like my wallet to go with that pepperoni?"
And our daily crime blotter tells us what it is to be malicious, criminal, and male...
This Kitten Has Claws
Miss Washington County was arrested for breaking into her ex's home and punching his new girlfriend.
(thanks again J!)
(thanks again J!)
Monday, August 25, 2008
August 25, 2008
Albert Edward Driscoll III was shot to death on a boat in Sparrow's Point. Mysterious!
A man and a woman shot in the NW
A follow-up on the six-year-old who was shot on Saturday.
Tragic: Lt. Gov. Brown's cousin was shot to death on Saturday by her crazed ex-boyfriend.
News of the hilarious: North Jersey ninjas take on drug dealers, end up in pokey
(thanks J!)
A man and a woman shot in the NW
A follow-up on the six-year-old who was shot on Saturday.
Tragic: Lt. Gov. Brown's cousin was shot to death on Saturday by her crazed ex-boyfriend.
News of the hilarious: North Jersey ninjas take on drug dealers, end up in pokey
(thanks J!)
Sunday, August 24, 2008
A six-year-old was wounded by a stray bullet in the NE.
In PGC, a 12-year-old was killed by teenagers playing with a shotgun.
Oh, that Judge Motz, once again making an example of a man condemned from birth to join the Bloods and firebomb houses. Everybody just wants to pick on poor Terrence!
Child killer Mark Castillo: I did it and I'm not crazy
Snoop says she never got the summons to appear as a murder witness.
In PGC, a 12-year-old was killed by teenagers playing with a shotgun.
Oh, that Judge Motz, once again making an example of a man condemned from birth to join the Bloods and firebomb houses. Everybody just wants to pick on poor Terrence!
Child killer Mark Castillo: I did it and I'm not crazy
Snoop says she never got the summons to appear as a murder witness.
Friday, August 22, 2008
Look Who's Blogging Now
The Sun has a new crime blog. Their blogger's previous experience is most apt-- covering the Middle East!
Fill in the blank: the main difference between the Middle East in Baltimore and the one where the ferners live is______
Fill in the blank: the main difference between the Middle East in Baltimore and the one where the ferners live is______
August 22
Two shootings last night, one of them killed a 28-year-old man.
The past week's 11 shootings mapped by Spotcrime.
The woman found strangled in Herring Run Park was id'd: "Kiuna Jackson, 19, of the 1300 block of Windemere Ave. in the Ednor Gardens-Lakeside community had no criminal record or associations with criminals."
"Snoop" was "arrested on minor drug charges yesterday after police picked her up for refusing to cooperate as a witness in a murder trial, records show." Her bail review will be at 11 a.m. today at Central Booking.
Issues with crime lab contamination "sure to arise in court"
The past week's 11 shootings mapped by Spotcrime.
The woman found strangled in Herring Run Park was id'd: "Kiuna Jackson, 19, of the 1300 block of Windemere Ave. in the Ednor Gardens-Lakeside community had no criminal record or associations with criminals."
"Snoop" was "arrested on minor drug charges yesterday after police picked her up for refusing to cooperate as a witness in a murder trial, records show." Her bail review will be at 11 a.m. today at Central Booking.
Issues with crime lab contamination "sure to arise in court"
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Docs: Fractured Hyoid Bad for Health
City health officials are holding an emergency meeting Friday to discuss the slayings of prostitutes as a public health issue.
Janis reports that 26 women linked to prostitution have been murdered since 1997. Only six of those cases have been closed by arrest. Since April, five prostitutes have been strangled to death.
The latest victim, still unidentified, was found in Herring Run Park six days ago.
Janis reports that 26 women linked to prostitution have been murdered since 1997. Only six of those cases have been closed by arrest. Since April, five prostitutes have been strangled to death.
The latest victim, still unidentified, was found in Herring Run Park six days ago.
The little darling who was the cameraman for the "Stop Snitching" video is off to the clink. But he had a bright future!
Brandon Grimes was connected to the gun used to kill Detective Troy Lamont Chesley by his ex-girlfriend. One quote I find particularly disgusting:
In Baltimore, it's no longer safe to even walk outside of your house, as proven last night when a man was shot outside his front door.
Even more little dears hard at work, according to the blotter.
According to a Vanderbilt Professor, the key to insuring safe schools is understanding. Well done article overall with a couple of gems I'd like to include here:
I'll leave the rest for your imagination. Thoughts on it?
Brandon Grimes was connected to the gun used to kill Detective Troy Lamont Chesley by his ex-girlfriend. One quote I find particularly disgusting:
So if its a cop, he wouldn't have (allegedly) shot him, but a normal peon is fair game. Outstanding - good to know there's some degree of honor.
Authorities say it's unlikely that Grimes approached Chesley knowing he was a police officer. Carter, now Grimes' former girlfriend, echoed that sentiment.
"I'm not saying Brandon is a saint, but I can't see him taking an officer in uniform," Carter said.
In Baltimore, it's no longer safe to even walk outside of your house, as proven last night when a man was shot outside his front door.
Even more little dears hard at work, according to the blotter.
According to a Vanderbilt Professor, the key to insuring safe schools is understanding. Well done article overall with a couple of gems I'd like to include here:
Blacks, particularly boys, are too often assigned to special-education classes and left out of gifted classes, Ford said, because their teachers have low expectations for them and misinterpret their behavior. Low expectations can be manifested in several ways. Most obviously it is not pushing them into advanced placement classes, and more subtly it is dumbing down language that teachers use in the classroom.
"Remind yourself to talk up to children," she said, adding that use of complex vocabulary should be standard no matter how young the children or how poor their backgrounds.
She also said that African-American students do not revere teachers as Asian-American students do and that teachers must earn their respect.
"African-Americans have an attitude that says, 'When you respect me, I will respect you,'" Ford said. When teachers seem detached or uninterested in their students, black students see that as a sign of disrespect, she said. Students who don't feel the teacher likes or respects them are then more likely to talk back and be disruptive, leading to a classroom that can be more out of control.
I'll leave the rest for your imagination. Thoughts on it?
Don't miss...
Posted yesterday but worth a bump: the CP's article collection and search warrant affadavits from Monday's Tillman raid.
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
That Jose Morales guy is a piece of work, even by Mobtown standards! On August 18 he was arrested in TX for trying to charter a plane for $180k worth of yayo.
August 20
"Edgar Koch, director of the Baltimore Police Department crime laboratory, was fired yesterday in part because of recently discovered contamination in the lab's DNA section."
Witness intimidation works!
"Witnesses Donta Robinson and Jamal Carter had once identified alleged cop killer Brandon Grimes as the man who carjacked them at gunpoint. But Monday both men drastically changed their stories.
'I ain’t never seen that person in my life,' Carter said."
Here's the Ink, with two murders previously unreported, including Michael Sewell, 29, and an unidentified man on Oakley Avenue.
A 1986 murder was solved by some good-old-fashioned dick work
Trial is underway for Kazeem Akinyoade Akinniyi, 26, accused of stabbing his ex-girlfriend’s boyfriend
"Agents from the FBI on Monday raided several offices connected to Milton Tillman Jr., the man with several criminal convictions who prosecutors say controls about 80 percent of Baltimore City’s bail bond market." Here's the CP article collection for the backstories as well as affadavits that list the searched premises.
Marc Mitchell, 18, and Tavon Hammond, 23, were arrested and charged in the attempted murder of another man in a shooting last week at the Northwood Shopping Plaza.
Harsh! "‘RAT’ carved in back of inmate who wore wire"
The city's got a lot of nasty sewage leaks, but don't tell the EPA
Witness intimidation works!
"Witnesses Donta Robinson and Jamal Carter had once identified alleged cop killer Brandon Grimes as the man who carjacked them at gunpoint. But Monday both men drastically changed their stories.
'I ain’t never seen that person in my life,' Carter said."
Here's the Ink, with two murders previously unreported, including Michael Sewell, 29, and an unidentified man on Oakley Avenue.
A 1986 murder was solved by some good-old-fashioned dick work
Trial is underway for Kazeem Akinyoade Akinniyi, 26, accused of stabbing his ex-girlfriend’s boyfriend
"Agents from the FBI on Monday raided several offices connected to Milton Tillman Jr., the man with several criminal convictions who prosecutors say controls about 80 percent of Baltimore City’s bail bond market." Here's the CP article collection for the backstories as well as affadavits that list the searched premises.
Marc Mitchell, 18, and Tavon Hammond, 23, were arrested and charged in the attempted murder of another man in a shooting last week at the Northwood Shopping Plaza.
Harsh! "‘RAT’ carved in back of inmate who wore wire"
The city's got a lot of nasty sewage leaks, but don't tell the EPA
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Grimes Trial to Start Tomorrow
A jury has been seated in the murder trial of Brandon Grimes. Opening statements are scheduled for 9:15 a.m. tomorrow before Judge Timothy "the stupidity is astounding" Doory, 226 Mitchell Courthouse.
Just Asking
Bykowicz's article got us (and a lot of people) thinking: Is a regional jury pool feasible? Would it be Constitutional? (How about a national jury pool, while we're at it?)
August 19
Steven T. Hollis III, 18, of Randallstown and Juan L. Flythe, 17, of West Baltimore were "held without bail yesterday in the death of a Randallstown High School student who was stabbed and stomped to death after his fellow Bloods gang members found messages on his phone that suggested he was gay."
A 17-year-old was shot on the East side.
And another shot 17-year-old has died of his injuries.
Janis reports: How parking tickets go wrong
Like, duh: colleges say the drinking age is "not working"
A 17-year-old was shot on the East side.
And another shot 17-year-old has died of his injuries.
Janis reports: How parking tickets go wrong
Like, duh: colleges say the drinking age is "not working"
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