Not a crime, but still makes you wonder

It appears Baltimore drivers have a penchant for htting temporary water pipes, causing outages

Life after Homicide II -Legalize it

Former homicide detective Irving Bradley thinks the best way lower the murder rate is to legalize drugs

City's biggest-ever drug bust= guilty plea

Ben Nuckols of the AP reports that Trenell D. Murphy, 34, will plead guilty tomorrow to possession with intent to distribute. Murphy was "arrested in February after police recovered 41 kilograms (91 pounds) of cocaine from the bed of his pickup truck -- the largest drug seizure city police have ever made without federal help."

Yet ANOTHER downtown brawl

Two men were stabbed at Lombard & President last night/this morning after leaving a club. (Wonder which one?)

A Hopkins employee was assaulted by water balloons while walking on University Parkway.

Life after homicide

A veteran BPD homicide detective who just retired speaks.

Another downtown brawl

Police Tweet @11:30 p.m.: "SHOOTINGH REPORTED @ 700 N KENWOOD, ADULT MALE SHOT"

More mob-violence craziness! Two teens were stabbed in the course of a fight last night at Baltimore & Charles; 33-year-old Derrick Devon Thornton was apprehended. Thornton's robust criminal record includes an arrest for first-degree murder in 2003.

A person attacked in Federal Hill

Don't miss the NYT on the "incarceration generation"

Steve McNair's death may have been a murder/suicide

WTF?! Former crackhead/DC mayor Marion Barry arrested for stalking! Why do people keep re-electing that lewzer?

Blogger Bob Parkinson: Baltimore needs the Mafia

More bad news

Former Ravens star and 3-time pro-bowl quarterback Steve MacNair was found dead in his Nashville home.

An Arrest

Lamont Davis, 17 was arrested and charged as an adult for shooting 5-year-old Raven

My tort will go on and on...

Once more, the judge opens the door, and the city's suit against Wells Fargo will go on

Constellation must submit to MD regulatory authority

"Md. Prisons, Wireless Industry at Odds Over Jamming Inmate Cellphones"

Medicine Shoppe pharmacist gets federalle indictmentte

Funeral-home fondler kicked out of shul

Alleged rapists arrested

Confessions of an ex-trial board chief

Could claims of corruption in the BPD's discplinary system lead to a federal investigation?

5-Year-Old Shot

on S. Pulaski St. in in West Baltimore, Fenton says she was shot twice in the head.
UPDATE: Fenton says the girl's name is Raven and she is on life support

Smote!

Three shootings in six hours last night

Guilty plea from second suspect in the Timonium Light Rail kidnapping case

Hermann rides with animal control to visit a(n alleged) drug dealer and dog owner in need of leashes, manzierre

Hopkins Bayview agrees to $2.75 million settlement, denies stealing from government

Another church smote!? Bethel AME is the third church burned down by a lightning strike in three years! There was the Baptist church of the Holy Bentley in July of '07, the Methodist church in Hampden last August. There was also a Baptist church struck by lightning, but not burned down, in May.
Coincidence?

Tricia Bishop's story of the Gilbert & Dinkins verdict.

Chasing "johns"

A night on the "john" watch beat in Pigtown.

Life

... for Gilbert, Dinkins and Goods.

Man "pummeled" and robbed at Mt. Washington Light Rail station and other violations in the Messenger crime log

Overdose deaths down

Good news, overdose deaths are down for the second straight year. Odd news, fewer drug abuse fatalities means more hard to explain unclassified deaths.

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Police tweeted @ 1 am: " STABBING: WHEELER & HARLEM, ADULT MALE STABBED, PRONOUNCED AT SHOCK TRAUMA"

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Steven Frank Wilson, reportedly out celebrating his 24th birthday, was shot to death in the 1600 block of E. Eager St

Guilty Plea for Murder of 3-Year-Old Jabari Stocks

From the SAO:

Phillip Queen, 29, of the 100 block of Conley Drive pled guilty today to second-degree murder and child abuse resulting in death. The State had called its first two witnesses yesterday and today when Judge Charles G. Bernstein accepted the guilty plea. Each count carries a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison.

Queen pled guilty to the following statement of facts: On June 8, 2007 Queen caused the death of Jabari Stocks, 3, while babysitting him at he and his girlfriend’s house in the 900 block of Patapsco Avenue. The mother was working that night. Queen called the mother at work that night advising her that her that Jabari was not breathing and was unresponsive. Queen said that Jabari had choked. The mother left work and rushed home to take Jabari to Harbor Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival.

An autopsy was performed and the cause of death was ruled homicide by trauma to the brain with force. Testimony would have shown that Queen took a disliking to Stokes, calling him spoiled and that eventually, June 8, 2007, he hit Jabari in a way in which his head was slammed into an object, severing neurons in his brain.

Judge Bernstein did not schedule a sentencing date pending a pre-sentence investigation of Queen’s history. Felony Family Violence Division Chief Julie Drake and Assistant State’s Attorney Kelly Burrell prosecuted this case.