Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Crime cameras credited with murder arrests.
But must the blue lights flash? so unsightly!

New facebook quiz:
"IN WHICH UNIT OF THE BALTIMORE CITY POLICE DEPT. YOU SHOULD BE WORKING?" In case you were wondering it "IS ABUOT THE BALTIMORE CITY POLICE DEPT. AND IS TO SEE WHICH UNIT IN THE DEPT. THAT FITS YOU MOST."

Vomitous Child Porn in Essex

this case is beyond disturbing.
John Nicklas and Shannon Leigh Honea did things that make a neighbor "want to vomit" (& in Middle River, that's saying something)
we shall now retreat into our protective bubble of denial and try to pretend like we never heard this story.
This weekend's victims identified; the man shot on Edmondson Ave., 25-year-old Steven Eldridge, died of his injuries.
Domestics? Drug family feuds? Money problems? Love troubles? We'll probably never know!

Abducted?

Police now say they will investigate the case of a teen who said she was kidnapped by a man in a chef's outfit last week, reversing an early decision to drop the case.

Monday, August 3, 2009

Baltimore's (only?) "2 gay officers work for acceptance on force, in community"

133, 134, 135, 136

HL says 3 but story has 4 killings since Friday: a seemingly random outdoor shooting, a 26-year-old who'd been MIA for days, a woman in a Honda, a stabbed teenager.

David Reese, 18, 200 N. Paca
Unidentified 18-year-old, 800 block of Allendale St. (8/2)
Stanley Joines, 26, of the 1915 W. Lafayette Ave. (found 8/1)
Unidentified woman, 2800 block of Edgecombe Circle North (8/1)

Gone in 11 days

Thugs chased family out of the city just eleven days after they move in.
"Baltimore medics mistakenly declare man dead" after he was shot by an officer

Sunday, August 2, 2009

The Weekend in Tweets

BPD Tweets since midnight Friday



1. DOUBLE SHOOTING - 800 BLK ALLENDALE ST, POLICE INVESTIGATINGabout 7 hours ago from TwitterBerry

2. SHOOTING: 2715 SPELMAN RD, ADULT MALE SHOT POLICE INVESTIGATINGabout 9 hours ago from TwitterBerry

3. AGG ASSAULT: 2500 Edgecombe Circle N., female with severe head trauma, Police Investigatingabout 14 hours ago from txt

4. SHOOTING - 500 blk S. Potomac, adult male shot in legabout 19 hours ago from TwitterBerry

5. STABBING: 3900 2nd St - Adult male stabbed chest/ back. Police investigatingabout 20 hours ago from TwitterBerry

6. UPDATE: 4100 WESTCHESTER RD VICTIM WAS NOT SHOT BUT SHOT AT.about 22 hours ago from TwitterBerry

7. HOMICIDE ARREST: TODAY BPD CitiWatch cameras aided police in suspect arrest for 2am stabbing @ Mulberry/Paca. Oscar Skinner B/M/18 charged.6:30 PM Aug 1st from web

8. SHOOTING: 2119 Edmonson Ave. Adult male shot. Police investigating4:15 PM Aug 1st from TwitterBerry

9. SHOOTING: 5601 Loch Raven, male with gsw to arm (reported @ 1am - tech. Difficulties w Twitter site)7:04 AM Aug 1st from TwitterBerry

10. UPDATE P/O SHOOTING: Susp lunged @ Police w/ knife-like obj. Officer fired 1 defensive shot striking susp. Susp alive transported to hosp7:01 AM Aug 1st from TwitterBerry

11. UPDATE: 4709 Garrison Bd is correct address for police involved5:18 AM Aug 1st from TwitterBerry

12. POLICE INVOLVED SHOOTING: 3709 Garrison Bd, Male suspect shot during breaking and entering attempt. Police on scene investigating.5:09 AM Aug 1st from TwitterBerry

13. UPDATE - STABBING: Mulberry/Paca, is now a homicide.5:08 AM Aug 1st from TwitterBerry

14. HOMICIDE: 1915 W. Lafayette Av, adult male shot. Reported at 250am. Police investigating5:06 AM Aug 1st from TwitterBerry

15. STABBING: Mulberry/Paca, adult male stabbed in chest5:05 AM Aug 1st from TwitterBerry


17. ATT MURDER ARREST: Chris Muscelli M/W/12/31/82 arrested last night in Frederick Cty, VA for 7/12/ Att murder which occurred @ 2500 Banger St12:01 PM Jul 31st from web

18. ED, SHOOTING, 1816 HOPE, ADULT MALE SHOT IN ARM2:47 AM Jul 31st from TwitterBerry

19. SHOOTING, EAST LYNNE & LEHMAN, ADULT MALE SHOT IN HEAD,12:45 AM Jul 31st from TwitterBerry

20. SHOOTING, 22 S GREENE, VICTIM WAS SHOT IN HEAD/GRAZED AT 1700 MULBERRY.12:34 AM Jul 31st from txt


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Friday, July 31, 2009

Media Blabber

Baltimore City Paper: They're Twittering fools on Calvert St

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A man shot in the head shortly after midnight, "found on the ground next to the driver's side of a vehicle in the 500 block of E. Lynn Ave." and three other shootings last night

... did you hear the one about the lawyer negotiating the return of children from a murderous drug gang? When they heard what his fees were, the gang decided keeping the kids would be cheaper!
... some politic backpedaling from the Mayor after her "step up" zing to the feds.

A shooting near the mall in Columbia

"Cop killer to be freed"

"Unfounded" abduction?

Family says police refused to take report on teen's abduction

Thursday, July 30, 2009

Dixon: Step Up, Feds!

Dixon: Federal investigators need to "step up" to fight the Blackwell/Old Chapel Hill Boys drug-family feud. Meanwhile, one of the victims of the Ashland Ave BBQ shootup was an Operation Safe Streets mediator.. will s/he "snitch"?
... You can "chat" "live" with reporter Justin Fenton at 2 p.m. today on the "Crime Beat"

Tewfer! Stolen minivans haul off stolen bikes

Christopher Hitchens - a man's home is his Constitutional castle; rights cannot be negotiated away over beer.

Need a job? "Prison consultants help inmates get good digs"

Parking problems

According to the city, 129 parking lots are facing criminal or civil penalties for not paying parking taxes, including one valet service in Little Italy that is facing criminal charges.

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Indicted again!

Linskey: the grand jury's got five counts fa da Mayor's azz!
... the original 12 counts will be dismissed.

Helen Holton and octogenarian H&S bakery magnate/Harbor East developer John Paterakis were indicted yesterday
10 days in prison for officer accused of punching & choking his then-girlfriend
The Ink updates the names and numbers.

It's nice to be from the suburbs

Charges are dropped against a Calvert Hall student initally charged with assualting a Baltimore police officer during a car stop.