Unidentified man, 21, killed in a drive-by at the bus stop in the 6600 block of Alta Ave.
Murder Ink (barely) covers last week's murder of Warren Wilmer, 36, and has some updates-- arrests for the 2011 murders of David Jones (#1) and Jeffrey Purnell (#15), and a conviction for the murder of Mark Johnson in 2009.
After debate raged in the Senate yesterday, Mike Miller set odds of same-sex marriage passing at 60-70 percent. Unexcited by the prospect is one Victor Kirk of Lanham, "What if a father wants to marry his daughter? Or a brother and sister want to marry each other?" And Senator repping the the county, Jim Brochin, has swung his stance from civil unions to full-frontal civil marriage rights.
"Md. hands keys to Baltimore detention facility" to the feds. (Really? Actual literal keys?) Hey wonder whatever happened to that cell-phone-jamming idea? I know they tested the jamming system last year, but did they ever implement it anywhere?
... btw here's a picture of the alleged burglar who left his cell phone charging at a crime scene in MoCo. He looks so sensitive!
And a man arrested in Annapolis after faking "distress", then robbing the woman who stopped to help him.
And a missing person: Mark Cheshire, Gregg Bernstein's new Communications guy. After one single press release (announcing the arrest of Avi Werdesheim), nothing-- no press releases, TV appearances, answers to questions... total flatline. What do they have him doing over there?
Update: apparently he's sent out a few things but hasn't added me to the e-mail list. So much for transparency.
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Beware of reporting illegal ad fliers
This upper Fells Point resident did and ended up with a $300 fine for her trouble...
More on Duane SHORTY Davis, Sr, alleged toilet bomber
According to his Myspace page, Duane Davis Sr. has previous experience with the whole bomb threat thing:
"People of the State of Illinois County of Lake vs. Duane G. Davis Sr. Case # 07CF4988 Defendant was charged with Bomb Threat ( Terrorist Activity)"
He is apparently making a movie about racism in the judicial system.
Oh, and he's had some other charges, too...
Also, photos of "Shorty's Underground Toilet tour"
"People of the State of Illinois County of Lake vs. Duane G. Davis Sr. Case # 07CF4988 Defendant was charged with Bomb Threat ( Terrorist Activity)"
He is apparently making a movie about racism in the judicial system.
Oh, and he's had some other charges, too...
Also, photos of "Shorty's Underground Toilet tour"
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Craig Manuel, 19, shot to death in the 2700 block of Polk St.
Speaking of death, I hear this is good: PBS' "Postmortem: Death Investigation in America."
Yet another police-misconduct award, $75,000 for David Harris, 21, who spent 29 days in jail for assault and burglary even though the victim said he wasn't involved. The Record reports that the city has shelled out more than $688,000 in awards against the police so far this year.
$200,000 bond for terlit artist Duane G. Davis
What the? Man on the beltway tried to strangle his girlfriend and run over his friends, then crashed the car and was pinned down by his friends until help arrived. I think.
"A 16-year-old boy was hospitalized with serious neck and back injuries after being struck with a Taser® by a Baltimore police officer in a struggle on the roof of his North Baltimore home"
Speaking of death, I hear this is good: PBS' "Postmortem: Death Investigation in America."
Yet another police-misconduct award, $75,000 for David Harris, 21, who spent 29 days in jail for assault and burglary even though the victim said he wasn't involved. The Record reports that the city has shelled out more than $688,000 in awards against the police so far this year.
$200,000 bond for terlit artist Duane G. Davis
What the? Man on the beltway tried to strangle his girlfriend and run over his friends, then crashed the car and was pinned down by his friends until help arrived. I think.
"A 16-year-old boy was hospitalized with serious neck and back injuries after being struck with a Taser® by a Baltimore police officer in a struggle on the roof of his North Baltimore home"
Monday, February 7, 2011
Mistrial in Dog-Burning Case
Will it be tried again? One of the twins, Travers, was due to be arraigned on attempted murder charges in another case on the 27th, don't know what happened with that.
and a "South River senior admits beating younger student unconscious"
Double-murder defendant Kenneth Perry took the stand and didn't do himself any favors
and a "South River senior admits beating younger student unconscious"
Double-murder defendant Kenneth Perry took the stand and didn't do himself any favors
Save the puppehs!
City council committee supports extending in-state tuition for undocumented residents. (& I support extending one's skirt a little farther below your crack if you are addressing a city council committee. I know it's not the Vatican but geeze.)
That poor dog-burning jury is still a-deliberating. Says JZ, "the case spewed the creation of the city’s Animal Abuse Task Force."
Two freaky-looking chicks arrested for burglarizing a Glen Burnie pet store
Really? Owner of the Wine Source says 10-fold hike in hooch taxes is a good idea because it could curb alcohol abuse.
That poor dog-burning jury is still a-deliberating. Says JZ, "the case spewed the creation of the city’s Animal Abuse Task Force."
Two freaky-looking chicks arrested for burglarizing a Glen Burnie pet store
Really? Owner of the Wine Source says 10-fold hike in hooch taxes is a good idea because it could curb alcohol abuse.
Cell phone taped terlit near courthouse
Officers find a toilet with a cell phone taped to it near the Towson courthouse. Reports Fox, "At this time, no evacuations have taken place." Uh, TMI, Fox!
UPdate: that's some toilet. The Brew reports that a similar "art can" has been parked in front of the schools HQ on North Avenue for "weeks". Quote of the day from Cp editor Tim Hill, "'I figured it was one of those memorials to a kid who had died,' Hill said, noting that, when he shot the picture, the assemblage included a stuffed 'Kenny' doll from the South Park animated television show."
UPdate: that's some toilet. The Brew reports that a similar "art can" has been parked in front of the schools HQ on North Avenue for "weeks". Quote of the day from Cp editor Tim Hill, "'I figured it was one of those memorials to a kid who had died,' Hill said, noting that, when he shot the picture, the assemblage included a stuffed 'Kenny' doll from the South Park animated television show."
Big bux awarded in police-misconduct lawsuit
$170,000 for Salahudeen Abdulaziz, who claimed police handcuffed him and punched him in the face while he was on the way to the store to get a bag of potato chips.
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Sneaking and leaking
"Md.'s wine shipment laws create smuggling routes from D.C. and Va." Fun fact: MD became known as the "Free State" because the state did not allot any funds or pass an enforcement act to support Prohibition. Ironically, we now have the most jackassed liquor laws in the country.
And speaking of free, we'll believe in you when we see some hot document action, Baltileaks!
And speaking of free, we'll believe in you when we see some hot document action, Baltileaks!
Super Sunday Crime Round-up
What do rapper Lil' Wayne, career criminal Joel Ugah, and Baltimore Blast owner Edwin Hale Sr. have in common? A weapons charge on their record.
Court Watch is back. Concerned citizens are bringing back the program due to the repeated breaks that the accused murderers of Stephen Pitcairn received.
Maryland and California both suspend their "Scared Straight" programs, a few weeks after the premier of the show "Beyond Scared Straight."
Federal officer Curtis Anthony Warren is convicted of killing his brother back in April of 2009.
63-year-old school teacher Myra Elizabeth Cason was shot to death last Friday.
Robert "Seattle" Jones gets 15 years for a bungled home invasion.
Interstate traveling stoner Travis Bielaski arrested in Nebraska with 33 pounds of grass.
Finally, Latin Kings enforcer Brandon Smith pleads guilty to Racketeering and attempted murder.
Court Watch is back. Concerned citizens are bringing back the program due to the repeated breaks that the accused murderers of Stephen Pitcairn received.
Maryland and California both suspend their "Scared Straight" programs, a few weeks after the premier of the show "Beyond Scared Straight."
Federal officer Curtis Anthony Warren is convicted of killing his brother back in April of 2009.
63-year-old school teacher Myra Elizabeth Cason was shot to death last Friday.
Robert "Seattle" Jones gets 15 years for a bungled home invasion.
Interstate traveling stoner Travis Bielaski arrested in Nebraska with 33 pounds of grass.
Finally, Latin Kings enforcer Brandon Smith pleads guilty to Racketeering and attempted murder.
Fate of gay marriage hangs on six undecided senators
"Two men stabbed, one shot in 3 nonfatal incidents"
Four people stabbed at the Cheer's (sic) Bar and Grill in Parkville
"Two men stabbed, one shot in 3 nonfatal incidents"
Four people stabbed at the Cheer's (sic) Bar and Grill in Parkville
Saturday, February 5, 2011
Friday, February 4, 2011
Shoulda, coulda, woulda
WJZ has an interview with Emmanuel Miller, the stringy-shtached teen charged in the beating of elderly black fisherman James Privott. "I wish I would have done something to try to help the guy."
Thursday, February 3, 2011
People, animals, opiates
A second trial concluding for Kenneth D. Perry, found guilty in 2001 of killing pregnant Kelly Bunn and his former girlfriend, LaShawn Jordan, as Jordan's 4-year-old watched, then "stayed in the apartment with the bodies for two days, caring for her 1-year-old brother and trying to treat her mother's wounds with toilet paper and a toy stethoscope."
HarfCo man arrested for raping a 5-year-old girl
Jury begins deliberations in twin brothers' dog-burning trial.
Scene killed at Select Lounge
Suleiman Zakaria, 27, of Pikesville, got 10 years for hiding 6 pounds of Ghanian heroin in his luggage
WBAL: Baltimore has a high police-to-citizen ratio
HarfCo man arrested for raping a 5-year-old girl
Jury begins deliberations in twin brothers' dog-burning trial.
Scene killed at Select Lounge
Suleiman Zakaria, 27, of Pikesville, got 10 years for hiding 6 pounds of Ghanian heroin in his luggage
WBAL: Baltimore has a high police-to-citizen ratio
That movie sounds hilarious!
"Mexican cartel on trial in Baltimore drug case: Informant describes driving cross-country with cocaine-filled mobile home"
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
13 years
for serial drunken driver Thomas Lee Meighan Jr., who fatally plowed into Hopkins undergrad Miriam Frankl as the tried to cross St. Paul St.
The Sun has posted the 911 calls made by drivers
The Sun has posted the 911 calls made by drivers
Wieners aplenty
Demetrius Arrington arrested for murder of Jeffrey R. Purnell, 51
CP's Van Smith "A recent California drug-trafficking and money-laundering case [showed] how hundreds of pounds of cocaine allegedly reached Baltimore’s streets last year thanks to Hollywood-based traffickers, and how millions in drug proceeds left town: by private jet"
Fifteen years in prison for Joseph Lawhorn, 35, convicted of taking "sexually explicit" pictures of little boys with his iPhone
Burning dog trial: Sgt. Jarron Jackson "can't testify as to whether [Tremayne] can fly or not," today, jurors nodding off
The Daily Record asks, "Wrecking buildings or lives in Middle East?" (Fumes "Prez Jack" Young, "What if I become governor and they want me to show them where I lived? I will have nothing to show them.")
Howard County senator Allan H. Kittleman becomes first Republican to jump on the big gay senate bandwagon. Kittleman's civil-unions bill was withdrawn, and he stepped down as Senate minority leader soonafter. Yesterday Republicans closeted themselves to privately vote to officially oppose the bill. And the the National Organization for Marriage is robo-calling.
History corner: 10 years ago last week, then-mayor O'Malley told a Sun reporter re. the dropped case against officer Brian Sewell: [State's Attorney Pat Jessamy] "doesn't even have the goddamn guts to get off her ass and go in and try this case, and I'm tired of it... If she doesn't have respect for the police, if she doesn't have respect for the people of this city, maybe she should get the hell out and let somebody else in who's not afraid to do the goddamn job."
CP's Van Smith "A recent California drug-trafficking and money-laundering case [showed] how hundreds of pounds of cocaine allegedly reached Baltimore’s streets last year thanks to Hollywood-based traffickers, and how millions in drug proceeds left town: by private jet"
Fifteen years in prison for Joseph Lawhorn, 35, convicted of taking "sexually explicit" pictures of little boys with his iPhone
Burning dog trial: Sgt. Jarron Jackson "can't testify as to whether [Tremayne] can fly or not," today, jurors nodding off
The Daily Record asks, "Wrecking buildings or lives in Middle East?" (Fumes "Prez Jack" Young, "What if I become governor and they want me to show them where I lived? I will have nothing to show them.")
Howard County senator Allan H. Kittleman becomes first Republican to jump on the big gay senate bandwagon. Kittleman's civil-unions bill was withdrawn, and he stepped down as Senate minority leader soonafter. Yesterday Republicans closeted themselves to privately vote to officially oppose the bill. And the the National Organization for Marriage is robo-calling.
History corner: 10 years ago last week, then-mayor O'Malley told a Sun reporter re. the dropped case against officer Brian Sewell: [State's Attorney Pat Jessamy] "doesn't even have the goddamn guts to get off her ass and go in and try this case, and I'm tired of it... If she doesn't have respect for the police, if she doesn't have respect for the people of this city, maybe she should get the hell out and let somebody else in who's not afraid to do the goddamn job."
You booze, you lose?
Serial drunk-driver Thomas Meighan will be sentenced today after pleading guilty to charges stemming from the death of Miriam Frankl.
Dead body in a field in Northeast Baltimore.
Counterfeiting arrest on the Eastern Shore.
Two people are in serious trouble for helping an inmate escape from theWashington County jail last week.
Dead body in a field in Northeast Baltimore.
Counterfeiting arrest on the Eastern Shore.
Two people are in serious trouble for helping an inmate escape from theWashington County jail last week.
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Bigger fish to fry
County Judge Robert E. Cahill Jr has ruled that Karla Porter's whole 10-hour police interview will be admissible.
Fabulousness! Charles Village residents (or mostly Stephen Gewirtz) form "Court Watch" to track cases. Says Gewirtz, "I get the sense it's really been a revolving door downtown." ...so wonder what happened with Thomas Meighan Jr.? Every court reporter in town (that is to say, Tricia Bishop) was at the dog trial. Almost makes me miss old Joe Sviatko. He would know!
And urBanite asks, "Is there hope for quality local news after all?"
$15,000 for three tons of rockfish? Those poachers really should get into drug dealing.
A septuagenarian hit with a brick, sisters who whacked their mom's boyfriend with a bicycle tire pump and a golf club and couples fighting over cold food and who should make the bed in the "Baltimore Guide" blotter.
In the Catonsville Times blotter, an attempted carjacking at the WalMart parking lot and other teenage misbehavior.
... and the "hontroversy" rages on, that never-ending intellectual-property "uproar" that "casts unflattering light on the priorities of people ... who have spent their time on this subject in a city with bigger problems." Nevertheless, good readin' from Ed Ericsson.
Fabulousness! Charles Village residents (or mostly Stephen Gewirtz) form "Court Watch" to track cases. Says Gewirtz, "I get the sense it's really been a revolving door downtown." ...so wonder what happened with Thomas Meighan Jr.? Every court reporter in town (that is to say, Tricia Bishop) was at the dog trial. Almost makes me miss old Joe Sviatko. He would know!
And urBanite asks, "Is there hope for quality local news after all?"
$15,000 for three tons of rockfish? Those poachers really should get into drug dealing.
A septuagenarian hit with a brick, sisters who whacked their mom's boyfriend with a bicycle tire pump and a golf club and couples fighting over cold food and who should make the bed in the "Baltimore Guide" blotter.
In the Catonsville Times blotter, an attempted carjacking at the WalMart parking lot and other teenage misbehavior.
... and the "hontroversy" rages on, that never-ending intellectual-property "uproar" that "casts unflattering light on the priorities of people ... who have spent their time on this subject in a city with bigger problems." Nevertheless, good readin' from Ed Ericsson.
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