March 28

The man shot and killed by police yesterday has been id'd as 21-year-old Sheron Jackson.

Freshly convicted wife-murderer Michael T. Harrod, 43, faces life in prison when he's sentenced later this year.

Two crafty-but-bumbling robbers are accused of macing employees of various retail establishments. Dominick Williams, 25 and Anthony Allen Johnson, age 18, face a bevy of charges.

A guilty plea by Kimberly Smedley, the woman who made headlines for illegally injecting silicone into various women's derrieres.

This is a message to all of Baltimore's most hardened litter bugs: watch your ass, there are cameras everywhere.

A once convicted murderer has been charged with, get this, murder. 32-year-old Dundalk resident Jason Hamel has been charged with the 2008 killing of Keyva Bluitt during what is believed to be a drug deal gone bad. Back in 1998 Hamel killed his "friend" Billy Joe Ace during a supposed drunken accident. *

28-year-old Robert Garner has been was sentenced to 60 years in prison for his role as the hit man in the murder of Dundalk bar owner Lee Martin.

A Dundalk resident was stabbed on Liberty Parkway Wednesday morning.

A ranking city police officer is apparently in hot water.

Baltimore resident Romanda Young, 41, was stabbed to death in Anne Arundel County.

Be on the lookout this County serial burglar.*


Police are still trying to find a sporadic Towson bank robber. (Pictured Right) I'm not sure whats more of a travesty, his crimes or his choice in headwear... oh ho ho, I'm feeling catty today.*

The most recent crime blotter has an assortment of miscellaneous crimes including folks crying over spilled oil, stolen snickers bars, and lots of drunken assaults.
This weeks Murder Ink recounts the bloodiest week this year.

In a peculiar incident, a truck crashed into a home in Pikesville causing a fire that damaged several homes.

Finally, 10 years in the Federal clink for armed career drug dealer Robert Sanderlin, age 27.

40, 41

Man, 6200 block of Pioneer Drive. And a five-month-old abused infant has also been added to the toll. Eighteen-year-old Myron Evans has been charged in the infant's death.

A man is in critical condition after police shot him for threatening to stab his mother.

Isn't that speshil? The House has approved a law that seems to serve no other purpose beyond killing lawsuits against the overpriced, underno-bid sweetheart State Center project.

Dang: the U.S. ranks 5th in the world when it comes to executing people, after China, Saudi Arabia, Iran and Iraq.

Shootings, More Shootings, Terrible Face Tattoos

Several homicide arrests and a multitude of victims have been id'd after a bevy of killings this past week.

The 36th victim of the year has been id'd as 23-year-old Dexter Maurice Jones Jr. 22-year-old Guy Leon Thomas has been arrested for the killing.*

This years 37th victim has been id'd as Jonathan Hutchinson, age 24.

The 38th victim of the year has been id'd as 20-year-old Ronnell Chaney.*

Five men have been arrested after a triple stabbing in Garrison. The five arrested are; Ronald Williams, 20, Christopher Ramgeet, 18, Merez Ferguson, 21, Jeffrey Jackson, 20, and sweet face tattoo having Ryan Johnson, age 19.

This weeks Murder Ink covers several weekend killings and an arrest in the 2007 murder of Rodney Gardner.

The seemingly never ending legal battle that is the Travers and Tremayne Johnson animal cruelty trial is set to (hopefully) come to an end.*

The last police officer in the Majestic towing scandal has plead guilty. 36-year-old Jaime Luis Lugo faces 25 years in prison when sentenced.

You can now feel safe walking the streets of North Baltimore, as a "suspicious package" turned out to be a very anti-climactic backpack.

County police have made an arrest in a 20-year-old cold case. Sean Sanford, 38, has been arrested for the 1991 Christmas Eve Eve murder of Robert Stephen Collins.

Well that's just great...
The Supreme court has decided that convicted serial child rapist John Merzbacher, age 70, needs to be let out of prison.

This weeks police blotter reports a heap of crimes, including a wooden plank beating, and the theft of pillow cases.

Finally, eight years in the federal pen for large scale Baltimore document trafficker Victor Lopez-Escamilla, age 39.

Shootings, Corrupt Cops, and a County Brawl

Shootings continue to be on the rise, after several more people were shot Tuesday evening. One man died at the intersection of West North Ave. and Ashburton St., the 36th of the year.*

Over two years in federal prison for disgraced police officer Jerry Diggs, Jr., 25. Digs is among a bevy of officers to have been convicted in the "Majestic Towing" scandal.

The city police department has taken yet another hit this week, as a former officer has plead guilty to being an active heroin dealer who once provided drugs while in a police station parking lot. He's expected to receive 20 years in the federal pen when sentenced.

Three men were stabbed and bullets flew during after a massive fight broke out in Owings Mills.

2012's 33 murder victim, 54-year-old Gregory Parker has a precarious history, including several years spent working for the Baltimore drug kingpin Maurice "Peanut" King back in the 80's.*

32-year-old Lovell Patterson got 10 years in federal prison after being caught dropping off a bag of heroin at a stash house. This is his sixth drug conviction.

Police have released a sketch of the creep-bag who beat up an 84-year-old woman during a burglary.

A man (pictured right) is wanted by the FBI after robbing the Wells Fargo on Eastern Ave. earlier today.

Man meets woman, man steals woman's phone, man holds phone for ransom, man goes to jail.

Bulgarian ATM skimmer Ivo Svetozarov Damyanov, age 32, was sentenced to six years in prison for his role in a major credit fraud ring.

Not Baltimore, but interesting enough. Robert Benscoter, a 33-year-old man with an atrocious haircut, is accuse of beating his mom with a hammer before fleeing into the woods.

Many apologies for the long delay in posting, don't mean to withhold valuable Baltimore Crime news from the public...

Springtime, when a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of ...

rioting and stabbing the shit outta people! (Apologies to Tennyson) St Patrick's day weekend, young men and women flashmobbed, converging on Canton and the Harbor, carrying on a decades-long tradition of wilding in the streets as soon as weather permits. Imagine if they actually put all of those ranging teenage hormones to a purpose, protesting against the youth jail with Occupy and the Algebra project, perhaps! Singing songs and carrying signs!

#35, a man shot in the chest on Imla St.

And our favorite drunk-driving bongload-smoking Olympic medalist is reportedly trying to quietly unload his Harbor East condo for a million-and-something.

O'Malley says he would veto a medical marijuana bill*. .. why can't he just direct the state and local police to not enforce marijuana laws, a la "Maryland the Free State" during Prohibition? Could anyone's interests possibly be served by cancer patients sitting in jail? .. and could the federal law-enforcement $$ have anything to do with O'Malley's position...?

And what to make of O'Malley going against the very study his administration paid to have done and going ahead with building a new $70-$100 million kiddie jail? Yes, he can find the money to build jails but not to fix schools, y'all.

Beat down at poly

Five students from poly have been arrested and charged with 1st degree assault and armed robbery for jumping a fellow classmate.

Fake genitals; fetus-murder charges dropped

A city officer who was dating a relative of a suspect in the Monae Turnage murder has been suspended.

Murder charges have been dropped against the NJ doctors who started an abortion in one state, finished it in another and stashed fetuses in the freezer.

Fake genitals were found on a guy arrested for indecent exposure at Anne Arundel Community College, begging the question, is it indecent exposure if what's exposed is plastic?

Speaking of make-believe genitals, the NYker is reporting that in Lawrence v. Texas, no sodomy ever actually took place; the most "deviant" thing police saw was "sexually explicit art on the walls, notably a pencil drawing of a naked James Dean with oversized genitals."

Finally, the "Atlantic Wire" says that the Sun says that wiretaps of "Snoop" (Felicia Pearson) reveal her to be, in real life, a nice person just looking for some "ew-we," wtvr the f that is.

Concealed Carry for Maryland?

A US District Court judge has ruled that Maryland's law on who can carry a concealed weapon is unconstitutional*. According to Judge Benson Legg the requirement that concealed carry permit applicants show "good and substantial reason" is an impermissible infringement on the Second Amendment. The AG's office has already said they will appeal.

Monae Turnage, 13, shot to death

The murdered 13-year-old girl was ID'd as Monae Turnage. She was shot once in the chest, her body hid in an alley under trash bags.

Another Young Girl Murdered

For the second time in a week a young girl has been murdered in Baltimore City. An unidentified 13-year-old girl, who was originally reported missing late last night was found dead at around 6:00 PM Sunday inside a row house in the 1600 block of Cliftview Ave.*

SRB to Obama: Bmore Won't Enforce Your Immigration Laws

Baltimore joins with DC in refusing to enforce federal immigration laws locally. The Obama administration seemingly can't win -- it's deported more undocumented immigrants than any other and is trying to pilot a program here to prioritize violent criminals and leave otherwise law-abiding residents alone, yet both the rat wangers and the liberals are enraged, and the Mayor's order takes it a step beyond keeping ICE out of Central Booking: "No City department, agency, officer or employee shall discriminate against any resident of Baltimore City based on confirmed or suspected race, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, immigration status, and/or inability to speak English."

Parrish jury deliberating

A jury is deliberating the guilt of 15-year-old Jason Mattison's (alleged) killer Dante Parrish. Mattison, who wanted to be a medic, was kicked out of his mom and grandma's house because they thought he was gay. He was slashed to death at his great-aunt's house with a box cutter while she and her addict friends nodded off downstairs. Parrish admitted to police that he beat and gagged Mattison. I wonder if his mom, grandma or aunts have been in the courtroom...?

$70k Payout approved for dad stomped by cops while holding tot

The Board of Estimates approved a $70k settlement to a man and his toddler son who were roughed up." TDR and The Sun's Luke Broadwater reports that at issue were the events of Aug. 28, 2009 when two Baltimore police officers arrested Tyrode Gibbs Sr., who was sitting on the front steps of a vacant property along with his 2-year-old son, Tyrode Gibbs Jr. The vacant property had a "No Trespassing" sign posted, and the officers instructed Gibbs and his son to leave, but he said he was "seeking shelter from the rain," the documents say. ... The lawsuit alleged the officers beat Gibbs to the ground, kicking and stomping him while he was still holding his son in his arms. During the altercation, one of the officers struck the 2-year-old and sprayed mace on the elder Gibbs, the lawsuit alleged."

Owings Mills HS Grad to Snitch on other Gitmo Detainees

Majid Khan pleaded guilty* to terrorism-related charges and also agreed to help the gvt prosecute other terror suspects. Maybe he will testify against Rumsfeld at the Hauge.

("Fun facts": Rumsfeld, the architect of the Iraq and Afghan wars and the U.S. torture program is a Marylander, currently living in a manse in St Michaels once known as the Mount Misery Bed and Breakfast.)

Lee Stephens Dodges the DP

After six years of legal wrangling, Lee Stephens's punishment for killing a prison guard while serving a life sentences is... another life sentence.*

Lamar Harris, Stephens's alleged co-conspirator, remains in legal limbo over his mental competency to stand trial.

Owings Mills HS Grad pleads Guilty at Guantanamo

Is the president starting to clean out Guantanamo?
Accused Al-Qiada member and Owings Mills high grad Majid Khan, left, the only U.S. resident imprisoned at the American naval base in Cuba, entered guilty pleas to charges of supporting terrorism while living in Pakistan. (Non-paywall link here.)

In 2005, Khan's lawyers had asked the U.S. government to save videotapes of him made while he was being tortured during this three years of detention in a CIA foreign prison, probably at "the Salt Pit" and/or Poland. Within a week of Khan's lawyers' requests the CIA destroyed the tapes.

Related: a House Judiciary Committee meeting on indefinite detentions of Americans and the NDAA is going on right now.

¡Ay, qué rico!

Rico no suave! Baltimore's Chief Information Officer has resigned after allegations that he pressured the security company McAfee for a job for his girlfriend while at his last job in NY.

Five Year Old Girl Murdered

Details are sketchy at the moment, but 5-year-old Mya Carr was killed earlier in the evening in the 3400 block of Calloway Ave. No cause of death has been given, but a "person of interest" is in custody.

Murder dad sentenced, JHU patient-raper arrested

Tyrone Hamber, 24, has been given 25 years for killing his two-year-old daughter in April of 2010.


The man accused of committing a West Towson home invasion robbery and shooting has been identified as Bradford Steven Holup, 49, (Pictured Right). Holup was arrested while fleeing the scene dressed in camouflauge army fatigues.

Twenty-three-year-old Eric Phillips was sentenced to 50 years in prison for stabbing and beating a man to death during an attempted robbery.

Super-creepy Bayview Medical Center security guard Kevin Porter, 47, has been arrested for attempting to rape a patient.

Two men were shot in separate incidents Monday morning.

If you're going to clean your gun in your dingy unlit house, you may as well be drunk.

The Baltimore Racing Development has dissolved. Apparently owing money to every conceivable group possible just isn't a profitable business model. A real shame...

Randallstown native Donald Tyrone Gross, 44, got eight years in the federal pen for using a toy gun to rob a PNC Bank.

Bodog founder and billionaire Calvin Ayre, alongside four Canadians has been indicted in Maryland federal court for running a massive worldwide gambling operation. Ayre, age 50, is currently at large.