Saturday, April 16, 2011
Clusterage
So let me get this straight: the three cops that Bernstein is prosecuting will all be tried together, but two of the defendants are having a jury trial, and one (the only white one?) is having a bench trial. Never heard of such a thing & must agree with a commentor, if the point of the SA prosecuting a case is to show ASAs how it's done, why not pick something more typical? Or is the whole point just to show the world that Bernstein and the police aren't in bed together (in spite of the fact that he and the mayor's liaison to the police are literally in bed together)? Or is the whole case so bizarre and technical he feared some ASA would ef it up?
Friday, April 15, 2011
What did I miss?
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The city's 53rd murder victim of this year was a 24-year-old woman found shot in the head and chest behind apartment buildings in the NW.
One Syron Abdullah, aged 20, arrested for the murder of Jhoma Blackwell, and allegedly stealing and pawning her video game systems. Abdullah was also charged three years ago with raping a 13-year-old.
A triple shooting and crazy car chase Wednesday linked to a fight at Dundalk Middle School; the jizz has mug shots of the Camaro-driving superwinners Charles Robinson and Quincy Alford, and bonus video footage of Robinson's big fat hairy gut slopping out of his drawers.
Fenton reports that 1990s drug 'kingpin' 'Great Billy Guy' is in 'trouble' again.
Ten years for a 21-year-old who allegedly conspired to rob a drug dealer
Motions expected to continue today in that case Bernstein is trying.
The MD Gazette's take on General Assembly winners & losers.
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Paging Maurice Levy
The law offices of Stanley H. Needleman were raided by the Baltimore PD and possibly the Federales this morning.
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
.. in other news
Police say they are closing in on a suspect in the murder of Jhoma Blackwell.
Neighbors and Joan Floyd help keep the Nancy Schmidt case alive.
Police are ISO these brazen robbers, and arrested these.
Two traffic tickets for Jeannette Marie Walke, who mowed down cyclist Nathan Krasnopoler
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency issued cease-and-desist orders against eight mortgage bankers
Neighbors and Joan Floyd help keep the Nancy Schmidt case alive.
Police are ISO these brazen robbers, and arrested these.
Two traffic tickets for Jeannette Marie Walke, who mowed down cyclist Nathan Krasnopoler
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency issued cease-and-desist orders against eight mortgage bankers
The endless case of Lee Stephens
The Maryland Court of Appeals has rejected a pre-trial appeal by Lee Stephens. He is one of the two inmates accused of murdering Maryland House of Corrections CO David McGuinn in July 2006. No trial date is set, but it sounds like the judge is free to schedule one now that this appeal has been dismissed. Stephens's co-defendant still has a pre-trial appeal pending.
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Uncharted lands
INteresting! The AP reports that Gregg Bernstein is going to try his first case this week, of three police officers accused of dropping off teenagers in the wilds of HoCo and the East side. (Wonder how 3 officers and 2 incidents = one case?)
$13.
Life (aka >35 years) for 19-year-old Troy Taylor, who killed 72-year-old Charles Bowman, a security guard at the Baltimore Afro-American newspaper and a Vietnam vet, shot to death at the Yau Bros carryout in the course of being robbed of $13.
Millions for horse tracks, a 50 percent increase on the booze tax, in-state tuition for undocumented immigrants, pot decriminalization for the chronic and more on Sine Die in Annapolis
Alleged carjack victims describe the "creepy feeling," "scary eyes" and hamhanded gearshifting Isaiah Dixon subjected them to.
"Council calls hearing on lead-paint judgments"
Millions for horse tracks, a 50 percent increase on the booze tax, in-state tuition for undocumented immigrants, pot decriminalization for the chronic and more on Sine Die in Annapolis
Alleged carjack victims describe the "creepy feeling," "scary eyes" and hamhanded gearshifting Isaiah Dixon subjected them to.
"Council calls hearing on lead-paint judgments"
Monday, April 11, 2011
Manslaughter conviction for Sian James
and nobody's happy
Man shot by police today after stealing handgun from Bank of America guard in Federal Hill
(good gracious that's a lot of verbiage from Justin Fenton in one day.. this is why you should never try or be good at anything, you'll get worked like a carnival mule.)
.. and more from Nick Madigan on the conviction of Frederick A. Christian
Man shot by police today after stealing handgun from Bank of America guard in Federal Hill
(good gracious that's a lot of verbiage from Justin Fenton in one day.. this is why you should never try or be good at anything, you'll get worked like a carnival mule.)
.. and more from Nick Madigan on the conviction of Frederick A. Christian
Christian Guilty
in the murder of Jerryell Myesha Foster, reports Fox. Last week Christian took the stand and accused police of tampering with evidence. Friday, county ASA Rachel E. Karceski decried the defendant's "Lies! Lies! Lies!"
In other news, you can bring your dog to an outdoor restaurant, but management doesn't have to serve your butch-looking girlfriend.
In other news, you can bring your dog to an outdoor restaurant, but management doesn't have to serve your butch-looking girlfriend.
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Two murders this weekend
Former county prosecutor Isaiah Dixon about to go on trial for carjacking (??)
Holy yikes! Glen Burnie woman allegedly awoke to the sight of this crackhead trying to strangle her
Speaking of prosecutors, last month SCOTUS threw out a $14 million award for an exonerated death row inmate, who published a very sobering op-ed in the NYT yesterday. (And yes, Harry F. Connick Sr. is Jr's dad, if Wikipedia is to be believed!)
Poignant! BaltCo's 14 court reporters to leave by this summer & be replaced by robots (aka remote-controlled digital recordings).
UFOs in Glen Burnie? Nazis at the mall? Fenton on the fascinating finds in the FBI's Baltimore files
And it's the last day of the 428th session of the general assembly, and Linskey & Bykowicz recap your winners & losers. Bite it, fracking!! And this just in, a state health care exchange.
Former county prosecutor Isaiah Dixon about to go on trial for carjacking (??)
Holy yikes! Glen Burnie woman allegedly awoke to the sight of this crackhead trying to strangle her
Speaking of prosecutors, last month SCOTUS threw out a $14 million award for an exonerated death row inmate, who published a very sobering op-ed in the NYT yesterday. (And yes, Harry F. Connick Sr. is Jr's dad, if Wikipedia is to be believed!)
Poignant! BaltCo's 14 court reporters to leave by this summer & be replaced by robots (aka remote-controlled digital recordings).
UFOs in Glen Burnie? Nazis at the mall? Fenton on the fascinating finds in the FBI's Baltimore files
And it's the last day of the 428th session of the general assembly, and Linskey & Bykowicz recap your winners & losers. Bite it, fracking!! And this just in, a state health care exchange.
Sunday, April 10, 2011
50.
Oh fer ef's sake! Dwight Taylor, 25, was shot to death while waiting to get a haircut at 200 W. Saratoga St -- 5 p.m. right there in the Central District, like two blocks from the Daily Record! Police Tweet that CitiWatch cameras caught the suspect, who is in custody.
It doesn't get much Baltimorier than this: search of Patapsco Park didn't find Phylicia Barnes, but did turn up a man's body.
In Fell's Point a man was stabbed after bumping into someone at the RoFo
County police are ISO a-hole Antonio Marquis Johnson, who broke into his ex-gf's house and assaulted her 3-year-old son
Unshockingly, the Sun is all for in-state tuition for illegal/undocumented immigrants. (Comment: "figure out a way to do something with people whoe brake laws. Its not difficult")
It doesn't get much Baltimorier than this: search of Patapsco Park didn't find Phylicia Barnes, but did turn up a man's body.
In Fell's Point a man was stabbed after bumping into someone at the RoFo
County police are ISO a-hole Antonio Marquis Johnson, who broke into his ex-gf's house and assaulted her 3-year-old son
Unshockingly, the Sun is all for in-state tuition for illegal/undocumented immigrants. (Comment: "figure out a way to do something with people whoe brake laws. Its not difficult")
Saturday, April 9, 2011
50?
Police Tweet "OVERNIGHT HOMICIDE: 4900 Blk Bowland Ave. (Northeast District), 1:20am, 31 year-old male stabbed in the chest" -- but now I can't find the report of the demise of the stabbing victim at Lexington & Paca... did I hallucinate that?
Judge Nance says the city's gun registry is unconstitutional
Alleged killer of David McGuinn asks for a delay, which was denied, but then the C of A ordered a stay
and Baltimore Spectator is podcasting from Patapsco State Park, where an on-the-ground search for clues in the Phylicia Barnes case is underway, even though police apparently have no specific tips
Op Ed: Drug courts are not the answer
Judge Nance says the city's gun registry is unconstitutional
Alleged killer of David McGuinn asks for a delay, which was denied, but then the C of A ordered a stay
and Baltimore Spectator is podcasting from Patapsco State Park, where an on-the-ground search for clues in the Phylicia Barnes case is underway, even though police apparently have no specific tips
Op Ed: Drug courts are not the answer
Torbit findings to be released soon
Prosecutors say they will release their own findings on the friendly fire killing a police officer and bystander soon.
Friday, April 8, 2011
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Police FB'd that this stabbing at Lexington & Paca was fatal.
Fox reports that the jury "deliberated for almost seven hours today" in the Jerryell Foster case
Fox reports that the jury "deliberated for almost seven hours today" in the Jerryell Foster case
Free Snoop!
FINALLY Felicia Pearson is out on bond
Downtown, Sian James took the stand and cried, more from the Daily Record
and why did Rep Donna Edwards (D-4th, down around PGC & MoCo) quote White Stripes lyrics on the House floor?
Downtown, Sian James took the stand and cried, more from the Daily Record
and why did Rep Donna Edwards (D-4th, down around PGC & MoCo) quote White Stripes lyrics on the House floor?
M.I.A.
Yet another missing teenager! County police are ISO Chalese Jenelle Brown, 16, last seen in Parkville. (And flickr will apparently no longer let me post pictures to this blog, so until I find another hosting service I guess there will not be any)
Three people shot last night.
Eric Rich, 28, charged with attempted murder after allegedly dumping scalding water on old people he thought were stealing drugs
Final vote expected today on that parole-for-lifers bill.
It sounds like the evidence in the case of Lee Edward Stephens, alleged killer of correctional officer David McGuinn, meets MD's new standards for the death penalty .. but will he get it? (& if he does, what are the chances of some kind of protocol ever being worked out?)
PGC police fatally shot an ax-wielding man outside of a day care center.
Who owns your e-mail cloud?
Congrats to Justin Fenton and a couple of other people, up for a national Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc award for the "City Rape Stats Questioned" story
Three people shot last night.
Eric Rich, 28, charged with attempted murder after allegedly dumping scalding water on old people he thought were stealing drugs
Final vote expected today on that parole-for-lifers bill.
It sounds like the evidence in the case of Lee Edward Stephens, alleged killer of correctional officer David McGuinn, meets MD's new standards for the death penalty .. but will he get it? (& if he does, what are the chances of some kind of protocol ever being worked out?)
PGC police fatally shot an ax-wielding man outside of a day care center.
Who owns your e-mail cloud?
Congrats to Justin Fenton and a couple of other people, up for a national Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc award for the "City Rape Stats Questioned" story
Thursday, April 7, 2011
I can has justiz?
The woman shot in Reservoir Hill was ID'd as Keenya Jordan, a case manager for disabled adults.
Four witnesses plus 911 tapes in the Sian Jones trial today. The Sun also reported earlier the fucktarded circumstances that allegedly led to the perp feeling threatened.
A conviction for Tracy Denise Queen in the tutoring-fraud scheme uncovered by Baltimore Brew reporter Joan Jacobson.
Jemini Jones' former attorney Janice Bledsoe to head Police Integrity Unit
Cameras bust a North Avenue drug deal. ... must be a rare event for it to make the news
Four witnesses plus 911 tapes in the Sian Jones trial today. The Sun also reported earlier the fucktarded circumstances that allegedly led to the perp feeling threatened.
A conviction for Tracy Denise Queen in the tutoring-fraud scheme uncovered by Baltimore Brew reporter Joan Jacobson.
Jemini Jones' former attorney Janice Bledsoe to head Police Integrity Unit
Cameras bust a North Avenue drug deal. ... must be a rare event for it to make the news
Mistakes were made
The city OKs $75k in spending to pay for probe of the Club Select shootings
Man murdered on Monday ID'd as Christopher Bullock, 24
Trial set to begin today for the killing of Detective Brian Stevenson. Update: trial started with Sian James' lawyer claiming that his client felt threatened. After he walked to the parking lot because his friend's girlfriend called him, incensed that he didn't respect her right to save a parking place by standing in it. Stupidity. Astounding.
Officers Chris Funk and Matthew Ryckman were cleared in the shooting of an unarmed police informant
Family of Haines Holloway-Lilliston, killed in a high-speed chase, are suing the city for $40 million
A three-hour hearing for a motion to dismiss the State Center lawsuit.
And the city is on the hook to pay for a new paint job for a resident's car
Man murdered on Monday ID'd as Christopher Bullock, 24
Trial set to begin today for the killing of Detective Brian Stevenson. Update: trial started with Sian James' lawyer claiming that his client felt threatened. After he walked to the parking lot because his friend's girlfriend called him, incensed that he didn't respect her right to save a parking place by standing in it. Stupidity. Astounding.
Officers Chris Funk and Matthew Ryckman were cleared in the shooting of an unarmed police informant
Family of Haines Holloway-Lilliston, killed in a high-speed chase, are suing the city for $40 million
A three-hour hearing for a motion to dismiss the State Center lawsuit.
And the city is on the hook to pay for a new paint job for a resident's car
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
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A homicide last night in the 600 Blk Lennox St. (Central District), 1:15am, "adult female shot multiple times."
The Ink has last week's seven murders, plus case updates
Dundalk murder victim's finacee told the Patch's Ron Cassie that the accused, her brother, was trying to protect her and her fetus
Glad to see the Dooce's Cold Case files covering the 2008 murder of Remington septuagenarian Nancy Schmidt
Was William Torbit's funeral too over the top?
VA court upholds the use of warrantless GPS tracking devices. Though I guess law enforcement still needs a warrant for someone's cell phone tracking records?
Ed & Van: "A British ex-con was sentenced to 78 months in prison—-quite a bit below the 120-month mandatory minimum—- for scheming to export cocaine from Baltimore to London."
Lee Farkas, the former chairman of the mortgage company that financed many a flipped house in the southeastern is now on trial in Alexandria VA for fraud
Bicyclists are biking from Bmore to A-town this morning in support of a bill that would create the new offense of manslaughter by criminal negligence
Yesterday the in-state tuition bill passed the House Ways and Means Committee
If you're a drunken weenus at an O's game, here's where you're going to go
MD police seminar focuses on "sexting." That doesn't sound good to you? Well, what if I threw in a picture of my cock?
And in national news, the FBI has released hundreds of pages of files re. the murder of the Notorious B.I.G. ... though so redacted you can't really read anything.
The Ink has last week's seven murders, plus case updates
Dundalk murder victim's finacee told the Patch's Ron Cassie that the accused, her brother, was trying to protect her and her fetus
Glad to see the Dooce's Cold Case files covering the 2008 murder of Remington septuagenarian Nancy Schmidt
Was William Torbit's funeral too over the top?
VA court upholds the use of warrantless GPS tracking devices. Though I guess law enforcement still needs a warrant for someone's cell phone tracking records?
Ed & Van: "A British ex-con was sentenced to 78 months in prison—-quite a bit below the 120-month mandatory minimum—- for scheming to export cocaine from Baltimore to London."
Lee Farkas, the former chairman of the mortgage company that financed many a flipped house in the southeastern is now on trial in Alexandria VA for fraud
Bicyclists are biking from Bmore to A-town this morning in support of a bill that would create the new offense of manslaughter by criminal negligence
Yesterday the in-state tuition bill passed the House Ways and Means Committee
If you're a drunken weenus at an O's game, here's where you're going to go
MD police seminar focuses on "sexting." That doesn't sound good to you? Well, what if I threw in a picture of my cock?
And in national news, the FBI has released hundreds of pages of files re. the murder of the Notorious B.I.G. ... though so redacted you can't really read anything.
It took a year
For police to serve a warrant against a high level DPW supervisor and sex offender after his step daughter reported that he beat her in 2010.
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
The evening dismal
Feeling good? Had a great day? There's a cure for that...
Nick Madigan covers the murder trial of former used-car salesman Frederick A. Christian, accused of killing Jerryell Myesha Foster and dumping her body in the wiles of Virginia.
(.. I remember this case, and while a search of the archive turns up stories of a man found dead on a burning couch, a 5-year-old shot by a gun he found under the couch, a pissy drunk on the couch, knives stashed under the couch and a 16-month-old killed by a couch, can't find the archive.)
HoCo jewel thieves used the stolen car of city murder victim Derek Jones.
A state appeals court won't hear appeals in the case of children who sued Saint Joseph's Society of the Sacred Heart claiming a priest was their father.
Man's ass glued to terlit seat at Elkton Wal-Mart
Nick Madigan covers the murder trial of former used-car salesman Frederick A. Christian, accused of killing Jerryell Myesha Foster and dumping her body in the wiles of Virginia.
(.. I remember this case, and while a search of the archive turns up stories of a man found dead on a burning couch, a 5-year-old shot by a gun he found under the couch, a pissy drunk on the couch, knives stashed under the couch and a 16-month-old killed by a couch, can't find the archive.)
HoCo jewel thieves used the stolen car of city murder victim Derek Jones.
A state appeals court won't hear appeals in the case of children who sued Saint Joseph's Society of the Sacred Heart claiming a priest was their father.
Man's ass glued to terlit seat at Elkton Wal-Mart
Look before you turn
Injured cyclist Nathan Krasnopoler is not expected to recover.
The death toll from this morning's shootings has gone up. Current tally is two dead, five injured.
The death toll from this morning's shootings has gone up. Current tally is two dead, five injured.
Tuesday, Bloody Tuesday
One man killed near the 3400 block of Powhatan Ave. and six others injured in shootings all over town in one single hour this morning, reports Yeganeh June Torbati
Very sad: co-workers testify that murder victim Jerryell Foster came to the job with her face black, blue and swollen before she disappeared
A Waverly resident attacked with a hammer in the Patch blotter
SRB: it's not possible to pay lead-paint claims
Justice4Safety's David Udoff ponders what makes a murder newsworthy
Very sad: co-workers testify that murder victim Jerryell Foster came to the job with her face black, blue and swollen before she disappeared
A Waverly resident attacked with a hammer in the Patch blotter
SRB: it's not possible to pay lead-paint claims
Justice4Safety's David Udoff ponders what makes a murder newsworthy
Monday, April 4, 2011
Ladies' night victim ID'd
"Ladies' Night" victim ID'd as Charles Johnson, 24. And was the club open again Saturday night?
Saturday, April 2, 2011
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The BPD says "UPDATE: 4/2/11, 1:00am, 300 block of Guilford Avenue. Four men were stabbed inside of a night club. A 24 year old man has died as a result of his injuries. Homicide detectives are investigating" ... Sun reports it was ladies' night at the Bourbon Street Ballroom, which went on lockdown after the stabbing; a lady was Tasered when she tried to leave.
Oh, what a night.
"A man stabbed outside a Dundalk house just after midnight this morning has died, county police said."
In Glen Burnie a jockey's girlfriend pleaded guilty to "slaying" 52-year-old Debra Lynn Gill, and "retaliation against a witness", though it sounds like the jockey was the one who did the actual slaying.
And a 46-year-old woman was arrested for robbing a Wachovia.
Oh, what a night.
"A man stabbed outside a Dundalk house just after midnight this morning has died, county police said."
In Glen Burnie a jockey's girlfriend pleaded guilty to "slaying" 52-year-old Debra Lynn Gill, and "retaliation against a witness", though it sounds like the jockey was the one who did the actual slaying.
And a 46-year-old woman was arrested for robbing a Wachovia.
Friday, April 1, 2011
43, 44
43: Unidentified man killed at 6000 block of Moravia Park Drive
44: Unidentified man killed at the intersection of Winchester St. and North Carey St.
A teen girl was attacked and sexually assaulted in broad daylight Thursday.
44: Unidentified man killed at the intersection of Winchester St. and North Carey St.
A teen girl was attacked and sexually assaulted in broad daylight Thursday.
Thursday, March 31, 2011
One crime is never enough
City worker who the IG caught partying on the clock at SJ Deli is caught again abusing tax dollars.
"The city is burning down"
Jhoma Blackwell's mom had some choice words for city officials
Murrell Alfred Hearns Jr., 31, shot in a Pigtown parking lot, died of his injuries
What the?! A mother and her son were both arrested for the murder of Reginald Wragg
East Baltimore developers to City Council: mistakes were made. Relocated resident: "You gave me nothing but heartache"
Murrell Alfred Hearns Jr., 31, shot in a Pigtown parking lot, died of his injuries
What the?! A mother and her son were both arrested for the murder of Reginald Wragg
East Baltimore developers to City Council: mistakes were made. Relocated resident: "You gave me nothing but heartache"
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Don't Drag Race
Donneil Raeburn's trial for a fatal drag-racing accident on I-70 began on Tuesday.
Gun stolen from businessman registered to police commander. I had no idea that the owner of Arcos was "politically connected." They did have good Mexican food a few years ago.
Gun stolen from businessman registered to police commander. I had no idea that the owner of Arcos was "politically connected." They did have good Mexican food a few years ago.
Classics
In Edgewater, a man was arrested after a stand-off in which he swung a sword at officers
A knife fight over a pee bucket in the Baltimore Guide blotter
Fifty years ago, says Baltimore or Less, police busted a stripper for dancing provocatively with a snake. The dancer's lawyer said it was strictly art.
A knife fight over a pee bucket in the Baltimore Guide blotter
Fifty years ago, says Baltimore or Less, police busted a stripper for dancing provocatively with a snake. The dancer's lawyer said it was strictly art.
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The man shot at the Frankford Gardens Shopping Center at 5400 Sinclair Lane has died
More details on the fatal stabbing in Remington-- Fenton Tweeted that she was 16, WJZ says she was an 18-year-old nursing student, IV says "teenage woman"-- and the murder of Gregory Davenport, who (Lord forgive me) sounds like he had it coming.
UPDATE: The police ID'd the victim in Remington as Johma Blackwell, 18
Fenton also dropped by a creepy/sad memorial for 48-year-old Mary Williams, killed in one of our many if-the-killer-had-been-in-jail-like-he-was-supposed-to-be-this-wouldn't-have-happened murders.
Last week's three murders in the Ink
Shomrim is being sued for assault by "notorious gadfly" Leonard Kerpelman
TDR says the city council held a hearing re. East Baltimore Development Inc. last night. Also in politics, The CP visits elected officials' homes, SRB cut $65 mil from the city budget, the Senate Leader says the odds of the "trans bill" passing are "next to none (rallying certain commentors against the "homopromo" lobby), and the House Minority Leader said multiple poaching bills are "overkill". And, reports JZ, "A man on trial for sending Governor Martin O’Malley a threatening email is getting a groundswell of support."
& finally quote of the day from Fark: "Perhaps Justice Scalia wouldn't get in car accidents if he rode a horse, like the Founding Fathers intended"
More details on the fatal stabbing in Remington-- Fenton Tweeted that she was 16, WJZ says she was an 18-year-old nursing student, IV says "teenage woman"-- and the murder of Gregory Davenport, who (Lord forgive me) sounds like he had it coming.
UPDATE: The police ID'd the victim in Remington as Johma Blackwell, 18
Fenton also dropped by a creepy/sad memorial for 48-year-old Mary Williams, killed in one of our many if-the-killer-had-been-in-jail-like-he-was-supposed-to-be-this-wouldn't-have-happened murders.
Last week's three murders in the Ink
Shomrim is being sued for assault by "notorious gadfly" Leonard Kerpelman
TDR says the city council held a hearing re. East Baltimore Development Inc. last night. Also in politics, The CP visits elected officials' homes, SRB cut $65 mil from the city budget, the Senate Leader says the odds of the "trans bill" passing are "next to none (rallying certain commentors against the "homopromo" lobby), and the House Minority Leader said multiple poaching bills are "overkill". And, reports JZ, "A man on trial for sending Governor Martin O’Malley a threatening email is getting a groundswell of support."
& finally quote of the day from Fark: "Perhaps Justice Scalia wouldn't get in car accidents if he rode a horse, like the Founding Fathers intended"
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Fox says..
"Breaking News: Baltimore City Police are investigating after a woman was found dead inside a home on Huntingdon Ave. We have a crew on the way and will bring you more information as it becomes available."
This can't be happening
A supervisor is suspended without pay for allowing DOT employees to party all the time.
ugly, dangerous, depressed and angry
40 years for 20-year-old Donald Vaughan, who slithered between the cracks of probation supervisors and sexually assaulted a Canton woman and slashed her neck with a knife. He also pleaded guilty to a 2007 rape, and faces charges related to two rapes in VA.
30 years for Taron K. Melvin (including five years without possibility of parole ...ooooo) for the murder of Shawn Williams, 28.
The city council approved the new district map. More details from Patch.com on how this affects the North side (there goes Belinda Conaway's neighborhood...!)
The MD Senate passed the wine shipping bill 45-0.
The Dooce is starting a new cold case news series next Tuesday
That's-a interesting: Caesar's Den, Chiapparelli's, Da Mimmo, Sabatino's and Vaccaro's have joined a lawsuit against the State Center project
"Baltimore is ugly, dangerous, depressed and angry, according to national lists."
30 years for Taron K. Melvin (including five years without possibility of parole ...ooooo) for the murder of Shawn Williams, 28.
The city council approved the new district map. More details from Patch.com on how this affects the North side (there goes Belinda Conaway's neighborhood...!)
The MD Senate passed the wine shipping bill 45-0.
The Dooce is starting a new cold case news series next Tuesday
That's-a interesting: Caesar's Den, Chiapparelli's, Da Mimmo, Sabatino's and Vaccaro's have joined a lawsuit against the State Center project
"Baltimore is ugly, dangerous, depressed and angry, according to national lists."
Monday, March 28, 2011
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was ID'd as Steven Oglesby, 17.
Melee this weekend that started with a girlfight at the Sheraton
and a food delivery man was robbed and stabbed
Melee this weekend that started with a girlfight at the Sheraton
and a food delivery man was robbed and stabbed
‘Whether he’s Mother Teresa or a sex offender, he earned the money’!
So says the lawyer for Dennis Mclaughlin, the sex offender and ex-city employee who was paid sick leave courtesy of city taxpayers while serving out a sentence for sexually assaulting a 13 year-old girl in a seedy motel room.
Sunday, March 27, 2011
"Good, minimal protections"
At least we don't live in Uganda! The House passed the "Trans Bill," which will make it illegal to discriminate against a bio-dude who looks like a lady or vice versa when it comes to jobs or housing (though it is apparently still legal to kick someone of questionable gender off of a bus, out of a restaurant, out of the mall, etc.). Interestingly, supporters included the two Dels. who waffled on same-sex marriage, Sam Arora and Tiffany Alston.
And a "questionable death" at 36th and Falls this morning
Re. the county murder arrests announced on Friday, Hermann notes that the Jan 8 murder of Nathan Bowles hadn't been disclosed to the public in the first place, and asks "What made Friday the perfect day to release weeks- and months-old news?"
And a "questionable death" at 36th and Falls this morning
Re. the county murder arrests announced on Friday, Hermann notes that the Jan 8 murder of Nathan Bowles hadn't been disclosed to the public in the first place, and asks "What made Friday the perfect day to release weeks- and months-old news?"
Saturday, March 26, 2011
Worse and worser
The man stabbed in Barclay was ID'd as Reginald Leon Wragg, 46
Crazy video of four guys beating the tar out of a guy at the Charing Cross shopping center in Edmondson Heights.
Horrible: Social Services placed foster children in homes "despite credible evidence that the care providers had abused or neglected children," said a General Assembly audit, and "also failed to follow up on 159 children born to parents who had had their parental rights terminated."
In the county, arrests for the murders of Nathan Bowles, Vincent I. Thomas and Gerardo E. Botello.
Wilkens Ave RoFo robbed again
Alleged East Coast Rapist Aaron Thomas pled not guilty, is rather unremarkable-looking
Better news: House passed the bill to limit natural gas drilling in Western Maryland, probably after members read this freaky-deaky hydrofracking story in the NYT (or watched the "Gasland" documentary)
Also on the Patch, "Dumb Maryland Laws You May Have Violated"
Crazy video of four guys beating the tar out of a guy at the Charing Cross shopping center in Edmondson Heights.
Horrible: Social Services placed foster children in homes "despite credible evidence that the care providers had abused or neglected children," said a General Assembly audit, and "also failed to follow up on 159 children born to parents who had had their parental rights terminated."
In the county, arrests for the murders of Nathan Bowles, Vincent I. Thomas and Gerardo E. Botello.
Wilkens Ave RoFo robbed again
Alleged East Coast Rapist Aaron Thomas pled not guilty, is rather unremarkable-looking
Better news: House passed the bill to limit natural gas drilling in Western Maryland, probably after members read this freaky-deaky hydrofracking story in the NYT (or watched the "Gasland" documentary)
Also on the Patch, "Dumb Maryland Laws You May Have Violated"
Friday, March 25, 2011
37? 38?
A fatally stabbed man found in an alley in the 2100 block of Barclay Street
Crazy standoff situation in Cherry Hill
30 years or less for the 7th "Bounty Hunter," Anthony Williams, involved in the murder of Petro Taylor in 2008. (In 2009 Judge Prevas, via his clerk Susan Janoski, mailed me a hefty packet with the details of this case, oddly paired with an unrelated, banal illegal-weapon-seizure case-- page after page of tragic, pitiful details of Petro Taylor's torment and torture and begging to call his mother and trying to escape. I always meant ask Prevas why he sent that to me, esp. aired with some random weapons case- did he mean to say that that is what it's like to be a judge, boring cases then cases that make your neck hair stand on end?)
30 years for a woman whose robbery plan killed her neighbor
"Maryland's Court of Special Appeals has struck down the conviction of Darryl A. White Jr. on weapons charges stemming from a 2008 shootout with police in which two men died"
Remember John Nicklas and Shannon Leigh Honea, who did things to children in Essex/Middle River that that made a neighbor "want to vomit"? (Not to be confused with Jesse Aaron Davison and Tiffany Bolner of this month's other child-abusing-porn-making puke-inducing story). Niklas got 60 years, Honea has a plea agreement pending for 30-35 years.
President of the Baltimore county FOP is accused of drunkenly displaying his weapon and punching a sedan driver in the face.
Twenty years for Aaron Davis, convicted of robbing a Towson liquor store
And corrections officers in Hagtown "have filed a petition asking that a union leader be banned from the prison for allegedly threatening them during a meeting"
Some good news, the house has passed a bill to ban BPA in sippy cups and baby bottles. BPA shrinks your 'nads, and there is some credible evidence that exposure contributes to obesity, among other things.
Adam Meister claims that Frank Conaway is also a water-bill deadbeat, and asks "why is the Sun going after Jill Carter?" Says Carter, "Reporters and editors like to keep a close relationship with the politically powerful. The gov, speaker, et.al, steer them in the direction of who to cover and how to spin the stories." .. do you think the Sun has it in for Jill Carter?
Crazy standoff situation in Cherry Hill
30 years or less for the 7th "Bounty Hunter," Anthony Williams, involved in the murder of Petro Taylor in 2008. (In 2009 Judge Prevas, via his clerk Susan Janoski, mailed me a hefty packet with the details of this case, oddly paired with an unrelated, banal illegal-weapon-seizure case-- page after page of tragic, pitiful details of Petro Taylor's torment and torture and begging to call his mother and trying to escape. I always meant ask Prevas why he sent that to me, esp. aired with some random weapons case- did he mean to say that that is what it's like to be a judge, boring cases then cases that make your neck hair stand on end?)
30 years for a woman whose robbery plan killed her neighbor
"Maryland's Court of Special Appeals has struck down the conviction of Darryl A. White Jr. on weapons charges stemming from a 2008 shootout with police in which two men died"
Remember John Nicklas and Shannon Leigh Honea, who did things to children in Essex/Middle River that that made a neighbor "want to vomit"? (Not to be confused with Jesse Aaron Davison and Tiffany Bolner of this month's other child-abusing-porn-making puke-inducing story). Niklas got 60 years, Honea has a plea agreement pending for 30-35 years.
President of the Baltimore county FOP is accused of drunkenly displaying his weapon and punching a sedan driver in the face.
Twenty years for Aaron Davis, convicted of robbing a Towson liquor store
And corrections officers in Hagtown "have filed a petition asking that a union leader be banned from the prison for allegedly threatening them during a meeting"
Some good news, the house has passed a bill to ban BPA in sippy cups and baby bottles. BPA shrinks your 'nads, and there is some credible evidence that exposure contributes to obesity, among other things.
Adam Meister claims that Frank Conaway is also a water-bill deadbeat, and asks "why is the Sun going after Jill Carter?" Says Carter, "Reporters and editors like to keep a close relationship with the politically powerful. The gov, speaker, et.al, steer them in the direction of who to cover and how to spin the stories." .. do you think the Sun has it in for Jill Carter?
More Dennis Edwards Drama
Former JZ personalty's wife has been charged with assault and use of a handgun.
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Sin, the wages of
"Alcohol tax increase advances to full senate." Fun fact I learned from this book:
before Prohibition, all government activities were paid for by the alcohol tax; the income tax was supposed to get the government off of the teat. But of course now we have both, because there's no such thing as the government ever wanting less money. Also poised to pass, the wine shipping bill. So how long until I can order 18 cases of Trader Joe's 5-buck chuck to dodge the jackassed tax?
Also approved in the Senate: medical marijuana.
Doug, put ya Ballys on. It started on White Marsh Drive, and now county police are looking for Seth Josiah Burgess, 21, a suspect in a shooting at Bally's Total Fitness White Marsh.
before Prohibition, all government activities were paid for by the alcohol tax; the income tax was supposed to get the government off of the teat. But of course now we have both, because there's no such thing as the government ever wanting less money. Also poised to pass, the wine shipping bill. So how long until I can order 18 cases of Trader Joe's 5-buck chuck to dodge the jackassed tax?Also approved in the Senate: medical marijuana.
Doug, put ya Ballys on. It started on White Marsh Drive, and now county police are looking for Seth Josiah Burgess, 21, a suspect in a shooting at Bally's Total Fitness White Marsh.
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Man found stabbed to death in vacant home on North Ave
Creepy & sad: officer shot on the same block where another cop was killed a decade before
It all seemed like just so much grousing, but now I'm starting to wonder if the Sun (or at least Laura Vozzella) really does have something against Jill Carter. "Deadbeat" is an awfully strong term for someone with an unpaid water bill, whilst there's nary a word in the papers about Belinda Conaway, who either doesn't live in the district she represents, or does but is cheating on her taxes by claiming her primary residence is somewhere she doesn't actually live (a sin of commission, as it were).
Creepy & sad: officer shot on the same block where another cop was killed a decade before
It all seemed like just so much grousing, but now I'm starting to wonder if the Sun (or at least Laura Vozzella) really does have something against Jill Carter. "Deadbeat" is an awfully strong term for someone with an unpaid water bill, whilst there's nary a word in the papers about Belinda Conaway, who either doesn't live in the district she represents, or does but is cheating on her taxes by claiming her primary residence is somewhere she doesn't actually live (a sin of commission, as it were).
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Making the scene
Whoa! City officer charged with sexually abusing a minor, and the dept apparently has no compunction about putting his name right on out there.
Can you ID any of the people in these photos from the scene right before the fatal stabbing of David McLaughlin Jr.?
The Ink has last week's four murders and some updates.
Former marine Tyrone Brown was shot by off-duty officer Gahiji Tshamba, who was indicted for first-degree murder and assault. The police department is being sued by his family for $270 million, and today Tricia Bishop delves into the victim's sketchy mental health history (and the officer who shot him is apparently no prize pig either). Also witness accounts and charging documents
More on the Landsdowne murder of 17-year-old Keon Dobbs
Hee hee! Van Smith covers the drug bust of Reptilian Records' "Chris X," noting that the reporter was familiar with X's pot-dealing past, "having purchased small quantities of marijuana at the store more than 10 years ago while working as a freelance journalist and bartender." Then Van and Mike get into it in the comments section. I love this town!
Can you ID any of the people in these photos from the scene right before the fatal stabbing of David McLaughlin Jr.?
The Ink has last week's four murders and some updates.
Former marine Tyrone Brown was shot by off-duty officer Gahiji Tshamba, who was indicted for first-degree murder and assault. The police department is being sued by his family for $270 million, and today Tricia Bishop delves into the victim's sketchy mental health history (and the officer who shot him is apparently no prize pig either). Also witness accounts and charging documents
More on the Landsdowne murder of 17-year-old Keon Dobbs
Hee hee! Van Smith covers the drug bust of Reptilian Records' "Chris X," noting that the reporter was familiar with X's pot-dealing past, "having purchased small quantities of marijuana at the store more than 10 years ago while working as a freelance journalist and bartender." Then Van and Mike get into it in the comments section. I love this town!
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