Friday, December 8, 2006

Have a Big Gay Weekend!

BCrime readers may seem conservative, but only 10 percent advocate leaving our laws the way they are now or killing the gays. Well, that's nice. The rest support some kind of gay rights, like adopting or fostering kids. Three voters thought gay couples should be able to foster kids but not adopt them. Only about a third of readers support actual marriage or civil unions.

More news:
A city officer was hit by a car while trying to make a drug arrest on MLKJrBlvd.

Three murder arrests in the blotter, including Donavan Troy White, 17, extradited from NC for the beating death of Joel Bradley; Darrell Barnes, 42, charged with strangling Shannon Jackson, 39 (in 2001, and leaving her body in a storm drain), and Tavon Caldwell, charged with shooting Dennis O'Neil, 38 on November 18; also a shooting in Franklin.

Worcester County's most wanted, Riley Collick, 28, of Stockton, turned himself in to US Marshalls downtown.

Burglary in Owings Mills, armed robbery in Pikesville and Randallstown, stolen shoes in Reisterstown.

A Reisterstown teenager, Kaseem Malik Ray, was charged as an adult with attempted murder, assault, burglary and reckless endangerment after being ID'd as the shooter in a County dispute.

Pathologist Todd Sheridan, charged with voluntary manslaughter, pled not guilty at arraignment today. The court scheduled a trial date of March 2 before Judge Albert J. Matricciani, Jr.

Frederick police are looking for David Allen Chambers, wanted for second degree murder, first degree assault, handgun violations and reckless endangerment.

5 comments:

John Galt said...

Altruist A. Robert Kaufman on living in Baltimore: "I gotta move out of here," after being assaulted again outside his home.



Regarding the State board on crime labs, do you know that BCPD crime labe only has about 20 techs on staff? If you figure three actual shifts per day on a five shift rotation, that's like four techs available on any one shift in a city with 44,500 reported, verified part I crimes a year, which is to say over 5 per hour. That's not gonna work, izzit?

John Galt said...

Pardon my being controversial, but isn't 'killing gays' just a bit felonious ? Not to mention a hate crime ?

Maurice Bradbury said...

Just because you say you support other people being allowed to burn people at the stake doesn't mean that you'd light the match yourself, right?

burgersub said...

i was going to apply to the crime lab a few months back but when i looked at the website again after mulling it over for a couple of days, the listing was gone. :(

John Galt said...

FYI:

the District of Columbia has a rather smaller population than Baltimore, yet its police department has 4,400 officers. By contrast we have only about 3,000 officers and about 33% more part I crimes each year.

They have a new police chief.