Friday, September 18, 2009

Your daily WTF?!

Spotcrime reports a shooting in the 4800 block of Yellowbrick Road

Baltimore PoliceDept SHOOTING-613 ASHBURTON ST-ADULT MALE SHOT. GRAVE CONDITION.

"Four people were arrested Thursday night after police found them sitting in a van with a loaded shotgun, a set of handcuffs, surgical gloves and masks.
'We believe we thwarted the commission of a heinous crime, but we're trying to figure out what that [crime] was,' city police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said.'"

Five Dunbar football players-- and the mother of a student-- have been arrested for stabbing and beating a 14-year-old boy and his friends.

In Parkville, a girl stabbed in a streetcorner catfight

In Cecil Co, electrician finds "souvenir" human hand in yard

and ps., Dundalk's under wooder!

Acorn update

Fired Baltimore employees plan to file a criminal complaint today against the creators of the video that got them in hot water

Thursday, September 17, 2009

You can beg better than that

Has anyone else been inspired recently to take up the martial arts? Any suggestions of quality places in town near the Northern get one's Bride on?

Jeez that's messed up

Stories like this make you want to dip your computer in Lysol or something.

“This case is a chilling reminder that people who chat on the internet often lie about who they are.” No truer words ever spoken, Mr. Rosenstein.

More brazen robberies in the Northern

The recent rash of thieving hasn't just been confined to the JHU area-- a prodigious list of robberies and burglaries in the Northern, including street robberies in the middle of the day.

"Fight over firing of public defender is far from over"

Police Tweet: "DRUG ARREST: NW Police Dog Woden sniffs out 1.5 lbs marijuana & $8,600 during car stop @ 2400 blk of W belvedere. Kevin Ennis arrested."

WTF?! County councilman's daughter, granddaughter, allegedly threatened, scratched and bit a police officer during a traffic stop

Speaking of brazen robberies: the last thing I'll ever post on ACORN

Almost punched my computer screen...

when I saw this story thinking the BPD changed their minds again with the Gerrod Finch case.

BPD: Ponts Had No Intent To Kill

Reports WBAL, but the Sun says a decision to press charges from the SAO could be "weeks away."
The Sunpapers also has new details that contradict the "noise in the basement" version of events, and an editorial in a thoroughly irritating, sanctimonious tone.
(Whoever wrote it, "they" likely will be scarred psychologically for years to come by the devastating knowledge of this Video American promotion)

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Run on swords causes crush at Greenmount Ave. pawnshop

Drive carefully.....

According to the MVA, a whole bunch of Marylanders may be driving without insurance.

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Baltimore PoliceDept SHOOTING-3400 BLK CLIFTMONT AVE-ADULT MALE SHOT. CRITICAL CONDITION
UPDATE: VICTIM DECEASED

Ponts v. Rice

The recap, in case you missed it.
So, Hopkins students "Ponts" and "Woody" hear a noise in the basement in the middle of the night. But instead of calling 911, like Richard Nolan would have done, they go out searching, Ponts with a bone-shearingly sharp sword and no idea who is out there and if they're armed or not (what if they'd had a mace?). The roommates claim the intruder was hiding inside of the garage, then lunged. Somehow, though, they got outside to the patio to do his screaming and bleeding.
Weather or not Ponts will be charged with a crime remains to be seen, and inquiring rubberneckers are dying to see a photo of this kid.

Some white coller odds and ends

Baltimore Rabbi indicted for stealing checks from school.

Meanwhile...
What do you get If you spend 45 years being a fraudster? apparently not much.

Finally:
Maryland feds take down a internet gambling/money laundering operation after a yearlong investigation.
BaltimorePolice POLICE INVOLVED SHOOTING, 2805 ORLEANS ST, ADULT MALE STABBED PO IN BACK,2ND PO SHOT SUSPECT

update: the suspect has died, the officer was unhurt.

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Inquiring minds...

Update: "department sources identified the detained student as John Pontolillo, 20, of Wall, N.J."

Pontolillo is a junior, prior to Hopkins he attended the Ranney $chool in Tinton Falls, six years behind the "Marie Antoinette" actress Kirsten Dunst.

Rice has a seedier background: police say he pulled a loaded .22 on an officer in 2007.
But his sister claims her brother was "too fat" to pose a threat.
Srsly? Kevin Clarke's lawsuit lives on!

Appopos of nothing

NY bike thief beatdown

FL busts Craigslist hookers in "Operation Hot Date"

Dayum!

"Police: JHU Student Killed Intruder With Samurai Sword"
Former roomie Diego tells WBAL, "it was, like, a wakizashi ... it, like, fit nicely with the rest of the room."

Update @1:30: "The intruder is identified as Donald Dwayne Rice of Baltimore City."

... but hode up. did the incident happen in the garage, as students say... or, as WBAL writes, on the patio?

Monday, September 14, 2009

They know when you've been sleeping...

Three break-ins in Charles Village, including two while residents were sleeping, from JHU security via Spotcrime. Lock those doors & windows!:
Burglary (Private Residence) – 200 Blk. E. University Parkway – On Sept. 13th between 12:00 AM and 1:30 AM, an undergraduate’s laptop computer, iPod and iPod base station were taken from his 3rd floor bedroom.  Preliminary investigation revealed that entry had been gained via an unlocked 1st floor rear window.  Baltimore Police responded.  Investigation continuing.

Attempt Burglary (Private Apartment Building) – Hopkins House, 110 W. University Parkway -- On Sept. 11th at 11:30 PM, an unknown person shined a light through the 2nd floor bedroom patio window and pushed the unlocked sliding door open. The resident startled the suspect who then fled in an unknown direction.  Nothing was taken.  Outside, trash cans were available to the suspect to reach the balcony.  Baltimore Police responded. Investigation continuing.

Burglary (Private Apartment) – 2900 Blk. N. Calvert St. (odd side) – On Sept. 13th between 3:30 PM and 10:30 PM, a non-affiliate’s laptop computer was taken from a 2nd floor bedroom.  Entry had been gained via an unlocked rear 2nd floor door leading to the fire escape.  Baltimore Police responded. Investigation continuing.

Police-involved

shooing of robbery suspect on White Ave

Suspicious

Baltimore PoliceDept SUSPICIOUS DEATH - 500 E PRATT ST, ADULT FEMALE FOUND DEAD.
update: fenton tweets it may be suicide

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At around midnight police Tweeted another shooting Presstman, an adult male in the 500 block. What is going on?
.. update: the shooting = fatal

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and a man shot to death while standing at W. Cold Spring and Reisterstown Rds. on Sunday afternoon.

Bupe and crime

Supporters say buprenorphine, a treatment for heroin addiction, has helped lower the homicide rate.

Sunday, September 13, 2009

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Two fatal shootings today
: Israeli Mason, 18, on McCulloh St. at 1:42 a.m., and André Williams in the 100 block of West Cross St.

Michael Chase shot in 1988, is added to the toll, along with two killings "previously undisclosed" by police

"Medical Marijuana Finds a Mellow Audience in Md."