Wednesday, June 13, 2012

City's Getting Relatively Safer, Says FBI...

Crack open the champagne! The most recent FBI statistics show that Baltimore's murder rate is no longer among the top five cities in the US. Hooray!*

A 22-year-old woman was attacked and raped after leaving a Federal Hill bar. The woman, who had no recollection of the incident, woke up on someone's lawn several miles away.

County Police are scratching their heads after the body of 33-year-old Janell Earlita Balogun was found in the woods along Frederick Rd. Balogun wasn't quite a civilian, having prior drug dealing convictions, an assault conviction from a few weeks ago, and active warrants for motor theft and forgery.

Several recent shootings, including a guy who got capped in his Bridgehampton Drive apartment, a triple shooting in the 2200 block of Annapolis Ave that put two teen girls in the hospital*, and a Sunday drive by in the 5400 block of Crismer Ave.

A massive fire engulfed a vacant warehouse in the 500 block of South Broadway St.

During a foot-chase of a drug suspect in the 5100 block of Stafford Street an officer shot and killed a pitbull. 

19 years in the slammer for police impersonator Joshua Hatch, 29. Hatch would put on a fake badge and rob people with pseudonym of "Officer Henson." A co-defendant received two years for partaking in one of the impersonation robberies.

A 17-year-old girl was falsely accused of attempted murder, leading her to spend four days in jail and miss her high school graduation.

The hell? A couple of AACO teens threw a bottle bomb at a six-year-old girl playing on a school playground.

Over in Pikesville, a woman kidnapped her biological child in during a visit. The mother, 20-year-old Kendra Nicole Gough, 20, faces kidnapping and weapons charges.

In the county, the Towson Trader Joes was robbed at knife-point, and Essex criminal Thomas Edward Maroney, 19, escaped custody and enjoyed a few sweet, sweet hours of freedom.

Probably not going to make for a good reference... A disgruntled former employee of the Tark’s Grill, identified as 43-year-old Oscar Mendez, attempted to set fire to the kitchen just an hour after getting canned. No one was injured.

The wife of Carl Johnson, a man who died after being tasered by police, has filed a multimillion dollar lawsuit against the county and state police departments. 

Multitasking heroin dealer Kenya Salik Montgomery, 40, got 10 years in the federal pen for being a part of two different drug organizations.
 


1 comment:

Laura said...

I really hope Linda Johnson gets some closure from her husband's death. The whole thing was tragic, especially the crap people was saying about Carl immediately after it happened. He didn't deserve what happened to him. :(