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| Tyrone West |
Calvert Street is bringing it today-- Justin Fenton has put the
Tyrone West documents on The Cloud, and
uploaded audio* of a female witness's description of the "scuffle" to the
Sun site. She was apparently the passenger in West's car and describes police and West (who she calls James?) somehow starting to fight, police and West punching each other on the ground, then on the police car, police hitting West in the face, more fighting on the ground, police Tasing West on the ground, more scuffling, West yelling "Travon Martin," more beating of West on Kitmore, West saying "you got me, stop beating me," then West getting away and running across the street followed by more beating, police cars running into each other at the crime scene, CPR.
Other witnesses have described West being sprayed with pepper spray, but this witness doesn't.
Somehow, some way, intrepid reporters Luke Broadwater and Scott Calvert g
ot their mitts on that secret speed camera audit that taxpayers paid $278,000 for but weren't supposed to see,* and hoo boy is it a doozy! Xerox's cameras had a whopping 10 percent error rate and 26 percent of the tickets were "questionable," costing Baltimoreans at minimum an estimated $2.8 million in erroneous tickets. The camera at Loch Raven Blvd. had an error rate of 58 percent (!!!) and the one at 6500 Eastern Avenue, 45 percent. Xerox is still the camera operator in the County and HoCo. Could
class action lawsuits (a la New Jersey) be far behind?
In the Eastern district
an 18-year-old guy was shot in the leg* there last night.
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| Lamin Manneh |
Speaking of the Eastern, former Eastern District officer Lamin Manneh, 32, accused of pimping out his 19-year-old wife and her friend down by BWI? H
e's pleaded guilty* to
operating a prostitution business. "In a federal indictment filed against Manneh in August, prosecutors said
his wife had entered into a 'contract of slavery' with him and agreed
to be subservient to him as her 'master.'"
Twenty years for gun-toting coke-slinging felon Antoin Lamont Garrison, 46.
The owners of Sam's NY grocery store on North Milton Street were arrested for
allegedly stealing $1.5 million of food stamp money.
Remember Katz Insurance and Hal Katz? Apparently
his son Geary is the operator of Senate Insurance, the "Kiss my Bumper" one, and now he's facing legal troubles of his own.
Weds February 5th the restaurants of Canton will
hold a benefit night with proceeds going to the recovery fund of Jon Fogg, the Sun editor who had his skull fractured in six places, possibly by the guy below.
Three people are dead after a shooting at the Columbia Mall in HoCo,* one of the dead is believed to be the shooter. Predictably the story is immediately national news and a Wall Street Journal news alert, even. The victims have been ID'd* as Brianna Benlolo, 21 and Tyler Johnson, 25. The gunman has been tentatively ID'd by police but not publicly identified, and police say that in addition to a shotgun and bullets he was toting crude explosives.*
