Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Life after Homicide II -Legalize it

Former homicide detective Irving Bradley thinks the best way lower the murder rate is to legalize drugs

Monday, July 6, 2009

City's biggest-ever drug bust= guilty plea

Ben Nuckols of the AP reports that Trenell D. Murphy, 34, will plead guilty tomorrow to possession with intent to distribute. Murphy was "arrested in February after police recovered 41 kilograms (91 pounds) of cocaine from the bed of his pickup truck -- the largest drug seizure city police have ever made without federal help."

Yet ANOTHER downtown brawl

Two men were stabbed at Lombard & President last night/this morning after leaving a club. (Wonder which one?)

A Hopkins employee was assaulted by water balloons while walking on University Parkway.

Life after homicide

A veteran BPD homicide detective who just retired speaks.

Sunday, July 5, 2009

Another downtown brawl

Police Tweet @11:30 p.m.: "SHOOTINGH REPORTED @ 700 N KENWOOD, ADULT MALE SHOT"

More mob-violence craziness! Two teens were stabbed in the course of a fight last night at Baltimore & Charles; 33-year-old Derrick Devon Thornton was apprehended. Thornton's robust criminal record includes an arrest for first-degree murder in 2003.

A person attacked in Federal Hill

Don't miss the NYT on the "incarceration generation"

Steve McNair's death may have been a murder/suicide

WTF?! Former crackhead/DC mayor Marion Barry arrested for stalking! Why do people keep re-electing that lewzer?

Blogger Bob Parkinson: Baltimore needs the Mafia

Thursday, July 2, 2009

5-Year-Old Shot

on S. Pulaski St. in in West Baltimore, Fenton says she was shot twice in the head.
UPDATE: Fenton says the girl's name is Raven and she is on life support

Smote!

Three shootings in six hours last night

Guilty plea from second suspect in the Timonium Light Rail kidnapping case

Hermann rides with animal control to visit a(n alleged) drug dealer and dog owner in need of leashes, manzierre

Hopkins Bayview agrees to $2.75 million settlement, denies stealing from government

Another church smote!? Bethel AME is the third church burned down by a lightning strike in three years! There was the Baptist church of the Holy Bentley in July of '07, the Methodist church in Hampden last August. There was also a Baptist church struck by lightning, but not burned down, in May.
Coincidence?
Tricia Bishop's story of the Gilbert & Dinkins verdict.

Chasing "johns"

A night on the "john" watch beat in Pigtown.

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Life

... for Gilbert, Dinkins and Goods.
Man "pummeled" and robbed at Mt. Washington Light Rail station and other violations in the Messenger crime log

Overdose deaths down

Good news, overdose deaths are down for the second straight year. Odd news, fewer drug abuse fatalities means more hard to explain unclassified deaths.

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Police tweeted @ 1 am: " STABBING: WHEELER & HARLEM, ADULT MALE STABBED, PRONOUNCED AT SHOCK TRAUMA"