"Officer Fires Gun At Suspect Who Rammed Him With Car."
Damn skippy!

Septuagenarian David Weeks found murdered in White Marsh

6 shootings, 1 stabbing

Police Tweets, the last 24 hours

SHOOTING-2841 BOARMAN AVE-ADULT MALE SHOT IN THE ARM.26 minutes ago from UberTwitter

SHOOTING ARREST: Kevon Wilson & Craig Tippet charged as adults w/ att. murder, robbery & other offenses in the attack on Det Aaron Harris.about 10 hours ago from web

UPDATE: False info reported to Police. Investigation reveals shooting @ 3553 Greenmount Av actually occurred @ 2500 W. Fayette St.about 10 hours ago from UberTwitter

SHOOTING - BELAIR/SEIDEL, ADULT MALE SHOT. (Reported at 420am)about 11 hours ago from UberTwitter

SHOOTING, 2500 W BALTIMORE, ADULT MALE SHOT. (Reported at 1am)about 11 hours ago from UberTwitter

SHOOTING, 3500 GREENMOUNT, ADULT MALE CLAIMS HE WAS SHOT BY UNK SUSPECT.about 17 hours ago from UberTwitter

STABBING, 1215 W NORTH, ADULT MALE STABBED,about 19 hours ago from UberTwitter

SHOOTING, 1800 DOVER, ADULT MALE SHOT IN CHEST, 2100 REQUESTED, POSSIBLE SUSPECT IN CUSTODYabout 20 hours ago from UberTwitter

Shooting-600 N.Luzerne-Adult male shot. Possibly a 2nd victim at 401 N.Lakewood shot in arm.about 23 hours ago from UberTwitter

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A woman found stabbed to death near Clifton Park

An off-duty officer is in intensive care after being shot during an attempted robbery.
UPDATE: two 16-year-olds, Kevon Wilson and Craig Tillett, were arrested & are being charged as adults

Three residential burglaries, an armed robbery and lots of car break-ins in the Northern

Hermann: lyin' cop Mark Lunsford got a $10k bonus that may have come from federal grant money

A judge's misstatement about penalties earns a gun-toting assailant a new trial

Update: Missing Monica Muth was found

Missing

14-year-old Monica Muth is missing, right, last seen at the Lutherville RoFo

Baltimore Cop Mark J. Lunsford charged by Feds with lying and theft of Government property, more details on DOJ site

The 4th circuit has overturned jury's $5 mil verdict against funeral-protesting Westboro Baptist church. Line of the day: "Even though Westboro has said God hates the ACLU, Deborah A. Jeon, legal director of the ACLU of Maryland, said the appellate holding was correct."

Geniosity

From the BPD:

Yesterday (Sept 23rd) at 430pm, Detectives from the Northeast Drug Unit responded to a call for discharging 2622 Evergreen Ave. During their investigation, they entered this location and recovered approx. 3 pounds of suspected marijuana and a sawed off Harrington and Richardson Arms shotgun.

arrested : Richard Rorke (M,W, 2/12/53)
Jeremy Rorke (M,W,12/18/80)
Jessica Stork (F,W,11/29/89)

Mind-blowing stats: "The 234 people killed last year had a combined 2,404 prior arrests - 162 related to guns and 898 related to drugs. That's an average of 10 arrests per suspect and 10.3 arrests per victim."

Media Blabber

"An amendment to the bipartisan Senate bill that would create a federal shield law for journalists will likely exclude many bloggers and internet journalists"

ps., watch Dixon get pissy with a Fox reporter!

...just a thought, before you start laying off cops maybe the city should cut back trips to luxury hotels.

Ex-cons want in

At a NAACP meeting on juvenile justice ex-offenders implored officials to include them in the battle against gangs and crime

I'll Flip You, Bitch!!

Police shoot man armed with spatula. Actually, it's sad, shouldn't be flippant about it.

Melody Simmons on the legalities of self-defense in MD

... nonfatal shootings are down, but murders aren't. What's up with that?

The Ink puts names to numbers

15 months for the guy selling guns from his Lex market Utz stand
(... the link is fixed)

"Feds Seek to Keep GOP Donor's Drug Cash"

Lawyer: Mayor can explain that unexplained $$

Court of Appeals to cuckold: 13 years is too long to wait to challenge paternity.

An Arrest in the Yellowwood Road shooting, as well a ton of other crimes in...

the blotter.

Brazen!

Did last Tuesday's swordification of an intruder in Charles Village put a damper on burglarizing?
Hellz naw!
At least three in the area since, from JHU security via Spotcrime:

Burglary (Private Residence) – 220 E. University Parkway (north side) – Sept. 18th at 1:00 PM, a non-affiliate responded to his residence only to discover the front door forced open. The resident notified Baltimore Police who responded, searched the location and found an unauthorized male inside. The suspect was arrested and charged with residential burglary. 

(Private Residence / non-affiliate) – 3200 Blk. N. Calvert St. – On Sept. 19th between 1:27 AM and 1:33 AM, a non-affiliated community member was awakened by a noise from a 2nd floor bedroom and on checking into it observed an unknown male run down the stairs and out the 1st floor rear kitchen door. A jewelry box containing jewelry was discovered missing.  Entry is believed to have been gained via the unlocked kitchen door.  Baltimore Police responded.

(Private Residence / grad student) – Unit Blk. W. 27th St. – On Sept. 21st at 5:00 AM, a graduate student’s [sic] was awakened by a noise coming from her bathroom.  Upon investigating she heard someone on the fire escape and then observed an unknown male running down the alley. Inventory of the apartment revealed a laptop computer, Netbook and wallet were missing. Entry had been gained via an unlocked bathroom window.  Baltimore Police responded. Investigation continuing.

More trouble for Acorn

Guv O'Malley authorizes the MD AG's office to investigate Acorn.

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unID'd man, 31, 2440 Maisel Court


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unID'd man, 613 Ashburton St.

Hermann has a recap of "the shootins," 12 incidents and 14 victims including the one on Yellowwood/ Yellowbrick on Friday.

Councilman Ken Harris

Former city councilman Ken Harris, who was gunned down a year ago, remembered

8 shootings

reported by Spotcrime so far today.

2 homicides

.. in the County

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

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?