Media Blabber

At around 11 a.m., WBAL "Tweeted," from the AP, "Michael Vick Re-Signs With Nike: Michael Vick is back with Nike."
One of the savviest marketers in the world committing commercial hari-kari? Really?
Pretty fishy-- wouldn't you check that kind of thing out?
But nobody did-- the Sun, the Post and even our beloved Daily Record followed suit, dutifully reposting the story without a single phone call.
The Record's Liz Farmer even blamed Nike, "So what the heck took Nike so long to correct this error?"
We all know reporters are overworked and underpaid, but does the Record really believe that it's a corporation's job to spit the facts, and a paper's job to print them?

Way to go Michael McCarthy of USA Today, first to pick up the phone and call BS!

Whole bunch of crime in today's Blotter

Including an arrest in the homicide of Jamal White, as well as 8 laptops stolen in Towson alone.

So Much Dirty

"Southeast's top police officer is suspended," and nobody's saying why

Fancy watches, a money-counting machine, and Clomid?! Wacky stuff found in dirty cop Mark Lunsford's stash

The final brutality suit against officer Jerome K. Hill ended with a $1500 settlement, and Hill with a job in the records division. (how can you sodomize someone with a ripped-up $20 bill?)

Two trials for the mayor

More on the drug-overdose doctor

Names and details in this week's Ink

Ooh la la, c'est beaucoup de francs! New transaction terms save Constellation energy $1.2 billion in taxes.
(If you haven't fired BGE yet, here's a handy way to get bids from suppliers from TDR.)

A U of MD post-doc fellow is charged with drug possession after his girlfriend dies of a bupe overdose. Irony alerts: the two were researching addiction... and a bonus: BPD spokesman Anthony Guglielmi reportedly once worked for drug dealers at Pfizer!

The BPD reports that Tyron Markit Mason (B/M/1979) was arrested for burning his grandmother after she refused to give him money.

Rap songs come to life in Baltimore

Someone shot up a strip club last night injuring two.

Meanwhile, In one of the many breaking and entering cases in the area a suspect stole two live hand grenades.

Homicide detectives speak out part II

Former Homicide Detective Irving Bradley tells the story of how he was ordered to write a false report

Ex-homicide detectives speak out

Two ex-homicide detectives talk about the problems inside the BPD

Crime odds and ends

Police investigate a boatload of nonfatal shootings this weekend.

Police ID woman found stabbed to death.

Police also ID the man found shot to death on 9/11.

And finally, local skinheads plead not guilty in the vicious beating of an elderly man.

P.S.- To all the Baltimore skinheads who read this blog, If you really feel the need to be a racist prick, might I suggest you chose a city where you're not going to be exceedingly outnumbered and despised. Might I suggest Alaska or Iowa where the ratio of really pissed off black guys to ignorant racist is a tad more on your side? --TAB

Police have released a sketch of man wanted for questioning in connection with a violent rape in the NW district.

"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.