Friday, July 2, 2010

Another marine killed in Baltimore

The man shot and killed in a city after-hours club was a marine about to deploy.

Southern district major forced to depart

Major Scott Bloodsworth is being forced to give up command of the Southern district

Lots of guns

Lots of guns getting seized by the cops.

Baltimore's new rape hotline is starting to get calls.

A fatal shooting in Essex and another outside of a bar on Baltimore Street.

A 21-year old man was murdered in Brooklyn Park, Anne Arundel County cops are looking for two suspects.

And just in case you thought we didn't have enough homicides, a 16-year old was shot dead in Reservoir Hill on Thursday morning. He was the fourth teenager to be murdered so far this year.

Mental health "experts" can't agree if Mary Koontz, on trial for murdering her husband, is sane.

An Ellicott City man convicted by the Federales of securities fraud will get a new trial.

Was anyone else surprised that the Baltimore Sun didn't have an article about the beheading verdict being upheld? From what I recall there was a real fear that their conviction might be overturned.

Thursday, July 1, 2010

Court upholds verdict

Court of special appeals upholds a guilty verdict in the beheading of three children.
Rape victim tells ABC about BPD's lack of responsiveness.. police say they have no record of her case

"A 24-year-old woman who had been stripping at Norma Jean's Gentleman's Club in Baltimore was found guilty Tuesday of stabbing another stripper to death in November 2008."

Friday, June 25, 2010

Skinny Suge Sentenced

Famed Stop Snitching creator Ronnie "Skinny Suge" Thomas receives 20 years in federal prison without parole.

Parole and probation crackdown

Parole and probation officers protest a new policy requiring three meet face to face meetings a week with parolees. Union says the policy is political because it affects counties key to the 2010 governor's race.

Death row moves

Maryland's death row inmates have been moved from the Maryland Correctional Adjustment Center (which used to be informally known as "Supermax") to the North Branch Correctional Institution near Cumberland. Executions (if we ever have one again) will still take place at the Metropolitan Transition Center.

The Sun has a few more details about the transfer.

Thursday, June 24, 2010

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Bad poetry

Tree Top Piru Bloods leader writes a poem about murder, gets 30 years in federal prison.

A Cherry Hill shooting victim dies and a decomposing body is found in an abandoned house in Pigtown.

Murderous couple is getting divorced. He's doing 38 years, she's doing life plus 20.

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

No pepperoni on your pizza

Former high-power lobbyist Jack Abramoff has been released from federal prison and is working at a kosher pizza restaurant on Reisterstown Road.

Illegal arrest settlement

BPD pays out another big settlement, this time for illegal arrests.