Officers find a toilet with a cell phone taped to it near the Towson courthouse. Reports Fox, "At this time, no evacuations have taken place." Uh, TMI, Fox!
UPdate: that's some toilet. The Brew reports that a similar "art can" has been parked in front of the schools HQ on North Avenue for "weeks". Quote of the day from Cp editor Tim Hill, "'I figured it was one of those memorials to a kid who had died,' Hill said, noting that, when he shot the picture, the assemblage included a stuffed 'Kenny' doll from the South Park animated television show."
Monday, February 7, 2011
Big bux awarded in police-misconduct lawsuit
$170,000 for Salahudeen Abdulaziz, who claimed police handcuffed him and punched him in the face while he was on the way to the store to get a bag of potato chips.
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Sneaking and leaking
"Md.'s wine shipment laws create smuggling routes from D.C. and Va." Fun fact: MD became known as the "Free State" because the state did not allot any funds or pass an enforcement act to support Prohibition. Ironically, we now have the most jackassed liquor laws in the country.
And speaking of free, we'll believe in you when we see some hot document action, Baltileaks!
And speaking of free, we'll believe in you when we see some hot document action, Baltileaks!
Super Sunday Crime Round-up
What do rapper Lil' Wayne, career criminal Joel Ugah, and Baltimore Blast owner Edwin Hale Sr. have in common? A weapons charge on their record.
Court Watch is back. Concerned citizens are bringing back the program due to the repeated breaks that the accused murderers of Stephen Pitcairn received.
Maryland and California both suspend their "Scared Straight" programs, a few weeks after the premier of the show "Beyond Scared Straight."
Federal officer Curtis Anthony Warren is convicted of killing his brother back in April of 2009.
63-year-old school teacher Myra Elizabeth Cason was shot to death last Friday.
Robert "Seattle" Jones gets 15 years for a bungled home invasion.
Interstate traveling stoner Travis Bielaski arrested in Nebraska with 33 pounds of grass.
Finally, Latin Kings enforcer Brandon Smith pleads guilty to Racketeering and attempted murder.
Court Watch is back. Concerned citizens are bringing back the program due to the repeated breaks that the accused murderers of Stephen Pitcairn received.
Maryland and California both suspend their "Scared Straight" programs, a few weeks after the premier of the show "Beyond Scared Straight."
Federal officer Curtis Anthony Warren is convicted of killing his brother back in April of 2009.
63-year-old school teacher Myra Elizabeth Cason was shot to death last Friday.
Robert "Seattle" Jones gets 15 years for a bungled home invasion.
Interstate traveling stoner Travis Bielaski arrested in Nebraska with 33 pounds of grass.
Finally, Latin Kings enforcer Brandon Smith pleads guilty to Racketeering and attempted murder.
Fate of gay marriage hangs on six undecided senators
"Two men stabbed, one shot in 3 nonfatal incidents"
Four people stabbed at the Cheer's (sic) Bar and Grill in Parkville
"Two men stabbed, one shot in 3 nonfatal incidents"
Four people stabbed at the Cheer's (sic) Bar and Grill in Parkville
Saturday, February 5, 2011
Friday, February 4, 2011
Shoulda, coulda, woulda
WJZ has an interview with Emmanuel Miller, the stringy-shtached teen charged in the beating of elderly black fisherman James Privott. "I wish I would have done something to try to help the guy."
Thursday, February 3, 2011
People, animals, opiates
A second trial concluding for Kenneth D. Perry, found guilty in 2001 of killing pregnant Kelly Bunn and his former girlfriend, LaShawn Jordan, as Jordan's 4-year-old watched, then "stayed in the apartment with the bodies for two days, caring for her 1-year-old brother and trying to treat her mother's wounds with toilet paper and a toy stethoscope."
HarfCo man arrested for raping a 5-year-old girl
Jury begins deliberations in twin brothers' dog-burning trial.
Scene killed at Select Lounge
Suleiman Zakaria, 27, of Pikesville, got 10 years for hiding 6 pounds of Ghanian heroin in his luggage
WBAL: Baltimore has a high police-to-citizen ratio
HarfCo man arrested for raping a 5-year-old girl
Jury begins deliberations in twin brothers' dog-burning trial.
Scene killed at Select Lounge
Suleiman Zakaria, 27, of Pikesville, got 10 years for hiding 6 pounds of Ghanian heroin in his luggage
WBAL: Baltimore has a high police-to-citizen ratio
That movie sounds hilarious!
"Mexican cartel on trial in Baltimore drug case: Informant describes driving cross-country with cocaine-filled mobile home"
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
13 years
for serial drunken driver Thomas Lee Meighan Jr., who fatally plowed into Hopkins undergrad Miriam Frankl as the tried to cross St. Paul St.
The Sun has posted the 911 calls made by drivers
The Sun has posted the 911 calls made by drivers
Wieners aplenty
Demetrius Arrington arrested for murder of Jeffrey R. Purnell, 51
CP's Van Smith "A recent California drug-trafficking and money-laundering case [showed] how hundreds of pounds of cocaine allegedly reached Baltimore’s streets last year thanks to Hollywood-based traffickers, and how millions in drug proceeds left town: by private jet"
Fifteen years in prison for Joseph Lawhorn, 35, convicted of taking "sexually explicit" pictures of little boys with his iPhone
Burning dog trial: Sgt. Jarron Jackson "can't testify as to whether [Tremayne] can fly or not," today, jurors nodding off
The Daily Record asks, "Wrecking buildings or lives in Middle East?" (Fumes "Prez Jack" Young, "What if I become governor and they want me to show them where I lived? I will have nothing to show them.")
Howard County senator Allan H. Kittleman becomes first Republican to jump on the big gay senate bandwagon. Kittleman's civil-unions bill was withdrawn, and he stepped down as Senate minority leader soonafter. Yesterday Republicans closeted themselves to privately vote to officially oppose the bill. And the the National Organization for Marriage is robo-calling.
History corner: 10 years ago last week, then-mayor O'Malley told a Sun reporter re. the dropped case against officer Brian Sewell: [State's Attorney Pat Jessamy] "doesn't even have the goddamn guts to get off her ass and go in and try this case, and I'm tired of it... If she doesn't have respect for the police, if she doesn't have respect for the people of this city, maybe she should get the hell out and let somebody else in who's not afraid to do the goddamn job."
CP's Van Smith "A recent California drug-trafficking and money-laundering case [showed] how hundreds of pounds of cocaine allegedly reached Baltimore’s streets last year thanks to Hollywood-based traffickers, and how millions in drug proceeds left town: by private jet"
Fifteen years in prison for Joseph Lawhorn, 35, convicted of taking "sexually explicit" pictures of little boys with his iPhone
Burning dog trial: Sgt. Jarron Jackson "can't testify as to whether [Tremayne] can fly or not," today, jurors nodding off
The Daily Record asks, "Wrecking buildings or lives in Middle East?" (Fumes "Prez Jack" Young, "What if I become governor and they want me to show them where I lived? I will have nothing to show them.")
Howard County senator Allan H. Kittleman becomes first Republican to jump on the big gay senate bandwagon. Kittleman's civil-unions bill was withdrawn, and he stepped down as Senate minority leader soonafter. Yesterday Republicans closeted themselves to privately vote to officially oppose the bill. And the the National Organization for Marriage is robo-calling.
History corner: 10 years ago last week, then-mayor O'Malley told a Sun reporter re. the dropped case against officer Brian Sewell: [State's Attorney Pat Jessamy] "doesn't even have the goddamn guts to get off her ass and go in and try this case, and I'm tired of it... If she doesn't have respect for the police, if she doesn't have respect for the people of this city, maybe she should get the hell out and let somebody else in who's not afraid to do the goddamn job."
You booze, you lose?
Serial drunk-driver Thomas Meighan will be sentenced today after pleading guilty to charges stemming from the death of Miriam Frankl.
Dead body in a field in Northeast Baltimore.
Counterfeiting arrest on the Eastern Shore.
Two people are in serious trouble for helping an inmate escape from theWashington County jail last week.
Dead body in a field in Northeast Baltimore.
Counterfeiting arrest on the Eastern Shore.
Two people are in serious trouble for helping an inmate escape from theWashington County jail last week.
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Bigger fish to fry
County Judge Robert E. Cahill Jr has ruled that Karla Porter's whole 10-hour police interview will be admissible.
Fabulousness! Charles Village residents (or mostly Stephen Gewirtz) form "Court Watch" to track cases. Says Gewirtz, "I get the sense it's really been a revolving door downtown." ...so wonder what happened with Thomas Meighan Jr.? Every court reporter in town (that is to say, Tricia Bishop) was at the dog trial. Almost makes me miss old Joe Sviatko. He would know!
And urBanite asks, "Is there hope for quality local news after all?"
$15,000 for three tons of rockfish? Those poachers really should get into drug dealing.
A septuagenarian hit with a brick, sisters who whacked their mom's boyfriend with a bicycle tire pump and a golf club and couples fighting over cold food and who should make the bed in the "Baltimore Guide" blotter.
In the Catonsville Times blotter, an attempted carjacking at the WalMart parking lot and other teenage misbehavior.
... and the "hontroversy" rages on, that never-ending intellectual-property "uproar" that "casts unflattering light on the priorities of people ... who have spent their time on this subject in a city with bigger problems." Nevertheless, good readin' from Ed Ericsson.
Fabulousness! Charles Village residents (or mostly Stephen Gewirtz) form "Court Watch" to track cases. Says Gewirtz, "I get the sense it's really been a revolving door downtown." ...so wonder what happened with Thomas Meighan Jr.? Every court reporter in town (that is to say, Tricia Bishop) was at the dog trial. Almost makes me miss old Joe Sviatko. He would know!
And urBanite asks, "Is there hope for quality local news after all?"
$15,000 for three tons of rockfish? Those poachers really should get into drug dealing.
A septuagenarian hit with a brick, sisters who whacked their mom's boyfriend with a bicycle tire pump and a golf club and couples fighting over cold food and who should make the bed in the "Baltimore Guide" blotter.
In the Catonsville Times blotter, an attempted carjacking at the WalMart parking lot and other teenage misbehavior.
... and the "hontroversy" rages on, that never-ending intellectual-property "uproar" that "casts unflattering light on the priorities of people ... who have spent their time on this subject in a city with bigger problems." Nevertheless, good readin' from Ed Ericsson.
Justified
Please note that the deaths of Sean Gamble and Officer William Torbit Jr. are considered justified until determined otherwise. Baltimore city has had 15 official homicides so far this year.
Thanks,
Mgmt.
Thanks,
Mgmt.
Monday, January 31, 2011
Meanwhile...
The man shot on Pratt St on Friday (homicide #16) was id'd as Raynard Benjamin, 30
Court of Appeals throws out a murder conviction obtained by a detective telling the suspect, "This is between you and me, bud."
Tooty-two years for Manny, the coke dealer who tried to intimidate a witness. And up in Gettysburg, PA, trial for a grandma accused of bringing Baltimorean white drugs up from the KMart parking lot to sell in the TGI Fridays parking lot.
A witness out to "get paid" says she saw the Johnson boys running away from the scène du pit bull flambee, and jurors watched the crime camera video. And then there's the two teens arrested for the burning of Mittens the cat.
Police and fire unions plan to picket the June Mayor's conference, and members from other states are invited. Maybe they can stay at the city-owned Hilton, plenty of empty rooms there ....
A Daily Record investigation reveals that when it comes to East Baltimore development, "Elected officials short on financial details"
In the crime beat blog, police appeal for the public's help to solve the Jan 2. murder of autistic Hezikah Wilson, the mayor introduces new legislation that includes a mandatory-minimum illegal-firearm sentence. Meanwhile, in South Dakota, legislation to require gun ownership.
and on this blog, a new comment in the self-defense vs murder debate
Court of Appeals throws out a murder conviction obtained by a detective telling the suspect, "This is between you and me, bud."
Tooty-two years for Manny, the coke dealer who tried to intimidate a witness. And up in Gettysburg, PA, trial for a grandma accused of bringing Baltimorean white drugs up from the KMart parking lot to sell in the TGI Fridays parking lot.
A witness out to "get paid" says she saw the Johnson boys running away from the scène du pit bull flambee, and jurors watched the crime camera video. And then there's the two teens arrested for the burning of Mittens the cat.
Police and fire unions plan to picket the June Mayor's conference, and members from other states are invited. Maybe they can stay at the city-owned Hilton, plenty of empty rooms there ....
A Daily Record investigation reveals that when it comes to East Baltimore development, "Elected officials short on financial details"
In the crime beat blog, police appeal for the public's help to solve the Jan 2. murder of autistic Hezikah Wilson, the mayor introduces new legislation that includes a mandatory-minimum illegal-firearm sentence. Meanwhile, in South Dakota, legislation to require gun ownership.
and on this blog, a new comment in the self-defense vs murder debate
Alleged serial killer convicted in 1st trial
William Vincent Brown is convicted in 1st of 3 trials of raping and then strangling a woman who survived to testify against them.
15
An unidentified 51-year-old man was fatally shot in the head while sitting in the driver's seat of a car in the 5700 block of Eastbury Ave.
Segregation-a-licious
City that Breeds on the un-diversifying of city council districts
Says "Pistol Pete" Welch, "I hope that we can one day select a council person via Facebook"
in other neighborhood news, a Hopkins consultant opines that the Middle East neighborhood needs to be "rebranded"
Says "Pistol Pete" Welch, "I hope that we can one day select a council person via Facebook"
in other neighborhood news, a Hopkins consultant opines that the Middle East neighborhood needs to be "rebranded"
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Your tax dollars at work Vol. 34
DPW employee to co-worker who was caught drinking in an Eastern Avenue deli by an IG investigator while on the clock: “What the f**k do you do all day besides stand behind that f**kin’ counter?
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