Monday, July 12, 2010

Police officer indicted in Mt. Vernon shooting

Officer Tshamba was indicted on murder and gun charges and could face life in prison.

Are you really good at digging deep, dark holes?

Can you dig one deep and dark enough for a man who rapes a 5-year-old girl? Probably not.

Need some copper tubing? So does this construction site.

Possibly armed man vanishes.

"This is, I think, fire No. 7 in 13 years … They've all been arson."

Battle of Baltimore Crime's Favorite Two People: Warren Brown vs. Pat Jessamy

18-year-old arrested for shooting two other 18-year-olds in Edgewood. Of course, the alleged perp appears to be currently awaiting trial for armed robbery, assault, weapons charges, etc.

"Why is this even news anymore?" Three men shot in two hours (actually more like 1 hour, 13 minutes).

Court time, expense this

The man who wants Pat Jessamy's job would eliminate the do not call list, send prosecutors out of the murder scenes with homicide detectives, and says he would spend more time in court.

Meanwhile councilman Bill Henry said $6000 worth of bar tabs and meals charged to the city was payback for volunteers.

Saturday, July 10, 2010

A Man is Only as Good as His Nickname...

Life in prison for TTP member Anthony "Mo Easy" Fleming, as well as another 20 years concurrent to his state sentence of life, for Tavon "Bloody Batman" Mouzone.


A raid of recently indicted BGF conspirator Alicia Simmons reveals a connection to "a who's who of Baltimore criminals," including Ronnie "Skinny Suge" Thomas, Johnny "J.R." Butler, and Calvin "Turkey" Wright.


Finally, convicted sex offender James "No Known Nickname" Mason III was recently arrested with four teenage girls.

Ripping of widows

He once was a big time Baltimore accountant, but he just got a five year sentence for mortgage fraud for taking $900K from a widow.

Homicide

Woman shot and killed near after hours club.

Friday, July 9, 2010

Miss, don't miss

Page Croyder: "Unfounded Rape Reports and Unfounded Excuses"

This just in...

Gregg Bernstein is Jewish.

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A Baltimore police officer shot at a vehicle trying to get through a blocked area of a JFX on-ramp, causing the vehicle to crash.

Police are looking for a female bank robber.

What a shocker...

Registered sex offender arrested for sex offense, according to this poorly written, apparently unedited article. (Look, ma, no hyphen!)

Highlights: "Then Mason drove to a business in the Annapolis area to purchase food and was accompanied by the 13-year-old female." Nice way to start a sentence...

"One of the females text a family member stating that the juveniles were scared and needed assistance."

"Mason was arrested and charged with Second Degree Rape, Perverted Practice and Contributing to a Mino." He contributed to a mino? Helping out needy birds is a crime now?

Your tax dollars at play

Councilman Bill Henry pays the city back $6K for bar tab, other expenses.

Roundup

Jury doesn't buy insanity defense - Mary Koontz found guilty of murdering her husband. According to her daughter (and would-be victim), "it was like a weight lifted off all of our shoulders."

No charges will be filed in the shooting death of a home invader back in March.

Take note: If you're wrongfully arrested (due to a court's clerical error), shackled by wrists and ankles to a pole for 12 hours, while your children are left alone in a highway parking lot, and are declared "truly innocent and injured" by the Court of Special Appeals... you can't sue anyone. Sorry! So, you know, make sure that doesn't happen, okay?

Documents in the murder of UVA student Yeardly Love are unsealed. Ex-boyfriend George Huguely V admits kicking in her door and getting in an "altercation" with her. Was the murder planned?

Police intentionally run over some dummies
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Detectives are reviewing 18 months of data on City rape reports.

It's hot out, people. Don't leave your dogs in the car.

Missing a credit card? Terrell Reid might have it.

City Councilman reimburses taxpayers for that food we bought him. At least he wasn't using gift cards...

Thursday, July 8, 2010

Omar Comin!

A real-life Omar wannabe is in deep trouble with the Federales.

Court of Special Appeals: Don't yell loudly while getting arrested.

Another candidate has filed to run for State's Attorney in the City but her candidacy doesn't look serious.

More gun seizures.

The Westboro Baptist Church case is headed for the Supreme Court.

Tighter contraband screenings in Maryland's prisons.

Judge Orders Couple To Split Custody Of Dog.

Non-fatal machete attack in Anne Arundel County.

15 federal years for sexual assault and kiddy porn. The perp in question is already doing 15 in the state system.

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.

Too much cerveza

Illegal immigrant (with a Maryland driver's license) drives drunk, kills passenger.

Bloods gang leader Terrence "Squeaky" Richardson received two life sentences in federal court this morning. There is no parole in the federal system.

Bad area

The shooting one Wolfe just a few blocks from the weekend homicide on Washington.

Friday, June 18, 2010

Thursday, June 17, 2010

Child Movie Stars Never Turn Out Ok...

Star of "Boys of Baraka" is among 22 Gilmor Homes residents indicted by federal court.

Another guilty plea in the large scale pawn shop money laundering case.

Finally, a more in def look into the background of some of the people who have used the safe surrender program.

Arrest in dog killing case

Police have arrested two boys, pretty young, in connection with the death of the dog found hanging on a fence

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Child porn sentence

30 years for a Parkville child pornographer who took distributed images of a disabled girl in his custody.

Justice For Raven Wyatt

Lamont Davis got life plus 30 years after judge Rasin rejected his motion for a new trial. Now we wait and see what the Court of Special Appeals does with this case.

Calvin Lockner's trial for beating up a 76-year old man was postponed. He'd better cover up that Hitler tattoo whenever he finally does end up in front of a jury!

Have you seen this man?

He took a shot a Carrol County cop, they think he may be in Baltimore

More details on the death of the census worker.

Monday, June 14, 2010

One More Murder In This Town

A census worker was shot and killed last week.

A 25-year old from Glen Burnie became Annapolis's third murder victim of the year over the weekend.

Two men have been charged with first-degree murder for the slaying of Trooper Wesley Brown. I'm sure nobody is surprised that both of them have "extensive" criminal records.

Ten men have been arrested for soliciting prostitutes in Laurel. The cops were kind enough to release their names and home towns.

Friday, June 11, 2010

Cop charged

Prosecutors have issued murder charges for city cop Gahiji A. Tshambi

State Trooper Murdered

An off-duty MD State Trooper was shot and killed in PG County.

The Mt. Vernon police shooting story keeps getting worse. Four separate witnesses say that the victim had his hands in the air when he was shot.

Officer Tommy Sanders has been acquitted of manslaughter in the shooting of Edward Lamont Hunt.

Sex trafficking at a sleazy motel in Laurel.

Sunday, June 6, 2010

Saturday, June 5, 2010

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Outdoorsman


Bealefeld holds roll call on 33rd Street.

15 Years for Doubly Deadly Stabbing Spree

From the SAO:
At a hearing today Judge Pamela J. White imposed the agreed-upon sentence for Steven J. Lashley, 32, of the 2000 block of Paulette Road: 30 years in prison suspend all but 15 years, two concurrent five year prison terms and three years probation.

Lashley pled guilty to second-degree murder and two counts of second-degree assault May 19, 2010. The State agreed to the plea when the State’s main witness, a woman previously convicted of manslaughter, told the parties that she intended to invoke her Fifth Amendment right and would not testify if called as a witness.

On September 22, 2005 Lashley stabbed three people in the 400 block of Water Street at Commerce Street following an altercation in a nearby New York Fried Chicken restaurant. Stanley Thomas, Jr was killed and two others were injured.

Thursday, May 27, 2010