West side stories

"Three men shot, one fatally, in West Baltimore"

The Deuce has a new Cold Case feature, employing handwriting and typewriter fonts to tell the tale of Jennifer Claybrook, killed at age 15 in 1983.

a 16-year-old stabbed in the back at Douglass High yesterday

"Juveniles arrested in Remington, Charles Village carjackings"-- how pissed would you be to get jacked by some teenager while you're coming home from work?

CCBC to veteran: it's cool to go kill Iraqis, but it's not cool to like it.

PBJ for officer who shot Bear-Bear the husky

Remember this totally awesome family?

The first verdict in the Towson Hess station murder of William Porter-- a guilty verdict for the victim's sister in law for using a handgun in a crime of violence and of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder. The County intends to seek the death penalty against Porter's wife Karla and the gunman, Walter Bishop.

A box, a ring and one crazy-booting byatch

An 8-year-old boy survives parents' murder-suicide in Randallstown

Missing man found in a box on route 70, and police are looking for a grey minivan with the license plate "PALNCIA"

Dogfighting ring busted on the West side

The Baltimore Guide is publishing a blotter, with tidbits such as: "A street fight broke out, and a woman stabbed another woman in the right leg, stabbed a man in the back, struck another woman with her boot, punched a fourth woman and stabbed a fifth."

Baltimore county circuit court gets a new place for eff-up parents to visit their kids

Daily Record editorial: "Mr. Bernstein must tread carefully and respectfully as a white lawyer"

Today in bullcrap:
Five years for Hagtown bridal-veil breakin

justice for Bear Bear!!

Roland Park Car Fire

Reports SpotCrime,

On Tuesday night, November 16, at 11:45 PM persons unknown set ablaze a stolen car in the 200 block of Oakdale.  Some form of incendiary was apparently used as the car was engulfed in a ball of orange flame and then began to roll downhill.  The crew of Baltimore Fire Department Engine 44 were on the scene within 2 minutes of the 911 call, and quickly doused the flames before anyone was hurt or further property damage was inflicted.

Everything but the Kitchen Sink...

A Mitchellville drug dealer received a 10-year sentence after being arrested with, but not limited to: Cocaine, Crack, a Loaded .38, a Scale, Pyrex Cups, Ziploc® Bags, Boxes of Baking Soda, a Stolen .22, a Semi-Auto .45, a Bulletproof Vest, 35 grand, Assorted Ammunition, Weed, and Two Counterfeit $100 Bills.

An Unidentified 20 year old was shot to death Wednesday afternoon.

A Baltimore DJ was indicted in L.A. for his role in massive L.A.-to-Baltimore drug trafficking operation.

The sun tells a bleak story of a Baltimore resident getting doubly screwed over by Baltimore's criminals, and then Baltimore's criminally obnoxious parking officials.

Mostly a crime against taste-buds, but Maryland Comptroller Peter Franchot announced the discontinuation of alcoholic energy drinks.

Put it in your bra...

Homeless man arrested for stabbing his teenage nephew, David Lawrence Hopkins, to death.

And in the city another teenager was shot in the stomach near St. Paul and Lexington streets, right next to the courthouse.

The man killed on West Baltimore St. ID'd as Sherrod Mason, and WBAL has more on the violent weekend

Admitted baby-killer Tanea Bullock resentenced.. to the same sentence, but at Patuxent.

Also horribly depressing: Erie PA murder victim ID'd as former Reisterstown resident Jamie Malanowski.

Car windows shot out at Loch Raven reservoir

"Need for pro bono legal services rises as economy sags"

... It's not Baltimore, but who can resist the goofy appeal of the Jack Johnson story -- even Jayne Miller's trying not to laugh as she says "'put it in your bra'." Now three police officers have been arrested, buttlegging and booze-tax evasion is somehow involved, and the story has 'musical theater' written all over it ("Put it in your bra.. in your motherscratchin' bra... or you can flush it down... just don't leave it lyin' round...") Question though: why was Jack Johnson being pursued by the Feds, but Sheila Dixon was charged by the state? And how can this motherflusher be back at work today?

Illegal dirt bike riding next B-more cultural export?

Riding dirt bikes in the city not a crime but an an art form, says a newly formed group of riders called Raise It Up.

The bodies of Leakin Park

Cham maps all of the bodies found in Leakin Park since 1946-- 57 of them.

And another homicide-- a 34-year-old man was shot to death at about 2 a.m. Saturday in the 1900 block of W. Baltimore St.

and some good news! The high-school dropout rate and juvie-crime rate are down

A vigil tonight for murdered tow truck driver Andy Joyce

armed robbery at Loyola parking lot

A stabbing at the Arundel Mills Mall food court

The Feds were not amused by Nick's Amusements' money laundering, company to pay $50,000 fine

News of the weird: Catholic church holds exorcism conference in town. "Not everyone who thinks they need an exorcism actually does need one."

Only in Baltimore!

So Agnes Welch, 85, wants to retire from the City Council and appoint her son as successor. Whaddayagonnado, here in Baltimore we like our crabs hot, our beer cold, and our politicians dynastic, gun-toting, finance-law-violating miscreants.
(thanks Adam for digging up those stories)

.. don't miss "Waiting for the Plan," the fourth installment of Ed Ericsson's series, "Detox Clusterfudge."

and though a tutoring company is accused of stealing more than $100,000 from the school system by falsifying documents and forging signatures, prosecutor Robert A. Rohrbaugh says school officials and lawyers stonewalled and refused to turn over documents for months. The alleged tutor-$-scamming bitches certainly picked the wrong signature to forge... that of former Sun reporter (now Brew reporter) Joan Jacobson.

Robo-callers, qu'est-ce que c'est ...

TDR reports that AG Doug Gansler filed a complaint against Universal Elections' "relax, everything is fine" robo-calls today in federal court, which could cost Henson et al $168 million. Deliteful: one of the calls happened to go to a U of MD professor of election law, who pointed out to a WBAL reporter that there's little precedent for prosecuting election robo-calls under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.

... a County school custodian got 10 years in the pen for scamming $70k

and the death TU junior Abe Cahan in September has been ruled the result of a heroin overdose

Kids these days

Right on! Essex Mom sues ... somebody.. over her son being bullied and peed on in middle school

Teenager Sterlin C. Matthews arrested in Halethorpe Halloween homicide


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800 W. Lexington dubbed "the block of death"

Officers stealing from inmates.. isn't it ironic? Dontcha think? Related: the Tribune Co. asking a Delaware bankruptcy judge to approve up to $43 million in bonuses for top executives and managers.

Wednesday Morning

Fatal shooting in NE Baltimore last night.

Six more years because of probation violations for the cancer scammer.

Tyrone Hall will be sentenced today for voluntary manslaughter and second-degree assault. Hall killed one man and wounded another in what he claimed was self-defense.

Non-fatal shooting in Dundalk, no details.

Child porn case in Carroll County is postponed so that prosecutors can coordinate with the feds.

New Information, But No Arrest In Halloween Murder

Sprouts & Twits

Burgeoning indoor farm busted, 400 seedlings seized

Ray Rice brags on Twitter about getting out of a ticket in exchange for an autograph

Retired city police officer convicted of assault for shooting man who was arguing with his friend

What's that loud flushing sound?

"Audit slams Baltimore region of state prison system" ... "so many opportunities for fraud and misuse of money by workers in the Baltimore region of the state prison system that state auditors are asking the attorney general to look into possible criminal charges." Not only that, but the auditors brought up the same issues three years ago, and since then, "it looks like the problems got worse"

Meanwhile the health department has launched an investigation into BBH after the Sun's story yesterday of addicts guarding the medicine cabinet

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Derrius Currie, found inside a vacant house in the 800 block of W. Lexington St.

also at 7 a.m. Police tweeted, "SHOOTING - 800 S CATON AVE. ADULT MALE SHOT, CRITICAL CONDITION."

On campus

Armed robbery of TU students in broad daylight.

More court system woes and official city shadiness

Baltimore man's home in foreclosure proceedings for 12 years, along the way illegal rent was collected.

Meanwhile, emails show the city pension board gets a free ride for exotic travel while we fork over more taxes to make up for losses. And city councilwoman Rikki Spector makes sure her out of district condo building doesn't have to take care of pesky mold.

Addicts in Charge

Why Baltimore is a mess, reason 597:
"Addicts put in charge" in rat-infested recovery housing centers. Also see CP's report on BBH from September: "We Are Not In the Housing Business"
(Lolz: BBH's housing director says house managers face "pretty rigorous criteria ... you have to have at least 60 days of clean time.")

Related: "Youth counselor [Ronald Piper Scott] pleads guilty to heroin distribution, conspiracy"

Down at the federal courthouse, The Louis Berger Group, Inc., an engineering firm that worked in Iraq and Afghanistan, agreed to pay $69.3 million to settle fraud claims

"S. Baltimore shooting possibly a botched drug deal, police say"

Edgewood a "killing zone"

FBI ISO M&T bank robber

It's a HoCoFoSho! Fifteen alleged "johns" arrested in sting .. and the Sun is naming names!

Drunkards and snowbirds

A man beaten at the Westport Light Rail station has died; other homicide victims from this past week named as Jerry Harden, 21, (the man found inside a burning apartment on McClean Blvd. Fenton notes, "Harden is the second person killed this year at the apartment complex") Kevin Anderson, 30, and Malcolm Hill, 53.

Three more suspects arrested for robbery/ beatdown of drunkards by the Intercontinental hotel

Have you been injured in an accident? "A Baltimore City jury has awarded $4.1 million to a woman and her 8-year-old son who alleged that the negligence of University of Maryland Medical Center doctors caused his cerebral palsy."

Postal inspectors fighting uphill battle against drugs in the mail

The MD state police is still fighting the release of vehicle-stop documents related to the NAACP's "driving while black" lawsuit, one that in some form has been dragging on since 1992(!)

Brendan Kearney: years-in-the-making $600k courthouse report is "justice decayed", har har har

Judge denies tax cheat Jack Stollof's plea to winter in Palm Beach

Robocalls tied to Ehrlich Employee Jules Henson

Fenton says the Election-night Robocalls telling O'Malley voters to "relax" and stay home election night have been linked to longtime-Democrat-turned Ehrlich consultant Jules Henson.

Fenton says,

"Henson’s other clients in this election included a state senate candidate from Baltimore facing no opposition, a delegate candidate who lost in the primary, a PG county executive candidate who lost in the primary, a PG county council member who lost in the primary, an Anne Arundel county council candidate who lost in the primary, a Baltimore County council candidate who lost in the primary, and a city sheriff’s candidate who lost in the primary.

Update: Henson has 'fessed up. "It never said 'don't vote'."

.. meanwhile, "carjacking suspects on the loose"