Friday, July 26, 2013

Mom needs some new wigs

She's #1! According to Boston.com, SRB is America's worst mayor. Her "reign has been characterized by a lack of vision, bungled projects, and ineptitude. She has presided over sweeping cuts to parks and after school activities, tax breaks for a big box superblock development, and straight-up cronyism." Owch. (Thnx, anonymous reader). While on the subject, the state is also up there in the rankings for most segregated public schools.

New charges in the jail-corruption mess against corrections officers Sean Graves and Clarissa Clayton, Clayton's boyfriend Parker, inmate Michael Gordon and ne'er-do-well city resident Garnett Logan.

Have you seen these armed, dangerous convenience-store robbers?

A man was robbed at gunpoint in Woordbourne-McCabe

14 people were indicted for conspiracy to distribute hairron

A car dealer pleaded guilty to hiding $2.1 million in earnings.

HoCo bandit
Four people have been arrested in that craycray Little Italy mob attack.

A drunk killed a tractor-trailer driver on Russell St., she's been arrested.

A bewigged bandit struck in HoCo. Wig ladies just love banks!




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Thursday, July 25, 2013

Frisk the children!

Good news! Police arrested Dante Woods for the murder of Donte Stephens in Rodger's Forge. "Donte Stephens was gunned down in Rodgers Forge last week because he had told the suspect days earlier that he wasn't allowed to do laundry at the house,* according to charging documents."

Capone Chase, "Public Enemy No. 1," was arrested for the July 15 murder of Ramon Rodriguez,* a murder that was reportedly "for Trayvon" but instead turned out to be for Black Guerrilla Family.

Lawmakers including Del. Keiffer Mitchell Jr. toured the City Detention Center, Gary Maynard is now allegedly working there now.*
 
Davonte Tyron Ronald Muse
Davonte Muse is wanted for burglaries in Guilford and "police have stepped up foot patrols in the neighborhood and told officers to stop and ask any juvenile walking around the neighborhood for identification." What? How illegal is that?!

A robber made off with $265 worth of Newports from the Charles Village CVS
 
 
Trial for alleged Remington killer Benny Davis is scheduled to start tomorrow (and likely to be postponed, but you never know).

SRB defended her million-something contract with financial consultants and blahblahblah.




Pregnant woman, why u make Ocean City police beat u up? (In case you were also nosy wondering, the alleged perps are from Freetown, Sierra Leone via Woodbridge, VA.)
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Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Pulled by dreads

The man shot to death in a Dodge in Rodger's Forge has been ID'd as one Donte Antonio Stephens, and residents, apparently unaccustomed to getting no information from the police, are adorably pouting and stomping their feet about it.* FWIW, the JIS shows that Stephens had been charged with rape and assault (though charges were dismissed).

Less adorably, the family of Tyrone Antonio West, DOB 5/69, pulled out of his car by his dreads, pepper sprayed and somehow brought to death, are sobbing and appealing for witnesses.* Is there video footage? One would think there would be a ton around the metro station, what with all those Homeland Security grants. The family has retained A. Dwight Pettit, so a lawsuit is sure TK. Audio and video reports on the CP site.

A masked man stabbed a woman in the stomach on Greenspring Ave.

Well here's some crazy shit, disbarred former attorney and petty thief* Stanley Needleman is now  implicated in the murder-for-hire of Robert Long, carried out by Dead Man Inc., which benefited client Jose Joaquin Morales Jr.

ha! SRB's financial advisers have won a $460, 942 new contract.

Video of man attacked by a mob on Exeter Street in Little Italy

Three murders last week detailed in the Ink

A West Baltimore raid seized dozens of guns

Girl-on-girl face punching, robbers in a minivan and a carjacking on Fayette and Caroline in the Baltimore Guide blotter.

Brace yourself, the gun nuts are coming. A juvenile court master wants state legislators to crack down on illegal toy guns.
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Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Punishment cake

Tyrone West, 44, was allegedly beaten to death by police after a traffic stop in NE Baltimore at Kelway and Kitmore last Thursday. A cause of death hasn't been released, but witnesses say they saw an officer punch West while he was unconscious;* police said he had narcotics and noted he has been arrested previously for resisting arrest.*

Men killed in the intentionally set fire at DaVinci's on Park Avenue were ID'd as George Scarborough, 48, and Ali Poushangi, 49.* The arson ended four days of no murders or shootings*(?!)

 A man/suspect was shot in the foot by an MTA officer at the bus stop by Mondawmin Mall.

Kemp
Snitching lands Stop Fucking Snitching star Sherman "Goose" Kemp in jail until 2035, when he'll be 56. Of all SFS conspirators, says Van Smith, "Kemp might take the cake for attracting punishment."

"A federal jury today convicted Daren Kareem Gadsden, aka “D,” age 36, of Upper Marlboro, Maryland, on charges related to a conspiracy to steal almost $1.4 million from a Housing Authority of Baltimore City bank account"

Bold daytime robberies in Roland Park

Ten years for a Reiserstown man who dealt the Kate Moss

County firefighter got 195 months in federal prison for collecting depictions of little boys' privacy areas
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Monday, July 22, 2013

Party at the laundromat

Homicide in the 1700 block of N. Bond
Breyon Cason

Breyon Cason, 22, was charged as an accessory to the murder of one-year-old Carter Scott*, and for falsely reporting her car was stolen.

Man shot multiple times in the NW*

Mothers of Murdered Sons and Daughters* :(

Correction: Patterson Park beating of Hispanic man not for Trayvon.

meanwhile local wacktivists be infighting

Akim Austin
Man with chinstrap beard arrested for a handgun violation

Police say a fire that killed two at 847 Park Avenue in Midtown was intentionally set*

Latest Liquor Board hijinx: a license granted to a laundromat

The Paschall family crime ring dealt opiates at Jessup and "used a forklift at Crazy Ray's junkyard in Baltimore to stack up cars next to a balcony at the business... then climbed up the pile and stole a safe"

A robber with a brick took $21 in Abell
Michael Myers

In HarfCo, man named Michael Myers, hair feathered like the wings of a magnificent bird, got drunk, stole a tractor and a snowblower and led police on a thrilling chase. Speaking of HarfCo, the man accused of fracturing the skull of Matthew Fortese at Camden Yards are due in court today.

Woman stole a wallet from a victim in a wheelchair, "Party" is a verb at the Patch
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Friday, July 19, 2013

Life of Diamond

Police need help finding a suspect in a shooting July 11 at 248 E. Broadway. Also lots of men punching women and robberies in the Southeast blotter.



Three Diamond Williams*' on Facebook, this looks like her. 

Street artists call out slumlords 

A stabbing in Frank Conaway's hood:
Baltimore Metro Breaking News Page
BALT CITY | STABBING | 3100 LIBERTY HGTS AVE | FEMALE FATALLY STABBED |


New pix up for the "Summer of the Gun" photo series

Enjoying the City that Breeds podcasts, with local politics/legal/crime/education talk.
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Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Green Jobs Indeed


Renita Franklin-Thrower, from the CP
The Feds have arrested an embezzler in the mayor's very office, one Renita Franklin-Thrower. 
"The Baltimore Mayor’s Office of Employment Development (MOED) in 2011 hired a convicted embezzler, only 14 months out of federal prison and still on supervised release, for a $41,000-per-year position to run a green-jobs training program funded by a state grant." 
... so over this mayor's sloppy stewardship! If it's not giving developers $393 million for no damn reason, it's felons and grifters in her own office. 2016 cannot come soon enough! Who will be running against her?

And how about Gansler v. Brown for governor next year? Who are you liking? 

In other bureaucracy news, new site Baltimorecode.org codifies our city laws and ordinances in an attractive and helpful way.
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Pookie in Roger's Forge

Gunshots and an overturned vehicle in... Rogers Forge?

Murder Ink brings us to to our 126th homicide.
Gennie Shird

Darryl Anderson, 25, wanted for the shooting at a block party that killed 20-year-old Gennie Shird and injured two other women, was arrested in Alabama.

Well, there's something, the BPD has arrested one Lamont Jones for a quadruple shooting (no date given). "Court documents say Jones and another man were disguised as construction workers when they came up on the four victims who were sitting on the steps of a home on Edmonson and Carrolton and opened fire. All four men survived."

Irwin
The sun wasn't all that was rising in Michael Dale Irwin's Cecil County home.
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Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Real estate swindles

City to borrow $107 million, plus $174 million in interest(!!) for a total cost of $281 million, plus will be handing out $113 million in tax breaks so that Harbor Point developer Michael S. Beatty can make an estimated $174 million in profits.* Note that the developers are legally required by their merger deal to build their headquarters in Baltimore City no matter what. Labor unions have a protest scheduled at  p.m. tonight in front of city hall.

Everyone said it was a horrible idea, and everyone was right, and finally Martin O'Malley has commented about the financial black hole that is the city-owned Hilton, the comment being that it's Ehrlich's fault for not giving the city some state money for it.

Tavon White's lawyer says Tavon is going to plead guilty to racketeering.* He's also due in court August 8 on attempted murder charges.
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Monday, July 15, 2013

The Sextortables

Page Croyder splains the Unger decision that releases 13 murderers.
Pitman

Nice job, Curtis Bay neighbors, busting breaker-inner Michael Pitman.







"Towson Man Locks Himself in Parents' Severna Park House, Gets Tased" in childhood bedroom

"Vera Bradley Bag Burglar Arrested in Dumpster Pleads Guilty"

Reservoir Hill mortgage-scammers Kimberly Eileen McMillian and Glenroy E. Day, Sr. pleaded guilty to wire fraud


In AAC, wanted pedophile Christopher Barnes was arrested, and four other wanted pervs were nabbed by ICE in the state. New word: "sextorting"* The 61 victims of the nationwide bust of 255 predators included 42 girls, 19 boys and three victims under the age of 3. Blurgh.

And oh, hey, there's some BS: Scott Calvert says the Police Department tried to charge the Sun thousands to access public emails* (and still is hoping for $150). Needless to say if you're a regular citizen who suspects police malfeasance, fuck you gently with a chainsaw and appeal to officer Heywood Jawblowme.

Have a pleasant night and a lovely tomorrow!
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Saturday, July 13, 2013

Killer Darryl

Darryl Anderson, call 911 if u see
The BPD is ISO Darryl Anderson, left, for murder.

Somewhere a robber is pooping blue and orange and smoking Newports.

Worth noting amid the heightened focus on Baltimore crime?: no shootings reported overnight Friday or since overnight Thursday...

A man was robbed and stabbed near a bike trail in Glen Burnie 

Wakefield
Oh noo, remember  Dale "Bugsy" Wakefield, who celebrated his 21st birthday by stabbing a 71-year-old homeless man 71+ times? Then fled here and was caught by the BPD? Yeah, so, Central Booking accidentally released him. Fortunately his sister turned his stabby ass in when she found out he was OTW to her dorm room at Coppin State. The jail's major assbonery prompted some rare judgy words from the PA DA, David Heckler, who blasted Central Booking officials as "utterly incompetent." Oh, also "inept and completely uncooperative" and "frickin' irresponsible."* (the "frickin" appears in the print edition, but is apparently too saucy for electronic media).

Joe & Krystal
These ghosters in Sticksville got robbed. Love that robin egg backdrop they got in HarfCo.

Media blabber:
Hey, look who cleans up nice! Are those his real glasses? Z on TV has a piece* on Fox 45 News Producer Stephen Janis, who started as a music producer and segued into crime reporting with Luke Broadwater at the Examiner and then to starting Investigative Voice.

AF James MacArthur's back and blogging, and went a whole paragraph without promoting himself. TL; DR: he's launching a rebranding as The Baltimore Citizen.

... I wish Z would do something on the state of getting one's local news these days. What does this paywalling and dispersal of info mean for civic involvement? Where do you readers get your news, besides here?
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Thursday, July 11, 2013

Merely advisory

Two murders yesterday, of 34-year-old Dwing Robinson Webbs and 40-year-old Natasha Elizabeth Bates, bring the city homicide total for 2013 to 124. And the city is paying for two federal prosecutors, how does that work?

Did you hear the one about the 13 murderers* released in MD after the Court of Appeals ruled it's illegal for a judge to tell jurors that his instructions are "merely advisory" and not legally binding? Now the 13 murderers are getting set free, but, irony alert, the six-time escape artist who brought the case will stay in jail.

In Baltimore, every summer is a gun summer! J.M. Giordano, the photographer who's birthed iconic visual series on subjects such as the variegated fans of death metal, block dancers and doormen and the tranny hookers of Calvert Street is now embarking on a series of photos of city gunshot-wound locations.

Where in the world is Frederick H. Bealefeld III? Today it's the land of Lorca, y'all.
Davis

Busted by the Seventh Day Adventists for storing his homemade child porn at their general conference HQ, one Joseph Edgar Davis was sentenced to 150 years.

Crack dealer Kintrell Todd McEachern got 12 years and lost $13,601.50. Hey, for once the drug guy got less time than the pedo guy!

Remember Matthew "writer turned warrior" VanDyke, the UMBC grad who Dutch tried to rescue from Libya, but then he was all like, no thanks, I'd rather stay in this African hellhole and shoot people? Apparently he's now in Syria, and Van Smith has a curiously fawning article about him in this week's CP.  Recollects the activist documentarian with no apparent hint of irony, "I stayed, and it ticked off some people whose business it really wasn’t."

Baltimore police arrested a PA guy who'd celebrated his birthday by stabbing a homeless man.
Worth one of your 10 free NYT clicks: "What Does It Take To Get Crips and Bloods to Stop Killing Each Other?"
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Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Roasting, cleaving, voluntarying



Where are all the city's illegal guns coming from? With only five officers on the gun task force and all them federal pro-gun laws it's all anybody's guess. Check out this 4-time gun convict's hand cannon, recovered at a house also operating a daycare.

A city detective, Shane Volk, was killed when he crashed his Jeep in Glen Arm.

Michael "Blizz" Singer
 The tattoo-faced murder accessory who looks 65, left, is a 35-year-old local rapper who goes by "Blizz.* His wife Shelbie is accused of stabbing to death one John Bowman, 22, in Arbutus.

Police think one 16-year-old is responsible for 25 burglaries in Canton.

Tragic: Sharon Mulcahy, the woman whose dogs roasted in a motel parking lot for 20 hours, died soon after she was released from Central Booking. The family alleges the jail failed to give her proper medical attention.

City Paper: Baltimore is "famous for crime, and yet, when it comes to arson, this is the best we can do?" Uhm, I think the city actually does pretty okay on that front.

Hey, that abortion-sign bill is still breathing,* and the Sun actually has me convinced it's a good idea. If Wisconsin can make doctors rape women with a probe and Texas and North Carolina can get thisclose to shutting down every family planning clinic in the state, the phony baloney clinics can suck up posting a piece of paper with facts on it.

Speaking of intrusions, a federal judge has allowed EFF's case against the NSA to go ahead (thanks Scan Baltimore). And good piece in the Economist about our newly revealed secret Supreme Court.

Media Blabber: the Tribune is cleaving off its newspaper biz from its TV-station biz, and is apparently not yet scrapping the idea of selling the publishing piece to a rogues' gallery of shoppers that include Charles and David Koch, a group of libertarian 'voluntaryists' and an alleged Chinese spy's ex-husband.
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Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Didn't miss much

.. also apparently he has a wife.

Peace mural unable to prevent shooting on man in wheelchair*

Is the Sun's culture-of-violence-themed Op-Ed a tacit endorsement* of Anthony "Technology*" Brown?
"Gov. Martin O'Malley's tenure as mayor is often associated with aggressive police tactics, an attempt to meet force with force. But he also spearheaded the Believe campaign and its call for every segment of the city to band together to create a better future. That same spirit animates those who marched down North Avenue on Friday"
... yes, the spirit of Martin O'Malley's media campaign was what animated the otherwise 2-D figures who marched near where wheelchair guy got shot. Really?

There may be a big rise in Canton burglaries but it seems like the Southeast pretty much has problems all the time, stealing-wise. Yeah, hi, you bought a house in Canton, Google much?
How I missed this town and the mocking of its denizens!!
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Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Elmo libre

 Kevin Kiadii
Sheldon Stephens
Three lawsuits dropped against native son Kevin Clash b/c of time limits; the alleged actions in, on and upon Cecil Singleton, Kevin Kiadii and an anonymous accuser allegedly happened six years ago, and in 2006 NY established a 5-year statute of limitations on civil claims on sex abuse claims.
BUUTTT there is still one more suit to go, filed by Sheldon Stephens in Pennsylvania district court in March of this year. PA has a 12-years-after-18 statute of limitations, and Stephens' lawsuit involves sleazy lawyers, crystal meth, nitrate poppers and a masturbating chauffeur.

Well, back to Baltimore, where seven people were shot over the weekend.*



And what the fuckty fuck. One Lukasz Szkiluk, 63, "accused of killing his estranged wife had tied up another woman in his Highlandtown home before the killing, according to court records, and the captive told police she chewed through the ropes and escaped after the man showed her his wife’s body."*

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Saturday, June 29, 2013

'Nearly 40'

"Nearly 40" shot.* I guess it's coming so fast and furious no one wants to commit a number to paper.

Meanwhile, revelations about the extent of the NSA's data collection and disregard for the law keep coming, but you wouldn't know it if you only read the Sun. If it's not spare assorted wire copy articles* about Edward Snowden's personal drama then it's how the NSA, FBI and CIA are like, so totally right and who cares about the government's secret courts because Snowden is like, such a hoser! So here, have some links about the secret court that compelled Yahoo and other technology companies to break the law, the new "secret body of law" the government created to justify its means, and the latest revelation that the NSA can store a billion phone calls a day, with 850,000 people having clearance to access said calls. And how about that apparent smear campaign going on against Glenn Greenwald, the reporter who wrote the story? 

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Friday, June 28, 2013

Make that 36

Ginnie Shird, from Twitter
Last night three women were shot at Elmora and St. Cloud in front of 50-100 witnesses in what the commissioner calls a "neighborhood dispute." One Ginnie Shird, 21, has died. In an interview with Rodricks, Batts attributed some of the carnage to the BGF, implying that the takedown of Tavon White and co. has left a power vacuum. ("We believe there’s a connection at the jail that’s spilling out on the street. But I don’t want to get too much more into that"). And another murder in the 900 block of Bennett Place, where one Marcus Taylor was killed just last weekend. The 2013 toll is now up to 116. Police have now taken the usual step of shutting down the whole street. Here, have a video of a fire hose spraying down human blood.*

"Daniel McIntosh, the erstwhile co-owner of the erstwhile downtown nightclub Sonar and Hampden’s McCabe’s," is awaiting sentencing for his part in a massive pot conspiracy, and if he ever gets out will owe the government $6.3 million. Which sounds like a veritable crapton unless you take into account that the operation was estimated to rake in $150-$200 million a year.

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Thursday, June 27, 2013

DJ Boys?

Batts' testimony last night hints at possible explanations for our recent wave of violence: "In that small block of Kenwood, we have the Bloods gang that has one block. On the other block, we have Black Guerrilla Family on the next block. Then we have another crew that has been coming in called the DJ Boys, who have started to come in." Really? Somebody named their gang that? Also "police said two to three of the shootings appear to be connected" and "the random stuff that takes place because you step on my toes or because you look at me wrong – that was some of the things that were taking place this weekend also."

UPDATE: Fenton reports DJ Boys = Jefferson and Decker, and notes the parallels (and connections) to the 2008-2009 bloody Blackwell feud.* Steven Blackwell is currently serving 20 years in federal prison for money laundering, but apparently still has minions. And Carl Stokes blames the bloodshed on corrupt police officers.

Speaking of corruption, Gary Maynard is appearing on a panel before legislators to help them figure out how to spend more money on prisons.*

Meanwhile the violence continues, with 32 people shot since Friday, three people shot (two killed) early this morning* on North Avenue and Poplar Grove Rd. and a man shot in the arm on Cherry Blossom Way last night.

Well, there's something new, a 17-year-old from St. Michael's, Matthew Mikowski, was indicted for strangling his peer while tripping on LSD.* (TIL a "bad trip" on LSD comes from the dose being tainted with an adulterant like a research chemical or PCP. Also, while lots of people have stuck babies in ovens, none of those people were hippie babysitters on acid.)


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Wednesday, June 26, 2013

5 shootings in 5 hours

last night and another shooting today,* making 28 shot since Friday, helpfully mapped by Spotcrime.

Meanwhile Anthony Gugliemi has been reassigned following his unsatisfying remarks after last weekend's record-breaking wave of violence. ("I can see how it looks bad" apparently not a sufficient apology/explanation). So who's the new flak? And police hit the streets ISO tips.*

Milton Tillman Jr.
Milton Tillman III's notorious bail bond company 4 Aces may be put out of business by a new ruling that requires it to quit stalling and actually pay its bonds.* Don't hold your breath, though, the company is masterful at stalling and dodging. Tillman reports that the company has $300 million in liabilities (though the court is only asking for 1/300th of that for the moment). What's kind of amazing is that someone convicted of tax fraud is allowed to own a bail bonds company.

Employee of Charles Street GameStop threatened with death by robbers.

Thirteen years for accused hairron dealer Antonio Lamont "Tracey" Johnson

The Guardian (UK) revealed that the NSA has 850,000 analysts checking phone records, calls and emails. Meanwhile, Bradley Manning's trial is continuing in its 4th week down at Ft. Meade.

TIL in 1983 Johns Hopkins Hospital offered treatment for "severe pedophilia." Wonder what that entails? Also between 1960 and 1985 the Boy Scouts had 1,365 reports of "perversion" in its ranks.
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Tuesday, June 25, 2013

27 shot since Friday



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