Here’s a great interview from Investigative Voice with Baltimore homicide detectives Irving Bradley and David Hollingsworth. You had to be an actor. I had to convince you, what I was telling you to do was the right thing to do. Even though before I got you, you had torn out every window in the neighborhood,…
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And the apparent robbery walks into a hospital with a gunshot wound. The off-duty officer, a 16-year veteran, was shot in the abdomen last night outside his home and is in serious condition after surgery. Update: Was moved Tuesday morning from Sinai Hospital to Maryland Shock Trauma Center and has been downgraded from serious to…
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Baltimore is number two in murders, after Detroit. (Brings to mind that old t-shirt… you Baltimore cops know the one I’m talking about.) Peter Hermann writes: The 107 people charged with murder last year had accumulated a combined 1,065 prior arrests – 380 related to guns and 99 related to drugs. The 234 people killed…
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Peter Hermann has the story and Nicole Fuller reports: Papantonakis, whose family has run the stall since 1970, admitted to The Baltimore Sun in a jailhouse interview in May that he sold guns to make ends meet but denied that he sold them to gang members, as alleged in the indictment. He also said that…
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There are only about 130 cars on patrol at any given time. City officials say an unusually high concentration of ethanol in the city’s gasoline supply contributed to the breakdown of more than 70 police cars over the weekend, most of which had been repaired and returned to service Tuesday. More than 200 police cars…
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Justin Fenton reportsin the Sun: A lawsuit against a Baltimore police officer who was famously recorded on a YouTube video yelling at young skateboarders at the Inner Harbor for calling him “dude” has been thrown out by a city judge. Circuit Judge Evelyn Cannon granted a defense motion for summary judgment to dismiss the case….…
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9 shot in 24 hours. 2 die.
“A Johns Hopkins University student armed with a samurai sword killed an intruder in his garage, Baltimore police said Tuesday.” The AP story by Ben Nuckols. [Thanks to DJK!] Sept 20 Update: There’s a story by Justin Fenton with new info here.
John Paterakis Sr., the baker and well-connected developer who bankrolled Harbor East, pleaded guilty Friday afternoon to two misdemeanor campaign finance violations and will pay $26,000 in fines and be barred from donating to Baltimore politicians until his probation ends in January 2012. The storyby Annie Linskey in the Sun.
Baltimore experiments with new smart phones.