Baltimore Crime

Friggin beer owed

2013-06-19T20:10:00.002-04:00

That old calling card of drug dealers and Pasadena teenagers, the Moltov cocktail, is making a summertime comeback in the Northeast with 12 thrown since the end of April. The Ink has details of murders 96-100 (but no updates) Ooh boy, the jail corruption task force is setting to work,* we're going to see some right big changes real soon now y'all! Who's calling Baltimore residents and asking

Murder 101

2013-06-18T15:11:00.002-04:00

Five men shot last night, one killed,* three of the men were shot in the 2600 block of Grogan Avenue in Berea, East Baltimore. Congratulations, Jamal Diggs, you are/were our city's 100th murder victim* of 2013. (Any relation to Kendra Diggs, #74, or Anthony Diggs, #183 of 2012?)? Penis-related Police are looking for a man who showed women his peen in a HoCo Target dressing room WBAL, this

Mugged for pizza

2013-06-16T11:00:00.000-04:00

We've had 99 murders and Riggs Avenue is one. Shooting last night in the 400 block of Brunswick St.* A man who allegedly tried to stop a domestic assault was stabbed in the 7-11 in the 6300 block of Sherwood Road,* right over the city line. Crime is up in Hampden,* including burglaries, domestic assaults and car break-ins. A rash of car thefts* in the Northern In the SE, a woman mugged for

Crazy, fraudy, beaty and stealy

2013-06-15T14:06:00.002-04:00

Back from vacation, what did I miss? Man shot in the chest in the 2100 block of N Charles St.* Another child murder by mom's boyfriend: Damond Stansbury, 27 (any relation to June?), was charged with the murder of Marlo McFadden,* 2. Officer James W. Smith pleaded not guilty to killing his fiancee,* Kendra Diggs. Infidelity or PTSD, which is it? Maybe he hallucinated she was banging a Kurdish

Basta stronzo

2013-06-07T09:58:00.001-04:00

Jail security chief Shavella Miles has reportedly failed a polygraph, and Gary Maynard was down in A-town yesterday answering questions and trying to convince everyone that 13 bad officers are the whole problem, and re-iterated that if he had to do it all over again he "would do it exactly the same way." TIL seven grams of marijuana is called a "vic" after Michael Vick's jersey number.* Basta

Plug that leak

2013-06-06T12:54:00.001-04:00

In case you haven't hard, Verizon has been recording all of your phone calls. And don't buy the story that it's just the phone numbers and times, either-- that's just the table of contents for recordings of the calls as well. Such a massive amount of data is unhelpful if the aim is to identify a handful of people in 600 million who might want to cause citizens harm. It didn't stop the Boston

Good news, white people!

2013-06-05T11:35:00.001-04:00

Ashley Roane via CP Wat. Ashley Roane, accused of protecting a purported heroin dealer and giving a list of drug informants to the guy (who himself turned out to be an FBI informant) is out on pre-trial release. She also faces charges of gross and willful eyeshadow abuse. If I was Roane I think I'd feel safer in jail. Rashid Mayo Sounds like 16-month-old Carter Scott should not have been

Prepare your cheeks

2013-06-04T21:05:00.000-04:00

So as you probably heard already, SCOTUS approved DNA swabbing from arrestees, by way of a convicted and de-convicted and now re-convicted Salisbury rapist. Love it or hate it and assuming the state can get it together enough to swab people and enter the info in a database, a whole lot of cases are going to start getting closed. The city's 93rd homicide was Edward Spriggs, shot 15 years ago.

Slumlord of the flies

2013-06-03T06:39:00.001-04:00

A 30-year-old man was shot to death in the 700 block of Cator Avenue is homicide #90. He was shot in the back of the head but kept on driving. How about slumlord Tom Karle Jr. of Summerfield Investment Group, who is allegedly harassing the holy heck out of a couple of Patterson Park residents with the gall to complain about him letting criminals live in his Section 8 properties. The cojones on

In the belly of the whistling dog

2013-06-02T10:27:00.002-04:00

A coupla drunk rednecks threw beer at a Yankees fan, then punched him and sent him over the railing onto concrete at the O's game, fracturing his skull.* City officer Ashley Roane offered to give a drug dealer a confidential list of informants, the drug dealer was actually an informant.* Oops! Two more murders* -- victims Wayne Vendemia ("blunt force trauma via hag") and Melvin Taylor -- bring

No tasks, no force

2013-05-30T15:37:00.002-04:00

Legitimate rape on N. Calvert St. in Mt. Vernon, bootleg-looking camera photos released* A dog walker robbed and stabbed and a whole lot of punching in the Southeast Morgan State U lawyers are trying to get dropped the lawsuit* from Alexander Kinyua's victim, Joshua Caesar, guy who was beaten and blinded when the skitzy cannibal attacked him with a barbed-wire-wrapped baseball bat. In other

Put on your bitch hat

2013-05-29T16:18:00.002-04:00

Awfulness: a 59-year-old man was beaten to death during a home invasion in Oakenshawe.* "Mark Counselman, president of the Oakenshawe Improvement Association, said neighbors knew the victim as 'Ray.' He was known around the neighborhood as an eccentric — the rear entrance to the apartment was decorated with Christmas lights, and on the ledge of the basement window was a Monopoly game and a

Task forces for some, shutdowns for others

2013-05-28T13:00:00.001-04:00

"At least eight" shootings this past weekend,* one fatal (not counting the baby), one barricade situation in which one Walter McCoy shot his daughter's mother in the legs. It sounds like it was a bad weekend for shootings nationwide. Speaking of shootings, NPR did a story on the ridiculously low-tech way that weapons are traced. And the NYT detailed gun manufacturers' resistance to giving the

Bring Back the Cemetery Picnic

2013-05-27T01:59:00.000-04:00

So Memorial Day started after the Civil War, widows and survivors would picnic in the cemetery and sweep and decorate headstones. But as you remember the 4,488 dead in Iraq, 3,221 dead in Afghanistan, dead of Vietnam, Korea, WWII, WWI and earlier, think about the approximately 351,073 people killed in gun violence in the U.S. in the past decade. It's not men from the smellier countries we

Babies.

2013-05-26T17:34:00.001-04:00

Eddie Tarver Me: "holy crap, somebody shot a baby!" Longtime Baltimroean: "well yeah, but he wasn't aiming for the baby." ... Eddie Tarver, 20, was arrested in the shooting* Friday evening in South Baltimore, which killed Carter Scott. His dad, Rashaw Scott, survived and ID'd Tarver, who had two accomplices sporting latex gloves. Scott, aka Davon Greene, had been charged with murder himself,

The Sweet Smell of White Privilege

2013-05-23T22:11:00.002-04:00

Check out convicted felon Francisco Milos and his girlfriend Lynnie Lewis, both 29, who were stockpiling assault rifles, bulletproof vests, pot and ammunition in their house north of Patterson Park.* ... Why does Burt look so disgruntled in that tattoo? Or is he actually puffing a doob? Another police-lawsuit payout: $72,000 to three members of the Reyes family, who were arrested, punched,

Weed indeed

2013-05-22T16:21:00.000-04:00

The Ink recounts last week's two murders and has updates, including the solving of the 10-year-old murder of Jermain Murdock. WTF?! A City College freshman was attacked and beaten by a mob of girls from the school and the girls' male accomplices. Seven people have been shot over the past two days* Fifty years for James Pasco, who scammed the elderly in SE Baltimore Lots of robberies on the

What price decency

2013-05-21T22:03:00.000-04:00

No good deed dept: Antomar Jones convicted of killing his youth program mentor Corey Taylor whilst robbing him* Henry Estrella-Cordova of Ecuador was arrested by ICE in Silver Spring for allegedly raping a nine-year-old girl in the city two weeks ago. Police canvassed the Forest Park area looking for leads in the murder of the mayor's cousin Joseph Haskins. Police have released 911 tapes in

Teeny tiny violins

2013-05-21T00:55:00.001-04:00

An "adult male" shot to death in Belair-Edison*, a woman shot May 10 has died. This is not a repeat: a man and a boy were shot outside on the west side Add to the murders, drug dealing, beatdowns, racketeering: the BGF is also not gay-friendly* Somebody stole Ray Rice's guns* Grab your ankles, taxpayers: the Exelon Corp got awarded $107 million of your money in a closed-door meeting* to

Catalog shopping and a naked man on a fire truck

2013-05-18T03:01:00.003-04:00

Woman murdered in Arbutus in a "domestic," awkward stock image used, details scant. But hey, Mercy hospital's use of technology to detect strangulation bruising is "getting international attention." ... hrm, that victim's name sounds familiar. Homicides closed, motives and explanations lacking.* Officer Robert Mitchell is in trouble for assaulting someone on N Mount Street last May, a fracas

A pound of loud

2013-05-16T13:22:00.000-04:00

Despite his pleas that he has plans to record a workout video, Judge Wanda Heard called rapist Alvin Ray Wright Sr. a "monster" and gave him four life terms for raping a 13-year-old victim in the basement of a vacant rowhouse. Three overnight shootings, no suspects, no motives, etc. Today in BGF prison follies, Fenton posted the Tavon White affidavit which has some pretty entertaining

Oh, Jamar.

2013-05-14T14:00:00.000-04:00

Markell S. Jones pleaded guilty to killing Freddie Jones Jr., 52, (no relation) in the Yau Bros. carryout in 2011. Jones, then 17, was caught on tape and brought into the police station by his parents. Fenton Tweeted that last week Jones said on the stand that his confession was coerced. Last 2 Baltimore homicide victim IDs: 5/11, 2400 Chelsea Ter., Bobby Stanberry, 40; 5/13, 500 N Decker

Quite the surprises

2013-05-13T12:01:00.000-04:00

A man was found shot to death in a car in the 2500 block of Chelsea Terrace. Or as the Deuce put it, "Baltimore City Police got quite the surprise while responding to a call for a car accident." Task force officers responding to an ad for a "young looking" female instead found a haggard-looking cop's wife being pimped by her husband, Lamin Manneh.* Supposedly she's 19, so the mug shot camera

Driving while stupid

2013-05-09T21:54:00.003-04:00

Fenton's story appears to corroborate witnesses' and Jayne Miller's version of the James Smith/Kendra Diggs barricade/murder situation: police rescued Diggs from the house, but left her to die on the sidewalk once Smith started shooting.* One of Wednesday's homicide victims, Joseph Haskins, was the mayor's cousin.* Also TIL her brother Wendell Rawlings was attacked with a sword in 2002.

Spectator Soon Sprung

2013-05-08T16:05:00.000-04:00

Cham reports that the Spectator AF James MacArthur made a deal to plead guilty to charges and got six months plus three years' probation, or three years with all but six months suspended, but in any case with credit for time served he'll be free tomorrow. More from Ed Ericsson and Ian Duncan* The woman killed yesterday by her off-duty city officer "boyfriend" was identified as Kendra D.