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Policing internal affairs

Tue, 26 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - Jul. 26 (Editorial) - The Baltimore Police Department's announcement that Maj. Nathan Warfield has been removed from his post as commander of the internal affairs division doesn't quite add up.

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Amid questions, city police internal affairs commander reassigned

Mon, 25 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Justin Fenton - Jul. 25 (News) - The Baltimore Police Department removed its commander in charge of internal investigations late Monday, a move police sources describe as fallout from last week's indictment of a city police officer on drug charges.

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City employee bilked $55K through forged time sheets

Wed, 20 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Julie Scharper - Jul. 20 (News) - A Baltimore public works employee bilked the city of $55,000 in wages by altering electronic time sheets over four years, according to a report released Wednesday by the city inspector general. The employee, who was not named, was fired after an investigation, the report said.

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BPD Officer Charged in Heroin Ring

Tue, 19 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

City Paper - By Edward Ericson Jr. - Jul. 19 (News) - A Baltimore City Police officer was arrested on federal heroin trafficking charges today, and a seven-count indictment was unsealed in Federal District Court. Daniel G. Redd, 41, was arrested at the Northwest Police District by fellow city officers.

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EMT cheating scandal: Another black eye for Baltimore

Tue, 19 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - Jul. 19 (Editorial) - When you cheat, they tell kids in school, you only cheat yourself, but in Baltimore, we've recently learned that's not always true. Sometimes you also cheat the students you're supposed to be teaching when you change the answers on their state standardized tests, and even worse, sometimes you cheat victims of heart attacks, strokes or traumas when you get inside information about the exam to become an emergency medical technician.

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Baltimore police officer charged in drug conspiracy

Tue, 19 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Justin Fenton - Jul. 19 (News) - A Baltimore City police officer was arrested and charged Tuesday with leading a heroin distribution operation, including allegations that he arranged drug transactions while on duty and met conspirators in the parking lot of his district station, records show. The officer, Daniel G. Redd, 41, was taken into custody Tuesday at the Northwest District police station, officials said. Several law enforcement sources say Redd had been under suspicion for years, but within the past six months city police asked the FBI to investigate.

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City fire chief suspends EMS training after cheating revealed

Mon, 18 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Julie Scharper, Mary Gail Hare - Jul. 18 (News) - Baltimore fire officials suspended emergency medical training and locked down an instructional facility Monday after revelations that some student firefighters had cheated on a state licensing exam, officials said. "This is a serious mistake that tarnishes the reputation of the hundreds of professional and dedicated men and women who work so hard for us," Fire Chief James S. Clack said in a statement.

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Curbing police misconduct

Thu, 14 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Daily Record - By Daily Record Staff - Jul. 14 (Editorial) - Finally someone has stepped forward with a plan to get a handle on the soaring cost of police misconduct in Baltimore and the underlying inadequacies in training that contribute to it. Now let’s hope that plan makes a difference.

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Third officer pleads guilty in kickbacks scheme

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Tricia Bishop - Jul. 01 (News) - Michael Lee Cross pleaded guilty Friday to taking kickbacks from a Rosedale auto repair company, making him the third Baltimore police officer to be convicted in an extortion scheme that could involve more than 50 city officers, according to new documents filed in federal court.

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TOWED OUT — Baltimore police officer pleads guilty in federal towing scandal

Thu, 09 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Investigative Voice - By Stephen Janis, Alan Z. Forman - Jun. 09 (News) - The U.S. Department of Justice today announced their first guilty plea from a Baltimore City Police officer charged in connection with a scheme that involved kickbacks paid by a Rosedale auto repair shop to officers who referred motorists illegally to the firm.

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U.S. drops part of case against Currie

Mon, 09 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Annie Linskey - May. 09 (News) - Federal prosecutors have dropped nearly half of the bribery charges against state Sen. Ulysses Currie, chopping seven counts that were connected to an outdated legal theory.

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Gang members plead guilty

Tue, 03 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Peter Hermann - May. 03 (News) - The final three members of the Black Guerrilla Gang have pleaded guilty in federal court, wrapping up cases against 21 members what authorities described as a violent group responsible for money laundering, drug dealing and attacks inside Maryland prisons.

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Treasurer to powerful senator goes to jail

Mon, 18 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Annie Linskey - Apr. 18 (News) - The longtime treasurer to state Sen. Ulysses Currie sobbed in court Monday after an Anne Arundel County judge sentenced her to a year in jail for stealing more than $166,000 in campaign donations.

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A new ethics code for Baltimore?

Tue, 12 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Marta H. Mossburg - Apr. 12 (Opinion) - It's time to rewrite the ethics laws of Baltimore City to reflect reality. Grandiose language about trust, euphemisms like "public servants" and philosophical musings about justice are so outdated.

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Police misconduct case first Bernstein will try as top prosecutor

Tue, 12 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Justin Fenton, Yeganeh June Torbati - Apr. 12 (News) - Baltimore State's Attorney Gregg Bernstein will try his first case as the city's top prosecutor this week when three city officers go on trial for misconduct allegations, his office confirmed.

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7 COME 11 — City supervisor and six DOT employees fired for gambling on the job

Fri, 08 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Investigative Voice - By Stephen Janis - Apr. 08 (Breaking News) - City officials issued pink slips this week to a veteran DOT special events supervisor and six other employees who were on the clock when an IG inspector found them running a dice game.

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Bernstein establishes Police Integrity Unit

Thu, 07 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Tricia Bishop - Apr. 07 (News) - Private defense attorney Janice Bledsoe will leave her firm to join the Baltimore prosecutors' office as head of the new Police Integrity Unit, State's Attorney Gregg Bernstein announced Thursday.

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Breaking the rules in the housing department

Wed, 06 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - Apr. 06 (Editorial) - If the city really wants to root out waste, fraud and corruption, as the mayor said she intended in revitalizing the position of inspector general, it needs to do more than get rid of one employee who improperly got and dishonestly maintained his job. It needs to bring to account all of the people and systems that allowed it to happen — and on that score, it's not at all clear that the city's action is nearly so swift and decisive.

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Have other city housing inspectors failed background checks?

Wed, 06 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Julie Scharper - Apr. 06 (News) - Here's an interesting element of the city inspector general's report about a housing inspector who was hired despite having a criminal record and was promoted after lying on a background check application: nine current city housing inspectors also failed to meet the requirements to be certified as Special Enforcement Officers.

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Are Corruption and Incompetence the Norm at HABC?

Wed, 06 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Slumlord Watch - Apr. 06 (Opinion) - A varying degree of experience, maybe. Blatant fraud, never. That may be acceptable to Mr. Graziano, and perhaps his continued tenure should be an agenda item for every person who decides to run for public office in Baltimore City.

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UNDER FIRE — Arrest of high level DPW official prompts councilman to question city's employment practices

Tue, 05 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Investigative Voice - By Stephen Janis - Apr. 05 (News) - The incident led to the arrest and guilty plea of a Department of Public Works superintendent named Michael Lucas on charges of fourth degree sex offense last year, a top level supervisor whose ability to keep his job despite a series of criminal charges is prompting a key city councilman to call for hearings on Baltimore's municipal employment practices.

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FBI seizes documents in police towing case

Mon, 04 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Peter Hermann - Apr. 04 (News) - Federal agents seized documents related to insurance claims during a search earlier this year of a Rosedale auto body shop, possibly indicating that a corruption probe into a towing scheme that has ensnared 30 city police officers may now be broadened to include insurance fraud.

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Baltimore workers caught drinking and gambling on the job

Tue, 29 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - Mar. 29 (Editorial) - The arrest of 13 Department of Transportation employees who are accused of participating in a regular payday ritual of drinking and gambling on the job raises any number of questions, the most important of which is whether the city even knew that several of the men had prior criminal records. As The Sun's Peter Hermann reported this week, six of the men had been convicted of serious offenses in the past, including drug distribution and weapons charges, while a seventh was arrested twice on assault charges but never convicted. Given the severity of their offenses there's a real question whether any of them should ever have been on the city payroll at all.

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ACCOUNTABILITY CRISIS? — ‘Whether he’s Mother Teresa or a sex offender, he earned the money’!

Tue, 29 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Investigative Voice - By Stephen Janis - Mar. 29 (Editorial) - Friday afternoon, Investigative Voice sat in the district courthouse on Fayette Street to watch yet another city employee scandal grind its way through the process. On the docket was the city’s lawsuit against one Dennis J. McLaughlin, the child molester who collected $12,700 in sick pay that the city Inspector General concluded was fraudulently obtained while the former DPW worker served out an eight-month prison sentence in 2008 for taking a 13-year-old girl to a seedy Pulaski Highway motel and forcing her to perform a sex act.

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‘NO COMMENT, HON’ — In unprecedented move, DOT supervisor is suspended without pay

Tue, 29 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Investigative Voice - Mar. 29 (News) - An Investigative Voice editorial recounting the supervisory differences of Baltimore city managers (“Accountability Crisis?” Sun. Mar. 27) hit an official and auspicious nerve late yesterday. In an unprecedented move the Department of Transportation suspended the superior in charge of the 13 DOT employees who were arrested Friday for illegal gambling while sipping cognac on the job.

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