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Body of woman found in dumpster on North Charles Street

Sun, 16 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - Oct. 16 (News Report) - A woman was found dead in a dumpster in the 200 block of North Charles Street at about 8:12 a.m. Sunday, police said. Police said that the woman's body bore no obvious signs of trauma and added that the woman appeared to be in her early 20s.

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McNulty to play Iago to Lester’s Othello

Fri, 09 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Brew - By Brew Editors - Sep. 09 (News Report) - From Simon to Shakespeare! From Baltimore to the bard! Wire co-stars Dominic West (Det. James “Jimmy” McNulty) and Clarke Peters (Det. Lester Freamon) are going to be appear onstage this fall at England’s Sheffield Crucible Theatre for a production of Othello.

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Turning it Around After Pulling the Trigger

Wed, 31 Aug 2011 13:09:57 -0700

WYPR - By Sheilah Kast - Aug. 31 (Interview) - There’s been lots of talk this election season about putting criminals behind bars. But what happens when they get out? Jericho Reentry Program case manager Greg Carpenter tells Sheilah what ex-offenders need to succeed, and what makes people ready to pull a trigger in the first place.

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8-23-11: The Role of Criminal Informants

Tue, 23 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

WYPR - By Sheilah Kast - Aug. 23 (News Analysis) - Earlier this month, Antonio "Mack" Hall was found guilty of murdering another member of the Westport neighborhood in South Baltimore -- a man who had been accused of snitchin'. In light of that, we talk with Alexandra Natapoff, author of Snitching: Criminal Informants and the Erosion of American Justice, on the shadowy world of police, prosecutors, and criminals who get leniency in exchange for information.

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Baltimore, Town of Noir

Tue, 23 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

WYPR - By Sheilah Kast - Aug. 23 (News Analysis) - When you think noir, do you think Baltimore? Maybe you should. One of the fathers of the genre, Dashiell Hammett, honed his detective chops in Charm City.

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Why do we kill?

Fri, 29 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Investigative Voice - By Alan Z. Forman - Jul. 29 (Opinion) - he excessively high murder rate in Baltimore will not decrease significantly until “the borders of the city are opened up to the state,” a forum filmed and aired live online by C-SPAN was told Thursday evening by the publisher of Investigative Voice and a retired chief homicide detective who addressed an overflow gathering at the independent bookstore Atomic Books in Hampden.

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The Ultimate Punishment

Thu, 28 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Urbanite - By Michael Corbin - Jul. 28 (Special Report) - While capital punishment has been upheld in the courts and has high levels of support among the public, the death penalty is on the decline nationwide. Yet in Maryland, as in all death penalty states, major variations exist at the local level.

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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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At least two victims in fatal city fire shot, officials say

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

Baltimore Sun - By Mary Gail Hare - Jul. 25 (News) - At least two of the three victims found at a fire in a Northeast Baltimore rowhome were shot, investigators said Tuesday morning. Three adults — two men and a women — were found inside the brick, end-of-group townhouse in the 4300 block of Nicholas Ave., fire officials said. The men were declared dead at the scene; the woman was treated at the scene and taken to Johns Hopkins Bayview Hospital, where she later died, officials said.

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Md. Unveils New Kiosk System For Probationers

Mon, 25 Jul 2011 13:22:00 -0700

Associated Press - Jul. 25 (News) - ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Danny Mitchell never really likes checking in with his probation agent. But thanks to a new computerized kiosk system, the 32-year-old Pasadena resident at least doesn’t have to spend very long doing it any more. “This is perfect. I

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Vandals’ homophobic slur remade as badge of honor

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

Baltimore Brew - By Brew Editors - Jul. 25 (News) - We knew there had to be a good story behind the rainbow-hued Volkswagen Beetle with the eye-catching name parked on President St. Saturday. There is. It’s all on the Fagbug website, this story that begins with an ugly incident that took place on April 18, 2007.

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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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Murder Ink

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

City Paper - By Anna Ditkoff - Jul. 19 (News) - Murders this Week: 5. Murders this Year: 115.

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Killings in Pigtown prompt community anger, complaints of inaction

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

Baltimore Sun - By Nick Madigan, Don Markus - Jul. 19 (News) - For a man who was only 21 years old, Rasheed Abdullah seems to have made a lot of people angry. Police called him a drug dealer and neighbors in Pigtown wanted to throw him out, and in the last three years alone he was arrested at least 16 times. On Sunday morning, someone shot him in the head and killed him.

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Rise in police-involved lawsuits concerns Baltimore City Council

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

Baltimore Brew - By Brew Editors - Jul. 19 (News) - With the city poised to sign off tomorrow on a $100,000 payment to a 65-year-old man who says he was badly beaten by Baltimore police, the Baltimore City Council is calling for an informational hearing on the rising rate of police-involved lawsuits.

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Stats from the streets: “Baltimore Data Day”

Mon, 18 Jul 2011 11:37:00 -0700

Baltimore Brew - By Brew Editors - Jul. 18 (News) - Raw rat data! Rate of reported “rat incidents” in Baltimore (per 1,000 people) between 2002 and 2009. If you care about Baltimore and have a thing for data – like this chart showing the soaring rate of rat complaints in recent years – check out Baltimore Data Day on Friday.

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West Baltimore Church Holds Gun Buyback

Sat, 16 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Indypendent Reader - By Umar Farooq - Jul. 16 (News) - A West Baltimore church held the latest in a series of gun buybacks today. St. Gregory the Great Catholic Church on N. Gilmore St. collected about forty weapons by noon today. In East Baltimore, St. Wenceslaus Church on Ashland Ave. held a buyback at the same time.

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Held in Document Theft, ‘America’s Presidential Historian’ Faces New Scrutiny

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Sabrina Tavernise - Jul. 15 (News) - Barry H. Landau, author and well-known presidential memorabilia collector, displayed his connections like pearls on a necklace.

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Woman, toddler escape moving vehicle after carjacking

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

Baltimore Sun - By Steve Kilar, Rebekah Brown - Jul. 14 (News) - For about 40 miles, Elsya and her 20-month-old son were trapped in a car with a stranger at the wheel. With the back doors unhitched and flapping, and speeding at more than 100 miles per hour, she says, the strange man threatened her, wielded a shard of glass like a knife and convinced her that she and her child were going to be killed. Yesterday, the mother and child were at home recovering from injuries, having jumped from a moving car during a high-speed chase from Baltimore to Washington.

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Probe expands into attempted theft of Maryland historical papers

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Justin Fenton, Julie Baughmann - Jul. 13 (News) - At the Maryland Historical Society, they're calling it the Great Cupcake Caper.

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Barry H. Landau: Cupcake Enthusiast, Alleged Paper Purloiner

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Atlantic Wire - By Adam Clark Estes - Jul. 13 (News) - Landau built his collection of presidential memorabilia, the largest outside of a museum, with the help of close ties to everyone from local historians to celebrities to administrations themselves. The New York City-based collector had showed up at the Maryland Historical Society on Saturday with a plate of cupcakes for the center's staff, a goodwill measure that The Sun says is a "calling card of sorts." Jason Savedoff, an accomplice, arrived with Landau, and apparently, the two of them have been busy. The Historical Society of Philadelphia says the pair, sometimes using pseudonyms, has visited a dozen times so far this year but behaved very oddly.

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Police said child abductors made ransom demand; child safe, hungry and nervous

Tue, 12 Jul 2011 09:09:32 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Peter Hermann - Jul. 12 (Breaking News) - An 8-year-old boy who was abducted while walking with friends in Southwest Baltimore Monday night has been found safe in a vacant rowhouse just a few blocks from where he lived, a Baltimore police spokesman said.

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Historic theft: Case of the purloined letters

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

Baltimore Sun - By Sun Editors - Jul. 12 (Editorial) - Even under the best of circumstances, archives lack air-tight security. It's generally harder to get to the gate at the average airport than it is to gain access to the valuable historic documents stored and maintained by the hundreds, if not thousands, of U.S. universities and colleges, public libraries, non-profit organizations and state archives.

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Probe into stolen historical documents expands

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

Baltimore Sun - By Justin Fenton - Jul. 12 (News) - At the Maryland Historical Society, they're calling it the Great Cupcake Caper.

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