Stories by Peter Hermann
6:02 PM EST, February 14, 2012
Police officer fired for sexually assaulting teen arrested again
A Baltimore police officer who resigned after being convicted of assaulting a 13-year-old relative in 2008 was arrested against this week and charged with a similar offense, according to a police department spokesman.
8:46 PM EST, February 12, 2012
Man killed in N.E. Balto.; two others shot in city hours later
A 27-year-old man died after being shot multiple times in Northeast Baltimore, one of three people shot in the city on Sunday, according to police.
9:40 PM EST, February 12, 2012
Local doctor was classmate of Whitney Houston
It wasn't scandalous by tabloid standards, but it was a rebellious act for the young women at the Mount Saint Dominic Academy, a small all-girls Catholic high school in New Jersey. Whitney Houston, class of 1981, sometimes wore mismatched socks and rolled up her sleeves.
11:12 AM EST, February 11, 2012
Baltimore police told not to stop people taking photos or video of their actions
Baltimore police officers may not "prevent or prohibit" people from taking photographs or video of crime scenes and other law enforcement activities that are in public view, according to a department-wide directive made public Friday.
9:18 PM EST, February 7, 2012
Disgraced collector pleads guilty to stealing historical documents
Barry H. Landau, the once-esteemed collector of presidential memorabilia, admitted in federal court Tuesday that he stole thousands of documents regarded as cultural treasures from historical societies and libraries in Baltimore and up the East Coast.
6:42 PM EST, February 6, 2012
Appeals court overturns murder conviction over drug charge
The state's second-highest court has overturned a murder conviction for a man who police say participated in a drug deal that ended in gunfire, which killed a Baltimore County grandmother hit by a stray bullet.
7:57 PM EST, February 3, 2012
State police stop talking in code
Cops are starting to talk like the rest of us.
4:45 PM EST, February 2, 2012
Six shot, two dead, as violence sweeps several neighborhoods
Six people were shot, two fatally, in a spate of violence in several neighborhoods in Baltimore on Wednesday. Most of the gunfire erupted in a four-hour span starting Wednesday evening and into the night.
8:24 PM EST, February 1, 2012
Two women robbed outside Petit Louis in Roland Park
He threatened to have a gun but didn't show it, though his words were menacing enough. "If you don't want to get shot, I want your pocketbook," he told the two women as he robbed them outside the French bistro Petit Louis in Roland Park, according to police.
10:38 PM EST, January 30, 2012
Man stabbed in downtown Baltimore, expected to live
A man was stabbed and seriously injured Monday night in downtown Baltimore, according to city police.
7:14 PM EST, January 30, 2012
Baltimore Co. man dies in accident when car falls on him
A Baltimore County man was killed late Monday afternoon when a car apparently fell on top of him, police said.
10:11 PM EST, January 30, 2012
No injuries or delays as private jet overshoots BWI runway
A small Gulfstream private jet overshot a runway Monday night at Baltimore-Washington Thurgood Marshall International Airport, causing no injuries to the two people aboard and no delays to commercial flights.
7:01 PM EST, January 30, 2012
Md. collects $400K child support payment, largest ever
Maryland officials said on Friday that they had seized $400,000 in overdue child support payments from one parent, the largest such collection state history.
7:07 PM EST, January 30, 2012
Baltimore City police SWAT arrests attempted murder suspect
After a 25-year-old man was shot and wounded in Northeast Baltimore, police said residents pointed the arriving officers to an apartment building where they said two or three men had gone after the gunfire.
7:22 PM EST, January 30, 2012
Woman walks into light rail train in downtown Baltimore
A woman was seriously injured Monday evening when she walked into the side of a moving light rail train at Lombard and Howard streets, just west of Baltimore's downtown, officials said.
7:09 PM EST, January 30, 2012
Police seek help finding suspect in Mount Vernon hold-up
Baltimore police have released a photo of a man they believe held up a 28-year-old Peabody Institute student at gunpoint in Mount Vernon Thursday evening and forced him to withdraw money from a bank machine.
11:31 AM EST, January 31, 2012
Gambling raid at city building ends with one conviction
When police burst into a city transportation building last March and arrested nearly a dozen workers who they said were throwing dice and drinking cheap liquor, the raid grabbed headlines and triggered stern warnings from officials about "violations of the public trust."
11:03 AM EST, January 29, 2012
Police investigating two Sunday shootings
Baltimore police detectives are investigating two separate shootings, in North and Northeast Baltimore, that occurred Sunday morning, the second shortly before 8:30 a.m., according to a department spokesman.
10:14 AM EST, January 29, 2012
Member of PCP ring gets 14 years in prison
A 24-year-old Glen Burnie man labeled by authorities as a career criminal has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for trafficking in PCP and cocaine in Anne Arundel and Prince George's counties, according to the Maryland U.S. Attorney's Office.
10:06 AM EST, January 29, 2012
Man imprisoned for 45 years for killing friend
A 21-year-old man will spend 45 years in prison after a jury convicted him of second-degree murder for shooting his lifelong friend during an argument in August 2010, according to the Baltimore State's Attorney's Office.
8:57 PM EST, January 27, 2012
Lawyers in abortion murder case say fetal deaths occurred in N.J.
Lawyers for a doctor charged with killing five viable fetuses at an Elkton clinic said in a court motion filed Friday that Maryland lacks jurisdiction because the deaths occurred in New Jersey, and the charges should be thrown out.
9:21 PM EST, January 29, 2012
3 teens killed in crash were recent high school grads
The three recent high school graduates, in a Chrysler Sebring sedan, were coming home from a birthday party. The 55-year-old warehouse manager, driving a black BMW convertible, was returning from dinner and cards at a friend's house.
8:58 PM EST, January 24, 2012
Judge defers on constitutional issues in arrest of artist at Inner Harbor
A spray-paint artist who was arrested on a charge of peddling without a permit at Baltimore's Inner Harbor will stand trial next month after a judge deferred ruling Tuesday on the complex First Amendment issues at stake.
8:47 PM EST, January 27, 2012
New heads of city police discipline, training speak of reforms
Baltimore police officials said Friday that the new heads of training and internal discipline — hires made from outside the department — will help restore public trust in an agency marred in the past year by corruption and a "friendly-fire" incident in which an officer was killed.
7:13 PM EST, January 23, 2012
Two jump from second floor to escape city fire
Two women jumped from the second floor of a burning rowhouse Monday morning, and one may have thrown an infant out of a window and into the arms of a bystander, according to the Baltimore Fire Department.
6:02 PM EST, January 26, 2012
City school police ratify new labor contract
Baltimore school police officers overwhelmingly ratified a five-year labor contract Thursday that ties their pay to performance, breaking from a traditional plan with uniform yearly salary increases.
12:46 PM EST, January 23, 2012
Man gets 3 years in Woodlawn animal cruelty case
A 37-year-old man was sentenced in Baltimore County Circuit Court on Monday to three years in prison for animal cruelty stemming from a police seizure of scarred and malnourished dogs from a Woodlawn area home.
8:42 PM EST, January 21, 2012
Naval Academy grad killed in Afghanistan
A 2006 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy was killed in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan on Thursday, the Marine Corps has confirmed. The 27-year-old was one of six Marines who died in the accident.
7:36 PM EST, January 21, 2012
Waitress says she saw Annie McCann before mysterious death
Two days before her body was found next to a trash bin in Southeast Baltimore, Annie McCann drank a cappuccino with extra whipped cream at a Little Italy pastry shop. She asked to try a cannoli and got a free sample.
9:25 AM EST, January 25, 2012
Arundel Mills guard charged in theft of safe with gold, money
Surveillance video helped police arrest a security guard at the Arundel Mills Mall who has been charged with stealing a safe filled with gold jewelry and money, according to Anne Arundel County police. Authorities said they are seeking a second suspect.
7:14 PM EST, January 19, 2012
NSA says classified information found on seized hard drives
The National Security Agency says it found top-secret information on hard drives that were seized in a failed espionage probe, and the agency is refusing to release the computers — despite the continued protests of their owners.
3:57 PM EST, January 13, 2012
Baltimore police search for vandal who set speed camera on fire
Baltimore police are searching for a man who torched a speed camera Friday morning on the border of Bolton Hill and Mid-Town Belvedere.
6:55 PM EST, January 21, 2012
Ice, slush, quickly cleared from Maryland roads after storm
Marylanders woke Saturday to a slippery mess of snow, sleet and ice that tapered off by afternoon as temperatures edged past freezing, with few traffic tie-ups and no major accidents reported.
9:21 PM EST, January 5, 2012
Attorneys in doctor abortion case want prosecutor, police chief held in contempt
Attorneys representing one of the two abortion doctors facing murder charges under Maryland's fetal homicide law want Cecil County's top prosecutor and Elkton's police chief held in contempt, saying they broke the law by discussing sealed indictments in public.
9:26 AM EST, January 21, 2012
Abortion doctor arraigned on murder charge, argues law unconstitutional
Lawyers for an abortion doctor charged with murder under Maryland's fetal homicide law filed court papers Friday calling the statute illegal and saying that prosecutors are using the law to effectively ban the constitutionally protected medical procedure in Cecil County.
January 15, 2012
Baltimore fire deaths drop to lowest on record
Fire Capt. Darrin P. Danner pointed his flashlight toward the wires dangling in a basement bathroom, smoke still puffing from the walls of the burned-out rowhouse on Bonsal Street, in the far southeastern corner of Baltimore.
10:07 PM EST, January 6, 2012
Woman, 84, who died in fire was stabbed first, police say
An 84-year-old woman discovered dead Thursday in a one-alarm blaze at her East Baltimore home had been stabbed multiple times, an autopsy found, turning a fire investigation into a murder case.
10:41 AM EST, January 21, 2012
One man dead after double shooting in city barber shop
The man who was shot and killed Friday night in West Baltimore has been identified as a 32-year-old who police say was targeted by two masked gunmen who opened fire in a barber shop in the Franklin Square community.
10:36 AM EST, January 10, 2012
Ravens wide receiver Boldin wins suit vs. former agent
Baltimore Ravens wide receiver Anquan Boldin has won a court settlement after his former agent failed to pay back a $170,000 loan that the player gave him to start a sports business, according to federal court papers filed in Florida.
8:48 PM EST, January 5, 2012
Judge throws out DUI case, saying police had quotas
A Howard County judge threw out charges Thursday that an Ellicott City woman was driving under the influence of alcohol, ruling that they were linked to an illegal quota indicating that officers had to cite two to four motorists every hour.
6:13 PM EST, January 6, 2012
Doctor arraigned in Maryland on murder charges in abortion case
A doctor was freed on $500,000 bail Friday after a brief court hearing in Cecil County, the first time since his arrest in New Jersey last month that he publicly faced charges that five abortions he performed in Maryland were murder.
4:22 PM EST, January 5, 2012
Former Howard County officer guilty of assaulting city cop
A former Howard County police officer is scheduled to be sentenced Friday after being found guilty of assaulting a Baltimore police officer during an altercation outside a bar in Canton in August last year.
10:12 PM EST, January 19, 2012
Parents of dead teen say state lost organs during autopsy
The parents of a teenage girl from Virginia who was found dead next to a trash bin in Baltimore in 2008 are alleging that a state medical examiner threw away her heart and brain, among other organs.
7:46 PM EST, January 18, 2012
City orders historic carousel out of Inner Harbor
The Inner Harbor's carousel, which has delighted children for three decades and drawn attention as an historic artifact, has been ordered to move by the end of March, a victim of sagging sales and unpaid bills.
5:45 PM EST, January 5, 2012
Woman, 84, killed in fire at rowhouse in E. Baltimore
Mary Hines spent three decades in the city school system, first as a teacher, then as a principal. Even after she retired in 1981, she didn't stop instructing others, spending her final years heading up adult Bible study classes at her church.
5:56 PM EST, January 9, 2012
Second doctor facing murder charge in abortion returning to Md.
A doctor charged last month in Utah on murder charges in Elkton waived extradition on Monday and will be flown back to Maryland, according to authorities.
6:05 PM EST, January 4, 2012
Doctor accused of murder after botched abortion will return to Md.
One of two doctors indicted in Elkton on murder charges under the state's fetal homicide law waived extradition from New Jersey on Wednesday and will return to Maryland, according to prosecutors and his attorney.
8:37 AM EST, January 4, 2012
Abortion doctors facing murder charges could be extradited to Maryland
One of the two abortion doctors indicted in Elkton on murder charges under the state's fetal homicide law may not fight extradition and could soon be brought from New Jersey to Maryland, according to the Cecil County State's Attorney.
5:51 PM EST, January 2, 2012
Baltimore murder victims, suspects share ties to criminal justice system
As the number of killings in Baltimore dipped last year to its lowest level in decades, one trend remained constant: Those accused of killing and their victims had been in and out of the criminal justice system.
7:51 PM EST, January 2, 2012
Teen arrested in car vandalism
A Baltimore police officer watching for vandals in the Dickeyville community arrested a 15-year-old boy Sunday and charged him with slashing the tires on two cars.
5:12 PM EST, January 1, 2012
Police rescue lost hiker by glow of cell phone
Christopher Tkacik, lost in the dark in a state park on Catoctin Mountain, had his dog, iPhone and a slowly draining battery. He could talk to the police trying to find him, but neither they nor the GPS on his smart phone could guide him out.
3:47 PM EST, January 2, 2012
Boy shot, man wounded by pellet gun in Baltimore
The first person shot in Baltimore in 2012 was a 13-year-old boy who was wounded Sunday night in the Wilson Park neighborhood in the north part of the city, according to a police spokesman. A second person was shot with a pellet gun hours later in an unrelated in Southeast Baltimore.
3:13 PM EST, January 1, 2012
Two men stabbed in Edgewood, Harford police say
Two men were stabbed on the same street in Edgewood Saturday night and investigators are trying to determine if the victims were attacked by the same people, according to the Harford County Sheriff's Department.
2:01 PM EST, January 1, 2012
Gunman tries to rob Wendy's but leaves empty-handed
A man with a gun tried to rob a Wendy's restaurant in Laurel Saturday night but left when an employee told him the safe could not be opened, according to Anne Arundel County police.
4:31 PM EST, January 1, 2012
3-alarm fire damages 7 Canton rowhouses, displaces a dozen
A three-alarm fire that spread across rooftops damaged a string of rowhouses in Canton on Sunday morning, displacing more than a dozen people and several frightened cats but causing no injuries, according to fire officials.
5:04 PM EST, December 30, 2011
Baltimore County police officer retires after 41 years
Ronald B. Schwartz went out the way he came in — behind the wheel of a blue 1969 Dodge Dart Swinger.
10:48 AM EST, January 1, 2012
Woman, 52, dies after car runs off road, hits tree in Cockeysville
A 52-year-old woman was killed early Sunday when her car went off a road in Cockeysville, hit a tree and overturned, according to Baltimore County police.
6:38 PM EST, December 29, 2011
Crash involving officer under investigation
A Baltimore County police officer who was injured in a three-vehicle accident that shut down part of the inner loop of the Baltimore Beltway on Wednesday has been released from the hospital, a department spokeswoman said.
1:52 PM EST, January 1, 2012
Man stabbed while removing drunk from party, police say
A man trying to throw an intoxicated reveler out of a New Year's party in Odenton was stabbed in the leg early Sunday, according to Anne Arundel County police.
2:18 PM EST, January 1, 2012
Man singled out by police leader charged with murder
A man described by the city's police commissioner as an "engine for violent crime" was arrested Saturday night and charged with killing one man and wounding another in a shooting earlier this month in West Baltimore.
7:40 PM EST, December 30, 2011
Doctors in botched Elkton abortion face murder charges
Two doctors who Maryland authorities say botched an abortion last year in Elkton have been indicted on murder charges — in what appears to be the first use of the state's fetal homicide law involving a medical professional performing surgery.
8:41 PM EST, December 29, 2011
Child, 5, who died in crash was fixture in South Baltimore neighborhood
As much as any 5-year-old could be, Jake Owen was a fixture in South Baltimore. He hung out at the pool, played on the soccer team and ran through Riverside Park, an expanse of green across the street from his rowhouse.
7:58 PM EST, December 17, 2011
Baltimore police gun traced to Oklahoma killings
The wanted poster portrays a .40-caliber Glock Model 22 semiautomatic pistol, serial number EKG463US, that resembles thousands of standard-issue guns owned by the Baltimore Police Department.
1:04 PM EST, December 29, 2011
Man, 31, shot and killed inside home in North Baltimore
A 31-year-old man was shot and killed during a robbery Wednesday night inside his home in North Baltimore, according to city police.
9:22 AM EST, December 28, 2011
Anne Arundel police investigate two robberies in Brooklyn Park
Anne Arundel County police are investigating reports that two men were robbed in separate attacks in Brooklyn Park, though it does not appear the two incidents are related. One robbery occurred Christmas Eve but was not reported until Tuesday.
7:01 PM EST, December 14, 2011
Lawyer says client illegally arrested in document theft case
A collector charged with conspiring to steal valuable historic documents taken from museums in Maryland and several other states is alleging that he was illegally arrested in Baltimore by city officers who lacked enough evidence to place him in custody.
8:44 PM EST, December 29, 2011
Teens burned, one critically, after pouring gasoline on grill
A 17-year-old Baltimore County girl was in critical condition Thursday, severely burned over half her body, after someone poured gasoline over burning embers in a grill that then exploded, fire officials say.
6:58 PM EST, December 15, 2011
Police shoot man in Lansdowne after chase from Annapolis
Police officers shot and wounded a man Thursday who was driving a car linked to an armed robbery after chasing the vehicle nearly 30 miles from southern Anne Arundel County to Lansdowne, according to a Baltimore County police spokeswoman.
8:05 PM EST, December 13, 2011
Westminster police chief, mayor attack union chief over allegations of misspent money
Westminster's mayor and police chief denied accusations leveled by a union chief that they misspent money at the expense of public safety, saying the labor representative is trying to drive a wedge through the city's small police force.
1:09 PM EST, December 13, 2011
Mayor calls Occupy Baltimore eviction 'respectful'
The eviction of Occupy Baltimore protesters from a park near the Inner Harbor was carried out "in a respectful way," Baltimore's mayor said this morning, adding that she was pleased there were no injuries or arrests.
3:48 PM EST, December 29, 2011
Beltway ramp at I-83 reopens after crash reconstruction
The ramp from northbound I-83 to the inner loop of the Baltimore Beltway closed Thursday afternoon to reconstruct Wednesday's fatal accident that claimed the life of a 5-year-old boy but has reopened, authorities say.
8:00 PM EST, December 12, 2011
Union says Westminster police misspending money
Rank-and-file police officers are accusing the small department in Westminster of misspending money seized from drug suspects by buying iPads and iPhones for top commanders.
7:11 PM EST, December 9, 2011
Attorney offers new details in police 'friendly-fire' shooting
A Baltimore police officer who was hit by a bullet accidentally fired by a Baltimore County colleague during a raid Tuesday returned fire but did not aim at the officer who shot him, according to a police union lawyer.
5:08 PM EST, December 9, 2011
Morgan student fatally shot in Charles Village
A 22-year-old Morgan State University student was found shot to death inside his Charles Village apartment Thursday night, a killing that police said could be drug-related.
8:39 PM EST, November 30, 2011
Man, linked to Va. teen's mysterious death, charged with killing woman
A Baltimore man has been arrested in the killing of a 26-year-old Northeast Baltimore woman, a development that parents of a runaway Virginia teen hope may yield new leads in their daughter's mysterious death.
8:53 PM EST, November 29, 2011
Some merchants wary about crime, others optimistic along Greenmount Avenue
The owner of a dress shop is so fearful of crime along Greenmount Avenue in Waverly that she keeps the door locked even when her shop is open. The man who runs a discount store a block away feels it is safe enough to stroll the avenue with his three young children.
7:53 PM EST, December 6, 2011
Delay sought in terrorism trial of Ellicott City teen
Federal prosecutors in Philadelphia are asking for a postponement until spring in the trial for an Ellicott City teen charged with aiding a terrorist, citing complexities in a case filled with classified information, voluminous evidence and multiple defendants.
10:07 AM EST, December 10, 2011
Police find statues stolen from Pikesville homes
The thieves took the bronze monkey statues Hear No Evil and Speak No Evil, leaving behind the one covering his eyes: See No Evil. If they had been satisfied with their haul of 100 pounds of bronze, they might have avoided scrutiny.
7:18 PM EST, December 6, 2011
City officer opened fire after accidental shooting by colleague
Police were on an undercover sting targeting a man in a marijuana case in Anne Arundel County when one officer accidentally shot a colleague, according to court documents filed Tuesday.
7:58 PM EST, November 28, 2011
Jury selected in robocall case
A Baltimore jury will hear opening statements Tuesday in a criminal case filed against a former gubernatorial aide charged with violating election laws by allegedly orchestrating a campaign to suppress black votes.
12:19 PM EST, December 1, 2011
Cockeysville woman found dead in burning car identified
A woman who police said had left her home in Cockeysville to visit a store on Thanksgiving Eve and was found dead in her burning car the next morning has been identified as 51-year-old Carolyn Davidson Von-Schnell.
5:12 PM EST, December 6, 2011
Tea kettle left on stove caused fire at complex
A tea kettle left on a stove in a fourth-floor apartment caused a three-alarm fire on Friday night that displaced 100 seniors from a complex in Northwest Baltimore and caused an estimated $280,000 in damage, according to fire investigators.
7:40 PM EST, November 28, 2011
Man arrested aboard plane landing at BWI
A 34-year-old man from South Carolina was charged Monday with assaulting a federal air marshal during what prosecutors describe as a fight on board an airplane making its descent into Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport.
5:54 PM EST, November 23, 2011
Police: Baltimore officer fatally shoots man armed with knives
A city police officer shot a man Wednesday morning who was brandishing two long kitchen knives on a busy street in Southwest Baltimore, according to a department spokesman. Police said the man died a few hours later at a city hospital.
9:40 PM EST, December 4, 2011
Stolen copper gutters latest trend in metal thefts
They came for Benjamin Feldman's copper gutters the Tuesday before Thanksgiving, ripping two 10-foot sections from each side of his stone house in Homeland.
5:37 PM EST, November 25, 2011
New trucking company shut in Arundel
Federal regulatory officials moved quickly to shut down an Anne Arundel County trucking company that opened at the same address as a freight hauler closed this month by authorities who cited a number of safety violations and seven crashes in the past year.
7:44 PM EST, November 28, 2011
Police seize $25,000 in pot from Mount Vernon house
Baltimore police officers serving a warrant on a man wanted in a minor crime said they stumbled on a stash house in Mount Vernon where more than 8 pounds of marijuana worth an estimated $25,000 on the street were being stored.
6:02 PM EST, November 19, 2011
Trucking companies leave long trail of safety violations and victims
Sitting in a wheelchair at a nursing home, Brian Buber can't recall the instant 17 years ago when tons of screaming metal came rocketing toward him on the Capital Beltway, scattering fellow construction workers and crushing their paving equipment.
9:02 PM EST, November 21, 2011
Federal regulators investigate newly formed trucking company
Weeks before federal trucking regulators ordered Gunthers Transport LLC off the road for being an "imminent hazard" to the public, the owner's son filed the paperwork to create a new entity: Clock Transport LLC.
1:35 PM EST, November 14, 2011
Police arrest two teens in shooting of student
Two teenagers have been charged as adults in last week's shooting in Baltimore County of a Morgan State University student, who remains in critical condition at Maryland Shock Trauma Center, according to police.
8:02 PM EST, November 23, 2011
Killer in carryout robbery to serve 50 years
One of two men who killed a 72-year-old customer during a holdup at a Waverly carryout in April 2010 was sentenced Wednesday to 50 years in prison, according to the Baltimore state's attorney's office.
7:42 PM EST, November 16, 2011
NSA whistle-blowers want seized computers returned
Four former analysts at the National Security Agency who had complained that waste and mismanagement impeded efforts to protect America are trying to force authorities to return personal computers seized from their homes in 2007.
11:43 AM EST, November 10, 2011
25-year-old man shot, killed near Morgan State University
A 25-year-old man was shot and killed Wednesday night on a street in Northeast Baltimore, near the Northwood Shopping Center and in front of an off-campus dorm near Morgan State University, according to city police.
9:26 PM EST, November 22, 2011
City fire instructors cleared in EMS cheating probe
Baltimore Fire Department recruits were allowed to see confidential testing materials before an exam in June because the training staff didn't know better, according to newly public documents that detail the internal investigation into the city's Emergency Medical Services training program.
7:29 PM EST, November 15, 2011
ATF agents exchanged gunfire with suspects in South Baltimore
An initiative by at least a dozen federal law enforcement agents in South Baltimore on Monday evening that led to several injuries and arrests also included an exchange of gunfire, which was not initially disclosed.
8:22 PM EST, November 15, 2011
Firebombings spur neighborhood concerns
Before the recent wave of firebombings in Northwest Baltimore, the agenda for the West Arlington Improvement Association seemed the humdrum stuff of everyday life.
8:52 PM EST, November 7, 2011
Officials: Drinking likely played a role in slaying of Frostburg student
— Police said a Frostburg University student stabbed another student during an off-campus party after first pulling a knife on a third student who "would not get out of the way" in a crowded kitchen.
6:56 PM EDT, November 5, 2011
Women from Maryland escape alleged prostitution ring
The woman, barely in her 20s and estranged from her family, worked two jobs as she tried to launch a singing career. When she started chatting online with the head of "424 Records," she thought she had finally gotten her break.
1:33 PM EST, November 17, 2011
NSA whistle-blowers want seized computers returned
Four former analysts at the National Security Agency who had complained that waste and mismanagement impeded efforts to protect America are trying to force authorities to return personal computers seized from their homes in 2007.
6:43 PM EST, November 8, 2011
Man who robbed Fells Point shop three times sentenced to 20 years
A career criminal whom an irate customer beat with a baseball bat during a holdup of a Fells Point thrift store two years ago was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in federal prison after a jury convicted him of robbery.
7:11 PM EST, November 12, 2011
3 makeshift firebombs in N.W. Baltimore renew concerns
Three makeshift firebombs were thrown against houses in Northwest Baltimore early Saturday, causing little damage and no injuries but raising concerns that a spate of nine similar attacks in September has been renewed.
8:50 PM EST, November 11, 2011
More charges filed in Baltimore sex trafficking case
New federal charges have been filed against 10 people from Maryland who are being held in a sex-trafficking case that allegedly was centered in Baltimore and Western Texas, said prosecutors, who are calling the case a "forced prostitution" scheme.
5:00 PM EDT, November 3, 2011
High court upholds conviction in child abuse death
A man who has been tried three times in the death of a 3-year-old girl has been denied a chance at a fourth trial with a ruling by the state's highest court affirming his latest conviction for involuntary manslaughter and child abuse.
6:29 PM EST, November 9, 2011
Hopkins student helps catch suspected burglar
When Christina Warner looked up, the man ducked down.
5:56 PM EST, November 8, 2011
Man charged with killing grandmother
A 36-year-old man was ordered held without bail Tuesday after being arrested and charged with killing his grandmother inside her Northwest Baltimore home, according to city police and court records.
8:03 PM EDT, November 4, 2011
Police arrest teen in carryout shooting
A 17-year-old has been arrested and charged with the Halloween night killing of an Army veteran and airport shuttle bus driver who was in a North Baltimore carryout getting dinner as three masked men robbed the corner establishment.
7:24 PM EDT, November 1, 2011
Security an issue at Occupy Baltimore
The Occupy Baltimore protest is now entrenched at the Inner Harbor, but its members are questioning whether they can sustain the movement amid a dwindling number of core leaders and allegations of crime and drug use.
5:00 PM EST, November 9, 2011
Part of JFX briefly closed during hunt for escaped prisoner
Baltimore police and correctional officers were searching Wednesday for a man who escaped from the downtown booking center and forced authorities to briefly shut down the Jones Falls Expressway when he apparently ran across the highway.
7:40 PM EDT, October 31, 2011
Police arrest suspect in rape of girl in van
A man released from prison in September and put on a watch list of the state's most violent offenders has been arrested in the rape of a 14-year-old girl who police said was lured into a van in West Baltimore and attacked by five men.
10:03 PM EDT, October 27, 2011
City police arrest teen in slaying of church caretaker
A teenager was charged Thursday with fatally shooting a 70-year-old church caretaker during a struggle last year over a scooter, a crime that drew outrage not only among the victim's friends and family but from a city reeling from eight killings in a single week.
5:50 PM EDT, October 28, 2011
Police: Sheriff's deputy shoots man with knife who jumped into cruiser
A city sheriff's deputy on his way to work Friday morning shot and wounded a man who authorities said jumped into his marked cruiser and attacked him with a knife at a busy intersection in Northeast Baltimore.
7:22 PM EDT, October 24, 2011
Ellicott City teen pleads not guilty to terrorism charges
— The lanky Ellicott City teenager and Pakistani citizen walked into the federal courtroom here on Monday dressed in an olive drab, one-piece prison jumpsuit, his hands cuffed behind his back, and muttered barely two words during his arraignment on terrorism charges — "not guilty."
7:51 PM EDT, November 3, 2011
Man shot in arm by sheriff's deputy now in critical condition
A man who police said was alert and talking after being shot in the arm by a city sheriff's deputy last week is now in critical condition at Johns Hopkins Hospital, according to a hospital spokesman. The wounded man's mother said her son is on life support.
4:55 PM EDT, October 26, 2011
City police seek suspects in rape of child
A 14-year-old girl who accepted a ride in a van in West Baltimore was raped or sexually assaulted by five men on Sunday afternoon, according to city police who are seeking help identifying suspects and finding the vehicle.
5:23 PM EDT, October 26, 2011
Youth charged with bringing gun to school in Carroll County
A 15-year-old middle school student was arrested on Wednesday after police said he took a loaded handgun to his school in Hampstead and told an assistant principal that he was "struggling with thoughts of suicide."
9:09 PM EDT, October 19, 2011
'Occupy' memo could discourage victims from reporting assaults
Efforts by the Occupy Baltimore protest group to evolve into a self-contained, self-governing community have erupted into controversy with the distribution of a pamphlet that victim advocates and health workers fear discourages victims of sexual assaults from contacting police.
9:26 PM EDT, October 27, 2011
Trooper honors late uncle by joining force
On his 21st birthday, Tanner Nickerson received a birthday card and a gun.
3:28 PM EDT, October 15, 2011
Five years later, death ruled accident now a homicide
For five years, Adrienne Miranda has been on a crusade to prove that the death of her son — crushed under a Bobcat earthmover while on the job, his body face-down in the dirt under a hot summer sun — was no accident.
5:22 PM EDT, October 22, 2011
Police say student killed in Fells Point crash was likely speeding
A Morgan State University senior who was one of two college students killed in a car accident Thursday night in Fells Point most likely went through a red light while speeding, according to Baltimore police.
8:14 PM EDT, October 30, 2011
State Court of Appeals overturns conviction of illegal immigrant
A man with no country has a chance to stay in the United States a bit longer.
6:27 PM EDT, October 13, 2011
Jury finds man guilty in convenience store shootings
A Baltimore County jury convicted a man Thursday of shooting and wounding the owner of a Catonsville convenience store and killing the lone customer during a robbery nearly two years ago, according to prosecutors.
8:09 PM EDT, October 14, 2011
Ten Baltimore-area residents arrested in prostitution ring
Police and federal agents arrested 10 people in Baltimore this week on charges that they ran a prostitution ring and forced women to travel to Texas for sex, according to law enforcement authorities and an indictment.
5:38 PM EDT, October 26, 2011
Body of suicide victim travels 11 miles on top of truck
Motorists saw the man jump off the pedestrian bridge, but not the driver of a passing tractor trailer on which the victim landed. By the time police caught up with the truck and its gruesome cargo, the unsuspecting driver had traveled 11 miles down I-95 from Maryland into Virginia.
7:13 PM EDT, October 21, 2011
Popular Morgan State student among two killed in Fells Point crash
A 23-year-old man who was killed in a double-fatal car accident Thursday night in Fells Point was a homecoming king who was close to graduating from Morgan State University, according to police and school officials.
9:46 PM EDT, October 4, 2011
Man injured in club fight can sue over injuries
A young man who was severely beaten on a dance floor packed with drunken patrons at a now-closed Baltimore nightclub can sue the owners and allege negligence, the state's second highest court has ruled.
7:56 PM EDT, October 19, 2011
Two deaths at Park Charles apartment not linked, police say
The death on Sunday of a woman who went down a trash chute at a downtown Baltimore apartment building is not linked to the fatal plunge of a man in the same chute last year, city police said Wednesday.
9:34 PM EDT, October 17, 2011
For second time, high-rise trash chute yields a body
Last year, when a man was killed after going down a trash chute in downtown Baltimore's Park Charles apartment building, residents grudgingly accepted the police conclusion that the death was a bizarre accident.
7:26 PM EDT, October 3, 2011
Social Security worker shot while on stroll near Woodlawn campus
An employee taking a lunchtime stroll during a break from his job at the Social Security Administration headquarters in Woodlawn was robbed and shot on a secluded wooded path on Monday, prompting officials to put the federal campus on lockdown.
2:49 AM EDT, October 5, 2011
Protesters gather at 'Occupy Baltimore' event
Some are out of work. Some can't afford to visit a doctor. Others are sick of corporate greed. Most blame financial institutions for the tumbling economy. They think the rich are trampling on the poor and middle class and getting away with it.
6:11 PM EDT, October 4, 2011
Suspect held in shooting near Social Security headquarters
A 26-year-old man has been arrested and charged with robbing another of his cellphone Monday, then shooting him in the arm on a wooded path near Social Security Administration headquarters in Woodlawn.
7:47 PM EDT, September 30, 2011
Mother, young sons who perished in fire recalled at funeral
With their similar-sounding first names and look-alike dress, brothers Ja'Quis Lucciano Manigo and Tyquis Tyuan Moore enjoyed making people guess which was which. "Pick one," the younger brother, Ja'Quis, would playfully demand.
6:19 PM EDT, October 3, 2011
Johns Hopkins student sexually assaulted in Charles Village
A man who said he was armed with a gun sexually assaulted and tried to rape a Johns Hopkins University student early Saturday, an attack that city police said occurred in an alley two blocks from the North Baltimore campus.
10:06 PM EDT, October 6, 2011
Rare shootings hit Charles Village, Lauraville
A 22-year-old man was shot in the leg on St. Paul Street in Charles Village early Thursday, just 50 feet from where a Johns Hopkins University researcher was fatally stabbed in a robbery last year.
8:09 PM EDT, October 3, 2011
Court rules family of boy arrested on dirt bike got fair civil trial
A family that unsuccessfully sued Baltimore police officers who arrested a 7-year-old boy for illegally riding a dirt bike in 2007 received a fair civil trial in Howard County, the state's second-highest court has ruled.
8:46 PM EDT, September 22, 2011
Three dead after fire engulfs 10 city rowhouses
Their children in bed, the chores done, Amber Way and Michelle Manigo met on adjoining front porches to chat about their kids and exchange gossip making the rounds on South Pulaski Street. They parted just before 1 a.m., retiring to their neighboring rowhouses.
10:06 PM EDT, September 29, 2011
Police seek leads in nine firebombings in city
The whiskey bottle filled with gasoline, set on fire and thrown against the side of Mavis Mallett's house shattered a double-paned kitchen window, bounced off a screen and landed in a potted plant on a stone walkway outside.
7:41 PM EDT, October 3, 2011
Johns Hopkins student sexually assaulted in Charles Village
A man who said he was armed with a gun sexually assaulted and tried to rape a Johns Hopkins University student early Saturday, an attack that city police said occurred in an alley two blocks from the North Baltimore campus.
7:17 PM EDT, September 20, 2011
1 arrested, 1 indicted in hit-and-run that killed two teens
A Severn man charged with driving a car that struck and killed two teenagers in June, then speeding away without stopping, turned himself in to police Tuesday and was ordered held without bail.
8:33 PM EDT, September 28, 2011
Victims of fire in Northwest Baltimore were 'stellar citizens'
They first met in college — where he played halfback for the football team and she was homecoming queen. Donald and Jennye worked together on civil rights issues and remained friends after he graduated from what was then Morgan State College in 1956.
8:41 PM EDT, September 14, 2011
Police escort variety of officials to events
Animal Kingdom, the thoroughbred that won this year's Kentucky Derby, got a police escort to Pimlico for the Preakness. Wounded war veterans got escorts to Orioles games. Former Secretary of State Colin L. Powell got an escort to the Grand Prix.
7:54 PM EDT, September 22, 2011
Police: Man shoots self outside Union Memorial ER
A man who shot himself in the head outside the emergency room in North Baltimore's Union Memorial Hospital on Thursday left a note indicating he chose that locale because he wanted to donate his organs to medicine, according to law enforcement source.
8:18 PM EDT, September 19, 2011
Arrest at Inner Harbor renews free speech debate
The arrest of a man selling paintings at Baltimore's Inner Harbor has renewed debate over the confusing rules governing free speech along the waterfront promenade — an issue that already is the focus of an eight-year-old federal lawsuit.
8:54 PM EDT, September 26, 2011
Witness to Dundalk shooting: Police fired through glass door
A man fatally shot by a Baltimore County police officer Sunday through a closed glass storm door had charged at the officer while brandishing a large knife after his girlfriend told a 911 operator that he was "fixing to get someone hurt," authorities said.
2:41 PM EDT, September 4, 2011
Scenes from the Baltimore Grand Prix
Among the tens of thousands of fans who came this weekend for the inaugural Baltimore Grand Prix were a large number of racing rookies. They were attracted for a variety of reasons — fast cars, a party atmosphere and the idea of supporting their hometown.
7:00 PM EDT, September 16, 2011
Cigarette leads police to suspect in killing of 91-year-old
A cigarette butt discarded outside the front door of a murder victim's Northeast Baltimore home led detectives to a suspect, who has now been charged with stabbing a 91-year-old woman during a burglary.
8:06 PM EDT, August 24, 2011
Death once ruled an accident is now a homicide
The death of a man who was run over and killed by a piece of machinery five years ago has now been ruled a homicide by the state medical examiner's office, overturning an earlier finding that the death was an accident. However, Baltimore County authorities said they have no plans to file charges.
10:24 PM EDT, September 4, 2011
A jubilant finish line for the Grand Prix
Tens of thousands of spectators trooped through crowded paddocks and grandstands, clutching ear plugs and checkered flags. Auto-racing teams praised the exciting twists and straightaways through roads normally choked with harried commuters.
7:53 PM EDT, September 26, 2011
Man accused of stealing documents wants to sell own valuables
The FBI raided Barry H. Landau's Manhattan apartment twice, hauling out thousands of documents that authorities say link him to a theft scheme involving historical artifacts pilfered from libraries and museums in Baltimore, elsewhere in the United States and in the United Kingdom.
5:40 PM EDT, August 28, 2011
Storm surge fails; residents quick to reclaim Fells Point, Annapolis
The storm surge didn't come, so Rob and Paula Notrica went ahead with their wedding reception Sunday.
7:42 PM EDT, September 7, 2011
Baltimore still vulnerable to attack, officials say
In the aftermath of Sept. 11, homeland security in Baltimore was defined by color-coded terror warnings, police with automatic weapons standing guard at the Inner Harbor and officers racing from one suspicious package to another.
7:53 PM EDT, September 15, 2011
Man charged in twin brother's 2007 slaying in Columbia
When his identical twin brother went missing in 2007, Wael Ali sought to organize a search party in Howard County to hunt for clues. Later, after the discovery of Wasel Ali's body, Wael set up a memorial page on Facebook where he lamented that they'd never spend time together again.
9:10 PM EDT, September 13, 2011
Balto. Co. police sketch artist gives a face to the dead
She started drawing caricatures of cops, funny pictures of her colleagues at the Essex precinct, as a break from investigating street robberies. Then someone noticed, "Oh, you can draw."
8:47 PM EDT, August 16, 2011
Bealefeld addresses concerns about Police Department in radio appearance
Baltimore's police commissioner struck a defiant tone during a radio appearance Tuesday evening and defended his department amid a series of high-profile cases that have cast a pall on the integrity of the 3,100-member force.
9:54 AM EDT, September 4, 2011
Man with knife robs Glen Burnie store
A man armed with a knife robbed the Lil Guardian Angels shop in Glen Burnie Saturday afternoon, and then possibly escaped down a bicycle trail, according to Anne Arundel County police.
5:54 PM EDT, August 19, 2011
Baltimore housing officials warn of fake fliers for vouchers
Baltimore housing officials are warning that the city's homeless and others in need are being misled by deceptive fliers offering Section 8 housing vouchers.
7:31 PM EDT, August 16, 2011
Former Ravens player arrested in hit-and-run incident
Former Ravens player Jermaine Lewis, who returned a kickoff for a touchdown in the team's 2001 Super Bowl victory, has been charged with driving recklessly and resisting arrest after police said an officer had to use a Taser to subdue him.
7:44 PM EDT, September 7, 2011
Counter-terrorism advances help police fight crime
In a Woodlawn office park, police can collect and analyze tips that can help find an al-Qaeda cell or a Bloods gang member.
7:55 PM EDT, August 30, 2011
Teacher who faked military service sentenced to 21 months
He duped FBI agents and small-town cops, students and child advocates, volunteer firefighters and war veterans into thinking he was a retired colonel in Army special operations who had fought terrorists and insurgents from Kabul to Bogota.
7:09 AM EDT, August 29, 2011
Fatal Owings Mills fire caused by smoking
A 77-year-old woman died in a fire in her Owings Mills home early Sunday morning, and Baltimore County firefighters attributed her death to a blaze started with discarded smoking materials.
10:27 AM EDT, August 26, 2011
Ravens player says he broke up fight at harbor
A Baltimore wide receiver says he broke up a fight Thursday at the Five Guys restaurant at the Inner Harbor, hours before the Ravens were to kick off against the Washington Redskins.
6:46 PM EDT, August 25, 2011
2 charged in identity theft involving unemployment claims
A routine traffic stop by a police officer in Georgia led authorities in Maryland to a suspected identity theft scheme in which state unemployment benefits totaling $170,000 were falsely obtained in the names of dozens of unwitting people.
7:33 PM EDT, August 16, 2011
Man sentenced to 20 years for manslaughter
A driver with a blood-alcohol level measured at twice the legal limit after his speeding car killed two pedestrians and struck another car on the shoulder of Interstate 70 was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in prison.
9:17 PM EDT, August 26, 2011
Ellicott City teenager arrested in suspected terror plot
He was a 15-year-old high school honors student in Ellicott City when federal prosecutors say he went online to solicit money for a woman who called herself "Jihad Jane" and "Fatima LaRose."
6:47 PM EDT, August 23, 2011
Championship ring stolen from Colts great returned
Colts legend Art Donovan never thought he'd get his ring back.
August 15, 2011
Search of GPS for wanted suspect would violate privacy, federal judge says
As rapidly evolving technological advances allow people to be tracked by global positioning devices found in most new cellphones, Congress and courthouses nationwide are trying to balance privacy rights with the needs of law enforcement to locate criminals.
10:13 PM EDT, August 28, 2011
Irene damage closes area schools, stymies efforts to restore power
Schools throughout the region are closed today and hundreds of thousands of families and businesses remain without power as Marylanders clean up after Hurricane Irene.
9:42 PM EDT, August 9, 2011
Fire academy inquiry finds no 'systemic' cheating
An investigation into alleged cheating at Baltimore's fire academy did not uncover a "systemic" problem, the fire chief announced Tuesday, but six supervisors and instructors are facing administrative discipline as a result of the probe.
8:11 PM EDT, August 10, 2011
Roommate testifies suspect confessed to robbing slain Hopkins researcher
A roommate of a man charged with killing a Johns Hopkins researcher in Charles Village last summer testified Wednesday that moments after the attack the suspect said he "had robbed someone and that he had hurt him real bad."
6:36 PM EST, March 10, 2011
Baltimore police officers indicted in towing scheme
A federal grand jury has indicted 10 Baltimore police officers and two repair shop workers as part of a corruption probe in which police are charged with steering motorists with broken cars to a garage in Rosedale in exchange for kickbacks.
11:17 PM EDT, August 13, 2011
Baltimore police release file in Select Lounge shooting
Harry Pawley didn't know he had shot a fellow police officer until a colleague screamed. Then he saw the handcuffs dangling from the wounded man's belt. Latora Craig discovered the mistake only after she saw the badge attached to a chain around his neck.
5:10 PM EDT, August 15, 2011
Alleged police impersonator arrested
A 24-year-old Halethorpe man has been charged in connection with one of three recent home-invasion robberies in which armed men identified themselves as police officers and broke into homes in three different parts of the city, bound the occupants and stole money.
4:55 PM EDT, August 12, 2011
Judge reverses ruling, orders officer accused of drug dealing held
A federal judge on Friday reversed an earlier ruling and ordered a Baltimore police officer charged in a drug conspiracy case to be jailed until his trial, according to the Maryland U.S. Attorney's Office. No trial date has been set.
5:02 PM EST, February 23, 2011
Crime Scenes: Pastor alleges harassment by police
He's known for leading the Trail of Tears walk — tours of recent killings — as part of his Garden Community ministry in Bolton Hill and part of a push by Southern Baptist congregations into Baltimore. Joel Kurz's work takes him to the city's most depressed, most dangerous, most drug-riddled neighborhoods.
6:19 PM EDT, August 2, 2011
State police investigate road rage attack
Maryland State Police are searching for a man who they said rear-ended a woman's vehicle on Interstate 83 in Parkton, offered her money to not call police and then violently attacked her when she dialed 911 on her cell phone.
7:40 AM EDT, August 11, 2011
Report of a barricade in W. Baltimore unfounded
Police have determined that a report that a person was being held against his or her will inside a house in West Baltimore was unfounded and tactical officers have left the scene, according a department spokesman.
8:53 PM EDT, August 18, 2011
'Padlock' law allows cops to close troublesome bars
The Black Hole Rock Club in Dundalk is closed, for now. The manager was arrested and charged with selling drugs to customers. Inspectors condemned the barnlike structure and slapped notices on all the doors: "This building is unsafe."
10:47 AM EDT, August 4, 2011
York man arrested, charged with assault after crash on I-83
Maryland State Police have charged a man with assaulting a woman on I-83 after authorities say he rear-ended her vehicle and then tried to keep her from calling the police.
7:55 PM EDT, June 16, 2011
Rat bites Baltimore City police officer after hiding in cruiser
Rats are brazen neighbors in many a Baltimore neighborhood.
9:48 PM EDT, June 10, 2010
Man shot by officer had hands in air, sources say
The unarmed man fatally shot by an off-duty Baltimore police officer outside a Mount Vernon bar early Saturday had his hands in the air when the officer fired 13 rounds, striking him nine times in the chest and groin, according to department sources.
9:47 PM EDT, June 28, 2010
Group to explore city rape reports
A group of Baltimore government and law enforcement representatives plans to conduct a systematic review of rape reports that have been deemed "unfounded" by police investigators, in response to news reports showing the city leads the nation in such cases, officials said Monday.
11:02 PM EST, February 23, 2011
More than 30 Baltimore police officers charged, suspended in towing scheme
Seventeen Baltimore police officers were charged Wednesday — and more than a dozen others suspended — in an extortion scheme in which officers are accused of receiving thousands of dollars in kickbacks for steering accident victims to a towing company that was not authorized to do business with the city.
9:26 PM EDT, April 4, 2011
FBI seizes documents in towing case
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.
12:02 AM EST, February 26, 2011
Towing corruption investigation expands
A federal corruption probe that has already led to more than 30 Baltimore police officers suspended or charged with receiving kickbacks in an alleged towing scheme has expanded to include at least one former officer from a state law enforcement agency.
9:40 PM EST, February 24, 2011
Alleged police scam had hidden cost
The alleged extortion scheme outlined by federal prosecutors this week seemed to benefit both auto accident victims, who avoided paying towing fees and insurance deductibles, and Baltimore police officers, who got kickbacks for making referrals to a car repair shop.
3:58 PM EST, February 24, 2011
Crime Scenes: FBI wiretap captures cops in colorful conversations
The Baltimore cops called themselves the "untouchables group" and talked in thinly veiled code, referring to alleged payoffs as "coffee," according to a criminal complaint filed by the FBI. They complained about being broke and demanded expedited payments. They made disparaging remarks about the people they were supposed to protect.
8:46 PM EDT, July 1, 2010
More than 20 victims have called rape hot line
Twenty-one women who say their reports of rape or sexual abuse were dismissed by Baltimore police have reached out to a hot line established this week to ensure that officials are handling complaints properly.
7:36 PM EDT, June 29, 2010
Peter Hermann: Downgrading rape cases historic problem
A competitor in a contested state's attorney's race called the Baltimore Police Department's rape unit a "gimmick."
1:07 AM EST, February 25, 2011
Few systemic corruption cases made against cops
Police in Baltimore have had their share of problems over the years, but they've managed to avoid scenes like this one in 1994 in New York: After officers were led from their Harlem precinct in handcuffs, the city's disgusted commissioner dumped their badges in a trash can in front of camera crews at a news conference.
8:37 PM EDT, June 9, 2010
Officer in shooting led turbulent life
Facing a possible arrest over the fatal shooting of an unarmed former Marine after a night of club-hopping, Baltimore Police Officer Gahiji A. Tshamba continues to pop in to the Eastern District station where he worked for years.
9:34 PM EDT, June 8, 2010
Officer in nightclub shooting was driving drunk before '05 shooting
The Baltimore police officer under investigation for killing a fellow bar patron Saturday was involved in an off-duty shooting in 2005 in which investigators determined he was driving with a 0.12 percent blood-alcohol level before firing his weapon, according to documents obtained by The Baltimore Sun.
8:43 PM EST, February 23, 2011
Towing scandals in city are nothing new
The newspaper headline read: "Tow-truck operators … make pay-offs to officers who arrange business from crash victims."
February 9, 2010
'They knew they had to do their jobs'
One Baltimore officer hitchhiked, jumping into an Army Humvee and then a civilian police car to tag-team his way from his Edgewood home to the city's Central District station. Motorcycle cops traded two wheels for four - four-wheel drive, that is - to keep an eye on businesses along Calvert, Charles and St. Paul streets.
February 4, 2010
As new mayor starts, police promise results
At the end of 2002, Baltimore's homicide tally stood at 253. It was considered a remarkable achievement: the third consecutive yearly drop that finally ended the stigma of the 1990s, a decade in which more than 300 people were killed each year.
7:22 PM EDT, June 15, 2010
Homicide detective on shooting case a veteran
The hardest thing for a cop to do is go after another cop.
July 28, 2009
CRIME BEAT
Bullets fly in Baltimore, and no one's surprised
No one was shot on Fairmount Avenue.
August 15, 2009
Woman to be cited in Phelps accident
A 28-year-old woman who was slightly injured when her Honda Accord hit a Cadillac Escalade driven by Olympic swimming star Michael Phelps in Baltimore's Mid-Town Belvedere neighborhood is to be charged with running a red light, a city police spokesman said Friday.
August 2, 2009
Professionalism and calm at the eye of the storm
After she'd helped a man who had been shot three times into a wheelchair, after an SUV had delivered another shooting victim and two more men had walked past with bloodied T-shirts covering their wounds, nurse Cindy Barber began to wonder just what was unfolding in the Johns Hopkins emergency room.
November 13, 2009
CRIME SCENES
Did Baltimore police mishandle call on truck?
Nicholas F. Walters saw a white pickup truck weaving between lanes. He tried to follow the erratic vehicle but later told a Baltimore police operator, "I couldn't keep up with it." He noticed a company decal on the back of the Ford F250 and called the number, but a representative denied it was theirs.
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