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Ocean City cigarette smuggling ring had ties to terror groups, police say
The Palestinian immigrant and his brother lived next door to each other in homes in West Ocean City, over the years opening a number of businesses throughout the area — three pizza shops, a Mexican restaurant, a liquor store, gas stations, and...
Tags: Sales, Brooklyn Bridge, New York City Police Department, Justice System, Ramadan
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National tour of 'American Idiot' hits Baltimore
“American Idiot,” the 2010 Broadway hit musical — the first punk rock opera, really — now at the Hippodrome, paints a searing portrait of restless, reckless youth, with all the sex, drugs and violence you’d expect from a...
Tags: Green Day (music group), Broadway Theater, Music Theater, Billie Joe Armstrong, September 11, 2001 Attacks
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Grand jury indicts driver in fatal City Hall crash
A grand jury on Thursday indicted the driver state police said was high on drugs when his car sped into downtown, striking and killing a pedestrian before it overturned outside City Hall. Johnny Johnson, 43, faces nine counts, including vehicular...
Tags: Motorvehicle Accidents, Drug Trafficking, Justice System, Transportation Accidents, Murder
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State approves settlement to ex-inmate amid corrections scrutiny
With the state corrections system already under scrutiny, the Maryland Board of Public Works on Wednesday approved a $40,000 settlement with a former inmate of the Baltimore jail who claimed he was assaulted by gang members for not assisting with a drug...
Tags: Black Guerrilla Family, Justice System, Regional Authority, FBI, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland)
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Failed drug war proves we're soft on crime
Regarding Dan Rodricks' commentary on drugs at the city detention center, don't opinion columnists belong on the op-ed page, not in the news section ("Scandal at jail another symptom of war on drugs," April 27)? Mr. Rodricks blames a large share of...
Tags: Prisons, War Crimes
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Anne Arundel police seize suspected drugs, $10K cash
Anne Arundel County Police say a call to a hotel in the Linthicum Heights area on Monday resulted in the seizure of more than 120 grams of suspected cocaine and other drugs and more than $10,000 cash. The call also resulted in one arrest on drug...
Tags: Police Arrests, Linthicum, Cocaine
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O'Malley sees success in jail indictments, but critics take aim
As critics of Martin O'Malley sensed a new political vulnerability, the governor insisted Tuesday that last week's indictment of inmates and correctional officers at the Baltimore City Detention Center was "a positive achievement" in Maryland's fight...
Tags: NPR, Black Guerrilla Family, Justice System, FBI, Republican Party
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Why should taxpayers be forced to rescue people from their own bad decisions?
In the April 27 edition of The Sun there was a story by Kevin Rector about recently passed legislation to allow home prescriptions of Naloxone that could be administered to users of heroin who have overdosed ("Maryland families to get new tool in fight...Tags: Drugs and Medicines
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Churchville man gets five years for causing 2011 fatal crash
A 27-year-old Churchville man was sentenced Monday to serve five years in prison for causing a 2011 crash on Route 22 near Churchville that took the life of Joshua John Hanna, a 21-year-old Street resident. Jordan Craig Stewart, of the 500 block of...
Tags: Justice System, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center , Transportation Accidents, Hospitals and Clinics, Accidental Death
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Annapolis police identify homicide and possible overdose victims
Annapolis police have released the names of a shooting victim and two men who died of suspected drug overdoses on Sunday, all three of whom appeared to be from Calvert County. Police believe John Donnel Ray, 32, of the 4600 block of Rolling Hill Road,...Tags: Annapolis, Shootings
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Scandal at jail another symptom of war on drugs
Let me start with this: If not for the absurd war on drugs — by far, the nation's longest war — we would not have had so many killings on the streets of Baltimore over the years. The United States leads the world in incarceration. Without the...
Tags: Taliban, Drug Trafficking, Organized Crime, Black Guerrilla Family, Jihad
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Illicit drug prices in Baltimore fluctuate under DEA estimates
A group of alleged Black Guerrilla Family members met last December to discuss a robbery with a confidential source, who, unbeknownst to them, was working with the Drug Enforcement Administration. The price of cocaine in Baltimore City at that moment...
Tags: Theft, Drug Trafficking, Prices, OxyContin (drug), Methamphetamine (drug)
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