Saturday, October 07, 2006

October 7, BaltimoreCrime TempEdition

In the police blotter:

a knife robbery on Gold Street and a 16 year-old arrested with a handgun on the 800 Block, Newington, in Reservoir Hill after a police chase. Several robberies, one armed in East Baltimore and an arrest in connection with a shooting on the 1800 block, Chapel St.

This just in: a reliable reader indicates that a body was found in a van this morning at 27th Street & Miles Ave in Remington. Police were on the scene.

Anne Arundle prosecutors are seeking the death penalty in connection with murder of correctional officer David McGuinn. The defendants are already serving life sentences at the facility.

A U.S. District Court judge found that an armed career criminal has been a very, very bad boy and gave him a 15 year sentence.

The jury in the second-degree murder of Raymond Smoot failed to return an answer and will return on Tuesday. It seems they had many questions regarding the quality of some of the testimony.

The Department of Justice is concerned that youths held at the state-run Baltimore City Juvenile Justice Center "suffer significant harm and risk of harm" from violence because there isn't enough staff on hand, and behavior management and treatment plans are inadequate. "This facility is in one of the most violent cities in this country," replies Stephen Moyer of Juvenile Services. My answer: bring back the reform school rock pile.

And former Baltimore Police Commissioner Kevin Clark is requesting that a legislative committee in Annapolis reviewing employee terminations for political reasons include his firing by O'Malley, which a court recently ruled improper. What was Clark's political problem? Investigations of O'Malley's operatives, it seems, some of whom are said to have compromised truthful reporting of crime data.

6 Comments:

Blogger Unknown said...

Hey Galt....some news not yet in the media

A body found in a van at 27th and Miles this morning.

Didn'tfind out any specifics, just saw 6 police or so and blood leaking from a van, then a body being removed.

October 07, 2006 10:42 AM  
Blogger Unknown said...

Hey Galt... 26th my error not 27th. Ya know when searching for your stolen trashcan and you see police a van with dripping blood i forgot where I was. I apologize. I actually called BPD and asked about it and , of course, got total denial.

October 07, 2006 11:19 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Did anyone else ready the Kane piece on stop-lying and think, this is a Rodericks piece?

October 08, 2006 7:37 AM  
Blogger John Galt said...

Meanwhile, Rodricks was going off about "people don't kill people, guns kill people".

I'm absolutely with getting the guns off the street, but please, take their owners with them. The idea that we're going to have zero tolerance on inanimate objects, but lotsa tolerance on hoodlums just makes me crazy.

October 08, 2006 12:02 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

word from some on street in remington is that the guy who was pulled out of the van may have been on OD victim. autopsy needs to get done.

October 08, 2006 5:21 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Apparently it was a busy weekend for Shock Trauma. Five shooting victims from this weekend in critical condition.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/crime/bal-shooting1008,0,5483294.story?coll=bal-home-headlines

October 08, 2006 7:35 PM  

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