The Wire: Enough Already
| Image by John Ellsberry OK, OK, we get it. David Simon‘s portrayal of daily newspaper journalism is only imperfectly accurate, informed by a backstory that includes Baltimore’s economic hardships,...
View ArticleWhat’s That Floating in the Water?
On Tuesday, The Sun reported that Baltimore police were investigating the suspicious death of a man found floating in the Middle Branch of the Patapsco River early Monday morning, near the Hanover...
View Article“I’m going to make it very hard on the police around here.”
Props to the Sun’s Justin Fenton for keeping his ear to the ground regarding the Blackwell clan’s ongoing drama. As he reports today, police arrested Stephen “JR” Blackwell, Jr. and charged him with...
View ArticleMurder Ink Updates
The murder of Roger Dennis, a 25-year-old African-American man, has been closed by exception. Dennis was shot in the 1900 block of West North Avenue in 1997. He died on Aug. 1, 2008. The man police...
View ArticleMan Indicted for Murdering Federal Witness Kareem Kelly Guest
Antonio “Mack” Hall, a 30-year-old Baltimorean, was indicted Dec. 2 by a federal grand jury for murdering a federal witness, Kareem Kelly Guest, in Westport in 2009, according to a press release issued...
View ArticlePolice Seek Help in Murder Investigation
Baltimore police made a rare appeal yesterday for the media’s help in a murder investigation, and offered a $2,000 reward for tips called into the department’s hotline. The murder of Mary Hines, an...
View ArticleMosby States Attorney Campaign to Rally in . . . Boston?
We’re in for a surreal campaign for States Attorney. On the heels of missives blasting State’s Attorney Gregg Bernstein’s lack of leadership (she called him “a man who would not leave the cozy confines...
View ArticleDisbarred lawyer implicated in drug ring, Dead Man, Inc. murder-for-hire
A document filed last week in a federal murder case implicates disbarred defense attorney Stanley Needleman (pictured, left) in a gang-related murder-for-hire scheme, while another document raises...
View ArticleAnother 262 months for Jose Morales
Federal district judge Roger Titus sentenced Jose J. Morales to an additional 262 months behind bars today for trying to smuggle heroin into federal prison while attempting to keep an outside-the-walls...
View ArticleMore details coming in Long murder case
Federal prosecutors plan to tell a more complete (and truer) story than the state did about the 2008 murder of Robert Long, according to a motion filed in the capital murder case against Jose J....
View ArticleSnitches cause glitches
A lawyer for Jose Morales (pictured), convicted last week of a 2008 murder-for-hire conspiracy that killed Robert Long, a witness against him in a series of theft cases, has filed a motion asking for a...
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