Detective cleared in fatal shooting
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A Baltimore police officer, who has drawn scrutiny for shooting three people in the past 21 months, has been cleared in his most recent shooting, police said. The fatal shooting of Shawn Cannady, 30, on March 6 prompted two state delegates and the Baltimore branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to call for a federal investigation, saying they were troubled that Detective Jemell Rayam had been involved in three shootings since June 2007. Police would not elaborate on how investigators came to the conclusion that Rayam's actions were justified. His previous shootings were also ruled justified, and he received a citation of valor for his actions in one of those cases.
Justin Fenton
Man is fatally stabbed in Upton neighborhood
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City police are investigating a homicide early Friday in the West Baltimore neighborhood of Upton. About 2:15 a.m., officers were called to the 400 block of Watty Court, where they found a man with an apparent stab wound to the back lying inside a doorway, police said. The victim, whose age was not known, was taken to Maryland Shock Trauma Center, where he was pronounced dead at 2:30 a.m., police said.
400 marijuana plants found in city home
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Acting on a tip from the night before, city police raided a Northwest Baltimore home Friday afternoon and recovered more than 400 marijuana plants with an estimated street value of at least $500,000. Sgt. Christopher Talley, of the Violent Crimes Impact Division, said the house, in Mount Washington, was equipped for a "massive growth operation," with each room set up for a different phase of the growth process. Talley said a suspect had been detained and would be charged, but he declined to identify him. At the Police Department's training facility on Northern Parkway, where the drugs were taken Friday, the smell of marijuana was so strong that the doors were propped open for ventilation.
Justin Fenton
Two charged in selling drugs from gas station
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