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By Andrea F. Siegel, The Baltimore Sun | May 21, 2012
A Baltimore man serving a 60-year murder sentence now faces life without parole in an unrelated homicide in Glen Burnie, after he was convicted Monday of the first-degree murder of Dr. Albert Woonho Ro. Dante Jeter, 25, is scheduled to be sentenced July 24 in Anne Arundel County Circuit Court for his role in the fatal beating, stabbing and robbery on Sept. 26, 2006, of Ro, 51, a dentist well-known in the area's Korean-American community. Prosecutor Anne Colt Leitess said she intends to seek life without parole for the murder, plus another life sentence for Jeter's conviction of conspiring with his cousin, Shontay Joyner Hickman, 37, also of Baltimore, and possibly additional time for a robbery conviction.
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By Tricia Bishop | May 23, 2012
A 24-year-old Baltimore man was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison Wednesday for a Christmas-Day carjacking, the Maryland U.S. attorney's office announced. Tyrone Royster and an accomplice were on the 3300 block of West Coldspring Lane on Dec. 25, 2010, when a man pulled over to give them a ride, according to court documents. One of them pressed something against the driver's neck and demanded money. When the victim tried to take off his jacket to access his cash, Royster told the conspirator to shoot.
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By Kevin Rector, The Baltimore Sun | May 18, 2012
A 21-year-old Baltimore man was arrested and charged Thursday with possessing and distributing child pornography, according to Maryland State Police. Jason Barron, of the 300 block of South Baylis Street, now faces 30 years in prison and $55,000 in fines, police said. Barron was identified after a state trooper on the Maryland Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force identified a computer offering pornographic videos of children to others on the Internet, and then linked the computer to him, police said.
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The Baltimore Sun | May 21, 2012
ON THE SITE... Man seriously injured in city house fire :  City firefighters responded just before 3 a.m. to the 7100 block of McClean Blvd. in the Hamilton Hills neighborhood. They found the two-story town home engulfed in heavy fire and smoke. Baltimore City ethics disclosures show disparity in reporting gifts :  Ten members of the City Council report that they received no gifts from people who do business with the city, according to recently filed disclosure forms.
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By Tricia Bishop | May 23, 2012
A 24-year-old Baltimore man was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison Wednesday for a Christmas-Day carjacking, the Maryland U.S. attorney's office announced. Tyrone Royster and an accomplice were on the 3300 block of West Coldspring Lane on Dec. 25, 2010, when a man pulled over to give them a ride, according to court documents. One of them pressed something against the driver's neck and demanded money. When the victim tried to take off his jacket to access his cash, Royster told the conspirator to shoot.
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By Tricia Bishop | May 21, 2012
A 29-year-old Baltimore man was convicted of second-degree murder for stabbing another man to death at a Walbrook High School reunion nearly two years ago, the Baltimore State's Attorney's Office announced Monday. A city jury found James L. Dixon, of the 900 block of Kevin Road, guilty on Wednesday. It was his second trial on murder charges in the death of 23-year-old Carrington McNutt, who was stabbed in the neck and torso at the Patapsco Arena, where the reunion - attended by by roughly 900 people from the 1995 through 2005 graduating classes - was held.  Dixon's first trial ended with a hung jury in November 2011.
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By a Baltimore Sun reporter | March 16, 2010
A Baltimore man has been charged in the shooting death of a Timonium woman whose body was found two weeks ago in Virginia. The body of 23-year-old Jerryell Myesha Foster of the first block of Hazy Morn Court was found March 2 off an interchange between Interstate 95 and Virginia State Road 610 in Stafford County. She had been missing since Nov. 25, 2009; a relative contacted police after she failed to appear at a family Thanksgiving dinner. An autopsy revealed that Foster died of gunshot wounds, and the case was ruled a homicide.
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By Tricia Bishop, The Baltimore Sun | March 30, 2011
A 31-year-old Baltimore man was convicted of attempted murder Wednesday for opening fire on a crowded street while yelling "You think you're better than me," according to the Baltimore State's Attorney's Office. On June 26, 2010, Andre K. Haines shot eight rounds at his target, Antoine Free, who was standing on Guilford Avenue with family and friends. Free, who identified Haines as the shooter, was hit three times. Bullets grazed two others. Haines, who was also convicted of two assault counts and handgun offenses, is scheduled for sentencing on May 24; he faces a maximum of life in prison.
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March 9, 2010
A 30-year-old Baltimore man was arrested Friday and charged with first-degree murder for his role in the death of a Glen Burnie man last year, according to Anne Arundel County police. Police arrested Dominic Richard Sanchez of the 400 block of Cambria St. about 7 p.m. at his home. Sanchez is the second person charged in the death of Lamont Gordon, who was fatally shot in July. Joseph Serio was arrested in Miami and extradited to Anne Arundel County in August. Police spokesman Justin Mulcahy described the case as being "very active" and said detectives are not releasing more detailed information.
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March 22, 2010
Police think robbery might have been the motive in the death of a 50-year-old Baltimore man shot to death while leaving for work Sunday morning. Carlos Williams of the 1900 block of Boone St. was shot about 6 a.m. in the cab of his Comcast Cable van. Police said he was approached by at least three suspects and was shot multiple times. He was pronounced dead at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Police spokesman Donny Moses said there were no suspects, and it was not immediately known if anything was taken from the victim or the van. - Baltimore Sun staff
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By Tricia Bishop | May 21, 2012
A 29-year-old Baltimore man was convicted of second-degree murder for stabbing another man to death at a Walbrook High School reunion nearly two years ago, the Baltimore State's Attorney's Office announced Monday. A city jury found James L. Dixon, of the 900 block of Kevin Road, guilty on Wednesday. It was his second trial on murder charges in the death of 23-year-old Carrington McNutt, who was stabbed in the neck and torso at the Patapsco Arena, where the reunion - attended by by roughly 900 people from the 1995 through 2005 graduating classes - was held.  Dixon's first trial ended with a hung jury in November 2011.
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By Andrea F. Siegel, The Baltimore Sun | May 21, 2012
A Baltimore man serving a 60-year murder sentence now faces life without parole in an unrelated homicide in Glen Burnie, after he was convicted Monday of the first-degree murder of Dr. Albert Woonho Ro. Dante Jeter, 25, is scheduled to be sentenced July 24 in Anne Arundel County Circuit Court for his role in the fatal beating, stabbing and robbery on Sept. 26, 2006, of Ro, 51, a dentist well-known in the area's Korean-American community. Prosecutor Anne Colt Leitess said she intends to seek life without parole for the murder, plus another life sentence for Jeter's conviction of conspiring with his cousin, Shontay Joyner Hickman, 37, also of Baltimore, and possibly additional time for a robbery conviction.
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By Kevin Rector, The Baltimore Sun | May 18, 2012
A 21-year-old Baltimore man was arrested and charged Thursday with possessing and distributing child pornography, according to Maryland State Police. Jason Barron, of the 300 block of South Baylis Street, now faces 30 years in prison and $55,000 in fines, police said. Barron was identified after a state trooper on the Maryland Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force identified a computer offering pornographic videos of children to others on the Internet, and then linked the computer to him, police said.
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By Tricia Bishop | May 11, 2012
A 31-year-old Baltimore man, who stole a gun from one girlfriend to murder another, was sentenced to life plus 20 years in prison Wednesday, the city prosecutors' office announced. Shortly before sentencing, on the same day, a jury convicted Daniel Sullivan, of the 700 block of West Vine Street, of shooting Keenya Jordan to death. He “had a history of attacking Sullivan,” the prosecutors' office said in a statement. Sullivan took the murder weapon from another woman with whom he was romantically involved.
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BY KAYLA BAWROSKI | May 1, 2012
A Baltimore man remained in critical condition at Christiana Hospital in Delaware Tuesday morning after he was injured in a motorcycle accident Sunday afternoon at the Conowingo Dam. Maryland State Police have identified the injured motorcyclist as Franklin Melbourne Thomas, 45, of Baltimore, Lt. Charles Moore, commander of the Bel Air Barrack, said Tuesday. State police said Thomas was driving a 2006 Harley Davidson motorcycle south on Route 1 around 4 p.m. As he was getting off the dam and coming around the corner up the hill on the Harford County side, he went out of his lane, TFC Richard Decker, the investigating officer for Maryland State Police, said Sunday evening.
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By Justin Fenton, The Baltimore Sun | April 17, 2012
A Baltimore man acquitted last year in two cold-case rapes - in which police said he was linked to the attacks through DNA - has been charged with murder after shooting in East Baltimore.  Herbert Mayes, 26, was charged by city homicide detectives in the March 30 killing of 59-year-old Chauncey Hardy in the 900 block of Valley St.  Mayes had been included in a database compiled by The Baltimore Sun in 2010 of several suspects charged with...
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By Andrea Siegel, The Baltimore Sun | June 7, 2010
Anne Arundel County police identified the victim struck and killed by a car Saturday night in Ferndale as a 54-year-old Baltimore man. Police said Monday that Ollie Leroy Duncan Jr. of the 2600 block of Garrison Blvd. was trying to cross Route 648 near Ferndale Road when he was struck at 9:50 p.m. by a southbound Volkswagen sedan. The driver, identified by police as Joseph Thomas McPherson, 21, of the 100 block of Club Road in Arnold, stopped after the crash. Duncan was in the crosswalk, but was crossing against the light, according to police.
BUSINESS
By Hanah Cho, The Baltimore Sun | April 16, 2012
Federal securities regulators allege an executive at Eastern Savings Bank in Hunt Valley participated in a fraudulent short-selling scheme involving his personal brokerage firm, according to a complaint filed Monday. In an administrative case, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said that Chicago-based optionsXpress, four of the firm's officials and Jonathan I. Feldman, a senior vice president at Eastern Savings, violated SEC rules by engaging in a plan to profit off a series of "sham" transactions designed to give the impression that the firm had bought certain securities.
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