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By Brent Jones | August 23, 2009
The first day of school is a little more than a week away for 11-year-old Molik Hylton, and he readily admits he has no desire to reopen the books. He will, however, be prepared to do so with a new notebook, a fresh haircut and one final day of fun, courtesy of a block party Saturday in his Northwest Baltimore neighborhood. "I don't want to go," said Molik, who will be a fifth-grader at Arlington Elementary/Middle School. "But this helps a little bit." The eight-hour party in the 4000 block of W. Belvedere Ave. was sponsored by eight local businesses that provided food, haircuts and school supplies to about 100 kids in attendance.
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By Melissa Harris | February 20, 2008
People charged with crimes generally can get out of jail by paying a bondsman 10 percent of the bail set by the courts. But many in Maryland are walking free by paying much less - in some cases as little as 1 percent - to bondsmen willing to offer a discount. These cut-rate bails are a common practice, leading to thousands of people accused of serious offenses going free on far less bail than some judges and the public realize. State regulators and city prosecutors say they are troubled, but bondsmen argue that such price reductions are necessary to remain competitive in a cutthroat industry.
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By BILL ORDINE | January 17, 2008
So, O.J. Simpson, whose career as a professional defendant is going just gangbusters, was back in the spotlight (e.g., courtroom) in Las Vegas yesterday because he made a phone call that prosecutors said violated terms of his release on bail regarding that sports memorabilia fracas at the Palace Station. Simpson had tried to send an angry message through the bail bondsman at the You Ring We Spring agency to a co-defendant, a move that angered the judge who originally released him on bail.
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By Catherine Saillant | September 9, 2007
LOS ANGELES -- Habitual sex offender Ross Wollschlager has bounced from one Ventura County, Calif., hotel to another in the weeks since his release from a state mental hospital, getting ejected each time the owner learned of his identity. Publicity about his release has made it impossible for the 44-year-old convicted rapist to find a rural landlord willing to give him a place to live. After seven evictions, Liberty Healthcare Corp., a San Diego company hired by the state of California to help Wollschlager get resettled, gave him a tent and he began living in the Ventura River bottom.
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By Doug Donovan | July 9, 2007
Clarence "Shad" Brown Sr., a former bail bondsman, travel agent and fixture in the long-faded nightlife of Pennsylvania Avenue, died of an infection June 30 at Genesis Eldercare in Randallstown. He was 92. Born in Blackstone, Va., he moved to Baltimore with his parents and two brothers at a young age. He graduated from Frederick Douglass High School. He married Helen Francis in 1935, and the young family lived in the 300 block of Presstman St. for decades. Mr. Brown operated an after-hours club in the basement of his West Baltimore home that attracted many top entertainers when they were in town, said his son, Clarence Brown Jr. of Lochearn.
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By ANNIE LINSKEY | March 8, 2006
A 34-year-old bail bondsman and grocery store security guard was charged in Anne Arundel County with impersonating an officer after an investigation that began when he allegedly used emergency lights to pull over another vehicle that contained two real policemen. Karl Glenn Salenieks of the 1900 block of Cavalier Circle in Crofton also was charged with illegal possession of firearms by a convicted felon after police reportedly uncovered an arsenal of weapons -- including semiautomatic guns -- in his home.
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By MICHAEL SRAGOW | October 14, 2005
The conflict between a woman's inner good girl and inner bad girl is a great movie subject. Unfortunately, it remains untapped in Domino, the "inspired-by-fact" story of a ferocious female bounty hunter who in the end displays a heart of tarnished gold. Domino (Keira Knightley), the daughter of a British movie star, Laurence Harvey (Room at the Top, The Manchurian Candidate), and a London model (played by Jacqueline Bisset), chucks pampering and privilege to grab fugitives and bail-jumpers off the mean streets and out of the crummy motels and trailer parks of the American West.
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BY A SUN STAFF WRITER | October 31, 2003
Maryland's intermediate appellate court issued a strongly worded rebuke yesterday to a bail bondsman who challenged a Montgomery County court's authority to forfeit a bond months after a defendant failed to appear for a sentencing. The fact that bondsman Nickolas Pantazes lost $10,000 as a result is only "peripheral" to the concept of bail bonds, which are, essentially, a contract between the state and defendants to ensure a court appearance, retired Court of Special Appeals Judge Charles E. Moylan Jr. wrote for the three-judge panel deciding the case.
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By From staff reports | April 27, 2003
In Baltimore City Woman pleads not guilty in son's scalding death A 23-year-old woman pleaded not guilty in Baltimore Circuit Court on Friday to charges of first-degree murder in the scalding death of her 5-year-old son. Sheila Avery of the 600 block of N. Monroe St. is accused of putting her son, Travon Morris, into a bathtub filled with hot water Jan. 5. Travon suffered first- and second-degree burns over 50 percent of his body and died Feb. 15...
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By Reginald Fields | February 1, 2003
The West Baltimore mother accused of child abuse for allegedly leaving her children alone for days in an unheated home was bailed out of jail yesterday by her attorney and a bail bondsman. Tiffany Simmons, 23, of the 900 block of N. Gilmor St. was released about 5:30 p.m. after her attorney, Warren Brown, and bail bondsman Cody Smith put up money to bail her out. She had been jailed since Tuesday on $50,000 bond. Simmons was planning last night to stay with an aunt and then enroll in a city service program where she would get help finding a new home, Brown said.