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By Peter Hermann | November 25, 1999
Three teen-agers were charged yesterday in the killing of a man during an apparent robbery attempt that police say was part of a marathon crime spree in Northeast Baltimore.Investigators said they are reviewing five holdups in which 11 people were robbed and four carjackings that occurred over 5 1/2 hours Monday night and early Tuesday.The suspects were being held at the Central Booking and Intake Center while awaiting an initial appearance before a District Court commissioner yesterday. Court officials said they would most likely have their first court appearance tommorrow.
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By Peter Hermann | December 4, 1998
Baltimore police charged a man yesterday in the stabbing death two weeks ago of a 16-year-old East Baltimore girl who was dragged into a weedy, vacant lot as she walked with her best friend to a drug store.Malcolm Jabbar Bryant, 23, who has no known address, was charged with first-degree murder. Police said he was being held on an unrelated theft charge in the city detention center when he was served with the warrant.He is charged with the Nov. 20 stabbing of Toni Bullock, who lived near Johnston Square.
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By Consella A. Lee | August 14, 1997
James J. Harrison Jr., whose wife's slaying remains a mystery, was arrested Tuesday and charged with punching an airport police officer after US Airways had refused to let him board a plane for Florida, where he was going to visit his grandson.Harrison, 60, of the 600 block of W. Timonium Road was charged with disorderly conduct, second-degree assault on a police officer and resisting arrest. He was released on his own recognizance shortly after midnight yesterday.As he was being released, Harrison scrawled "I am completely innocent!
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By Jill Hudson | May 28, 1997
Howard County police announced yesterday that they have charged four juveniles and two adults in the May 14 fight at Columbia's Wilde Lake High that preceded the death of a teacher who tried to stop it.Sgt. Steven Keller, a police spokesman, said five of those charged are from Howard High School in Ellicott City and one is a Wilde Lake student.Keller said police plan to charge three more students this week, but he would not say which schools the students attended.The most serious charge -- second-degree assault -- was brought against the Wilde Lake student, identified as a 15-year-old girl, and one of the Howard High adults, Erica Racquell Lynn Gresham, 18, of the 7600 block of Rockbridge Drive in Elkridge.
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By Caitlin Francke | August 22, 1997
Two teen-agers charged in a fight that preceded the fatal heart attack of a Wilde Lake biology teacher last spring asked yesterday that a jury decide their fate.Erica Lynn Gresham, 18, and Dawann Rondray Hebron, 18, appeared in court for the first time since Lawrence Hoyer died after trying to break up a fight among at least 17 students, almost all girls.The request, allowed by law, means that their trials will be transferred to the county Circuit Court and will take place in about two months.
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By Peter Hermann | August 8, 1997
A veteran Baltimore police officer was charged with murder yesterday in the killing of a 41-year-old man who was chased down and shot in the back nearly a decade ago near Little Italy, according to police and court records.Officer Robert W. Carre Jr., 46, who joined the force in 1973, was ordered held without bail yesterday in the Baltimore City Detention Center.He was suspended with pay pending a formal disciplinary hearing, when his pay could be revoked.Detectives were unusually tight-lipped yesterday.
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By TaNoah Morgan | July 5, 1996
A help-wanted ad for a lingerie model in a Crofton-area shopper led to the arrest Tuesday of two women on charges of running an illegal massage parlor and house of prostitution in a Crofton apartment.Carmen Morgan Lopez, 39, of the 1600 block of Fendall Court in Crofton was charged with operating a massage parlor without a license and operating a brothel. She was held in lieu of $10,000 bail.Stephanie L. VonBargen, 20, of the 200 block of Margate Drive in Glen Burnie was charged with giving massages without a license and massaging or offering to massage an erogenous area of a customer.
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By Peter Hermann | March 30, 1996
A convicted tax evader and once-nationally known concert promoter from Baltimore, whose empire crumbled a decade ago when IRS agents raided his Worthington Valley estate, has been charged with swindling a Georgia man out of $28,000.Richard Klotzman, the son of a Baltimore pawnshop owner who built a $20 million rock promotion company by the time he reached 30, was arrested Thursday morning in the offices of the Internal Revenue Service.Mr. Klotzman, 51, is awaiting extradition to Baldwin County, Ga., where he was indicted in 1993 on charges of theft by deception.
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By Joe Mathews | November 2, 1996
Three days in, an inmate threw urine on him. Four months in, someone stabbed him in the back. He never reported the injury, he says, because he had been warned: No matter how young you are, no matter what happens, shut your mouth and keep your head down.Phillip Eugene Moore is 15 years old. He is in the eighth grade. This week, he spoke publicly for the first time about how he spent his summer vacation -- April through October, in fact -- living with adult inmates in the Baltimore City Detention Center.
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January 9, 1995
Man in Roxbury facility is charged in theftA Westminster man in the Roxbury Correctional Institute in Hagerstown was charged Friday in the theft of a bank bag from an employee of Monopoly Pizza Sept. 25.State police charged Timothy T. Costley, 32, Friday with theft, conspiring to commit theft and six counts of writing bad checks. He was held without bail after a hearing in front of a court commissioner.Costley was in the Hagerstown correctional center for an unrelated incident.