Criminal Record

Related: California blogger who helped spread Parsons' information says he feels bad for him and he shouldn't do prison time . Bail for Aaron Parsons, the 20-year-old Rosedale man charged with punching and robbing a downtown visitor in a recorded attack that gained wide attention online, was reduced Monday morning to $500,000.  A District Court Commissioner initially set his bail at $1 million on Saturday morning after...

After his first city prosecution resulted in a mixed outcome last year, with one defendant acquitted and two others convicted of minor offenses, Baltimore State's Attorney Gregg L. Bernstein is set to try a murder case Monday. William Carr, 50, is charged in the fatal shooting of 55-year-old deliveryman Chong Wan Yim during an armed robbery June 28 at the Erdman Shopping Center in Belair-Edison. Carr has a lengthy criminal record, according to police, and was released in 2010 from a 20-year prison term associated with an earlier armed robbery.

Baltimore police have identified the man they found in the trunk of a car in East Baltimore on Friday. The body of Hassaan Jahad Frank, 29, was recovered at about 10:50 a.m. Friday in the 1200 block of North Gay Street, near Collington Square Park. He had been shot in the head, according to police. Det. Jeremy Silbert, spokesman for the Baltimore Police Department, said detectives continue to investigate the death. According to public records, Frank had no criminal record. No further details were available.

To the girl with friends who sleep with the guys you bring around: YOU NEED NEW FRIENDS. For the MTA bus drivers, I understand if a bus is 15 or 20 minutes late, but 2 hours late ... What’s the excuse for that? The one day a week trash pick up should go back to twice a week. When will the Oriole apologists finally admit that they’re just a sorry excuse of a baseball team?  I don’t answer you because you have no self-respect! You’re an awesome person, but you keep giving me too much power.

The arrest of 13 Department of Transportation employees who are accused of participating in a regular payday ritual of drinking and gambling on the job raises any number of questions, the most important of which is whether the city even knew that several of the men had prior criminal records. As The Sun's Peter Hermann reported this week, six of the men had been convicted of serious offenses in the past, including drug distribution and weapons charges, while a seventh was arrested twice on assault charges but never convicted.

The Baltimore City Council on Monday selected William A. "Pete" Welch Jr. to take the seat of his mother, Agnes Welch, despite a flurry of controversy over his criminal record. By a 10-3 margin, the council voted for Welch, 57, an accountant by trade who has spent decades working in his mother's 9th district office as an aide. After the vote in City Council chambers, Welch, his mother and his daughter went downstairs for Welch to take the oath of office in the mayor's gilded ceremonial room.

A Baltimore City Council committee chose William A. "Pete" Welch Jr. to replace his mother on the council, despite concerns about his past criminal offenses. Nine of the 12 council members on the committee voted Thursday for Welch, who worked for nearly 30 years as a legislative aide to his mother, Agnes Welch, who retired last month after 27 years on the council. The full council's 15 members are scheduled to make a decision Monday. Welch's candidacy sparked an outcry from community leaders and political observers.

A 30-year-old man who died in what police believe was an arson might have been tracked to his home after an altercation at a club before being beaten, doused in gasoline and set on fire, according to a friend of the victim in an account confirmed by two sources with knowledge of the investigation. Few details have been released in the investigation of the Saturday morning blaze, which broke out in the 1400 block of Homestead St. in Northeast Baltimore. The death of Ellison McCall Jr., a New Jersey native with no criminal record, is the first arson killing in the city since 2006.

A 28-year-old Gwynn Oak man, the first defendant to be convicted under the state's gang law, has been granted a new trial. Dajuan Marshall, who was found last month to have killed a rival gang member in 2008, will get another chance before a jury following a decision Friday by Baltimore Circuit Judge L. George Russell III, who presided over the first trial. Russell vacated Marshall's conviction after hearing testimony from jurors about misconduct on the panel, including an allegation that a juror performed an Internet search on Marshall's prior criminal record.

A Crownsville man convicted of an attack on his girlfriend and accused of dousing a trailer with gasoline while she was inside was sentenced Wednesday to eight years in prison. The punishment was handed down after an Anne Arundel judge said she was bothered by his history of violence, leaving drug treatment programs and blaming others for his actions. Circuit Court Judge Michele D. Jaklitsch told Thomas Eldridge Paddy, 44, of the Summerhill Trailer Park that although experts disagreed on whether he has bipolar disorder, she ordered he serve prison time in part because "you have turned your back" on previous offers of drug treatment.