Denied Bail

A judge denied bail yesterday for a 38-year-old Severn man accused of repeated drug offenses and vehicular manslaughter. Kirk DeCosmo was charged after a Jan. 11 head-on crash on Furnace Branch Road in Glen Burnie that killed a 61-year-old man.

A Baltimore circuit judge denied another bail request Friday for the blogger who held a publicized standoff with city police this month that was broadcast live to thousands of listeners. Judge Lynn K. Stewart said Frank James MacArthur, also known locally as the Baltimore Spectator, posed a continuing threat to public safety and should remain jailed without bail. It was the third time that MacArthur, 37, who lives in the Waverly neighborhood, has been denied bail. MacArthur's attorney, Jill P. Carter, called the revocation a knee-jerk overreaction when many other suspects facing similar charges are often offered bail.

A Baltimore County judge denied bail yesterday for a man charged in the fatal shooting this month of a store owner outside Security Square Mall. Brian Keith Rose, 21, of Baltimore is charged with first-degree murder in the Jan. 5 death of Warren T. Fleming, 31, the owner of a Cingular Wireless store at the Woodlawn mall. Fleming was killed in what police say appears to have been an attempted carjacking. Rose was being held at the Baltimore County Detention Center. Rose was arrested Wednesday at the home of a friend in Northwest Baltimore.

At a lively Central Booking hearing, a Baltimore judge denied bail to Frank James MacArthur, the local blogger who live-streamed a standoff with police on the Internet, two days after a different judge ordered him to be released. MacArthur, 47, appeared Wednesday dressed in a yellow jumpsuit, his head shaved and his hands cuffed behind his back. District Judge Joan B. Gordon pointed to MacArthur's criminal history and apparent "violent and assaultive nature" as reasons for denying bail on gun charges filed against him late Monday.

The two men suspected in the slaying of a Baltimore County Christmas-tree dealer were denied bail last night after being extradited from Florida earlier yesterday.Steven Lee Ussel, 21, and David Lawrence Carlton, 28, both of eastern Baltimore County, were denied bail by court Commissioner Francis X. Hayes during a hearing in Towson District Court.Mr. Ussel and Mr. Carlton were arrested Christmas Day in Jacksonville Beach, Fla., and charged with first-degree murder in the Dec. 23 slaying of Paul Robert Zinkhan, 53, of Perry Hall.

District Judge Donald M. Smith yesterday denied bail for Samuel Allen Miller, the Owings Mills man suspected of firing the gun that killed a 22-year-old Westminster man last Thursday.Mr. Miller, 22, was in the courtroom briefly until his attorney filed a motion asking the judge to hold the bail review hearing without him. He was taken back to a cell before Judge Smith began the hearing.Mr. Miller was arrested Friday and charged with first- and second-degree murder, manslaughter, reckless endangerment and assault and battery in the shotgun killing of Gregory Lamont Howard of Old Manchester Road in the 100 block of S. Center St. This was Carroll's first homicide this year.

A judge yesterday denied bail to a Baltimore County judge's son charged with stalking a former girlfriend.Scott Edward Bollinger, 19, son of Circuit Judge Thomas J. Bollinger, was arrested last week on trespassing charges after he allegedly disregarded a court order to stay away from her home.Scott Bollinger was being held at the Baltimore County Detention Center in lieu of $75,000 bail.Pub Date: 6/12/96

As family and friends gathered yesterday afternoon to remember Kimberly Sue Ramsey's life, her stepson and three of the five other teen-age suspects accused in her fatal shooting were denied bail by a Towson District Court judge.Baltimore County police still were searching for an older, seventh suspect, and said more arrests are possible in the slaying Thursday of the 32-year-old Middle River woman, who was shot during a burglary at her home.Charged with first-degree murder and denied bail yesterday were Mrs. Ramsey's stepson, Roger Dale Ramsey Jr., 18, and his friends, Robert Scott Simmons, 19, Kimberly Michele Lange, 17, and Selena Wiatrowski, 18.Police were awaiting the extradition of 18-year-old Daniel Scheuerman and Jamie Lynn Arthur, a 14-year-old girl, who they said fled to Daytona Beach, Fla., in the victim's 1988 Chevrolet Beretta.

Bail was denied yesterday to two men charged in the fatal shooting of 3-year-old James Smith III last week as he waited for a birthday haircut in a West Baltimore barbershop.In a bail review hearing at Edward F. Borgerding District Court in Northwest Baltimore, Judge Teaette Shelton Price denied bail to Maurice Blevins, 19, of the 1100 block of W. Lexington St. and Kenya Davis, 20, of the 3500 block of Old Frederick Road. The men allegedly engaged in a gunfight Thursday at the Fresh Cuttz barber shop in the first block of S. Carrollton Ave. that killed the boy. The boy's mother, Cheryl Whittington, 23, was shot in the arm and Davis was shot in the arm and leg.In charging documents, Blevins is identified as the person who police say shot the boy and his mother and Davis.

A 15-year-old boy charged as an adult with raping and killing his 4-year-old cousin last week was ordered held without bail yesterday during a hearing at Central Booking and Intake Center. Ronald Hinton was being held in lieu of bail after a hearing in the same courtroom Friday. At the time, the girl was alive as the suspect was charged with first-degree rape, assault and child abuse. Janiya Woodley died later that day, and the charges against Hinton were upgraded to first- and second-degree murder over the weekend.

The half-sister of Robert C. Richardson III recalled a tense relationship between the Harford County teen and their father Wednesday, as his family began to craft a legal strategy the day after he was accused of killing Robert C. Richardson Jr. and dumping his body in a pond. "My brother is a good child — a good, good child," said Abigail Richardson, 20. "Everybody has their snapping point, the point where they just ... everybody has one. " She spoke after meeting with a court-appointed lawyer representing her 16-year-old brother, who has been charged with first- and second-degree murder and use of a handgun in the commission of a violent crime.

The family of a transgender woman who was attacked in a Baltimore County McDonald's last week thanked the woman who stepped in and tried to help, as more than a hundred supporters gathered at the Rosedale restaurant Monday night. The rally drew together representatives of transgender, civil-rights and faith-based communities in a call to action to stop violence against all people. "I'll never forget you for this," Renee Polis told Vicky Thoms, who was hit in the face as she stepped between Chrissy Polis and the two teens who were caught on video punching and kicking Polis, and dragging her by her hair until Polis appears to have a seizure.

Orioles reliever Alfredo Simon was denied bail Tuesday and remains in a Dominican Republic prison as the chief suspect in the New Year's Day shooting death of his cousin. Tuesday's decision by a Dominican judge will be appealed, but it virtually guarantees that the 29-year-old right-hander will not be in Sarasota, Fla., when Orioles' pitchers and catchers are expected to report Feb. 14. The Orioles have not commented on Simon's situation since he was named as a suspect and subsequently turned himself in to authorities two days after 25-year-old Michael Esteban Castillo Almonte, Simon's cousin, was shot dead after a New Year's celebration in the resort town of Luperon.

A man hurt in Columbia fire and charged in the death of his ex-wife earlier this month was denied bail Wednesday after his Tuesday arrest, police say. On Sept. 7, firefighters found Thelma Wynn, 34, and Damon Willie White, 35, inside an apartment in the 6000 block of Majors Lane in Columbia. Wynn was declared dead at the scene, and White was sent to Maryland Shock Trauma Center for treatment. Since both sustained injuries that were not from the fire, police investigated the case as a domestic dispute.

An Annapolis teenager who was charged with first-degree murder in a 2-year-old-girl's death remains at the Anne Arundel County Detention Center after being denied bail. Timothy Darnell Height, 17, is being charged as an adult in the death of two-year-old Amoir Faith Turner. She was found dead in bed Saturday, and early autopsy results show that she suffered several injuries, including a fractured skull, a broken leg and possible sexual assault, Annapolis Police Chief Michael A. Pristoop said at press conference Monday.

The Dundalk man gunned down last week outside his tavern was struck by four bullets in the head and four in the chest. He was still breathing when help arrived but was beyond saving by the time he reached a hospital. A day after Robert Lee Martin's wife, her brother and two accomplices were charged with first-degree murder in the barkeep's death, additional details of the killing emerged Thursday in a Towson courtroom during the defendants' bail review hearing. Garret P. Glennon, an assistant state's attorney who oversees murder charges for the county, told the judge that an "appreciable amount of planning" had gone into the shooting of the tavern owner early Saturday as he left Hop's Inn for the night, a "coordinated effort" that involved a "division of labor."

A Baltimore man who eluded murder charges for four years by fleeing to Jamaica was denied bail following a hearing in Howard Circuit Court yesterday.Kent Daniel Tillman, who was arrested in Jamaica two months ago, will remain in the county Detention Center without bail pending a Jan. 10 trial. He is charged in the August 1989 death of a Baltimore man in Columbia's Owen Brown village.Roland Walker, a Baltimore attorney for Mr. Tillman, offered to put up three Baltimore properties owned by the Tillman family as part of the bond to obtain his client's release.

At her husband's viewing Friday, Karla Porter, the grieving widow, shook hands and received words of consolation from the mourners. She passed out bookmarks with a wildflower to plant in William "Ray" Porter's memory, and a letter, signed in his name, urging that all of his organs be donated to help others. But between the viewing and the funeral the next day, Baltimore County police descended on Porter's home and the homes of five others, including two of her siblings and a nephew, charging them all with Ray Porter's murder.