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Police Blotter is a sampling of crimes from police reports in Baltimore and Baltimore County. Baltimore Western Victim named -- Police yesterday released the name of the man who died two days after being severely beaten May 23 in the 1900 block of Presstman St. as Voltaire Conway, 40, of the 1500 block of Presser Court. Police said Conway's death was ruled a homicide June 21. No arrest has been made. Eastern Shootings -- Police were seeking a man who shot two men, one 24 and the other 18, about 8 p.m. Tuesday while the victims stood at a playground in the 1100 block of Orleans St. The victims, one shot in the abdomen and the other in a leg, were both treated at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Police Blotter is a sampling of crimes in Baltimore City and Baltimore County.Baltimore CityWestern DistrictArrest: A man was arrested Monday on a warrant charging him in the attempted murder and robbery of a deliveryman for The Sun on May 13. Detectives Alan Savage and Donald Grant said Mohammed Ghrieb, 34, was slashed in the face with a carton cutter and robbed of an undisclosed sum by a man he allowed to help him deliver papers near Mondawmin Mall....

The alleged head of a gang that police say sold more than $5,000 worth of drugs daily in Baltimore's Reservoir Hill area was arrested last night.Agent Michael Campbell, a spokesman for the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, said authorities arrested Carl Michael Cannady, 28, of no fixed address, about 9 p.m. in a dwelling in the 5000 block of Dickey Hill Road in Southwest Baltimore.Campbell said Cannady had been sought since he was indicted on federal drug and weapons charges in September.

Police Blotter is a sampling of crimes in Baltimore City and Baltimore County.Baltimore CitySouthwestern DistrictRobbery try: A gunman entered Community Learning Center in the 2400 block of Allendale Road about 2 p.m. yesterday and demanded money. When an employee told him no money was there, he fled.Assault: A male student, 18, at Southwestern High School in the 200 block of Font Hill Ave. was assaulted by at least six other youths outside the school about 2: 30 p.m. yesterday. The teen-ager was treated at St. Agnes HealthCare for minor head and facial injuries.

Police Blotter is a sampling of crimes in Baltimore City and Baltimore County.Baltimore CityNorthwestern DistrictEscape: Police continued yesterday to search for a man who slipped out of handcuffs, opened the door to a patrol wagon and escaped while being transported about 10 p.m. Tuesday to Central Booking and Intake Center. Agent Angelique Cook-Hayes, a police spokeswoman, said John Edward Wise, 20, of the 5300 block of Cordelia Ave. in Pimlico was arrested in the 2800 block of Reisterstown Road and charged with operating a stolen car. He escaped in the 1200 block of W. North Ave.Southwestern DistrictDrugs seized: Officers of the district's drug enforcement unit continued yesterday to seek the occupants of a house in the 2100 block of N. Longwood St., which was raided Saturday.

During two unrelated raids last night and Wednesday, Northeastern District police arrested three people and seized $7,800, suspected cocaine worth more than $6,000, two handguns, two cars and drug packaging materials.Sgt. Bill Sekinger, head of the district's drug enforcement unit, said Andre X. Deshazo, 29, of the 5100 block of Lodestone Way and David E. Green, 23, of the 4000 block of Chesterfield Ave. were arrested about 6: 30 p.m. yesterday when officers raided Deshazo's apartment.Wednesday night, police raided a house in the 6000 block of Belle Vista Ave. and arrested Sheila Randle, 24, of that address.

Police raided 15 dwellings in three sections of Baltimore yesterday afternoon and evening and arrested at least 10 people charged in warrants and grand jury indictments with narcotics violations.Sgt. Scott Rowe, a police spokesman, said officers seized suspected cocaine worth $5,000, a 9 mm handgun, a 1998 Ford Expedition sport utility vehicle and $3,500.Rowe said "Operation South Park" occurred in West, Southwest and Southern Baltimore between 2 p.m. and 9 p.m. He said the raids were the result of a two-month investigation by undercover officers assigned to the drug enforcement division of drug trafficking and gun-related violence.

Police Blotter is a sampling of crimes in Baltimore City and Baltimore County.Baltimore CityCentral DistrictTheft: While an employee of an out-of-town jewelry company was showing jewelry to people at the Gem & Jewelry Show at the Baltimore Convention Center in the first block of W. Pratt St. on Sunday, someone stole a white box with several small envelopes containing cut and unmounted diamonds valued at $300,000..Assault: Larry Lehr, 56, of the 1000 block of N. Calvert St. was in critical condition at Maryland Shock Trauma Center after an assailant beat him in the head and body yesterday morning on a city-owned parking lot in the 100 block of E. Lafayette Ave. between Calvert and St. Paul streets.

In Baltimore CityMan trying to cross Russell Street is hit by car and killedA man was killed last night when he was struck by a car while he and a female companion tried to cross Russell Street in the Westport area of South Baltimore, police said. The woman was not injured.Ronald Cunningham, who was about age 48, suffered multiple injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene, said Officer William Murray of the traffic investigation section. Murray said police were trying to confirm Cunningham's address last night.

Baltimore police officers Clanett Boone and Mary Ann Miller can't work undercover. Not because they have grown tired of the spontaneity and rush, but because they fear being recognized and blowing a bust, or worse.Boone and Miller star in the comedic "Cop for a Day" public service announcement airing on local television. Neither officer had acted before, but the spot's frequent appearance has made them recognized throughout Baltimore -- they can't go anywhere without getting stopped, asked for an autograph or teased by colleagues about their celebrity.

Dante Parrish always swore he was wrongly convicted for the 1999 murder of an East Baltimore man, and his pleas eventually gained the attention of the Innocence Project, which took up the case last year. The evidence, according to lawyers for the small unit of state public defenders who represent people they believe have been wrongly convicted, was shaky from the start, relying on what they say was a false witness identification of Parrish and a gun that he never owned. So when Parrish was awarded a new trial in January, Innocence Project attorneys considered it a victory, but one that lost its luster when the 35-year-old was arrested Thursday night and charged with the rape and fatal stabbing of Jason Madison Jr., 15. Baltimore police say Parrish confessed to the killing Friday morning.

A 15-year-old boy pleaded guilty Thursday to fatally stabbing a classmate at their West Baltimore middle school last year. Timothy Oxendine will be sentenced to at least 50 years in prison as part of his plea agreement, though all but 15 to 25 years will be suspended, said Baltimore Circuit Judge Wanda K. Heard. Sentencing is set for Feb. 2. A woman in the courtroom buried her head in her hands when she heard the guideline range, and Oxendine's father, sitting behind her, muttered angrily, later criticizing his son's attorney to no one in particular.

Man accused of dragging police officer is arrested A man charged in a warrant with assaulting a Western District police officer by dragging him with his vehicle was arrested Monday in Northeast Baltimore after a city-wide manhunt. Rickey Hughes, 27, of no fixed address was arrested in the 4300 block of Roberton Ave. by members of the Regional Warrant Apprehension Task Force and was being held Tuesday at Central Booking and Intake Center, said Agent Donny Moses, a police spokesman. On Oct. 1, Hughes appeared at the police station at Riggs Avenue and North Mount streets for a hearing with his probation officer when he learned he was to be arrested in a home invasion in Baltimore County a month earlier, police said.

Police reports in Baltimore city and county: Western Baltimore Body found: Children playing in the rear of the 1000 block of N. Arlington Ave. on Sunday found the body of a man whose identity has not been released. Police said the man's death has been ruled suspicious, pending the results of an autopsy by the state medical examiner's office. Northwestern Baltimore Shooting/arrest: A 16-year-old boy was arrested Monday at Northwestern High School on a warrant charging him as an adult with attempted murder.

Police reports in Baltimore city and county: Eastern Baltimore Drug arrest: Three district officers - Sgt. Lennardo Bailey and Officers Luis A. Ruiz and Angel Gonzales - were working a drug detail in the 2100 block of Aiken St. about 3 a.m. Tuesday when they observed two men involved in a possible drug transaction. When the officers approached the pair, one of them escaped on foot and the other attempted to drive away and was stopped. Seized from the man were two gelatin capsules containing cocaine.

Four men housed in Baltimore's Central Booking and Intake Center were hospitalized late Friday night after a fight that resulted in several stab wounds that were not life-threatening. The fight occurred a few minutes before midnight in an area of the facility where pretrial detainees are housed, according to Mark Vernarelli, a spokesman for the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services. Two of the men were taken to Maryland Shock Trauma Center. The other two were treated at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

A 50-year-old man died of unknown causes Friday evening at Baltimore Central Booking and Intake Center, officials said yesterday. The Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services is investigating the death, said spokesman Mark Vernarelli. "The man had medical and addiction issues," Vernarelli said in a statement, "and there is absolutely no foul play suspected." The detainee, whose identity was not released last night, arrived at the downtown jail just before midnight Thursday.

Three men and a woman were being held on multiple drug charges yesterday after being arrested during a raid in the McCulloh Homes community in West Baltimore, city police said. Detective David Jones of the Western District's drug enforcement unit said the arrests late Thursday followed a monthlong undercover investigation. Seized were $715, nearly an ounce of crack cocaine, 23 vials of cocaine, packaging materials and a loaded 9 mm Ruger semiautomatic handgun with an obliterated serial number.

A woman severely beaten a week ago during an altercation at her Northeast Baltimore home died Monday at an area hospital. Police have charged her boyfriend with first-degree murder. Lisa Holley, 38, of the 2700 block of Pelham Ave. was admitted to Johns Hopkins Hospital on Jan. 16 and listed in serious condition while being treated for a ruptured spleen and a damaged kidney, said Agent Donny Moses, a police spokesman. The next day, police arrested the boyfriend, Thomas Dietrich, 40, also of the 2700 block of Pelham Ave., and charged him with aggravated assault, Moses said.

Police Blotter is a sampling of crimes from police reports in Baltimore and Baltimore County. Baltimore Northeastern Arrest -- A youth has been arrested in the killings Sunday night of two men in the 5700 block of Radecke Ave. The officer who arrested Charlie Stevenson, 16, on Monday for littering learned that two warrants were out for the boy, charging him as an adult with two counts of first-degree murder. Stevenson was charged the same day in the killings of Maurice White, 22, and Wayne G. White, 24, who were gunned down by assault rifle about 10:40 p.m. Sunday.