Murder Charge

ACROSS PUBLIC housing projects in West Baltimore, they left their mark. Scrawled on walls were the initials "LTB," the moniker of brazen young thugs whom federal authorities have charged operated as a gang of drug-dealing thieves and killers. They left their mark in the streets, six men shot dead allegedly at the hands of the leaders of the Lexington Terrace Boys. And there's more, according to a federal grand jury investigation led by the U.S. attorney's office, federal agents and city detectives: kidnapping, witness tampering, car thefts, cocaine sales and arson carried out with large-caliber guns.

A 25-year-old woman was convicted of attempted murder and assault this week in a case with links to a high-profile heroin overdose death in 1999 of a Howard County man. A Howard jury took about 3 1/2 hours late Tuesday to find Paige M. Kendrix of Columbia guilty of attempted second-degree murder, first-degree assault, second-degree assault and attempted robbery in the attack Aug. 5, 2000, on Robert Salerno, 22. But jurors acquitted Kendrix - a recovering...

An Anne Arundel County jury convicted a Glen Burnie man yesterday of what prosecutors called the "execution" of a longtime acquaintance to whom he owed money for a car. Todd Alan Poorman, 28, will have to serve at least five years in prison on handgun violations and faces up to another 10 years for manslaughter in the Nov. 4, 2005 fatal shooting of Michael Leo Rousseaux, 28, of Severna Park. Assistant State's Attorney Fred Paone contended that Rousseaux went to Poorman's townhouse, where the two began arguing over several thousand dollars Poorman might have owed him for a Lincoln Navigator.

A Baltimore County man was found guilty by a Circuit Court jury Friday of fatally shooting a man found in an Owings Mills home in 2009, a state prosecutor said. Gerald E. Sears, 31, who was living in Owings Mills at the time of the killing, was convicted of first-degree murder, dealing cocaine and a handgun charge in the death of Scott M. Greenberg, 51, a father of two who ran a snowball stand on Reisterstown Road. He could be sentenced to life in prison without parole, said, Assistant State's Attorney Adam Lippe.

SALISBURY - A man wanted since May on a murder charge in Salisbury is under arrest. Wicomico County deputies arrested 26-year-old Duran Moss yesterday after responding to a burglary call. Deputies say they saw a man acting suspiciously, and when they tried to talk to him, he ran. He was caught after a brief foot chase and identified as Moss. He has been wanted since May in the fatal shooting of 22-year-old Kevin Tull, who was killed outside an apartment building. Deputies say that when they searched Tull, they found a loaded 9 mm handgun that was reported stolen in 2005 and a small amount of suspected cocaine.

A Baltimore man who in 2004 was shot twice by police officers was sentenced to 35 years in prison yesterday in an armed robbery of a restaurant that was interrupted by a Maryland Transit Administration officer, according to city prosecutors. Jurors were unable to reach a verdict for Dale Fauntleroy in January 2005, and a judge declared a hung jury. Prosecutors retried the case and got a conviction Feb. 1 on charges of conspiracy to commit robbery and armed robbery. Police said the MTA officer, Orlando Bordley, exchanged gunfire with Fauntleroy and another man as they ran from the robbery scene in October 2004, hitting Fauntleroy in the buttocks.

A 21-year-old Baltimore man was sentenced yesterday to life in prison for the murder of a construction worker who, prosecutors say, was lured to Owings Mills by four acquaintances who intended to rob him to buy tickets to the Six Flags amusement park in Largo. Although Larry E. Jackson did not fire the bullet that killed 28-year-old Donnie A. Joy Jr. and claimed he did not know his co-defendant intended to shoot the man, a Baltimore County Circuit judge said Jackson should have been aware of the possibility of violence.

A suspended Baltimore police officer, who is charged with the January slaying of his 19-month-old son, has been charged with harassing the baby's mother, police said.Carl W. Morris, 33, formerly of the 6400 block of Barchink Place in Columbia, surrendered to police early yesterday after learning that a Baltimore District Court commissioner had issued an arrest warrant for him May 9.A court commissioner ordered Morris held on $50,000 bond. But yesterday, Northwestern District Court Judge Carol Smith freed him on his own recognizance after his attorney, Curt Anderson, argued that bail was set too high for the charges.

Baltimore: Homicide Teenager charged in death of cousin Prosecutors filed a murder charge against a 15-year-old boy accused of raping and fatally beating his 4-year-old cousin. Ronald Hinton faces a first-degree murder charge in the death of Janiya Woodley, Margaret T. Burns, spokeswoman for the city state's attorney's office, said yesterday. Police said Hinton was baby-sitting Janiya and her brother when Hinton called 911 and said the girl had been injured while bouncing on a bed. He later told detectives that he had sexually assaulted the girl, according to court documents.

A Montgomery County man pleaded guilty yesterday to being an accessory after the fact to murder in the January 2000 shooting of a Maryland City man. David Boccabella, 20, of Gaithersburg had been charged with first-degree murder, but that charge was dropped because evidence wasn't sufficient to convict him of being directly involved in the shooting of Ahmad Jumal Tutwiler, 27, said Kristin Riggin, a spokeswoman for the Anne Arundel County prosecutor's office....