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By Jamie Smith Hopkins, The Baltimore Sun | February 3, 2013
A man was shot and killed overnight in the unit block of N. Wheeler Ave. in Southwest Baltimore, police said Sunday morning. Police said that at approximately 1 a.m. Sunday, officers responded to the scene for a report of a shooting. When they arrived, they found 27-year old Christopher Samuels suffering from a gunshot wound to his head. Police said he was transported to Maryland Shock Trauma, where he was pronounced dead at 1:26 a.m. The killing makes seven deaths in a little over seven days in the city.
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By Justin Fenton, The Baltimore Sun | December 19, 2012
Defense attorneys for the man accused of murdering Phylicia Barnes have filed motions claiming to have a witness who saw the teen alive in Cecil County and attacking the credibility of the lead police detective who investigated the case. In a motion filed in Baltimore Circuit Court, defense attorneys for Michael Maurice Johnson say they intend to call an "alibi witness" named Robert Hickman Fields when the case comes to trial in January. Johnson was charged with murder April 25 in the high-profile disappearance of the North Carolina teen.
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By Kevin Rector, The Baltimore Sun | December 10, 2012
He first heard the "wails for help" as he walked out of the police station about 10:30 p.m. Saturday. After jumping in his car, putting down the windows and following the sounds, the detective got closer and heard the sound of "metal hitting an object. " Soon after, Detective Mike Ebaugh of the Prince George's County Police Department allegedly witnessed a man "strike a nearly lifeless man with a shovel to the head," according to police. Ebaugh jumped out of his car, pulled out his handgun and ordered the man to drop the shovel, just as the man was "poised to hit the victim once again," police said.
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November 16, 2012
As a retired police detective, I know that the prohibition on marijuana reduces public safety ("Stirring the pot," Nov. 12). My colleagues in Maryland spend tens of thousands of hours searching out and arresting people for possessing and smoking a green plant. Meanwhile, pedophiles are left freer to rape our children, drunk drivers sail past traffic stops where police are looking for pot under some kid's front seat, and teens are shot because selling marijuana is their only opportunity for employment.
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By Justin Fenton, The Baltimore Sun | July 12, 2012
A veteran Baltimore police detective must resign from the department after being placed on probation for stealing groceries with her daughter, a cashier at the store where the theft occurred. Darlene Early, a Western District detective who joined the department in 1990, entered an Alford plea Wednesday to one count of theft under $1,000. An Alford plea allows a defendant to maintain innocence while admitting that prosecutors have enough evidence for a conviction. Her 18-year-old daughter, Ciara Anderson, pleaded guilty to the same charge, prosecutors said.
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By Kevin Rector, The Baltimore Sun | June 27, 2012
An unidentified woman was found fatally shot in an Essex apartment early Wednesday morning, according to Baltimore County police. Officers first responded to an apartment building in the 900 block of Garden Drive about 5:30 a.m. for a report of multiple gunshots in the building, according to Cpl. Cathy Batton, a police spokeswoman. There, they found a woman with multiple gunshot wounds, Batton said. The woman, who was the only person in the apartment when police arrived, was pronounced dead at the scene, Batton said.