NEWS
October 28, 2009
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.
NEWS
October 23, 2009
Police seek information in shooting of Glen Burnie man A 25-year-old Glen Burnie man was shot in the back about 10:15 p.m. Wednesday in the 200 block of Woodhill Drive, Anne Arundel County police said. The man was taken to Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore for treatment of a wound that police said did not appear to be life-threatening. Police knew of no suspect or motive. Anyone with information on the shooting was asked to call the Northern District police station at 410-222-6135.
NEWS
By Justin Fenton and and Michael Dresser | June 30, 2009
A Maryland Transit Administration police officer has been charged with raping a 15-year-old Elkridge girl who asked him for help finding her way home on the light rail, according to charging documents. Officer Donald Brown was taken into custody June 24 after Howard County police were contacted by a case worker for a local foster care organization. The girl told police that she thought she was being escorted to a police station to make arrangements to get home but was instead taken to Brown's top-floor apartment in downtown Baltimore, where they had sex. He then gave her $25 to get back home and told her to leave, according to police.
NEWS
By Justin Fenton | June 26, 2009
A group of Southwestern District officers accused of doing nothing to stop an alleged sexual assault at a police station in 2005 are among those cleared after a review of internal misconduct cases by the Baltimore Police Department found that the cases had been mishandled. Also dropped were administrative charges against several Eastern District officers accused of abusing overtime - in some cases doubling their salaries. The Police Department has dropped at least 50 cases in the fallout from the April firing of trial board prosecutor JoAnn C. Woodson-Branche, whom police union officials and defense attorneys have accused of manipulating the internal charging process and violating officers' due process rights.
NEWS
By PETER HERMANN | February 20, 2009
One day this week, the Police Blotter came up short. There were too few crimes to fill the space in the newspaper, and Richard Irwin started calling the precincts in Baltimore County. "I came up with a hot tub theft in Parkville," he told me. "In Towson, I came up with the theft of an AK-47 rifle." And so the list grows, thanks in part to the seemingly endless supply of thieves, gunmen, miscreants and thugs who prey on the good citizens of Baltimore, their exploits recorded by the cops and reported in the papers, compiled and perused in print and online like baseball box scores.
NEWS
August 10, 2008
McDonald's workers assaulted over refills Two employees at an Annapolis McDonald's were assaulted by customers Monday night, city police said. A female apparently became "enraged" at 1:05 p.m. when she was told she could not receive a free refill of iced tea at the West Street fast food restaurant because she had left the store. She yelled racial slurs and obscenities at the employee, then threw the cup of ice at him, missing and striking a wall. Police said a tag number was obtained, and the investigation is continuing.
NEWS
By Annie Linskey | July 30, 2008
The head of the Baltimore Police Department's internal investigations division will retire shortly, said Sterling Clifford, a police spokesman. Col. Walter J. Tuffy, who has been with the department for almost 27 years, will continue in his post until a new commander is named, Clifford said. In March, the Vanguard Justice Society, which represents black officers, called for the resignation of Tuffy and two others. The group spoke out after a black sergeant was charged internally with raping a woman in a police station, though he was far away on vacation.
NEWS
July 2, 2008
Woman charged in check forgery An Annapolis woman was charged with forging more than $1,800 in checks stolen from an acquaintance, city police said. Nina Erica Dorsey, 20, of Copeland Street, is charged with taking the checks from the car of a Pinkney Street resident who had given her a ride in October 2006. Police said she forged the checks and gave them to unwitting friends to cash through their bank accounts, and they lost the money as their banks determined the checks were forgeries.
NEWS
By KAREN SHIH | June 11, 2008
A Severn man was arrested yesterday after Annapolis police said he tried to abduct a 39-year-old woman on a city street, then threatened officers with a knife as he tried to escape. Police said that James Haney, 34, of the 1400 block of Norcross Lane was in his car on Poplar Avenue near Locust Avenue as the woman walked by about 8:30 a.m. As she passed by, he got out of the car, grabbed her by the arm and tried to pull her toward a wooded area, but her screams drew the attention of other drivers and pedestrians, police said.
NEWS
By Richard Boudreaux | May 7, 2008
JERUSALEM -- Palestinian policemen dispatched last week to an unruly West Bank district clashed yesterday with Islamic militants there, wounding two of them during a crackdown that could influence peace talks with Israel. It was the first such confrontation since 480 police reinforcements marched into the city of Jenin before thousands of cheering residents Saturday to launch "Operation Smile and Hope." Jenin and outlying towns and villages, protected until then by a police force of 150, have been troubled by criminal gangs.