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By Richard Irwin | November 13, 2009
The man sought in the rape and fatal stabbing of a 15-year-old boy whose gagged body was found this week stuffed inside a closet of a relative's East Baltimore home was arrested late Thursday night, said a police spokesman. Agent Donny Moses, the spokesman, said Dante L. Parrish, 35, of no fixed address was arrested without incident about 10 p.m. at a 7-Eleven store at Moravia Road and Truesdale Avenue in Northeast Baltimore by members of the Regional Warrant Apprehension Task Force.
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By Tricia Bishop | November 13, 2009
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.
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By Liz F. Kay | November 7, 2009
Baltimore County police have charged an Overlea man in the stabbing of an off-duty Baltimore police officer early Thursday at a strip club in the Dundalk area. The officer, identified Friday by county police as Eric Jansen, 42, shot another man in the upper body during the altercation at Christina's Female Revue in the 4500 block of North Point Blvd., police said. That man, whom authorities have not identified, was being treated at Maryland Shock Trauma Center, according to Bill Toohey, a county police spokesman.
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By Mary Gail Hare | November 3, 2009
State police have charged a 22-year-old Harford County man with attempted murder and assault in connection with a stabbing during what police called a near riot at a crowded Fallston bar early Sunday morning. Security workers at Tully's Bar on Belair Road were escorting Tyrell Lamont Young of Edgewood from the building when police arrived at about 1:22 a.m. Police said they determined that Young had been involved in a stabbing inside the bar and arrested him. He is being held at the Harford County Detention Center without bond.
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November 3, 2009
Father gets 18 months for infant's shaking death A Pasadena man was sentenced to serve 18 months in jail for shaking his 1-month-old daughter to death. Anne Arundel Circuit Court Judge Paul A. Hackner suspended the rest of a six-year sentence for John Wayne Wirick, 33, and added five years of probation, saying Wirick "allowed his anger, his frustration, to get the better of him." Assistant State's Attorney Kathleen Rogers said Wirick gave detectives two accounts of what happened to Lilyanna A. Wirick before he told them: "She wouldn't stop fussing.
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By Justin Fenton | July 24, 2009
A 27-year-old Baltimore woman who told police that she fatally stabbed her boyfriend because he was choking her has been charged with first-degree murder in his death, according to court records. Tiesha Sakeyra Bennett, of the 300 block of Charter Oak Ave. in North Baltimore's Kernewood community, was arrested Thursday and ordered held without bond in the death of Jermaine Womack, 32, who died June 22 after suffering a stab wound. Charging documents filed by homicide Detective Donald Diehl describe the investigation into the events leading up to the killing as "complex."
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June 14, 2009
Man charged with assaulting officer in incident in which another officer fired gun A 26-year-old Baltimore man was charged Saturday with assaulting an officer and resisting arrest in an incident Friday afternoon in which the man tried to drive into police officer Scott Reid as the officer approached the man's vehicle, according to charging documents. Christopher Mobley of the 3300 block of Piedmont Avenue, who officers believed was armed, is accused of leading police on a chase in his vehicle and then on foot near 23rd Street and Greenmount Avenue.
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By Melissa Harris | May 21, 2009
Two women from the Brooklyn area of South Baltimore were sentenced Wednesday to time served for second-degree assault in a triple stabbing last year in Federal Hill that sent one victim to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center with seven stab wounds. Prosecutors said that the alcohol-fueled melee involved so many people that the victims, some of whom had blood alcohol levels more than double the legal limit, couldn't be sure who stabbed them. "No one can really say with any level of certainty who started what, who was with whom, who had any weapons, and which fight - of several that were occurring around the street - was which," according to Joseph Sviatko, a spokesman for the Baltimore state's attorney's office.
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May 3, 2009
Arrest made after stabbing of juveniles City police arrested a suspect in connection with the stabbing of two juveniles early Saturday morning in the West Arlington neighborhood in Northwest Baltimore, police said. The two youths were in the 4700 block of Navarro Ave. about 1 a.m. when they were stabbed, a police spokeswoman said. Their injuries were not life-threatening, police said. No additional information was available on the person arrested in the incident or on the two youths hurt.
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By PETER HERMANN | May 3, 2009
At 9:37 last Saturday night, as dozens of cops struggled to control an unruly crowd at the Inner Harbor after two teens were stabbed in fights, this is what the police put up on Twitter, the Internet site that city cops now use as one way to alert residents to breaking crime: A promo for a television station's soon-to-be aired report on the commissioner's "fight against bad guys with guns." Later that night came tweets for a double shooting in a Southwest Baltimore drug neighborhood, an arrest in a chilling murder-for-hire scheme and, the next day, an alert that a former Oriole was giving the department $125,000.