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By Julie Scharper | November 12, 2006
A Maryland Transit Administration police officer fatally shot a man last night who was trying to rob a passenger near the Reisterstown Road Plaza subway station, police said. Police said the robbery suspect pulled out a gun after being confronted, forcing the officer to fire in self-defense. The officer was part of a team of seven plainclothes officers who were patrolling the area last night in response to a wave of robberies, said Capt. David Marzola of the transit police. Police reported seeing the suspect, accompanied by two other men, approach a passenger leaving the subway about 7 p.m. The man pressed a pistol into the passenger's back and then rifled through his pockets, Marzola said.
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By New York Times News Service TC | May 12, 1993
NEW YORK -- Keron Thomas' obsession with subway trains did not begin in early childhood because in early childhood he was in Trinidad, and Trinidad does not have trains.But, oh, when he got to New York.He fell in love with the cruising, squealing monsters. Keron, 16, sometimes rode them just for fun. He hung around subway stations and learned the lingo of the motorman. He got his hands on the Transit Authority's book of rules and regulations and thumbed it until its cover was creased. He hung Transit Authority posters in his room.
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By New York Times News Service | March 24, 1991
NEW YORK -- The New York subway system holds many mysteries. How much will the fare go up? Why does the public-address system never seem to work? How do you stop fare-beating?And here is a really hard one: How did a well-dressed couple persuade a token clerk to let them buy 12,000 tokens with a stolen cashier's check?In a bizarre larceny case last month that has baffled transit officials, a man and a woman, saying they wanted to buy a lot of subway tokens for employees of a corporation, persuaded a token clerk to give them $16,000 worth of tokens and cash in exchange for the check.
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By New York Daily News | December 22, 1994
NEW YORK -- Transit Police Officer Denfield Otto was riding to choir practice when the firebomb went off just 15 feet from him.The noise was deceiving -- little more than a firecracker pop. But he spun around in his seat fast enough to see a flash, a small flame -- and then 15 seconds later a roaring blast of flames.And the bedlam.Officer Otto immediately stifled all thoughts of singing Christmas carols in his West Indian baritone voice -- and went into action."Passengers scattered and ran to ward the exits," Officer Otto said.
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September 26, 2008
To make travel on its subway, light rail, commuter trains and buses as safe as possible, the Maryland Transit Administration may soon call on the largest and most expert security team available - the tens of thousands of people who ride public transportation in the Baltimore area each day. Text messaging, those short little bursts of information fired from a cell phone, Blackberry or similar device, could let transit police know when and where crime is...
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By Del Quentin Wilber | August 12, 2001
JACK MAPLE is the father of Baltimore's crime-fighting strategies - in more ways than one - and his death Aug. 4 of colon cancer is being felt at City Hall and police headquarters, where officials recalled an eccentric and brilliant man dedicated to fighting crime. Maple was known for his homburg hats, bow ties and two-toned shoes. Born in 1952, he was the son of a postal worker and nurse. He dropped out of high school, eventually earning a graduate equivalency degree. He joined the New York Transit Police in 1970 - after his father dragged him to Grand Central Station and made him look at coffins of soldiers in the Vietnam War. "Kid, if you don't make something of yourself, you're going to die in Vietnam," his father said, according to a 1997 New Yorker magazine article.