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As his sister Cheyenne Ward looked on, Demetrius Smith was set free today by Baltimore Circuit Court Judge Barry Williams. The move came at a sentence reconsideration hearing. Smith, about five years into a 10-year sentence for assault, was re-sentenced to time served with three years of supervised probation. In February of 2011 Smith...
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The April 23 unsealing of a federal indictment of 25 people, including 13 Maryland correctional officers (COs), alleged to have participated in a racketeering conspiracy centered around the Black Guerrilla Family (BGF) prison gang, was as much a renewed impeachment of the integrity of Maryland’s prison system, which has been repeatedly exposed for serious...
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Brennen Jensen’s feature peeks inside Zytech Engineering’s panic rooms. In Mobtown Beat, Erica Blount Danois goes to Annapolis with students decrying conditions at Cheltenham Youth Facility and Jamil Roberts profiles a bicyclist’s efforts to raise awareness of asylum-seeking immigrants detained in Maryland. The Nose tallies the cost of Libertarian Spear Lancaster’s bid for Maryland...
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One of the more intriguing defendants in the 16-member federal pot-conspiracy case involving the shuttered Sonar nightclub in downtown Baltimore (“Risky Business,” Feature, Aug. 15, 2012) has been 32-year-old Jeremiah “Jeremy” Brandon Landsman, the Baltimore real-estate developer whose JBL Real Estate, based in Fells Point, is tied to several properties that figured in the...
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Anthony Marcantoni, one of the founders of Ground Control jujitsu studio who had his own location in Owings Mills, was handed a 121-month prison sentence yesterday after pleading guilty for his part in the cross-country pot conspiracy involving former Sonar nightclub co-owner Daniel McIntosh and 14 others (“Risky Business,” Feature, Aug. 15). Marcantoni, 32,...
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A  Baltimore District Court Judge said he would like to be able to force the Executive Director of a defunct non-profit to live for a month in one of his dilapidated apartments, “but I don’t have the authority” Judge L. Robert Cooper made the remarks on Tuesday, Oct. 16 as he ruled from the...
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Afefe Tyehimba’s photo-feature showcases some of Baltimore’s store-front churches. In Mobtown Beat, Afefe Tyehimba covers universal health-care bills in the Maryland legislature and Charles Cohen reports that city crews removed historic granite curbstones from the Hollins Market neighborhood. The Nose catches up with George Balog, the former Baltimore City public-works director turned owner of...
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In the past couple months since I started as editor of City Paper, one of my grimmer duties has been to edit Anna Ditkoff’s Murder Ink column. Every week, in an effort to make sure our readers are aware of the weekly toll of deadly violence, she details the facts of every murder that...
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Ned Oldham’s feature profiles Paul Darmafall, better known as outsider artist The Baltimore Glassman. In Mobtown Beat, Brennen Jensen reports on opposition to a new supermarket in Waverly. The Nose finds former Baltimore City Council President Lawrence Bell working as a talk-radio host in Atlanta. In Campaign Beat, Erika Blount Danois reports on the...
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Van Smith’s feature explores ”Baltimore’s parallel Russian universe.” In Mobtown Beat, Brennen Jensen reports on a program that pays people to use contraceptives and Michael Yockel remembers Baltimore photographer Joseph Kohl. The Nose catches a bit of Orioles’ spring training and reads between the lines of Frank Conaway’s Innocence Project. Michael Anft’s Media Circus...
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Federal District Court Judge Roger W. Titus sentenced former Baltimore defense attorney Stanley H. Needleman to a year in federal prison and fined him $10,000 on Thursday after a nearly three-hour hearing in which lawyers and former judges from Baltimore sang Needleman’s praises. “I always found him completely honest,” retired Baltimore County Circuit Court...
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Federal criminal charges against prominent Baltimore criminal-defense attorney Stanley Needleman, filed Aug. 16 in Maryland U.S. District Court and kept under seal until yesterday afternoon, accuse him of tax evasion and currency structuring. A phone message left at Needleman’s office this morning, asking for comment, was not immediately returned. The docket in the case...
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