Jose Joaquin Morales, the unlicensed mason, thief, firebug and drug dealer caught trying to smuggle six kilos of cocaine to Baltimore last August, has pleaded guilty to that crime, taken responsibility for his actions, and apologized to the government. He should have been sentenced today, Oct. 14, according to docket information available through the...
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End of the Line for Jose? Or a New Beginning?
The Tenth Annual F. Scott Fitzgerald Conference Takes the Bus
F. Scott Fitzgerald conference attendees at the Mencken House | Image by Chris Landers The crowd at the 10th annual conference of the F. Scott Fitzgerald Society that gathered in Baltimore Sept. 30-Oct. 3 was older, but not uniformly so, and perhaps a bit tweedy, but not entirely. The society’s vice-president, Kirk Curnutt, a...
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Oct. 6, 1999
In the feature, Rob Goldberg, a CP graphic designer at the time, writes about sharing his name with Rob Goldberg, professional wrestler: “This big guy with muscles and no hair has inadvertently had an impact on my life – and yet he has no idea. Maybe I should tell him.” Frank Diller reviews Joyce...
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Feds Seek to Keep GOP Donor’s Drug Cash
Coats | Image by Police Booking Photo Back in April when he was arrested, investigators took $23,530 in cash from Wade Coats, the Republican political donor accused in U.S. District Court of being an armed, high-dollar coke-and-dope-dealer in Baltimore. Now the U.S. Attorney’s Office has filed a civil-forfeiture case to keep the money [see...
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Court official’s job imperiled after forgery plea
Anthony Dix, the administrative manager of the Baltimore City Circuit Court’s clerks office, admitted forging prescriptions to satisfy his painkiller addiction, the Daily Record reported, and received probation before judgment in Baltimore County district court. When City Paper first covered Dix’s charges in January, his boss, the elected clerk of the court Frank Conaway...
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Bailed on Murder Charge, He’s Arrested for Shooting
The man who police say killed Robert Long execution-style was arrested again on Sunday and charged with shooting a man during an armed robbery. Demetrius Smith, 25 of 416 Parrish St., is a convicted drug dealer who on July 8 was charged with shooting Robert Long twice in the head near the railroad tracks...
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Jose Morales Busted in Texas Trying to Charter Jet to Bring Cocaine to Baltimore
Serial criminal Jose Joaquin Morales was supposed to be in Howard County Circuit Court yesterday, answering to charges that he wrote a bad check for nearly $4,000 in construction materials from a Jessup supply store last fall. Instead, Morales was facing much more serious charges in U.S. District Court of the Southern District of...
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City Paper Responds to Your Tips!
A helpful and observant City Paper reader left a voice-mail message on my phone last night. “ read your article,” the anonymous man said. “Write another one. Morales is out, you dumb fuck.” And so he is. Jose J. Morales (Jr.), whose adventures in crime and unlicensed contracting City Paper has chronicled here, here,...
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No Way, Jose
After more than a month on the lam, Jose J. Morales was arrested on open warrants in Dundalk and is being held without bail in the Baltimore County Detention Center, according to police. Morales, a career thief, drug dealer, and unlicensed contractor who is facing charges in four Maryland counties, was the subject of...
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Blood on the Wall$: A Film in 21 Parts
Webisode 1 Webisode 2 Webisode 3 Webisode 4 Webisode 5 Webisode 6 Webisode 7 Webisode 8 Webisode 9 Webisode 10 Webisode 11 Webisode 12 Webisode 13 Webisode 14 Webisode 15 Webisode 16 Webisode 17 Webisode 18 Webisode 19 Webisode 20 Webisode 21 Editor’s Note: Barry Michael Cooper broke onto the national stage when his...
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Bob’s Your Uncle: Veteran Pol Bob Curran Stumps For The 3rd District City Council Seat One More Time
City Councilman Robert Curran | Image by Jefferson Jackson Steele Michael Hamilton | Image by Jefferson Jackson Steele If you live in the 3rd City Council District and don’t know who Robert Curran is, you’re either new to the neighborhood or out of touch with city politics. Curran isn’t just a three-term councilman who...
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End of the New Century: SEC investigation causes problems for Maryland-based subprime lender New Century Financial Corp.
| Image by Christopher Myers Most people who have heard of New Century Financial Corp. think of it as a formerly high-flying California-based mortgage lender manned with drunken youngsters who made idiotic loans and reaped millions in fees. But New Century is also a real estate investment trust—REIT, for short—and is organized, for the...
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