Blogs: Posts Tagged ‘ crime ’

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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The former proprietor of Charm City Motors, Harrington Campbell, was sentenced to 11 years in federal prison today for his role in a five-year cocaine trafficking conspiracy and for concealing the assets of his Reisterstown Road used-car dealership through the structuring of bank deposits. As the hearing neared to a close, Campbell apologized to...
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The police-involved shooting at the AFSCME union hall on July 5 that left two young men dead still has union boss Glen Middleton refusing to answer a key question: Who rented the hall from AFSCME Local 67 and allowed a party promoter nicknamed “Mike Love” to throw an illicit bash there billed as “Extreme...
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It was a big weekend for scooter thefts in Hampden. Five Vespas were stolen from Scott Baxter’s garage behind the 3800 block of Falls Road, ranging from a vintage 1966 scoot to a pair of 2005 models belonging to his wife (OK, if you want to split hairs, one of the 2005s was a...
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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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Phillip Robinson Winkfield came up for arraignment on drugs and weapons charges in Baltimore City Circuit Court on June 30, when he met his adversary: the chief of the Baltimore City State’s Attorney’s Office narcotics division, Antonio Gioia. Such high-level handling of Winkfield’s case by the city’s top drug prosecutor highlights not so much...
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Can’t say if it was the Bloods or not–our alley in Harwood has been hit recently with that gang’s graffiti–but this afternoon I watched about three minutes of what could only be part of a gang initiation. Four or five teenagers, guided and watched by a couple guys in their late 20s or early...
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NCG Energy Solutions, the electric power brokerage whose application for a license to do business in Maryland was subject of a contentious hearing last month has withdrawn its license application. “I would like to withdraw the application at this time,” Todd Chason, a lawyer for NCG, told the Public Service Commission. The move came...
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