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According to the sentencing order signed by Judge Roger Titus, former Baltimore lawyer Stanley Needleman is to begin his year and a day prison term, as directed by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, no later than 2 p.m. Feb. 27, when he is scheduled to report to either FCI Fairston, (sic—apparently Fairton in Fairton,...
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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 law enforcement officers searched lawyer Stanley H. Needleman’s offices this morning, the Sun‘s Justin Fenton reports. Calls to Needleman’s home and office were not returned immediately. Needleman is a prominent local defense attorney who specializes in drug cases. He defended Jose Morales in a series of theft and intimidation cases,  all of which...
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Jose Morales, as photographed in 2008. | Image by Rarah Jose Morales was sentenced on March 8 to 262 months—nearly 22 years—in federal prison for trying to bring 6 kilos of cocaine to Baltimore on a chartered jet. Judge Randy Crane of the Southern District of Texas heard several sealed (and therefore secret) pleadings...
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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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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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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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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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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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