Baltimore police made a rare appeal yesterday for the media’s help in a murder investigation, and offered a $2,000 reward for tips called into the department’s hotline. The murder of Mary Hines, an 84-year-old retired school principal, has saddened and outraged the community. Hines was found dead on the morning of Jan. 5 after...
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Antonio “Mack” Hall, a 30-year-old Baltimorean, was indicted Dec. 2 by a federal grand jury for murdering a federal witness, Kareem Kelly Guest, in Westport in 2009, according to a press release issued today by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Maryland. Guest’s cooperation with a law enforcers’ investigation of a violent drug conspiracy in...
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The murder of Roger Dennis, a 25-year-old African-American man, has been closed by exception. Dennis was shot in the 1900 block of West North Avenue in 1997. He died on Aug. 1, 2008. The man police believe was responsible for Dennis’ death has died. The March 6, 2009 murder of Herbert Carsten Jr, a...
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Props to the Sun’s Justin Fenton for keeping his ear to the ground regarding the Blackwell clan’s ongoing drama. As he reports today, police arrested Stephen “JR” Blackwell, Jr. and charged him with disorderly conduct on Monday night. This is what the old heads used to call a “humble.” You don’t usually see these...
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On Tuesday, The Sun reported that Baltimore police were investigating the suspicious death of a man found floating in the Middle Branch of the Patapsco River early Monday morning, near the Hanover Street Bridge. The follow-up came in today’s paper, when the Sun identified the man as Eric Pendergrass, 26 years old, of the...
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| Image by John Ellsberry OK, OK, we get it. David Simon‘s portrayal of daily newspaper journalism is only imperfectly accurate, informed by a backstory that includes Baltimore’s economic hardships, while some people feel he’s just an asshole and a liar. And viewership continues to sink. Got it. The Wire‘s fifth season has issues...
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