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Sgt. Wayne Jenkins, Det. Marcus Taylor sentenced to federal prison in GTTF case
Sgt. Wayne Jenkins, the ringleader of the Gun Trace Task Force that for years robbed citizens, planted evidence and falsified reports and overtime, and one of his detectives, Marcus Taylor, were sentenced today to federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release. Jenkins received a sentence of 25 years, and Taylor received a sentence […]
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Weekend Events Calendar: Das Best Oktoberfest, Open Studio Tour, Fells Point Fun Festival, Baltimore Beer Week
Benefits abound this weekend, from the Walters Sculpture Court to the floors of Second Chance, offering plenty of chances to support a good cause. Plus, tour a local artist studio and sample some local beer.
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Video: Tipped off about gun tossed into bushes downtown, BPD officer responds, ‘This isn’t my district’
Baltimore police have launched an internal probe into an incident where an on-duty officer, tipped off about a man who appeared to have tossed a gun into the bushes near Preston Gardens Park and then went back to retrieve it, declined to investigate because—in her words—”this isn’t my district.”
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BPD Commissioner Darryl De Sousa resigns
Following federal tax evasion charges, Baltimore Police Commissioner Darryl De Sousa has resigned and Mayor Catherine Pugh has accepted his resignation, the mayor announced today.
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With augmented-reality app, artists (virtually) revive the demolished McKeldin Fountain
Eighteen months ago, construction crews reduced the Brutalist concrete fountain at the heart of the Inner Harbor’s McKeldin Square plaza to rubble, making way for green space and some additional seating at the corner of Pratt and Light streets. The effort was led by the Downtown Partnership, whose leaders said the structure had become an […]
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Prosecutor’s lawyer and defendant’s family agree: SAO only fired Mason after DWI became public
Days after Baltimore City prosecutor Andrea Mason was terminated by Marilyn Mosby’s State’s Attorney’s Office, both Mason’s lawyer and the wife of a man Mason has tried multiple times for the same murder criticized Mosby’s decision.
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Wednesday Morning Headlines: Displeasure in West Baltimore Over Goodson’s Internal Acquittal; Calls for Another Ceasefire; and More
Baltimore businesses to city on crime: ‘We need a concrete plan’ — BBJ As Baltimore’s Homicides Reach 300, Activists Call for Another Cease-Fire Weekend — The Root Residents In West Baltimore Disappointed After Van Driver In Freddie Gray Case Found Not Guilty — CBS Baltimore Spaces Bringing a 35,000 Sq. Ft. Co-Working Office to South […]
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Former City Paper Web Editor Joins Baltimore Fishbowl as Managing Editor
You may have noticed a new byline on the site this week. On Monday, former City Paper website editor Brandon Weigel joined the Baltimore Fishbowl as its managing editor.
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At protest over beating of DaShawn McGrier, activists call for ‘change to the toxic culture of BPD’
On East Monument Street, between Luzerne Avenue and Rose Street, is the L Mart where Officer Arthur Williams’ beating of DaShawn McGrier began, and next to it, the marble steps where McGrier fell after being tackled by Williams, and the sidewalk where, his mouth bleeding, his face was pressed into the concrete. Above those steps […]
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Hundreds of audio restorers, preservationists gathering in Baltimore this week for a conference all about sound recordings
Ian Nagoski says he was first drawn to foreign records as a teenager. He would go to a yard sale and, for example, find an entire box of 78s, all in Russian, and “90 percent of them were terrible…and then there’d be two good ones in the box,” he says. Such finds were rewarding. “It […]
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Police Union Responds to Internal Charges Filed Against Officers in Freddie Gray Case
Baltimore’s police union today condemned the news that internal charges are being brought against five of the six officers who were indicted and later acquitted (or had charges dropped) in Freddie Gray’s spring 2015 death, saying in a statement that “the only losers in this decision to continue persecuting these five officers are the citizens […]
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Five of Six Officers involved in Freddie Gray’s Death Reportedly Face Internal Charges
Five members of the Baltimore Police Department who were charged and later acquitted in the 2015 death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray are now facing internal police charges, with three of them potentially staring down termination.
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For second time, Keith Davis Jr. trial ends with a hung jury
For the second time, the trial of Keith Davis Jr. in the shooting death of Pimlico Race Course security guard Kevin Jones has ended with a hung jury. This was Davis’ third trial for the murder of Jones, who was shot 11 times on his way to work in the early morning of June 7, […]
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Sessions Chides Baltimore for Immigrant-Detention Policy, Says FBI ‘Will Probably’ Take Det. Suiter’s Murder Case
After delivering remarks on U.S. immigration policy today in Baltimore, Attorney General Jeff Sessions shared his thoughts on local sanctuary-like protections for jailed immigrants, police misconduct and the still-unsolved murder case of veteran homicide detective Sean Suiter.
