Category Archives: Crime

Awl-Mighty Mobs

By Brennen Jensen (Baltimore City Paper, 10/28/1998) On Nov. 3, Baltimoreans (well, about half of them anyway) will march to the polls to vote. Public schools will be closed and the evening’s sitcoms will be interrupted as the results trickle … Continue reading

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CNN: Savage beating, robbery caught on tape

(CNN, 4/9/2012) A man in Baltimore is beaten and stripped and the whole incident is caught on tape. CNN’s Lisa Sylvester reports. Related: “Video shows man beaten, stripped and robbed by Baltimore crowd” — The Raw Story Baltimore crime books … Continue reading

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Maryland man replaces Osama bin laden on FBI’s most wanted list

(ABC 2 News, 4/10/2012) A Maryland man is replacing Osama bin Laden on the FBI’s most wanted list. Eric Toth was a third grade teacher at Beauvoir School in Washington, D.C. The FBI says pornographic images of a child were … Continue reading

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Police Commissioner Bealefeld: Downtown beating not a hate crime

Police chief warns of racial tensions over a crime he says was ‘drunken opportunistic criminality’ By Justin Fenton (The Baltimore Sun, 4/10/2012) Baltimore’s top cop on Tuesday warned against “race-baiting” amid rising tensions across the nation, citing the Trayvon Martin … Continue reading

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