Larry Young’s Show Tomorrow: Ed Ericson Jr. on the Shadow Economy
If you want to get more info about Baltimore’s Shadow Economy, as described in Ed Ericson Jr.’s cover story “Shadow Players: Drilling Down Into Baltimore’s Billion-Dollar ‘Informal Economy’“, check out...
View ArticleMurder Ink Sept. 9-16
The May 19 death of Michael Chase, a 47-year-old African-American man, was added to the homicide rolls this week. Chase was shot on Aug. 20, 1988; he was 26 at the time. Chase was walking in the 1500...
View ArticleMurder Ink Updates
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...
View ArticleFormer Correctional Officer Finally Gets to Plead Guilty to Smuggling a Cell...
In December, former correctional officer Lynae Chapman’s attempt to plead guilty to smuggling a cell phone and drugs into prison for the father of her unborn child, accused murderer and alleged Black...
View ArticleEx-State Delegate Admits to Crimes for Which He Was Not Charged
Former state Del. William Madonna pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court on June 4 to structuring cash transactions to avoid bank reporting requirements, which are triggered whenever the amounts...
View ArticleBoys of Baraka Subject Held on Drug and Murder Charges
The Baltimore Sun is reporting that 20-year-old Romesh Vance was indicted this week on drug conspiracy charges along with 21 others in a federal narcotics case centered around dealing in West...
View ArticleInmate Settles Lawsuit Over Claims That Correctional Officer Facilitated...
Tashma McFadden, the Maryland prisoner who sued a correctional officer he accused of being a Bloods gang-member and arranging for a group of Bloods to attack him in his cell, has agreed to settle his...
View ArticleFrench Trader Gets Jail, Bank Fined Peanuts
compulsive gambling, whether considered a disease or a moral failing, just might be at the root of our troubleThe post French Trader Gets Jail, Bank Fined Peanuts appeared first on City Paper Blogs.
View ArticleBaltimore Neighborhoods Not Among Most Dangerous, Sun Reports
Can you say, "Wow! Great News!" No?The post Baltimore Neighborhoods Not Among Most Dangerous, Sun Reports appeared first on City Paper Blogs.
View ArticleFederal Felony Prosecutions in Maryland at Historic High
The number of defendants prosecuted for federal felonies in Maryland has risen each year since 2005, to a total of 972 so far in 2010, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office...
View ArticleSentencing of Pagans Motorcycle Club President Rescheduled
David Keith Barbeito, the Maryland-based president of the Pagans Motorcycle Club, was set for sentencing Nov. 19 for his part in the club’s federal racketeering indictment filed last year in West...
View ArticleWSJ: SEC in Talks With Banks to End Probe
The Wall Street Journal floats a story today that the Securities and Exchange Commission is “in talks” with several big banks on a possible settlement to the regulators’ investigation of banks selling...
View ArticleMan Indicted for Murdering Federal Witness Kareem Kelly Guest
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...
View ArticleOperation Broken Trust?
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced a giant sweep of scammers today during a noon press conference at the Department of Justice. More than 500 people have been charged in various Ponzi schemes,...
View ArticleGuilty Pleas in the Berg Brothers Recycling Case
Yesterday in U.S. District Court in Baltimore, Adam Berg of Berg Brothers Recycling, along with the company and a co-conspirator, Jeffrey Mark Harmon, pleaded guilty to charges of bribing a government...
View ArticleIt Was All Liar’s Loans
My friend William Black has an excellent (if badly proofread and edited) analysis of our economic situation here at HuffPo (via Benzinga). He explains how the liar’s loans—those no-documentation,...
View ArticleBritish Cocaine Conspirator Gets Four Years
Sarfraz Patel, a British national who allegedly remortgaged his home to raise money for an unlikely drug deal arranged by undercover police in Baltimore, was sentenced to 48 months in prison on June 22...
View ArticleBPD Officer Charged in Heroin Ring
A Baltimore City Police officer was arrested on federal heroin trafficking charges today, and a seven-count indictment was unsealed in Federal District Court. Daniel G. Redd, 41, was arrested at the...
View ArticleNeedleman/Morales Prison Update
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...
View ArticleW.C. Harlan Robbed at Gunpoint
W.C. Harlan, the popular speakeasy-style Remington bar that City Paper awarded Best Atmosphere earlier this year, was held up at gunpoint early Tuesday morning, according to a police report. About 1:40...
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