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Breaking: Johns Hopkins anesthesiologist and husband, an Army captain, federally indicted for trying to give medical information about members of the military and their families to Russia government.. More to come
BREAKING: A Baltimore Police officer, Steven Angelini, was arrested by the FBI this morning. I'm told the case involves allegedly selling "ghost" guns. More to come...
Gov. Wes Moore confirms that the ship's crew issued a mayday and communicated they were experiencing a power issue, enabling transportation officials to halt traffic over the bridge. "These people are heroes. They saved lives last night," Moore said.
The missing men are from El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras & Mexico, and live in Dundalk & Highlandtown. They are in their 30s and 40s, he said, w spouses & children.
All of them came to the city for a better life.
“They are all hard-working, humble men"
BREAKING: Roy McGrath is dead. The indicted former chief of staff to Gov. Larry Hogan, who was on the run for 3 weeks after failing to show for his federal criminal trial, was shot after being confronted by the FBI in Tennessee. w
@Tim_Prudente
NEW: A Maryland company has terminated one of its employees after he was apparently captured in a picture during the mob riot in the Capitol yesterday.
@wbaltv11
After slashing our staff, closing newsrooms, furloughing reporters and cutting pay during a pandemic,
@tribpub
thought a neat lil way to test our susceptibility to phishing was to send a spoof email announcing large bonuses. Fire everyone involved.
Anna Gabrielian and husband Jamie Lee Henry met with undercover FBI agent posing as representative of Russian embassy, giving medical information from Fort Bragg "that Russia could exploit"
Breaking: Adnan Syed could be released Monday, as court sets hearing to consider petition to vacate his conviction and release him pending possible retrial, reports
@Tim_Prudente
&
@Dylan_Segelbaum
How have I exceeded my rate limit when this is the first I’ve attempted to use the site today
@elonmusk
? Trying to get info on a mass shooting, can’t access police account
New: The Baltimore man who has painted hundreds of “No Shoot Zones” on sidewalks and buildings around the city was shot this morning in East Baltimore. Police say he is in serious condition..
Breaking: Frederick County Sheriff Chuck Jenkins federally charged with with conspiracy and false statements in order to acquire machineguns for Frederick gun dealer.. Jenkins has been in office since 2006
Update: Baltimore Police Officer Keona Holley, who joined the police department two years ago at age 37 to make a difference and was shot last week, has been taken off life support
Powerful moment just now in US District Court in Baltimore as judge steps down off the bench and apologizes to 2 men who government says had drugs planted on them by corrupt
@BaltimorePolice
officer...
A younger Baltimore cop texts me after watching Memphis video: “This barely reaches the level of active resistance on our use of force continuum… These guys look like they've never made an arrest in their lives”
"You guys are fake news," a Baltimore Police officer who ran for mayor told me last year when I asked about his county residency. Now he's been indicted by the state prosecutor for perjury and falsifying his voter registration
The latest: Two people were rescued from the Patapsco River, one who refused medical attention and another transported in serious condition, Baltimore Fire Chief James Wallace says. "This continues to be a search and rescue operation"
Biden: Federal government will pay for the entire cost of repairing the Key Bridge, and he's directed his team to "move heaven and earth". Of the Port: We're going to do everything we can to protect those jobs and help those workers."
Work from home, schools closed, government closed; I got lunch today and the place had 50 people in it, and now I’m walking down Baltimore’s Fort Avenue and every bar and restaurant is packed. I don’t know if this is gonna work, guys
President Trump, asked about gun laws, says the Pittsburgh synagogue should have had armed security at the bris and the gunman wouldn’t be able to do what he did
They’d regularly drive fast at a larger group of people, slam brakes and pop their doors to see who ran, then detain and search them. They had no reason other than trying to provoke someone. 10-20 times on slow nights, as many as 50 times others, he said
Quite a moment:
@BaltimorePolice
Lt Heron read the names of police brutality victims off of a protester’s sign. Protesters quieted each other so he could do it and chanted “next name!” after each one he read off. And now they’re dispersing (photo from afterward)
This morning: Police spotted a stolen vehicle in area of 1700 W Saratoga St, moved in for traffic stop, driver drove into police car and fled on foot.
While the officers were apprehending the driver, someone else re-stole the car.
Danielle Scott, whose 18 y/o son Donnell Rochester was killed by Baltimore police last yr, wants to keep pressure on about her son’s case. She was upset to see city officials putting out statements about Memphis when she feels they haven’t acknowledged Rochester
Final update:
-Eastern Shore judge took his own life this am as FBI tried to take him into custody
-He had swallowed memory card from camera discovered by boys in hunting lodge bathroom
-On other device they found videos of unclothed boys
Earthquake going through the Baltimore police force after this message blasted out by union about city no longer covering punitive damages in lawsuits: “The successful citizen can file an attachment against your wages taking 25% of your pay ... Please keep this in mind”
Nice update to share: In 2010 I told readers about the recovery of Raven Wyatt, a 5 year old who was struck in the head by a stray bullet in West Baltimore. She just attended prom! Shared with permission:
My grandfather was my biggest fan - he had google alerts for my stories and followed all the issues and knew the players. He died a decade ago. I got my grandmother a copy of my book and she proudly showed it off. She died today. I’m sure she’ll tell him all about it.
#RIP
My five-year-old just walked up to me and said, "You look like you're ready to go to Disney World." I say, what? She says, "You've got your bags packed," pointing to what she says are bags under my eyes.
I've never been so blindsided
Johns Hopkins researchers estimate
@MarilynMosbyEsq
’s policy of not prosecuting drug possession and prostitution averted about 440 arrests, 80% of which would have fallen on Baltimore’s Black population, and without increasing crime
Bumped into local actor
@MrJoshCharles
at the premiere of his new television show and he was eating Utz chips and crab dip out of a bag, you can’t take Baltimoreans anywhere
And, as I said earlier, it was a terrible premise for such a test because no one would ever believe we were getting big bonuses from this company anyway!
NEW: Baltimore County police now say they provided "misinformation" yesterday when they said a man fired on police yesterday before being killed by the officers; the gun they say he had wasn't fired or loaded. Which means he didn't shoot the officer who was wounded......
As we cover this horrifying shooting at our sister paper, we are applying the same standards as any incident we cover - working to confirm and corroborate information. Bear with us.
New: A review of autopsies that were performed by Maryland Medical Examiner’s Office during tenure of David Fowler has identified 100 police custody deaths that should be looked at again. Sparked by Fowler’s testimony at Derek Chauvin trial..
Breaking from
@BaltimoreBanner
: The ex-Baltimore cop shot by his wife in a DC hotel over accusations that he molested children at her Owings Mills daycare has now been in fact criminally charged with sexually abusing three children there
Ward said Sgt Jenkins profiled vehicles - “dope boy cars” such as Honda Accords, Acuras, Honda Odysseys - for car stops and would falsely claim he saw people not wearing seat belts or their windows were too darkly tinted
This was already scheduled, as Congress mandated in 1992 that all assassination documents be released within 25 years, with Oct. 26 as the release date
Tonight, the
@baltimoresun
will print its last editions in Baltimore before outsourcing printing and packaging to Delaware. End of an era. (pic I took in 2013)
Here's the clip of Kevin Brown's pregame comments on the Orioles' recent record against the Rays ahead of a series finale on July 23. Sources tell AA these comments led to Brown's current indefinite suspension from Orioles' broadcasts.
The Orioles have hired a former NASA engineer to be their head analytics guy. I assume his first order of business given his experience will be finding a way to launch Chris Davis into outer space
When they stopped someone suspected of being in the drug game, Jenkins would ask, “If you could put your own crew together and rob the biggest drug dealer you know of, who would it be?” And then they’d go after the person they named, to rob them
Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby has been indicted on federal charges of perjury and making a false statement on a Covid financial hardship withdrawal.. Developing...
Remembering that a few weeks ago, two people died when an Amazon distribution facility fell apart like it was made out of popsicle sticks when a freak urban tornado hit Baltimore, and it was a story for like two days