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Investigative reporter at the new @BaltimoreBanner . Prev: 17 years @baltimoresun . Author of WE OWN THIS CITY, which became HBO miniseries. Support local news

BALTIMORE, Md.
Joined March 2009
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Justin Fenton
2 years
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
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7 years
Footage shows officer placing drugs in trash; goes out to street, turns on camera, returns. Cams save 30 sec prior to activation, w/o sound
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2 years
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...
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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.
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Justin Fenton
6 years
Official NOAA aircraft report amid high winds: "PRETTY MUCH EVERY ONE ON THE PLANE THREW UP"
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7 years
"I hear a heart surgeon just saved someone the media wouldnt even try to operate on"
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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"
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1 year
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
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Justin Fenton
3 years
Wearing your work badge during the insurrection...
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Tre Ward ABC 7
3 years
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
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4 years
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.
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8 years
Singer Chris Brown posting videos from inside his home with police outside. Will they cut off his accounts?
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8 years
This took like a minute of fiddling with my DVR so I hope you all appreciate it
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8 years
#RIPVine Here's this guy riding a horse down the street in West Baltimore
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2 years
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"
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Justin Fenton
2 years
After 17 years, I'm leaving the Baltimore Sun this month to join the new Baltimore Banner and help create a new non profit model for local news here
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7 years
A College Park student who's a member of "Alt Reich" Fb group killed Bowie St student Richard Collins, an Army Lt, in unprovoked attack
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7 years
Ravens and Jaguars players kneeling during National Anthem in England
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5 years
“You want how many? Delivered to the White House? Man stop calling”
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8 years
Carly Fiorina's VP candidacy
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2 years
There’s a goat wearing a fedora walking around Baltimore today and I need to know where it is
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7 years
why does Tom Brady's SNF picture look like Dexter
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7 years
Body camera footage allegedly catches @BaltimorePolice misconduct. Email from public defender to other city defense attorneys:
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7 years
Whether drugs planted as public defender asserts, or drug discovery recreated, vid shows officers aware of how to manipulate body cams...
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2 years
Correction: Henry is a major, not a captain, in the Army
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3 years
Ravens play Omar whistling in fan suggested-tribute to Michael K. Williams tribute 🎥 @emilyopilo
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6 years
Crazy testimony in federal court just now by former Detective Maurice Ward, outlining illegal tactics used by Gun Trace Task Force Officers ...
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2 years
Indictment uses the word "husband," but our story uses "spouse" because of information later learned about Henry's pronouns.
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2 years
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
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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
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3 years
“Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there..” Marylanders:
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7 years
Man held on drug charges related to this vid since Jan on $50k bail he couldnt pay; @BaltimoreSAO called officer in another case days later
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2 years
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..
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Justin Fenton
1 year
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
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8 years
Feel free to use this in your memes, kids #DemDebate
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2 years
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
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2 years
Adnan Syed leaving courthouse
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6 years
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...
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1 year
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”
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3 years
"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
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Justin Fenton
3 years
Checking out some court filings about police misconduct investigations
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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"
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Justin Fenton
3 years
NEW: Maryland man who stormed Capitol wearing work badge turned himself in this morning to face federal charges
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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."
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President Biden
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Join me as I deliver remarks on the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore.
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3 years
I will be holding a press conference at the Four Seasons
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4 years
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
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3 years
Bill Gates and the boys hitting the club this summer
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7 years
(Case was instead dropped after going up the chain of command)
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2 years
Christopher Flohr just walked out of the courthouse sobbing. He was one of Syed’s original attorneys after his arrest and at his bail review
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Justin Fenton
7 years
The state is opening up a $35 MILLION jail for youth charged as adults that will only have FOURTEEN detainees in it:
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Jessica Anderson
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Warden Kathy Landerkin shows off the school at the new $35 million youth jail in Baltimore. About 14 juveniles will move in later this month
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4 years
Can’t remember where I saw this but yeah
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Justin Fenton
6 years
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
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6 years
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
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6 years
More outrageous testimony from Det Ward: they kept BB guns on hand in case they hit someone or got into a shootout and needed to plant it on someone
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7 years
Public defender says @BaltimoreSAO offered man charged in this case a 3 year plea deal, then time served after being walked thru the video
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4 years
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)
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Justin Fenton
4 years
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.
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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
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3 years
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
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Justin Fenton
7 years
These two have both now won Oscars #superbad
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Justin Fenton
4 years
Lamar Jackson, Marcus Peters and Earl Thomas visited an Edmondson Ave carryout today in search of banana pudding
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Justin Fenton
6 years
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”
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2 years
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:
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2 years
My 6-year-old just asked me very earnestly if the Baltimore incinerator is where clouds are made 😭😭😭
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3 years
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
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Justin Fenton
3 years
I present this meme to you, Baltimore
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Justin Fenton
3 years
This is going to be an instant classic Baltimore meme when it just says “no“
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Justin Fenton
3 years
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
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3 years
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
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5 years
Colts fans had something dear to them ripped away in the middle of the night; you hate to see it
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2 years
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
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3 years
Man charged in Maryland federal court with threatening to kill Dr. Anthony Fauci and his family
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Justin Fenton
6 years
Such an embarrassing video
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Deadspin
6 years
How America's largest local TV owner turned its news anchors into soldiers in Trump's war on the media:
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7 years
A judge found a woman who said police entered home w/o warrant & put gun to her head more credible than the officers
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Justin Fenton
4 years
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!
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Justin Fenton
4 years
Wow worst phishing scam ever, Tribune would never give us bonuses. Would’ve been better off asking me to wire money to Nigeria
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Justin Fenton
5 years
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......
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Justin Fenton
6 years
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.
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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..
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3 years
Wow. Someone purchased a winning $730 million Powerball ticket in Lonaconing, Md, population 1,107
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Justin Fenton
2 years
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
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Justin Fenton
6 years
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
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Justin Fenton
7 years
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
@realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
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Subject to the receipt of further information, I will be allowing, as President, the long blocked and classified JFK FILES to be opened.
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2 years
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)
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I remember this bc I started crying and shaking uncontrollably when Kevin revealed for the first time that the Orioles were bad prior to this year
@awfulannouncing
Awful Announcing
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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.
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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
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Justin Fenton
4 years
Thousands taking part in Baltimore racism and police brutality protest right now
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Justin Fenton
6 years
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
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7 years
This is the most awkward moment ever
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Justin Fenton
2 years
Seven straight! Feels like it’s been a while since this many excited Orioles fans here #OriolesMagic
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Justin Fenton
6 years
Dogs can be scared of crime too. Look at him.
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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...
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Justin Fenton
6 years
Find someone who looks at you the way Chris Davis looks at strike three
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Justin Fenton
6 years
FILED: Day before he was killed, Baltimore detective was to testify before federal grand jury in indicted officers case
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Justin Fenton
3 years
RIP China Room sign
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Justin Fenton
5 years
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
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