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Bill would enhance penalties for smuggling cell phones into jails
kaustuv.basu@herald-mail.comA Senate committee Tuesday heard testimony for a bill that would enhance penalties for those trying to or smuggling cell phones or other telecommunication devices into jails and prisons and those receiving such contraband. The bill has been introduced in...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Prisons, Organized Crime, Punishment, Maryland General Assembly
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Drugs, metal thefts plague Washington County in 2012
Editor’s note: As we usher out 2012 and welcome 2013, The Herald-Mail has prepared a package of year-end stories that provide short recaps of some of the top stories of the year past. These stories will be published each day through New Year’s...
Tags: Methamphetamine (drug), Harvard University, Court Preliminary, Drug Trafficking, Clarence Thomas
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Raleigh, N.C. man charged in fatal shooting of former Smithsburg man
A 25-year-old man was arrested in connection with a fatal shooting a former Smithsburg man in August in the Mount Vernon neighborhood of Baltimore, police confirmed Saturday. Quinton Bass, 25, of Raleigh, N.C., has been charged with killing Joseph...Tags: Mount Vernon, Hospitals and Clinics, Injuries and Wounds, Shootings, Johns Hopkins Hospital
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Officials' phone records show political, personal contacts
Days before last November’s election, Gov. Martin O’Malley used his cellphone to call Jim Murren, the chief executive of MGM Resorts International in Las Vegas. The two talked for 11 minutes that Sunday. Not surprisingly, the topic was the...Tags: MGM Resorts International, Howard County, Government, Hurricane Sandy (2012), Executive Branch
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Baltimore police officer charged with pimping wife
A31-year-old Baltimore Police officer was charged Friday with pimping out his wife after officers from a human trafficking task force found him outside a hotel room where the woman had agreed to have sex for cash with an undercover officer. The child...
Tags: BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport, Prosecution, Prostitution, Sex Crimes, Online Advertising
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City takes steps to protect victims of domestic violence
It takes incredible courage for a victim of domestic violence to apply for a protective order. Victims must make their way to the courthouse, often while they are still experiencing the effects of their abuse. At the courthouse, they must write a...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Laws, Justice System, Judges, Law Enforcement
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Baltimore police choose new internal affairs leader
The Baltimore Police Department tapped one of its lawyers as the new head of internal affairs, saying Rodney Hill's experience as an officer and his recent turn as a prosecutor of police misconduct cases give him the credibility to lead a group charged...
Tags: Morgan State University, Crime, Law and Justice, Montgomery County (Pennsylvania), Towson, Los Angeles Police Department
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In Watch Center, an urgent search for man in danger
On a recent Friday night in the Baltimore Police Department's high-tech Watch Center, an urgent but vague tip came in — a murder witness was in danger. The tipster had overheard a conversation but knew only the nickname of the witness and had a...
Tags: Environmental Issues, Sports, Google Inc., Black Guerrilla Family, Police Arrests
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Dirt bikers no victims of racism
Really, Mr. Conaway! In his defense of dirt bike riders ("Don't penalize city kids for riding dirt bikes," April 25), Baltimore Circuit Court Clerk Frank M. Conaway Sr. places blame for this problem on the Baltimore Police Department and their vendetta...
Tags: Racism, Crime, Law and Justice, Social Issues, Civil Rights, Justice and Rights
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Diversity in the firehouse
The Baltimore City Fire Department created a new division two years ago in an effort to increase recruitment of minorities, specifically African-Americans, who made up 65 percent of the city's population but only half so large a share of the city's...Tags: Demographics
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Board approves $285,000 for consultant to tell police how to better run department
Baltimore's spending panel on Wednesday unanimously approved $285,000 for city police to hire a Massachusetts-based consultant — the highest of five bidders — to recommend how the department should be run. Despite the protests of competing...
Tags: Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Government, Politics, Martha's Vineyard
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Baltimore prosecutors lighten up on marijuana possession
Caught with a couple of joints he didn't get the chance to light up, Eric Staton was ordered to appear before a Baltimore judge. Two weeks later, in a basement courtroom on North Avenue, prosecutors said they would drop the possession charge if Staton...
Tags: Prisons, Court Preliminary, Drug Trafficking, Punishment, Police Arrests
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