City homicide detectives make arrest
With the all the attention crime at the Inner Harbor has attracted, it's nice to see Justin Fenton's story today on arrests made by Baltimore homicide detectives in the Sintia Mesa (left) murder case. She was a 25-year-old women found dead in January 2007 in the trunk of her car.
Police aid that Mesa was attacked by members of a drug organization but that the Morgan State graduate had nothing to do with any illegal practices. One of the suspects in her death is already serving a 20 year federal prison term for dealing drugs.
Police said it was after they took down the drug group that other witnesses started coming forward in the slaying (a strategy the commander of the Baltimore Police Department's homicide unit, Maj. Terrence McLarney, dubbed a "Trojan Horse"). Coupled with DNA hits, police charged two men with murder. Mesa had been abducted from a beauty salon on Liberty Road, forced to a self-storage locker in Laurel and later killed. Police said Mesa's boyfriend was a drug dealer who was trying to get into the music industry and had ties to the two suspects, who are charged with killing Mesa to get to her boyfriend's money.
Police said they got money from the storage unit, then sexually assaulted Mesa, tortured her and killed her. "She was an innocent victim," Detective Arthur Brummer told Justin.
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Contractors preparing a vacant, very rundown house for a rehab in Canton (block of 900 S Belnord) found human remains last night. In all of the garbage and debris being removed the workers discovered a human skull. Police and detectives were around the block all evening, investigating the house and the dumpster where the all of the rubbish has been deposited. They seemingly still had a lot of investigating to do at the house/dumpster as a police officer was stationed in front of the home overnight and into this morning.
Supposedly, a man lived in the house up until three or five years ago. Then, he disappeared. No one ever saw him again. I think his daughter recently sold the house, and the new owner has began the rehab work that led to the discovery.
Posted by: anonymous | June 18, 2009 8:38 AM