City cops make gun busts
Baltimore police have taken a bunch of guns off city streets this week, bringing the yearly total to 979 illegal weapons and more than 400 arrests.
Here is a look at some of the seizures made since Sunday:
A man at Water and Gay streets, near City Hall and Police Headquarters, was arrested with a loaded handgun on Sunday. That same day, police said they executed a search warrant in the 600 block of Wildwood Parkway in Southwest Baltimore and found a shotgun.
On Tuesday, police arrested a man in the 500 block of N. Ellwood Ave. and charged with illegally possessing a loaded .40 caliber handgun. On Tuesday, cops arrested another man with a loaded handgun, this time in the 3200 block of Tivoly Ave. in Northeast. (less than an hour later, a man was fataly shot several times at North Fulton Avenue and West Lanvale Street in West Baltimore.
Also on Tuesday, police arrested two more people and seized a loaded handgun and drugs at one location and then, at another in the 600 block of East 41st St., they arrested a 37-year-old man carrying a lodaded handgun.
On Wednesday, police arrested a 21-year-old man in the 200 block of N. Monroe St. on a burglary charge. Police said he also was carrying a loaded handgun.
And earlier today, a 17-year-old was reported shot during a fistfight in Northwest Baltimore.
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Comments
The Baltimore Sun needs to give race as well. There is no recovery without honesty.
Would you like religion, ethnicity and tax bracket too? I'm not trying to be flip, but honestly, where does it end? Social status has just as much to do with it as race or any other factor.
We do, however, document the race of the victims on the homicide map and database and always note demographic trends in the year-end stories or other more sweeping, overarching pieces. -Justin
Posted by: Dunn | June 17, 2010 12:49 PM