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June 1, 2011

Baltimore Guide blotter - May 25 - "You can thank Chris"

Excerpts from this week's Baltimore Guide police blotter for South and Southeast Baltimore (For more, click here):

-S. Collington Avenue, 300 block, May 20, 9:50 p.m. A man told police that a second man whom he did not know entered his home through an unlocked door, pulled a handgun and told the man, “You know what I want and you can thank Chris.” The suspect took oxycodone and $250 cash, then walked out

-S. East Avenue, 1100 block, May 16, 9:10 a.m. The Department of Transportation reported that someone had taken a boot off a car and driven away with it.

-1000 block Light St., Friday, May 20, 10:58 p.m.: A bar security guard was bitten by a 22-year-old patron who had stolen a purse from the bar.

-St. Helena Street, 6500 block, May 15, 1:10 p.m. An 8-year-old child told police that an adult had loaded a pellet gun and went to the field behind his house to shoot at bottles. The child stopped to talk to him, and the man waited until the child was walking away, then shot him as well. He was arrested.

-800 block W. West St., Friday, May 13, 1:30 p.m.: A man received a call from a man who identified himself as a police detective. The suspect said that there was drug dealing going out of the victim’s house and demanded that the victim meet him at the corner of West and Paca streets. When the victim got there the suspect introduced himself as “Detective Chris Johnson” and told the victim he was going to make a “drug buy” at the victim’s house and asked for $15. He told the victim to wait for him, but the suspect never came back.

-300 block S. Mount St., Monday,May 16, 3:20 p.m.: A man was assaulted and hit over the head with a bottle of hot sauce during an argument with his girlfriend. The girlfriend was arrested.
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About Peter Hermann
Peter Hermann started covering news for The Baltimore Sun in 1990, first in Anne Arundel County and, starting in 1994, reporting on the Baltimore Police Department. In 2001, he was assigned to Jerusalem as the Baltimore Sun's Middle East correspondent. He returned in 2005 as an assistant city editor overseeing crime coverage. In 2008, Peter returned to the beat as a daily reporter and blogger. A recent BBC report featured him in a segment on the harsh realities of covering crime in Baltimore.

Coverage will focus on crime trends, problems in neighborhoods in the city and elsewhere, profiles of victims and police officers and try to offer readers a fresh perspective on one of the most vexing issues facing Baltimore and its future.



Contributing to this blog is Justin Fenton, who joined The Sun in 2005 and has covered the Baltimore City Police Department and the criminal justice system since 2008. His work includes an investigation into Cal Ripken Jr.’s minor league baseball stadium deal with his hometown of Aberdeen, a three-part series chronicling a ruthless con woman, coverage of the killing of five Amish children at a schoolhouse in Nickel Mines, Pa., and a job swap with a British crime reporter to explore differences in crime-fighting. A special report looking into how city police handle rape cases led to sweeping reforms that changed the way sexual assaults are investigated in Baltimore. He was recognized as the best reporter in Baltimore by the City Paper in 2010 and by Baltimore Magazine in 2011.
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