He is, the deputy police chief of Chestertown says, the "town nuisance."

He's also Frosty the Snowman, and he's under arrest, charged with kicking a police dog in a parade while dressed up as the famous character. The story went around the world, and The Sun's Tricia Bishop contributes with a gem of a story detailing the snowman's turbulent history with cops and his past arrests.

He's been banned from public meetings (he stood outside banging pots and pans in protest one day) and called police in April pretending to be part of a CNN crew seeking an interview. Here are some unforgettable holiday lines from Tricia's story:

"Within minutes, two police officers had the so-called jolly, happy soul face down on the sidewalk in front of the Compleat Bookseller, raising a ruckus as his hands were cuffed behind his back. The round, white head lay forlornly at his feet, top hat and carrot nose still in place."

"While the Frosty of holiday lore has only a brief run-in with a traffic cop (who famously hollers "stop"), the Frosty of Chestertown, 52-year-old Kevin Michael Walsh, has a history of tangling with police."

He said he spent three hours in the suit, handcuffed to a wall, before someone made him take it off so it could be returned to the costume shop. He was released on his own recognizance that afternoon. And by Monday, he'd come to a realization: "I've got to get a lawyer, before I melt," he said.

Check out other coverage -- The Cecil Whig: Frosty Iced by Police and The Star Democrat in Easton has Man playing Frosty says he did nothing wrong.

Read The Baltimore Sun's complete story here.

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It's not often Crime Beat gets to cross-blog with John McIntyre's You Don't Say blog, this paper's grammar policeman. And actually, this gem comes from Laura Vozzella's Baltimore Insider blog, though McIntyre gets credit for breaking the news in a Tweet:

Howard County police emailed a news release just now that inspired Sun grammar guru John McIntyre to tweet: “I worry about opening this message.”

The subject line reads: "Attached is a copy of a Fatal Press Release in Howard County."

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Is there no place on earth more dangerous than Baltimore?

Not even bin Laden's mansion hideout?

Stephen Colbert on Monday night's Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report" cracked this joke (reported by our sister publication "B":

"Relations with Pakistan could get rough. They had to know bin Laden was there. His million-dollar compound was less than 40 miles from Pakistan's capital. That's like escaping Washington D.C. by hiding out in Baltimore. Except that Abbottabad is much less dangerous than Baltimore."

I tried to find crime rates for Attottabad, described as a British built resort town, but couldn't come up with any. Baltimore harbors some pretty dangerous people, but we don't have mass murdering terrorists in mansions.

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When three men attacked and punched and robbed a man of his cell phone near downtown this weekend, the muggers apparently forgot about the hundreds of surveillance cameras watching over many of Baltimore’s street corners. At left, The Sun's Lloyd Fox captures officers monitoring surveillance cameras

One of the cameras captured the mugging, and police quickly arrested two men and recovered the stolen cell phone from one of the suspect’s pants pocket. Commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld III told this story at a budget presentation on Monday, in part to showcase the necessity of the program.

The attack occurred shortly before 3 a.m. Sunday on Park Avenue, near Liberty Street, about two blocks west of Charles Street and near a major city hotel. The victim and friends had just left an apartment on West Fayette Street when a man approached and said, “Give me everything in your pockets.”

For more details:

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UPDATE: Police have learned the man's name -- Gregory Talesnik, 65, from a tag on the inside of his jacket. They still have not located his relatives. A Connecticut man apparently confused about drug laws went right to the source: he called 911, told the operator he was growing pot and asked about penalties. The operator quickly sent a police car and the man was arrested and charged with drug possession.

Listen to the 911 tape, from the Harfort Courant:

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Quote of the day from Baltimore City Councilman Ed Reisinger, from Laura Vozzella's column today:

"He made some wrong decisions with whatever he did. Anyone who's been arrested, especially when you're in the city of Baltimore -- you know what I mean -- are we going to disqualify them from employment?"

The councilman is not talking about just any employment, but employment as a councilman. He's talking about William "Pete" Welch, who wants to join the council vacated by his mother, Agnes Welch.

As Vozzella points out, he's got a bit of a past.

Continue reading "Should arrest disqualify you from City Council?" »

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Anyone who has staffed the phones at any city newspaper can recall a treasure-trove of off-the-wall calls. This one came into to our night reporter Jessica Anderson on Friday night:

Female caller: Hello. I live in Baltimore and I was just calling see if there were any shootings tonight.

Reporter: No, not that I am aware of. Have you heard of something?

Caller: No. I’m just trying to decide if I want to go out tonight.

Reporter: Well nothing yet but they tend to happen overnight. I think you are OK.

Lady: Oh. OK. Good!

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Baltimore Police Commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld III took first place Thursday night in a celebrity standup competition for charity at Martin's East. Bealefeld kicked off his set by joking that he had been smoking crack to stay awake during the event and that veteran newscaster Richard Sher was on sex offender watch lists. But he settled in for some fairly tame police humor, including a yarn about a competition between city cops and Baltimore County police and state troopers. The event benefited the R Baby Foundation and University of Maryland Hospital for Children.

Check it our for yourself:

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The Sun's Nick Madigan reports that a man who held up a Parkton bank earlier this month wore a Cincinnati Reds cap, and therefore might be a fan.

Maybe.

But that got me thinking of the New York Times article earlier this month that concluded Yankees caps are popular among criminals:

"Gym-locker heists, bank robberies, daylight holdups — these New York City crimes have only one thing in common, and it is not the culprits. It is the Yankees caps they wore. A curious phenomenon has emerged at the intersection of fashion, sports and crime: dozens of men and women who have robbed, beaten, stabbed and shot at their fellow New Yorkers have done so while wearing Yankees caps or clothing."

Continue reading "Bank robber a Cincinnati Reds fan? What about the Yankees?" »

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Baltimore Police Col. Michael J. Andrew added a bit of levity to the otherwise very serious discussion about aggressive driving, by introducing himself and saying he was not this guy (Leslie Nielsen, of "Naked Gun" fame) as the city and other law enforcement officers kicked off a campaign against aggressive drivers. On West Camden St. near Camden Yards various area police departments and Baltimore City demonstrated what would happen to a pedestrian hit at 40 miles per hour as a dummy named Bobby is litertally taken out of his shoes. - Jed Kirschbaum, Sun photographer.
(In honor of this moment, here's a YouTube video of OJ Simpson's Nordberg character attempting to make an arrest.)

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Federal prosecutors say that four men have been indicted on charges that they robbed a string of banks and drug stores from Hagerstown to Timonium in 2008 and last year, and then sold prescription medication such as Oxycodone and morphine and cocaine.

The 17-count indictment outlines a broad scheme of robberies that included stores such as Magnolia Square Pharmacy in Hagerstown to the Lykos Pharmacy on York Road in Timonium. (Read the indictment here). 

Part of a statement from the Maryland U.S. Attorney's Office:

A federal grand jury has indicted Elvin Fulton, age 20, of Waynesboro, Pennsylvania; his brother, Dwight Julius Fulton, a/k/a “DJ,” age 22; Luis Maldonando, a/k/a “Ant,” age 26; and Justin Broadus, age 22, all of Hagerstown, Maryland, on charges related to a string of pharmacy and bank robberies from Western Maryland to Baltimore County.

 “This indictment illustrates the increasing problem of prescription drug abuse in this country. DEA is seeing a rise in prescription drugs sold along with illicit drugs in open air drug markets. Criminal drug trafficking organizations exist to make money. Period. It doesn’t matter to them whether they are selling cocaine, heroin or prescription drugs, as long as it generates a profit.  As an agency, DEA will go after these organizations utilizing all the same tools and methods used to dismantle illicit drug trafficking organizations.”

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I'll just let this picture by Daveed Korup speak for itself. Larissa Peters and city police officers help a mother duck and her ducklings cross Pratt Street to the relative safety of the Inner Harbor on Wednesday.

Who says there are no good news stories!

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When my colleague Laura Vozzella last left this, the strip club on wheels was rolling out of town. But I guess the Hustler Club couldn't pass up the Preakness (who can blame them given the "Get Your Preak On" promotion).

But the strip club on wheels still has plenty of detractors, namely parents with children who saw things on a public street that they shouldn't see until much later in life. I mean, what parents want to explain the term "pole dancing" to a 5-year-old?

Last month, Vozzella noted that cops gave the driver two tickets -- for having unsecured passengers and for blocking traffic.

But other than that, apprently no laws were broken. Baltimore police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi told Vozzella that the stripper-mobile might be perfectly legal, but it's certainly not an ideal addition to the family-friendly town. "Things like this are expected in Las Vegas," he said. "In Baltimore, this is a family town. We have the Inner Harbor. We have the Orioles. Businesses need to use a little more common sense."

Anne Manning de Dios of Alexendria, Va., couldn't agree more. She wrote us an e-mail this morning and sent us pictures -- one is published here -- of the stripper-mobile on Lombard Street. She had been returing from a play on Preakness Saturday:

"Perhaps I wouldn't have been so furious had my children not been in the car. I was shaking with anger. There was no way to ignore what was being thrown in our faces. There was no way to ignore the girls' moves or the men's reactions. There is no doubt this event will be forever-ingrained in my daughters' and son's heads. I didn't ask for it."

Her complete e-mail is here: 

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So you thought this years Preakness -- with the Get Your Preak On promotion and unlimited beer for twenty bucks -- would mean a return to the debauchery of years past?

Think again.

The infield was so tame that Baltimore Police Commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld III (at left, in a photo by The Sun's Gene Sweeney) moved cops out of there and sent them to other spots around the race track. So quiet that I spotted more than a few yawning tactical guys doing more watching than arresting. Cops sat on picnic tables and thumbed through race forms.

"A great day for Baltimore," Bealefeld said as he walked through the infield.

The stats from a day 38,000 people drinking?

Zero arrests. Twenty-three tossed for throwing beer or other frat-like issues.

That's nothing. Some Baltimore bars have more activity on a regular weekend.

That may have put frowns on some in the infield who wanted to repeat the "running of the urinals" but it put a happy face on Bealefeld who noted young people can get together, drink, have fun and still stay out of jail.

The complaints: people couldn't drink fast enough because it took so long first get, and then refill, the bottomless cups of beer. It seems Pimlico struck the balance they wanted -- give back the alcohol but with a catch. Without the bring-your-own kegs, people couldn't binge drink, and many tended to sober up between gulps.

Of course, you could get drunk if you really wanted too. But overall, the scene didn't turn into a total anything-goes drunk fest as it had in years past, but wasn't exactly a family affair either. The real test will be next year.

There some more debate in Sunday's Crime Beat column, and The Baltimore's Sun's Kevin Cowherd also weighs in on the sports pages.

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For years, the man stealing men's shoes from homes in Newark, Delaware, had gone undetected. Many people never reported the break-ins, and police didn't notice a pattern that seems obvious in hindsight -- the break-ins all occurred near a college campus, targeted mostly students and the only thing missing were men's shoes and pictures of men.

Now, after five houses were hit over Christmas, police in Newark have put the pieces of the puzzle together and are now investigating dozens of break-ins involving the theft of more than 200 pairs of shoes.

And this week, someone found three duffel bags with 200 wet and soggy shoes in a creek in Elkton. In Wednesday's Crime Scene column, I'll explore this case further. Here are some pictures of the shoes supplied by the Newark Police Department.

They are asking anyone with information to contact Det. Fred Nelson at 302-366-7110, ext. 136. Who knows, given the shoes apparently linked to this case were found in Elkton, maybe there's a Maryland connection? 

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In light of a Baltimore police horse named Slurpee after its new corporate 7-Eleven sponsor, I've started a contest to come up other ways to help pay for the city cops.

This police chase brought to you by ... has already been taken.

Here's a few more from a city cop: foot patrol officers can wear sandwich boards. The helicopter could drag banners. What about decals on the police dogs?

Keep them coming!

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I'm being assured that the new corporate sponsor of Baltimore Police horse Slurpee (yes, 7-Eleven) won't mean that the police cars will soon be adorned with ads for bails bondsmen and TV dramas about law enforcement.

But the idea that a convenience store chain can buy a police horse and get the naming rights seems both odd and innovative. So, as the city cops raise money to save the threatened Mounted Unit, the horse Blackie suddenly becamed the horse Slurpee.

At left, is police horse Barney, in a photo by The Sun's Kenneth K. Lam. For some reason, we don't have a pic in our files of Blackie, a.k.a. Slurpee.

The newly named horse will participate in a ribbon cutting Friday at 11 a.m. at a new 7-Eleven opening in Market Place downtown. First the horse can run down a few criminals, then has to go to a ribbon cutting. Such is the life. It's a find partnership between police and business (7-Eleven's already have police substations, and as long as they don't get preferential treatment and extra protection on the public dime, it should be OK).

So send me your ideas for other ways Baltimore Police can take advantage of corporate sponsors:

The Mounted Unit's Sgt. John Ambrose already came up with one: "This car chase brought to you by Nabisco."

How about a bar sponsoring the commissioner's campaign to padlock troubled taverns? Or Bad Guys with Guns brought to you by Glock? Bail bonds promoting themselves on the backs of squad cars?

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Timothy "Comedy Cop" Hall jokes about everything from marijuana to what he calls "raggedy --- police cars" in Baltimore. He's a city police officer, a 19-year veteran who grew up in Baltimore and when he's not catching criminals as part of a warrant task force, he's on stage making fun of them.

And he makes fun of his own police department.

Hall has been on HBO's Def Comedy Jam and done hundreds of shows at the Baltimore Comedy Factory. I saw him Friday night at the Havana Club where he peformed for a benefit for ReWired For Change, a group of actors from The Wire who help at risk youth to prevent violence.

There's more about Hall in today's Crime Scenes, but suffice it to say I couldn't quote many of his jokes (especially the ones from Def Comedy Jam). He says he's trying to give people a glimpse into the hard work of city cops and not exploit the violence that has made Baltimore a household name around the country.

But he still took shots at city criminals, as did the comedian who performed first and the host of the show, "Alabama," who works at the Baltimore Comedy Factory and said he told me, for the first time, his real name: DeShawn Alabama Frazier. He took a few shots at his new home (yes,' he's from Alabama), noting that you shouldn't go anyplace that has the word "Heights" in it.

First up was Justin Schlagel from Washington. He noted that Baltimore has some of the scariest homeless people he's ever seen. He said he used to live in Baltimore, but had to move -- "Stab me once ..." he noted, playing off the old slogan.

Justin also said that this city is the easiest city to navigate -- you either end up in the harbor or end up dead.

The event raised money for a good cause, even if it meant poking fun at the city's ills for a few hours.

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Tuesday night's Little Italy crime meeting had it all -- drama, accusations, finger-pointing and language that can't be printed in a family newspaper. But in the middle of one nasty episode came an exchange that has become a mantra as we in this city discuss the balance between bars and homes:

How much responsibility does a bar owner have to ensure patrons behave both outside the establishment and in the larger neighborhood. Baltimore's police commissioner is pressing bar owners to take a more active role in keeping their surroundings safe and clean.

A manager of Mo's Fisherman's Wharf gave the typical complaint from his side: "We are not here to do anything to anyway. We are here to do business. Customers dowhat they do when they leave. It's not our fault."

Little Italy resident Giovanna Blatterman quickly responded with one of the best come-backs I've heard to this statement: "If I've got a potato chip bag on my sidewalk I get fined. Now you're telling me that if you have human garbage that you're not responsible for it?"

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Leave it to Maryland's highest court to invoke Goldilocks into one of its opinions. Yep, that very same tale you remember as a kid in which the girl visits the three bears and tries the porridge and find one bowl too hot, one too cold and other just right.

The esteemed panel of the Court of Appeals found two Court of Special Appeals judges "just right" to uphold the conviction of a man of robbing a convenience store in Kent County, despite the fact that one of the judges died after arguments but before the opinion was issued.

"With the filing of this opinion, this Court will have completed a "Goldilocks" trilogy," the appeals panel wrote in its opening line of Brandon Justin Jackson v. State of Maryland.

The court noted, unanimously I might add, that they had previously determined that "more than 13 judges" deciding a case "was too much." In another case, they concluded that on a three-judge panel, when one dies but the remaining judges are split, "the number of judges are too few."

But in the most recent case, the death of the judge left two judges who concurred, so it didn't matter what the late judge thought. "In the present case, we shall fight that two judges in agreement are just right."

I wonder if in some clerk's drawer there is a draft of a dissent?

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The new indictment filed last week against former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, in addition to fun new corruption counts, contained some amusing names -- his former chief of staff Alonzo "Lon" Mark and fundraiser Antoin "Tony" Rezko.

I think the general rule of thumb should be if you hire anyone with a middle name in quotation marks that you ought to think how it looks atop a federal indictment. When I saw that, I thought of our own indictment against our very own mayor. But unfortunately, no names appear in quotes -- only Developer A, Developer B and Employee No. 1.

Baltimore saves its best nicknames for what we do best -- drugs. I pulled a sampling from federal indictments filed by the Maryland U.S. Attorney's Office.  In the past few years, we've had Shelly "Weazy" Martin; Shelton "Little Rock" or "Hard Rock" Harris; and James Roger "Buck Shade" Shade; and Kevin "Red Eyes" Gary.

Other fun nicknames: Shirtman, Turk, Tee Tee, Big Will and Meat Ball.

I'd love to hear favorites from attorneys and prosecutors. I know there are better ones out there. I found a Web site that lists the best nicknames of the Mob. My personal favorite: Stephen "The Rifleman" Fleming.

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Today's column is about a public affairs guy named Steve Sapp who works for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency and seems to love his job. He's also a gift to journalists sick of slogging through boring press releases that clog e-mail accounts and usually end up in the electronic version of the circular file.

I mean, what would you rather read? "Just Announced: Collaboration Within Government Training Workshop" or "Dutch Goose laying Heroin Pellets" (picture at left from U.S. Customs and Border Protection).

Here's Sapp's opening paragraph: "BALTIMORE – A Dutch traveler who arrived to Baltimore-Washington International Airport on Friday from Europe wasn’t the golden goose and he wasn’t laying golden eggs, but what he did pass got him into serious trouble – about 1.2 kilograms of heroin worth of trouble."

The customs agency's web site is full of great reads -- most of them not up to Sapp's style -- but good nonetheless. There's "Cheesy Concealment Nets Border Patrol Stash of Heroin" about how somone baked 11.79 pounds of heroin into two blocks of cheese and hid it in a Mazda in California. And there's "Texas CBP Officers Find Female Hidden in Backseat Speaker Box."

That one comes with a picture of, you guessed it, a woman trying to sneak into the country by hiding in a speaker box of a Honda Odyssey in Brownsville. Even when they're not trying to be funny, they are. According to the press release: "CBP officers routinely find narcotics hidden in a vehicle but in this case it was the driver's wife."

For more like these, visit the U.S. Customs and Broder Protection website. Here is the official, unfunny, complaint from U.S. District Court in Baltimore describing the latest heroin bust at BWI Marshall Airport:

Continue reading "Dead birds and passing heroin pellets" »

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We know the economy is bad and people are eating less, but now we know that the quality of crime at upscale eateries also is on the decline.

Two years ago, we learned about Tommy Bromwell's visit to Ruth's Chris steakhouse in 2001 -- an undercover FBI agent posing as an Atlanta businessman secretly taped the meeting enabling us all to eavesdrop on a profane conversation that had it all: women, booze (whiskey with cherry juice, no less!), sex and bribery.

Ruth's Chris on Water Street near the Inner Harbor is back in the police reports, though lavish dinners sprinkled with recollections of infamous politicians, hob-nobbing with old Colts stars,  owning politicians and bragging about being a rainmaker appears to be out.

The new crime in these hard-times: trying to snag a free meal with an Independence card that provides government assistance to buy food. You can buy produce at the supermarket; you can't buy a steak at Ruth's Chris, as we learn from Baltimore Sun police reporter Richard Irwin in his blotter.

But that's exactly what police say a man tried to do Sunday night. He walked in to the elegant dining room at 8:50 pm. and ordered, according to court charging documents, one side of broccoli, three Budweisers, one slice of cheesecake and one filet. Probably not in that order. The bill came to $67.16.

"Upon presenting the tab to the suspect, the suspect produced an Independence card that was declined," the Baltimore police charging document states. "I then asked the suspect how he was going to pay the bill and he stated that he didn't have any money. The suspect was placed under arrest."

Michael W. Feullard, 27, was charged with one count of theft under $300. He was released from jail on personal bail but I was not able to find him. The address he gave to police, and the phone number, belonged to an old roommate who told me Feullard hadn't been there in months.

What is odd is that Feullard, or his alias, Fullard, doesn't have a single notation on his arrest record throughout Maryland. Makes me curious as to who he is. I also wanted to know what he was wearing -- suit and tie? -- whether he had any money for a tip, whether he was nice to the wait staff and why he couldn't just wash dishes (did they ever do that?), but the manager who had him arrested, Chris Allen, wasn't at work and other officials referred me to the restaurant chain's marketing department. Two calls were not returned.

Thus, I was not able to learn what each item the man ordered cost, nor was I able to determine what exactly he had for his main course. The filet, described by the restaurant's on-line menu as "the most tender cut of corn-fed Midwestern beef" or the petit filet, described as "a smaller, but equally tender filet."

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Turns out New Yorkers do have a sense of humor (even when they don't think they do).

Reporting a column on the four bodies that surfaced in Harbor waters around Baltimore this month, I thought I'd compare it to the notorious dumping ground of the New York mob -- the East River (yes, I'm trying the Pine Barrens too).

The New York Police Department is trying to find out if their East River body county exceeds our Inner Harbor body count, but in the meantime I called the New York City Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. I got a spokeswoman:

"You want what?" she asked.

"I want to know how many bodies you pulled from the East River this year," I answered.

"Dead ones?" she asked, perfectly seriously.

I couldn't help myself:

"Is there any other kind?" I asked.

"Well, yes, sometimes people fall in and we pull them out alive," she answered.

I gave up at that point. I'd love to know how many times the Medical Examiner gets called to cart away a body only to arrive (long after the cops and the paramedics) to find it alive! She sent me to the city's health department, which sent me back to the police.

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