Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is investigating claims that a plainclothes unit of the Baltimore Police Department falsified reports to help their cases, the Baltimore Sun reports. The complaints come from Kendall Richburg, who served on the Violent Crimes Impact Section and was charged with federal drug and gun offenses. The Sun reported that Richburg…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A Baltimore cop is off to prison for two years and six months for extortion in a towing scheme that scandalized the department. U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake of Baltimore on Monday sentenced Baltimore office Jerry Diggs, Jr., 25, who was involved in a scheme in which brothers Hernan Moreno…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Baltimore cop Gregory Mussmacher was convicted in state court of assault after he used his police baton to strike a handcuffed and shackled juvenile in the head and face. But the conviction was reversed. So in stepped the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, which convicted Mussmacher in May for the 2004…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — A Baltimore cop and two retired ones were charged with federal civil rights violations and obstruction of justice in connection with the 2004 beating of a shackled juvenile with a police baton and a pool stick. In a six-count indictment unsealed Friday, the Justice Department charged that officer Gregory…
