An former Baltimore Police detective testified Tuesday that several corrupt Baltimore cops kept fake guns in their cars to plant on suspects in case they were ever accused of a “dirty shooting.”
Maurice Ward, who is a former member of Baltimore’s Gun Trace Task Force — the group now involved in an ongoing corruption trial in Maryland — told the jury that while on duty with the Task Force, he noticed that several of his colleagues kept BB guns and other fake weapons in their glove compartments. Ward claimed they kept the toys “in case we accidentally hit somebody or got into a shootout, so we could plant them,” according to the Baltimore Sun.
Although Ward was unable to say whether Baltimore cops had actually ever planted a fake weapon on a dead suspect, at least one of the defendants, one of Ward’s fellow detectives, was found to have a fake gun in his glove compartment following his 2015 arrest. – READ MORE
[give_form id=”79809″] [divider][/divider]The new year was only 16 hours old before Baltimore, Maryland, racked up its first murders of 2018. This news comes on the tail of a 2017 that saw the city suffer its highest murder rates ever.
Two residents were killed, one just before 4PM on January 1, and the other two hours later, according to Baltimore’s CBS affiliate.
Baltimore Police reported that the first murder occurred in the 2000 block of Eagle St. on New Year’s Day at 3:40 PM. The victim was shot in the neck and taken to the hospital where he later died.
The second victim was shot and killed in a parking lot in the 5100 block of Goodnow Rd, police said. In the second incident, another man was wounded but is now in stable condition.
The two latest murders started the clock running for 2018, but 2017 already rang in with the city’s worst murder rate ever. – READ MORE
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