[CV Block Leaders] Safety Alerts

Mon Jul 10 17:06:21 EDT 2006

Hello Block Leaders,

As crime is escalating in our area, it has come to my attention that many of
you are not receiving the area crime alerts and information. I would like to
encourage all of you to sign on to the CVCBD announcement list to receive
safety information. This google group is simple to sign on to. Simply go to
<http://groups.google.com/group/CVCBD-Announcement?lnk=lr&hl=en>
http://groups.google.com/group/CVCBD-Announcement?lnk=lr&hl=en and click
"join this group" under the list title. You can also read the latest alerts
without signing onto the list by visiting this page. If you join the group,
the alerts will be delivered to your email inbox.

Please do sign on to the above list. I will do my best to get information
out to all of you as it comes in through early August.

Here is today's posting:
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The following report is from today's (07/10/06) JHU security office:

OFF-CAMPUS

ARMED ROBBERY

700 Block West 33rd Street

July 9, 2006 - 3:20 AM

On July 9th at 3:20 AM, as two graduate students walked home from a
convenience store, a mini-van stopped in front of them. Two unknown male
suspects stepped out of it; one pointed a shotgun and demanded the students'

property. The victims relinquished their wallets to the suspects who ran
back to the purplish-blue van which then drove away eastbound on W. 33rd St.

No injuries. Baltimore Police and Campus Officers responded.

Investigation continuing.

Description of Suspect:

1. Black male, 150-160 lbs., dark complexion, wearing a light T-shirt and
carrying a shotgun.

2. White male, 5'8" tall, 150-160 lbs.

3 & 4. Two black males who remained inside the purplish-blue mini-van.

* If you have any information regarding this incident please call the
Northern District Police - -410-396-2455 or JHU Campus Safety and Security -

- 410-516-4600.

And this came in from the Abell community newslist. It's a great list to be
on, as many security alerts are passed around on this list. Some
non-security Abell Association items are also posted. If you're interested
in joining, please visit
<http://abellimprovement.org/mailman/listinfo/members_abellimprovement.org>
http://abellimprovement.org/mailman/listinfo/members_abellimprovement.org
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Yesterday afternoon, there was an attempt to break into a house on the 300
block of East 33rd Street.  Fortunately, the attempt failed.  It is one more
reminder that we all need to be vigilant and to make sure that our houses
and apartments are locked both when we are away and when we are at home.

Yesterday's crime comes after the arrest of Keith Ray, so even though the
victim of yesterday's attempt thought that the perpetrator was the one
responsible for a recent string of violent crimes, it appears to be either
an unrelated or a copycat crime.

I have attached below the article from today's Sun about the arrest of Mr.
Ray.  AIA is in the process of joining others led by City Council Member
Mary Pat Clarke to ask that Mr. Ray be denied bail because there is just too
much danger that he will kill someone if he is allowed back on the streets.
But meanwhile, it is all too clear that other criminals are on the loose.

We can be safe as long as we are sufficiently cautious.

Steve.

 <http://www.baltimoresun.com/>  

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http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-md.arrest10jul10,0,7574622.story?
coll=bal-local-headlines 

>From the Baltimore Sun 

Police arrest suspect in string of robberies

City police track stolen cell phone to county address

By Gus G. Sentementes
Sun reporter

July 10, 2006

Following a lead that took them to Baltimore County, city police detectives
have arrested a man they say is responsible for a spree of brazen armed
robberies, carjackings and home invasions over the past two months in
Central and North Baltimore. 

Two detectives went Saturday night to the home of a woman they believed
might know the suspect because a call was made to her on a cell phone
shortly after it had been stolen. While the detectives were talking to her,
a man entered the home, saw the police and fled, crashing through a sliding
glass door, police said. Detectives chased and arrested the man. 

Police have charged the man in connection with three armed robberies in the
city's Central District, and they believe he is the same man responsible for
a series of home invasions, carjackings and armed robberies in the northern
and northeastern parts of the city. 

Police identified the suspect as Keith Ray, 36, who was arrested in the
first block of Comet Court in the Hillendale section. He was released from
prison on parole in April after serving a 14-year sentence for armed robbery
and handgun violations, police said. 

Officials said that Ray, whose last known address was in the 300 block of E.
21st St., has been charged in three robberies in the Central District. 

Maj. Michael Tabor, who oversees the detective units in each of the city's
nine districts, said he had tasked "a slew" of detectives to work on the
case as police began to see the patterns of a one-man crime wave emerging. 

A break in the case came when a cell phone stolen in a robbery was used to
call the Baltimore County address, Tabor said. Police had obtained a
subpoena to access cell-phone records and discovered the call made to a
Comet Court address about 20 minutes after a robbery last month, Tabor said.

"This suspect is going to be linked to several robberies across the city,"
Tabor said. 

Police believe that one man, wearing a mask or other coverings on his face,
has been responsible for a wave of stickups - on the street and inside homes
- in at least nine cases since May. At least one victim told police that the
man admitted that he needed money to feed his drug habit. 

In one incident, he held up a 63-year-old law school professor outside his
Guilford home, forced him to drive to an ATM, stole $1,200 from him, and
then dropped him off in Reservoir Hill - without his pants. 

The robber also held up four women in their Guilford home, forcing one of
them to go to a nearby ATM and a grocery store to obtain cash while he held
her roommates at gunpoint. In Northeast Baltimore, a couple were carjacked
outside their home at gunpoint and forced to drive to an ATM. 

Last week, a 27-year-old woman was the victim of a carjacking after she
parked her car in a Charles
<http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/visitor/bal-guide-charlesvillage,
1,2910595.htmlstory?coll=bal-local-headlines> Village alley in the 3000
block of St. Paul Street. The man ordered her to drive to an ATM and
withdraw hundreds of dollars while he sat in the back seat with a gun
pointed at her. He then dropped her off in downtown Baltimore. 

Maj. Michael Pristoop said detectives were working over the weekend to sift
through evidence that might link the man to the incidents in his Northern
District and in the Northeastern district. 

"We are investigating the probability that he is responsible for all, if not
most, that occurred in the Northern District and in Ednor Gardens. We're
looking at the strong possibility that he is involved in those cases and
more throughout the city," Pristoop said. 

Tabor said that Detective James Schuler and Detective Sgt. Randy Dull
believed they had found the right man when he walked in the door of the home
on Comet Court and began acting nervously before he fled. They noticed
tattoos on his arms that were similar to those described by robbery victims,
he said. After the man was arrested, police found a driver's license from
one of the victims in his pocket, Tabor said. 

Detectives have served search-and-seizure warrants on three locations in the
city that they believe the suspect frequented, including an address in Ednor
Gardens, where they searched a Jeep that they believe was used during the
crimes. 

Inside the Jeep, Tabor said, detectives found a mask, bandanas, hosiery and
a pellet gun that they believe was used in the crimes. 

gus.sentementes at baltsun.com
<http://www.baltimoresun.com/about/bal-reporterfeedback,0,4526743.htmlstory?
recipient=gus.sentementes at baltsun.com> 

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Jeni Spevak
Block Leader Coordinator
Charles Village Community Benefits District
2301 N Charles St - Baltimore, MD 21218
410-235-4411 x16

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