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<DIV><SPAN class=859314920-10072006><FONT face=Arial size=2><STRONG>Hello Block
Leaders,</STRONG></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=859314920-10072006><FONT face=Arial size=2><STRONG>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 </STRONG><A
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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.</STRONG></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=859314920-10072006><FONT face=Arial size=2><STRONG>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.</STRONG></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=859314920-10072006><FONT face=Arial size=2><STRONG>Here is
today's posting:</STRONG></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=859314920-10072006></SPAN><SPAN class=859314920-10072006><FONT
size=2>The following report is from today's (07/10/06) JHU security
office:</FONT></DIV>
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<P><FONT size=2>OFF-CAMPUS</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>ARMED ROBBERY</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>700 Block West 33rd Street</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>July 9, 2006 - 3:20 AM</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>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'</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>property. The victims relinquished their wallets to the suspects
who ran back to the purplish-blue van which then drove away eastbound on W.<SPAN
class=859314920-10072006> </SPAN></FONT><FONT size=2>33rd St.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>No injuries. Baltimore Police and Campus Officers
responded.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>Investigation<SPAN class=859314920-10072006>
</SPAN>continuing.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>Description of Suspect:</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>1. Black male, 150-160 lbs., dark complexion, wearing a light
T-shirt and carrying a shotgun.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>2. White male, 5'8" tall, 150-160 lbs.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>3 & 4. Two black males who remained inside the purplish-blue
mini-van.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>* If you have any information regarding this incident please
call the Northern District Police - -410-396-2455 or JHU Campus Safety and
Security -</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>- 410-516-4600.</FONT></P></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=859314920-10072006><STRONG>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
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=859314920-10072006><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>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.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>We can be safe as
long as we are sufficiently cautious.<BR><BR>Steve.<BR><BR></FONT>
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<P><CITE>From the Baltimore Sun</CITE> </P>
<H1>Police arrest suspect in string of robberies</H1>
<H2>City police track stolen cell phone to county address</H2>
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Gus G. Sentementes<BR>Sun reporter<BR><BR>July 10, 2006<BR><BR>
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<P>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. </P>
<P>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. </P>
<P>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. </P>
<P>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. </P>
<P>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. </P>
<P>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. </P>
<P>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. </P>
<P>"This suspect is going to be linked to several robberies across the city,"
Tabor said. </P>
<P>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. </P>
<P>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. </P>
<P>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. </P>
<P>Last week, a 27-year-old woman was the victim of a carjacking after she
parked her car in a <A
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Village</A> 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. </P>
<P>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. </P>
<P>"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. </P>
<P>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. </P>
<P>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. </P>
<P>Inside the Jeep, Tabor said, detectives found a mask, bandanas, hosiery and
a pellet gun that they believe was used in the crimes. </P>
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