[Chat] Suspicious activity
D. Williams
dwilliamsjhu02 at hotmail.com
Wed Apr 20 10:02:34 EDT 2011
This worries me...I hope that maybe someone will include a blurb about this in the newsletters that go out to the Charles Village and Abel communities.
> Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 06:45:27 -0700
> From: ugagrad93 at yahoo.com
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> CC: davidhill at charlesvillage.org; northerncommunitycouncil at yahoogroups.com; Marypat.clarke at Baltimorecity.gov; Carl.Stokes at baltimorecity.gov
> Subject: Re: [Chat] Suspicious activity
>
> Great job Steve! I've always heard that if something just doesn't feel right, it probably isn't. Thanks for the heads up!
>
> Greg Alexander
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> --- On Wed, 4/20/11, Stephen J Gewirtz <gewirtz at bellatlantic.net> wrote:
>
> > From: Stephen J Gewirtz <gewirtz at bellatlantic.net>
> > Subject: [Chat] Suspicious activity
> > To: "Charles Village Discussion List" <discussion at charlesvillage.info>, "The Charles Village Chat List" <chat at charlesvillage.info>, CVCBDQuad4 at yahoogroups.com
> > Cc: "David Hill" <davidhill at charlesvillage.org>, northerncommunitycouncil at yahoogroups.com, "Stokes, Carl" <Carl.Stokes at baltimorecity.gov>, Marypat.clarke at Baltimorecity.gov
> > Date: Wednesday, April 20, 2011, 12:02 AM
> > A little before 6 p.m. this evening,
> > my doorbell rang. I opened the inner door but not the
> > outer security door which can only be opened with a
> > key. On my porch were a couple, a black male and a
> > white female, college age or more likely a little bit
> > older. They said that they had the wrong person.
> >
> > A few minutes later, I opened the inner door again.
> > The couple were still there, and the man asked me to open
> > the outer security door. I refused. He then
> > tried to sell me on saving money by switching to a
> > guaranteed fixed electric rate instead of paying BGE.
> > I told him that I was not interested, even though he
> > persisted until I ended the conversation. He was
> > carrying a notebook. The woman basically was silent.
> >
> > Something did not add up. How can they have the wrong
> > person and then try to sell me something? And why were
> > they still there? Anyway, I reported it to 911, to a
> > JHU cop who was parked across the street a few minutes
> > later, and to Northern District police who came moments
> > later in response to my 911 call. They said that
> > they would be looking for the couple. I do not know
> > whether, if I had opened my security door, the couple would
> > have rushed in to grab something in my house or worse.
> > I have seen a report that in a nearby neighborhood, people
> > have rung doorbells and asked for someone who does not exist
> > on that block. When they have found a house where
> > nobody is home, they have broken in.
> >
> > I write all this to urge that everyone be very careful
> > about opening a door to a stranger. And if things
> > really do not add up but look suspicious, call 911.
> > What I encountered this evening may be legitimate, but my
> > guess is that it is not. And if it is part of a knock,
> > run in and grab something, and run scheme or some other
> > scheme, the police will definitely appreciate your giving
> > them a heads up on what is happening. After all, the
> > cops cannot be everywhere, so we have to be additional eyes
> > and ears for them.
> >
> > Northern District does an excellent job, but we need to
> > give them all the help we can.
> >
> > Steve
> >
> >
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