Archive for July 2023

With the school year beginning, police across the country have some warnings for parents. “We’ve all slipped into that summer mode where we’ve kind of let our guard down and we’re in relaxation mode,” Officer Chuck McPhilamy, the public information officer with Marietta Police Department said. He added that safety starts at home, by keeping…

An MS-13 snitch detailed an attempted hit on a 16-year-old boy Tuesday, telling a Brooklyn federal jury how the gang’s alleged leader ordered up the kill — and promoted him after the bungled shooting, which left the victim paralyzed. Jose Gonzalez, 24, testified that his former gang boss Melvi Amador-Rios — who is standing trial…

Having served less than a decade of his life sentence, 28-year-old Capone Chase joined his defense counsel over Zoom on Dec. 6 to argue his trial counsel’s ineffectiveness in addressing a suspected drunk juror among other red flags during his trial eight years ago. Capone, who was a member of the Black Guerilla Family gang,…

Homicide defendant Justin Westbrook didn’t like it when 36-year-old Damon Bailey “disrespected the Rolling 60s” Crips gang in Baltimore. At the conclusion of Westbrook’s trial on Feb. 27, a Baltimore City prosecutor told jurors that this disrespect is what led the 26-year-old defendant to shoot and kill Bailey on June 10, 2020. Defense attorney James…

Homicide defendant Damien Woods’ retrial for the murder of 34-year-old Tracy Whiting was scheduled for this September after a hung jury resulted in a mistrial last year. The 36-year-old Baltimore man was charged with first-degree murder and two weapons charges in connection to Whiting’s death on Nov. 4, 2018. Four years later, Woods went to…

Nearly three months after he was indicted for his alleged involvement in a criminal organization, defendant Ernest Hudson was denied bail on June 27 in connection to an attempted murder last spring. The 37-year-old defendant is charged with participating in a criminal organization in addition to homicide, attempted murder, drug, and weapons charges stemming back…

On July 17, three co-defendants had their trial further postponed as a Baltimore City Circuit Court judge set a special zoom meeting for all attorneys involved to figure out a trial date that works for everyone. Gregory Beadles, Karon Tyree Johnson, and Pierre Briggs are three members of the ‘39 Babies’ gang that are on…

A defendant stood before a Baltimore City Circuit Court judge on July 24 to schedule his trial in connection to the murder of Marquis Carter in 2022. Judge Melissa M. Phinn, Dayvonta Mackey and his attorney, Amanda Savage, who stood in for Benjamin Charlton, scheduled a motions hearing for Oct. 30. Judge Phinn also reiterated…

As a leader in the murderous MS-13 gang, Melvi Amador-Rios—nicknamed “Pinky”—ordered a hit on a 16-year-old boy in a New York City park that was so brutal it left the teenage nearly decapitated, federal prosecutors say. Amador-Rios ordered the murders of at least four people during his reign as kingpin of the Centrales Locos Salvatruchas—a…