7th Baltimore police officer sentenced in towing extortion scheme

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: April 18, 2012
Tags: accident, baltimore police officer, extortion, johnn corona, majestic auto repair shop, prosecutors, restitution, towing company, vehicles

Prosecutors say a Baltimore city police officer has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for his role in a towing company extortion scheme. A statement from the Maryland U.S. Attorney’s Office says 33-year-old Johnn Corona, of Rosedale, was sentenced Tuesday and ordered to pay nearly $21,000 in restitution. Court documents say Corona was one [...]

False-arrest damages reduced by a dollar

BY: Barbara Grzincic
POSTED: March 11, 2012
Tags: Baltimore, baltimore police officer, court of special appeals, damages, Deputy Sheriff Arthur “Barry” Phillips, dollar, false arrest, maryland, reduced, Sgt. Michael Pool

The Court of Special Appeals has affirmed all but $1 of a $200,001 judgment in favor of a deputy sheriff who was arrested by a Baltimore police officer while both responded to a call concerning the mentally ill brother of the deputy’s friend. The appellant, Sgt. Michael Pool, argued that the entire amount should be [...]

Sian James gets 10 years in off-duty detective’s death

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: July 27, 2011
Tags: Baltimore, baltimore city circuit court, baltimore police officer, concrete, detective brian stevenson, involuntary manslaughter, off-duty office, self-defense, sentencing, Sian James

Sian James has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for throwing a chunk of concrete that killed an off-duty Baltimore police officer during a dispute over a parking space. James, 26, was sentenced Wednesday in Baltimore Circuit Court. He had been charged with murder in the death of Detective Brian Stevenson, but a jury [...]

Man gets 12 years in attack on Baltimore officer

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: November 17, 2010
Tags: attacked, Baltimore, baltimore police officer, blinded, detective jermaine cook, Hartford County Circuit Court, joppa, judge stephen waldron, maryland state police, racially motivated, racism, sentence

BEL AIR — A 20-year-old man has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for an attack on a Baltimore police detective that left him legally blind. Detective Jermaine Cook lost his left eye after he was hit in the face by a glass beer mug thrown by James Kimble of Joppa in what authorities [...]