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Posted on 05/17/2006 12:00:24 PM PDT by fjsva
Baltimore City police arrested a Virginia couple over the weekend after they asked an officer for directions.
WBAL-TV 11 News I-Team reporter David Collins said Joshua Kelly and Llara Brook, of Chantilly, Va., got lost leaving an Orioles game on Saturday. Collins reported a city officer arrested them for trespassing on a public street while they were asking for directions .
"In jail for eight hours -- sleeping on a concrete floor next to a toilet," Kelly said.
"It was a nightmare," Brook said. "I was in there thinking I was just dreaming and waiting to wake up."
Collins reported it was a nightmare ending to a nearly perfect day. He said the couple went to a company picnic and watched the Orioles beat Kansas City. It was their first trip to Camden Yards and asked two people for directions to Interstate 95 South when they left.
Collins said somehow they ended up in the Cherry Hill section of south Baltimore. Hopelessly lost, relief melted away concerns after they spotted a police vehicle.
"I said, 'Thank goodness, could you please get us to 95?" Kelly said.
"The first thing that she said to us was no -- you just ran that stop sign, pull over," Brook said. "It wasn't a big deal. We'll pay the stop sign violation, but can we have directions?"
"What she said was 'You found your own way in here, you can find your own way out.'" Kelly said.
Collins said the couple spotted another police vehicle and flagged that officer down for directions. But Officer Natalie Preston, a six-year veteran of the force, intervened.
"That really threw us for a loop when she stepped in between our cars," Kelly said. "(She) said my partner is not going to step in front of me and tell you directions if I'm not."
Collins reported the circumstances got worse. Kelly pulled 40 feet forward parking next to a curb and put his flashers on while Brook was on the phone to her father hoping he could help her with directions. Both her parents are police officers in the Harrisburg, Pa., area.
"(Brook's father) was in the middle of giving us directions when the officer screeched up behind us and got out of the car and asked me to step out. I obeyed," Kelly said. "I obeyed everything -- stepped out of the car, put my hands behind my back, and the next thing I know, I was getting arrested for trespassing."
"By this time, I was completely in tears," Brook said. "I said, 'Ma'am, you know, we just need your help. We are not trying to cause you any trouble. I'm not leaving him here.' What she did was walk over to my side of the car and said, 'Ok, we are taking you downtown, too.'"
Collins said the couple was released from jail without being charged with anything. Brook is now concerned the arrest may complicate a criminal background check she's going through in her job as a child care worker.
Collins said police left Kelly's car unlocked and the windows down at the impound lot. He reported a cell phone charger, pair of sunglasses and 20 CDs were stolen.
Baltimore City police said they are looking into the incident.
She and Billy Bob LOOK vacuous, too (see pix). She looks like a typical '90s/00s vegetarian; wan and pale.
However, this still sounds ridiculous to me. I'd like to see the whole story, but even the most "condemning" reports so far (I live here) look as if there was "excessive force", if you will.
Oh I agree. Given the cesspool that Baltimordor is, their story is completely plausible to me. However, this young woman, and young women in general, would do well to learn to stand up straight and speak clearly and cogently. They do themselves no favors by, like, talking, all like, teeney-boppers.
She may, or may not, actually *be* a vacuous twit but when a person speaks like one it diminishes credibility.
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I know what you mean.
Nothing but sika deer and mosquitoes for me.
LOL!
What about the development they're trying to put on the Blackwater? Sounds awful.
Yep, I own property right next door (Swan Creek).
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Well, then we're practically neighbors.
He immediately wrote me a ticket for parking in a no-parking zone.
Place hasn't gotten better.
In recent years black motorists got the idea Maryland cops were targeting them. Lotsa'luck. Maryland cops target everybody, and then show us they use lots of dope.
Couple of years back the FBI caught the Maryland disease and an agent managed to shoot a Boy Scout in the face while his hands were raised per the agent's directions.
I try to avoid Maryland and have regularly gone through West Virginia to do just that.
Gosh, and LEOs wonder why they don't get more respect.....
Most LEO are working to protect the interests of government. Where the interest of government and the interest of the citizenry clash, most LEO are working to protect the interest of government.
Couple arrested for trespassing hire attorney, plan to sue the city
My new best friend
Be careful when you go there next. I'm glad you survived when you were dating Beth that summer.
Same here.
I'd be willing to bet both my kidneys that you are correct on that count.
And you would expect to get the truth? Hardee har har.
Correction:
Baltimore needs to be placed in Toto. Preferably from behind.
LOL! You don't have to ask for directions to there; just look for the parked police cars.
"Wonder what the racial makup of the players involved?"
Vikings.
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