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.
so go to norfolk
hey! you wont get lost there so we wont
even have to ask for directions! ;)
Like omigawwwd. We just, like, watched a clip about this story on Fox45? The gal was, like, interviewed and stuff and she was all, like, "I couldn't believe the attitude coming out of her!!!, " and I was all like, "Right or wrong, she just lost all credibility."
I love Kent County, particularly Rock Hall. Unfortunately, it's being invaded by liberals from Philly and Wilmington.
...but then again, what would all the men here do to have their significant other never, EVER ask you to ask for directions again?
Unfortunately, it's being invaded by liberals from Philly and Wilmington.
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That's true. But some of the invaders are not liberals.
Are you familiar with Tolchester?
Tampa FL has Atitude training classes for hyper arrogance for females aspiring to be police officers.
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Do tell.
BTW, I will never get used to female policemen. (Yes, I am a woman.) I cringe every time I see some tiny woman get out of her patrol car on the side of the road and approach a car whose driver is a man. (I even cringe for male police officers, especally at night, with all of the crazy happenings.) Some young, petite female just does not represent the threat of authority, even to a law-abiding man, let alone to some crook with an outstanding warrant.
Like omigawwwd. We just, like, watched a clip about this story on Fox45? The gal was, like, interviewed and stuff and she was all, like, "I couldn't believe the attitude coming out of her!!!, " and I was all like, "Right or wrong, she just lost all credibility."
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I wish I had seen the clip on 45. (No way I would have watched it on Channell 11!) Are you saying that the arrested woman did not seem credible?
I think I met that same officer. He let me go in the end because an accident happened right in front of us. (I think they were rubbernecking) I was doing the speedlimit he was not.
Maryland is not that bad just the I-95 corridor.
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Oh, yeah! Stop over here onna Shore, hon, on your way danny oshun. God's country.
Oh, yeah, b'lieve, hon.
I saw a spoof of that stupid sign in a window in B'more a few years ago. It said "Behave". I loved it.
Don't need to tell me. I spend most of my summers and fall on the shore. Dorchester is the place for me. The mosquitoes keep the liberals away.
The best parts of maryland are in West Virginia.
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Dorchester is the place for me. The mosquitoes keep the liberals away.
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You sure about that now that the new Cambridge super duper resort is in place?
I stay south of the Blackwater :) Nothing but sika deer and mosquitoes for me. The only thing I stop for in Cambridge is the Wawa.
Yep, I own property right next door (Swan Creek).
No1 does crabs or shrimp like MDers. Sorry.
Agreed. We're not all bad. Just B-More City, PG Co (the poor) and Howard & MONTGOMERY Co. (the rich). Interesting how the jurisdictions show how communists attract both the very poor (I'll get something for nothing) and the very rich (we should give *other people's* things to those who are too childish to care for themselves).
And the DAIRY QUEEN!
I'm saying she sounded like a vacuous twit. She may, or may not, actually *be* a vacuous twit but when a person speaks like one it diminishes credibility.
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