No drugs were found... but harm was purposely inflicted!
Posted on 12/23/2005 1:36:58 PM PST by seacapn
It was 28 seconds past 7:45 p.m. on Aug.18 when the 911 dispatcher took the call from Sascha Wagner. “There’s someone breaking into the house,” she yelled at the 911 operator, giving the address of the home she shares with David Scheper on the 800 block of West Lombard Street. “Send police now!”
The intruders? They got in. They took $1,440 in cash Scheper says he withdrew from his bank account in order to buy a used pickup truck. They hit a 70-year-old art-deco-style metal desk with an ax. They took 18 of Scheper’s guns—mostly inoperable antiques, he says—and some gun-shaped props he had built for movies. “They threatened to blow up my safe,” Scheper says, so he opened it for them. They face no criminal charges.
The intruders were William T. Bristol and Antwyne R. Jones, Baltimore Police Department detectives with the Organized Crime Division.
They had gone to Scheper’s house as part of a drug investigation, according to the Statement of Probable Cause filed in court as part of the case against Scheper. Scheper says the detectives were looking for a housemate he had evicted some three weeks before, who in turn was connected to a man they had arrested. Police officers stayed in Scheper’s house for hours and left three empty pizza boxes there after turning the place upside-down, according to photos that Scheper says were taken just afterward.
(Excerpt) Read more at citypaper.com ...
EDIT: There should be a "snip" between the first and second paragraphs.
It being Baltimore (or any large city) I might be wrong assuming the story is true this guy is going to get his payback and then some and some police will soon be retiring.
No drugs were found... but harm was purposely inflicted!
RICO in uniform.
That's Baltimore for ya!
"Blue" City Ping!
YOUGOTIT!
FMCDH(BITS)
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There are a load of shysters out there preying on the urban underclass, convincing them they can get criminal records expunged. It's a shame, really. As an employer who does background checks on potential employees, I see the bewilderment and then outrage when I inform a candidate that their little foray into controlled substance distribution still shows up (even if the disposition is stet or nol pros).
I've been told by our background vendor that the only route to expungement is through the governor, and even then it's a document attached to the record itself.
The war on drugs has not reduced drug use or sales. It has only increased police power and abuses. Was that its purpose? If not, it is a complete failure. If so, it is a roaring success.
The police claim they went in when they heard a shot fired.
Thats pretty tough to believe as cops usually go back out and call the Swat guys in ther Ninja oufits and toy soldier uniforms when shots are fired.
Sounds to me like a typical Baltimore screw-up. Too bad the couple isnt black, They could have Jesse there inciting riots.
By the way Baltimore is the Home of Martin O'Malley who has Md4bush working to get him the Governors job.
Baltimore's Ham handed police in action again.
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