Crime & Safety
Citizen Patrol Walk Nabs Man Wanted for Burglary
Student notices man on roof who was wanted on burglary warrants.
UPDATE (2:30 p.m.)—Christina Warner, 21, was participating in her second Citizen on Patrol Walk with her sorority sisters from Pi Beta Phi chapter at Johns Hopkins University on Tuesday night when she noticed someone suspicious on a roof in the 3000 block of Guilford Avenue.
Warner said she was in an alley between row homes when she looked up and saw a man who then quickly crouched down. At first she thought it was just a resident, but the fact that none of the lights in the home were on began to bother her. So she reported what she saw to an off duty Baltimore police officer who was on the patrol.
"That was definitely weird so I mentioned it," Warner, a senior from Tampa, FL, said.
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It turned out Warner's instincts were spot on, after the information was forwarded along to Baltimore police officers, they went up on the roof and arrested and charged the man with trespassing.
The man, later identified as Glenn Davis, 46, was also wanted on a warrant for burglary, said Baltimore City police spokesman Detective Kevin Brown.
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Diana Mitchell, who runs the Charles Village Community Benefits District safety program, said it shows the positive impact the walks have in the community.
“I think it’s a fabulous example of just how helpful COP walks are,” Mitchell said.
The benefits district, which is funded with a surtax charged to property owners in the Charles Village area, has organized several walks.
There are patrol walks on Wednesday and Thursday nights aimed at residents, and a walk geared toward the Johns Hopkins University community on Tuesday night. There’s also a bike patrol on Wednesday and a midnight patrol on Friday nights that focuses on lower Charles Village and Old Goucher communities.
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