Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Frank MacArthur, aka Baltimore Spectator, was sentenced to three years with all but six-months suspended for possessing a sawed off shotgun.
Frank MacArthur, aka Baltimore Spectator, the blogger who live streamed his standoff with police from inside his Waverly home last December, pleaded guilty to possession of a sawed off shotgun in Baltimore City Circuit Court Wednesday. Mark Cheshire, a spokesman for the Baltimore City State's Attorney's office, said prosecutors were seeking a five year sentence, but MacArthur was sentenced to three years with all but six months suspended. MacArthur, who has been held without bail since his arrest, will receive credit for time served. The issues with MacArthur, 47, started last fall when a warrant was issued for allegedly violating his probation on a previous charge. But he maintained that he was finished probation and could not have …
Monday, May 6, 2013
Frank MacArthur, aka A.F. James MacArthur faces charges of possession of an unregistered shotgun and resisting arrest.
The trial of Frank MacArthur, aka A.F. James MacArthur, the blogger who live streamed his standoff with Baltimore police in his Waverly home in December is scheduled to begin Wednesday. His trial, on charges of possessing an unregistered shotgun and resisting arrest, is set for 2 p.m., in Baltimore City Circuit Court’s East Courthouse, 111 N. Calvert St. MacArthur, 47, has been held at the Baltimore City Detention Center without bail since his arrest. Last fall a warrant was issued for MacArthur for allegedly violating his probation from a previous charge. MacArthur then took to social media and began posting messages that he was being persecuted by the police because of what he was reporting on his blog, Baltimore Spectator, and his …
Monday, March 11, 2013
Frank MacArthur, aka A.F. James MacArthur, will go to trial on gun charges in May.
Frank MacArthur, aka A.F. James MacArthur, the blogger who live streamed his standoff with Baltimore police last year, will go to trial in May. MacArthur, 47, appeared in Baltimore Circuit Court for arraignment Monday and his trial date is scheduled to start 2 p.m., May 8. He pleaded not guilty to charges of possessing an unregistered shotgun and resisting arrest. MacArthur also asked that his bail be reset, but was told the arraignment was not the proper place for that request. He has been held without bail at the Baltimore City Detention Center since surrendering to police following a standoff outside his Waverly home on Dec. 1. Police initially said that MacArthur was wanted for a probation violation. But MacArthur, who blogged as the …
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Can the two get along and does it matter to the information consumer?
On Saturday night, the information age presented the Baltimore area with a highly unusual situation. Local blogger Frank James MacArthur, aka A.F. James MacArthur or Baltimore Spectator, was involved in a standoff with police, who were trying to take him into custody for allegedly violating probation. He has since been taken into custody on gun possession charges stemming from weapons found in the home after the standoff ended. Whereas a decade ago, the information would have predominantly come from television networks and the websites of major news publications. MacArthur used online tools available to tell his side of the story. North Baltimore Patch Local Editor Adam Bednar discussed this topic on the Marc Steiner Show Wednesday on WEAA…
James MacArthur, aka Baltimore Spectator, faces gun charges.
Frank James MacArthur, aka A.F. James MacArthur, was denied bail for gun charges filed after his arrest Saturday night following a standoff with police in Waverly. A Baltimore State’s Attorney's spokesman confirmed that MacArthur had been denied bail on Wednesday afternoon. According to electronic court records, he faces charges for illegal possession of a firearm and for possession of an unregistered rifle/shotgun. MacArthur, 47, Tweeted during a nearly five-hour standoff with police, and live-streamed audio of his conversation with a police negotiator. Police had come to take him into custody on a warrant for allegedly violating his probation that was part of a plea agreement on gun charges filed against him in 2009. MacArthur …
Adam Bednar appeared on the Marc Steiner Show with Hassan Giordano, host of Reporters' Roundtable, to discuss the arrest of A.F. James MacArthur.
Saturday, December 1, 2012
The @BaltSpectator blogger broadcast his negotiations with police via his online streaming website.
(UPDATED) 12:12 a.m.—AF James MacArthur, who blogs as the Baltimore Spectator, live streamed negotiations during a standoff with Baltimore police in Waverly on Saturday night. MacArthur surrendered peacefully, police said. MacArthur was involved in about a four-hour standoff with police and he broadcast the event in its entirety via his account on www.spreaker.com before surrendering. According to electronic court records, MacArthur was wanted for violation of probation regarding gun charges filed in 2009. Police went to his address in the 400 block of McKewin Avenue to take him into custody. When he refused to answer the door, a standoff ensued. Eventually a police SWAT team was called to the scene because of police concerns about …
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