Central
1826 - Central/Middle District History - 03-09-1826 Central District was first known as the Middle District and was first located at Holiday and Saratoga Streets, it was established on 03-09-1826, the building that housed Central was built in 1802 and was in use by the police until 1870. From there they moved to 202 N. Guilford Avenue, (North Street) that building was brand new built in 1870 and used until 1908. On March 4, 1908, Central moved to Saratoga and St. Paul Streets, a renovated schoolhouse. That location was used until 09-12-1926 when they went to Fallsway and Fayette St. sharing the Headquarters building built in 1926 and used until 09-12-1977 when they moved to 500 E. Baltimore St.
Central District
$500 in 1870 is worth $10,370.08 today (2021)
Historic 1870 Baltimore City Check for the iron work of the Central Police Station House. The check from the Baltimore Comptroller's check for five hundred dollars is dated 20 Sept. 1870 for "Erecting Central Police Station House." Made payable to J. Thomas Scharf. Scarf chaired the construction project, was an American historian, author, journalist, antiquarian, politician, lawyer and Confederate States of America soldier and sailor. He is best known for his published historical works. Modern historians and researchers cite his comprehensive histories as primary source materials. His signature is on the reverse of this check as it was endorsed. Also signed by Robert Banks the then Mayor of Baltimore.
$29,889 in 1870 is worth $619,902.42 today (2021)
1826 - Central/Middle District History -03-09-1826 Central District was first known as the Middle District and was first located at Holiday and Saratoga Streets, it was established on 03-09-1826, the building that housed Central was built in 1802 and was in use by the police until 1870. From there they moved to 202 N. Guilford Avenue, (North Street) that building was brand new built in 1870 and used until 1908. On March 4, 1908, Central moved to Saratoga and St. Paul Streets, a renovated schoolhouse. That location was used until 09-12-1926 when they went to Fallsway and Fayette St. sharing the Headquarters building built in 1926 and used until 09-12-1977 when they moved to 500 E. Baltimore St.
Sun paper -This pic was taken for the Bicentennial Parade 1933
The Central District is comprised of Downtown Baltimore, the Inner Harbor, Mount Vernon, and Lexington Market, among other locations. Some of Baltimore's most well-known buildings are located in the Central District, including the Hippodrome Theatre, Lexington Market, the Alex Brown Building, the Baltimore Convention Center, and Baltimore's City Hall, to name just a few.
Neighborhoods
Bolton Hill, Reservoir Hill, Charles North, Chinatown, Downtown Baltimore, Druid Heights, Harborplace, Heritage Crossing, Inner Harbor, Lexington Market, Lexington Terrace, Madison Park, McCullough Homes, Mid-Town, Midtown-Belvedere, Mount Vernon, Seton Hill, University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB), Upton,
Neighborhood Resources
Druid Heights Community Development Corp. - Marble Hill Community Association - Mount Royal Improvement Association - Station North Art & Entertainment District, Downtown Partnership -
Central District
Fallen Officers
1808 - 15 March 1808 - We lost our Brother Night Watchman George Workner CD
1857 - 14 October 1857 - We lost our Brother Sergeant William Jourdan CD
1871 - 22 May, 1871 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Joseph Clark CD
1873 - 6 October 1873 - We lost our Brother Patrolman Thomas Marshal Baldwin CD
1894 - 20 June, 1894 - We lost our Brother Police Officer James T. Dunn CD
1894 - 20 June, 1894 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Michael Neary CD
1909 - 4 March 1909 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Thomas H. Worthington CD
1910 - 16 Sept1910 - We lost our Brother Police Officer John T. Tuohy CD
1911 - 16 September 1911 - We lost our Brother Sergeant Joseph Smyth CD
1919 - 3 July 1919 - We lost our Brother Police Officer John J. Lanahan CD
1924 - 2 March 1924 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Frank L. Latham CD
1925 - 18 May 1925 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Patrick J Coniffee CD
1925 - 3 August 1925 - We lost our Brother Patrolman Irvin E Martz CD
1926 - 9 February 1926 We lost our Brother Police Officer Milton Heckwolf CD
1927 - 7 Dec 1927 - We lost our Brother Patrolman Harry Sullivan CD
1936 - 29 October 1936 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Carroll Hanley CD
1940 - 13 June 1940 - We lost our Brother Police Officer William L. Ryan CD
1943 - 13 June 1943 - We lost our Brother Police Officer William J. Woodcock CD
1946 - 1 March 1946, We lost our Brother Patrolman George H. Weichert CD
1947 - 13 January 1947 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Fred R. Unger CD
1951 - 23 June 1951 - We lost our Brother Patrolman Arthur Weiss CD
1962 - 2 July 1962 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Edward J. Kowalewski CD
1962 - 7 April, 1962 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Henry Smith, Jr. CD
1964 - 10 January 1964 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Francis R. Stransky CD
1970 - 24 April 1970 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Donald W. Sager CD
1970 - 24 March 1970 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Henry M. Mickey CD
1978 - 15 February 1978 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Edgar J. Rumpf CD
1989 - 10 October 1989 - We lost our Brother Police Officer William J. Martin CD
1993 - 26 May 1993 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Herman A. Jones, Sr. CD
1998 - 30 October 1998 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Harold Jerome Carey CD
2011 - 9 January 2011 - We lost our Brother Police Officer William Henry Torbit, Jr.CD
2012 - 29 August 2012 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Forrest "Dino" Taylor CD
May they Rest In Peace
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Article published 14 Nov 1948
Sun paper Picture
Central District's Community Relations Center
Courtesy of P/O Edward Chaney
Central District Major Crimes
Left to Right Edward Chaney, Kenny Driscoll, Pam Storto, Janice Sauble Peters, Randy Dull
John Emminnizer, Danny Mitchell, Jim Schular, Jim Eigner
Sketch by Ret Det Kenny Driscoll
Central's P/O Arron Faulkner
Courtesy Robert Oros
Jim Holford and his Shopplifter
Officer Rudy Metzger
Taken of a CD policeman from about 1959/60... he has a low badge number...
The pic was taken in the area of the Central known at the time as the "POT"
Courtesy Bernard Leo Wehage
Courtesy of Joe Donato
Courtesy Jan Humble
This photo was taken in the old Central District HQ building Sunday morning change over day. Sitting at the desk on the right was OIC Bobby Costin with Bill Humble standing at the desk. Officer standing behind him is his partner, Paul Steimetz. The officer sitting at the desk in the background is Sgt Clemments, who was shot and killed by his ex-wife
Courtesy Robert Jones
Friends and Partners
Courtesy Tom Wade
An All-Star Cast Central's Real Police I was honored to have worked with these Guys
This group along with Jeff Wright, Ken Finkenbinder, Rich Koel (Marines) and Tom Sparenberg were honored to participate in a Marine Corps Honor Guard service for Mac and his family at the National Cemetery. This is a combined more than one thousand years of Baltimore Police and military service in this group. Mac, should know we were all proud to be part of your life and legacy. You will never be forgotten.
This is what I made
In my head this was how I thought it looked LOL
Courtesy of Joe Donato
Courtesy Sally Thorpe Curimbaba
George Washington Monument
Courtesy William Davis
Courtesy William Davis
Courtesy of Joe Donato
Outside Headquarters
Outside Central
Courtesy of Joe Donato
Central Digital Oil Paint
Outside Central
Courtesy of Joe Donato
Outside Central
Parking Lot
Courtesy of Joe Donato
Dougy Patterson
Courtesy Jules Pritchard
Randy Hayes
1990-1992
Central's Midnight Shift
Dundalk Ave
Broadway
Courtesy of Joe Donato
Eastern
Fallsway
Jules Pritchard
Central
Four Cowboys
Courtesy of Joe Donato
Robert Jones
Robert Jones
Robert Jones Robert Oros
This is the theft from auto suspect from the, "Let's Make a Deal" story below
he sleeps through his arrest. The best part of this pic wasn't in the pic but
was when Det Jim Schuler bumped a nest of maggot larva that was in the
rafter above his head. The maggots dropped onto his head and down his shirt
Let's Make a Deal
A suspect was arrested for theft from an auto, where he was caught because he left his birth certificate at the scene inside a car he had broken into and stolen the radio, a briefcase, and other valuables. It is important to note that no one saw him, he could have said he lost it, someone stole it from him, or any number of other bad excuses. But Ken knew that he had been arrested once before, where he fought a security guard and got away, but during the struggle, he stripped out of his coat to make his escape. The only problem was that in his coat pocket at the time was this wallet, so he was identified via the MD state ID card found in a wallet in the pocket of that coat. Ken told him, "It was the second time he had been caught because he left his ID at a crime scene." Ken explained that he felt the suspect was doing this on purpose because he wanted to get caught, he was doing the break-ins for drug money, and he wasn't proud of being an addict. Ken said he felt he wanted to get caught, telling the suspect police they were not fast enough. "So consciously or subconsciously, he was wanting to get caught," Ken said, and he left his ID to help police get him. Ken went on to say, "Now let's talk about the stuff you did where you were not caught." In the end the guy admitted to over 200 cars had he had broken into from parking garages downtown. They picked two of the two hundred or more and charged him with them in addition to the one they had him for that he left his birth certificate. Ken told him he was facing as much as 15 years and that he needed some more serious time, time to really get himself clean, pointing out that in most cases, 15 years is only seven and a half years of time served, followed by seven and a half years of parole. Then Ken asked him how much time he could realistically do. He answered he could do five years, adding that would be about two and a half years served and another two and a half on parole. Ken said, "So, you only want to do about a third of the fifteen. OK, I'll try, but you may have to do as many as seven, or three and a half inside and three and a half in parole for the half of fifteen you are actually looking at… But you have cooperated and have always cooperated with me, so I'll see what I can do to get you the five."
A month went by, and when they got to court, Ken asked the assistant state's attorney what she was going to ask the judge for in the way of a sentence, and she said, "We're going to ask for three years." Ken told her to ask for five years, and she asked him if he thought the suspect would accept a plea bargain of five. Ken said, "I know he will." He explained that he had already gotten a confession and talked him into the five-year period. " She agreed and told the defense attorney she was asking for a five-year period A little bit later, the suspect was brought out of the lockup and sat in the front row Ken was sitting in the second row, the suspect leaned back and asked if Ken had talked to the state's attorney. Ken told him that he had and that the state's attorney had agreed to the five-year period Ken said, "I had to talk her into it, and there was a difference of two years between what she was asking and what she finally agreed to it!" The defense attorney never said anything other than to thank Ken. I would bet he was thinking that she wanted seven years. Compared to the fifteen he was looking at, it was only a third, and Ken had pointed out that this guy really did need the time to get himself cleaned up. Sure, they have drugs on the inside too, but the cost is much higher, and as a result, a lot of guys like this guy, who have no one on the outside to fund their habit, will get themselves clean
Courtesy Sgt J Baker
Courtesy Sgt J Baker
Courtesy William Davis
Courtesy William Davis
The Squad 1996
Central Major Crimes DDU
Back Row - Det Jimmy Eigner, Det Kenny Driscoll, Det Jimmy Schuler, Major Steve McMahon
Front Row - Det Ed Chaney, Det Danny Mitchell, Det Pam Storto, Det Janice Peters, DetJohn Emminizer, Sgt. Randy Dull
Courtesy William Davis
Courtesy William Davis
Courtesy William Davis
William Bertazon
Robert M Hurley
Brian Hamner
Calpin and Driscoll 1992
Driscoll and Calpin circa 2016
We used to use movies lines to make us laugh. and sometimes a movie line worked perfect with whatever was going on. These kinds of things lightened the mood during some dark times, Two of our favorites line were, "Write his name; Now strike a line through it" from The Quite Man and from the movie Next of Kin "Together we made a pretty mean pair of two"
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