Patrolman Ronald H. Teufer Sr

The Teufers

 Week's Weddings

The Sun (1837-1987); 

Jun 29, 1958

TEUFER - SCHWARTZ
The marriage of Miss Erma Lee Schwartz, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roland L. Schwartz, of 705 South Baylis Street, and Mr. Ronald Henry Teufer, son of Mrs. Henry G. Teufer, of 7236 Bridgewood drive, and the late Mr. Teufer, took place June 7 at Salem Evangelical United Brethren Church. The Rev. Fred Fischer performed the ceremony. A reception was held at the Knights of Columbus  Hall. The bride was given in marriage by her father. After a wedding rip to  Florida, Mr. and Mrs. Teufer are living at 406 South East Avenue.

 

Starting Pay in 1959 - $133.18

Patrolman Ronald H. Teufer loading horse - old stables on Frederick St.

SUSPECTS ARRESTED IN 2 ROBBERIES

The Sun (1837-1987); 

Sep 16, 1969

pg. C26 FOUR SUSPECTS ARRESTED TWO ROBBERIES – BANK, GROCERY, LOAN COMPANY HELD UP; $9354 TAKEN
City police and FBI as he picked up for social yesterday in the properties of a bank and lending company office.

The FBI had arrested a fifth man earlier in the day, and charged him with the September eat holdup of the Maryland national bank branch in Randallstown.

Robbers did better yesterday in Joppatowne, where two armed bandits escaped with some $2000 after holding up in a in the supermarket and jump as a shopping center

$7004 TAKEN
Will in the largest of city holdups, two young men bolted the counter of the trust company branch in Edmondson village and raked $7024 from the cash drawers while a third stood at the event or with a pistol.

Police said one of the bandits fired a shot into the back ceiling and that a customer took a shot at the third as he chased him down the street.

Police and FBI agents took too young man, 18 and 21 years old, in the custody at 1 PM three hours after the order. They said the suspects, who were arrested at the younger ones home in a 2400 block of Chelsea Terrace, would be charged later with the holdup.

The third suspect, who was 24 years old, was arrested at 2:30 PM at his home in the 1800 block of Poplar Grove Street.

In the second city holdup, a very casual man with no bottom teeth and a sawed-off shotgun it in his leather briefcase took $310 from the family finance company branch at 416 North Howard St., then held a cab and fled in.

A passing bus driver who took down the cabs license number. And a mounted traffic policeman who broadcasted over the police radio helped to policeman crews and nearby to catch the taxi and corral suspect minutes after the robbery.

TO BE PUT IN A LINEUP
The 20-year-old suspect was being held last night at the central district police station. Police said he would be placed in lineups tomorrow in an attempt to link him with the recent holdups of two taverns, two banks, two lending institutions, and a dress shop.

Mark L Bolton, the loan officers manager, said the man came in at 2 PM and applied for a loan, then returned a half hour later caring a brown briefcase, from which he pulled a disassembled shotgun, and a handwritten holdups note. Mr. Fuller said the man clicked the two halves of the sawed-off shotgun together, and the two of them went to the firms cashiers cages, where to cashiers handed him $310.

“MADE HIMSELF AT HOME”
The man then ordered the six persons in the office to lie on the floor, stuff the shotgun back into the briefcase, and fled to Saratoga Street, where he held the cab.  “He was very casual,” P. Marini, a supervisor at the finance company said, “he just made himself at home, and then he robbed us.”  Moments later, a bus driver leaned out the window to tell Patrolman Ronald H. Teufer for, astride his horse “Lucky”, the taxi’s license number, and the man was soon caught.

CAR DRIVEN BY WOMAN
In Joppatowne, meanwhile, to bandits apparently broke through the ceiling of an AMP supermarket. Then robbed it safe of $2000 after employees began arriving at 7 AM.  The men armed with a butcher knife and a pistol, also Rob seven of the stores employees of an estimated $300 then lock them in a cooler and escaped in a car driven by a woman accomplice.  The employees spent some 90 minutes in the cooler before other employees miss them and calls the police just before 9 AM  The FBI made its arrest in the Randallstown holdup yesterday morning taking Morton J. Clark, Junior, 39, in the custody at his home in the 7200 block of Oak Haven circle.

A bearded man took $7944.59 from the Maryland national branch early on September 8 after pointing a gold colored pistol at the teller. Mr. Clark was arraigned before United States Commissioner H. Alan Metzger, and held in city jail in lieu of $25,000 bail.

Patrolman Ronald H. Teufer unloading a horse

Oct 4, 1972

DiPietro escapes ticket for using Mayor's space
The Sun (1837-1987); ;pg. C26

 
DiPietro Escapes Ticket for using Mayor's Space
A mounted policeman and City Councilman Dominic DiPietro (Mimi) Democrat 1st district had a jocular showdown over a parking summons in front of City Hall yesterday.

Patrolman Ronald H. Teufer was sitting on his horse next to Mr. DiPietro’s illegally parked car when the councilman emerged in shirt sleeves from City Hall and, in his own a inimitable East Baltimore vernacular, ordered the policeman to ticket all the cars illegally parked along the Memorial Plaza before ticketing his.

 

TROTTED AROUND THE PLAZA
“C’mom goombah,” said the policeman, “You can’t park here, it’s the Mayors parking space.” Mr. DiPietro responded that spaces along Memorial Plaza where council members may Park were filled with illegal parkers and that he had no place to put his car.

Thereupon, patrolman Teufer dutifully trotted around the Plaza to search for illegally parked cars.  He then returned to the front of City Hall and was chatting with Mr. DiPietro when the Mayor’s limousine appeared.  The Mayor had to double parked because the policeman’s horse was in the way.  When the Mayor appeared Mr. DiPietro greeted him with a cheerful obscenity; the Mayor replied with an obscene gesture of his own before speeding away.  And policeman Teufer trotted away, having been treated to personal contact with the higher echelon of government and leaving them none the worse for meeting him.

  

 

Traffic Officer Injured October 24, 1972 Officer Ronald Tuefer was thrown from his horse on Tuesday, October 24, 1972 in the 200 block of Cross Street and received severe injuries to his head. The incident occurred in mid-afternoon when the Officer's horse, "Zeik," reared up for no apparent reason, back stepped, and then fell over backwards, onto Officer Tuefer. The Officer was rushed to Mercy Hospital where he was X-rayed and treated by four staff physicians. He remains confined there, on the 12th floor. He is recovering satisfactorily. The Officer has been a member of the Mounted Unit since 1968

 

Palomino

Jul 24, 1974

Pomerleau suspends 16 union officials
The Sun (1837-1987); ;
pg. C1

Pomerleau
Suspends 16
Union Officials

16 patrolman – all officials of the union which represented striking city police – were suspended from duty yesterday by the police Commissioner, Donald P Pomerleau.  The suspensions removed from duty virtually all the remaining officers of local 1195 of the American Federation of State, County and municipal employees (AFL – CIO) as well as some members of his executive board.  Five other board members were praised by the Commissioner, however, for not participating in the strike.  It appeared as if yesterday’s suspensions were directed at those who Commissioner Pomerleau believed were the main thrust behind the police strike.  The suspensions were expected after Commissioner Pomerleau’s last week suspension of police officer George F. We, president of the local. Earlier last week Commissioner Pomerleau revoked the union’s right to represent Baltimore police.  Several suspended officers contacted last night refused to comment on the commissioner’s action.  In a two-page press release, the Commissioner said he was imposing the suspension because the 16 patrolman had violated “departmental directives” and had been “absent from duty without proper authority.”  Commissioner Pomerleau had said previously that the cases of each of about 600 men and women who participated in the five-day police walkout would be evaluated individually. He mentioned probable action ranging from firing to demotions, transfers and extra duty, or a combination of these.  The 16 patrolman suspended yesterday will appear at a special 9 AM hearing today and tomorrow to determine whether they should be paid or not paid during their suspensions.  Hearings on the charges will be conducted before a departmental trawl board at a later date. Mr. Hoyt, whose son officer Francis T. Wait, was one of those suspended yesterday, faces such hearing July 31.

 

THOSE SUSPENDED YESTERDAY WERE:
officer George A. Donahue and Harry M. Bayne, both of Northwestern district; also Lewis J. Patty and Sharon V. Colo, of southern district, and Michael F. Ryan and Joseph L. Falls letter, of central district.  Also suspended were officers George M. Young and Charles J, Ryan, of Western district; also Leopold J. Iraqi, of the tactical section, and officer Scott H. Gary, Junior., Joseph P. McMahon and Vincent J. Sanzone, all of the Southwest district.  Others were officer Francis T. Weight, the only Eastern district policeman to participate in the walkout; for Nelson F. McKenna, of northern district; also Milton J. Wancowicz, senior, of the South Eastern district, and officer Ronald a Ward, of the northeastern district.  At the same time Commissioner Pomerleau raised five other members of the union’s local executive board who he said “did not participate in the strike action and fulfill their responsibilities to their oath of office and the citizens of Baltimore.  “They are to be commended for their attention to duty during these trying times,” he continued.These 54 officers Francis R Cavanaugh, of the departmental personnel division; officer Ronald H. Teufer, of the traffic division; officer Charles E Wancowicz. Senior, of the chief of patrol’s office; officer Author am the wit, of the criminal investigation division, and officer Bessie E Franklin, of the central records division. Officer Charles Wancowicz is the nephew of Milton J Wancowicz, a suspended officerBob Petza Retired from mounted in 1989 with 30 years

 

            

 

 

Behind the horse van. Tom Bretzil, unknown, Bob Petza, Ronald Teufer

Patrolman Ronald H. Teufer

 

Group riding out of barn, left to right....Chuck Esler, Joe Thomas, 2nd group Bob Petza, Teufer, 3rd group
still inside the barn Tom Bretzik Bill Chubb ( his son is Kevin Chubb, was a sgt.)

 The sign above hangs in our living room, can be seen hanging on the side of the Frederick St - Stables

 

Guys behind the van L to R Teufer, unk, Bill Kromer, Bob Petza, Tom Bretzik, Sgt. Tom Wahlen

Parade L to R John Moran with flag, Chuck Esler, Teufer and Larry Merrifield on the blonde horse

Patrolman Ronald H. Teufer

Patrolman Ronald H. Teufer

Bronze Star

"Lucky" was sold for $500 for use in the Department Mounted Unit

Teufer

Retirement Ceremony
Captain Robert Jenkins, the Teufers, Col Eddie Lawrence, Captain Walter Jasper

P/O Ronald Teufer

P/O Ronald Teufer and Col Eddie Lawrence

P/O Ronald Teufer

P/O Ronald Teufer

21 August, 1967 - We lost our Brother Police Officer John C. Williams

 Pictures Courtesy of  Janet Teufer Cappelli Terry Allen Cappelli and Ronalf H Teufer Sr

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While working on putting this page together, a page with Misc police pictures of our brothers and sisters in the field, doing what we do—pictures that will help preserve our history and provide some sort of back-up or assistance to the active officers. My thought was to call it either "Police Paparazzi" or "Paparazzi Police," each having a funny meaning, but police in front of or behind the word Paparazzi can give it a different meaning and still not change the effects of the shot. I or any one of us that stops to take a picture of our brothers in the line of duty, and if need be, the on-scene 10–16, as I am sure if the officer needed a backup, we would put down the camera and help. All that said and done, I was talking this over with one of my site developers and design techs. I was a little excited ( I know hard to believe—I get a little excited about police stuff, our history, my time with the BPD and this site.) Anyway, I was a little excited, and when I went to say one of these two police/paparazzi/police phrases, not knowing which should go first, my mouth took over and coined a new phrase, a phrase that I think will be the phrase we are going to use. I called it "Cop-parazzi." It was funny how it just popped out.

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Thomas Gay Sr. 

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Officer Wm Woods

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Courtesy of Jobosto
How's this for someone needing a hot shot, and having things ready to go when you arrive. 

Courtesy Ret Det Lennell Robinson

Sgt James Dixon was a desk sergeant at the WD and a great man. He was a Montford Point Marine during WWII.  Around 2012 he along with other African American WWII Marines received the Congressional Gold Medal. Ret Sgt Al Yeater got the department to honor Sgt Dixon up in the PC boardroom.  

Sgt Dixon, center, wife Carol on his left. Over Sgt Dixon's left shoulder is Mike Baptist who passed away from Covid this year 2020.

Sam Suter

Policemen's Balls were Great Fundraisers

Courtesy Ret LT Bob Wilson

Courtesy Bob Collins, Retired Baltimore County PD K-9 officer.
His dad was a BPD chauffeur and drove for Deputy Commissioner Tom Keys 

Courtesy Bob Collins, Retired Baltimore County PD K-9 officer.
His dad was a BPD chauffeur and drove for Deputy Commissioner Tom Keys 

Gary Provenzano

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William Lawson

Right Way - Wrong Way
Somethings Wrong with This Way

Courtesy Bob Collins, Retired Baltimore County PD K-9 officer.
His dad was a BPD chauffeur and drove for Deputy Commissioner Tom Keys 

Courtesy Bob Collins, Retired Baltimore County PD K-9 officer.
His dad was a BPD chauffeur and drove for Deputy Commissioner Tom Keys 

Courtesy Ret LT Bob Wilson

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Sgt. Norman K Jacobs

The following pics came to us courtesy of Robert Oros

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Courtesy Kevin Jones

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We didn't think this was us (BPD) and still don't, aside from the look of the badges and hat devices 
The officer with the nightstick isn't holding it like a Baltimore officer. This in our opinion is not Baltimore Police, but the pic is good to show even in the old days, Baltimore police held their Espantoon one way, and everyone else held their nightsticks another.

This is how we hold our stick, (it's not a handle, it's a burl-head/barrel-head)
It is what makes a nightstick in anyone else's hands an Espantoon in ours

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POLICE INFORMATION

Copies of: Your Baltimore Police Department Class Photo, Pictures of our Officers, Vehicles, Equipment, Newspaper Articles relating to our department and or officers, Old Departmental Newsletters, Lookouts, Wanted Posters, and or Brochures. Information on Deceased Officers and anything that may help Preserve the History and Proud Traditions of this agency. Please contact Retired Detective Kenny Driscoll.

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Patrolman William R Myers

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Patrolman William R. Myers died on September 27, 1933, at home, a week after leaving his post, due to a heart attack. He had been complaining for years of the stress put on him by his post near Lexington Market. That stress had him move from directing pedestrian and vehicular traffic by hand to working a semaphore. It can be a tough job, and while he didn't actually die on his post, from his complaints, it is obvious his post as one of the original "Beauty Squad" took its toll on him and was documented over the years. Aside from remembering him on this day, take a look at his history, the history of the Beauty Squad, and some of the ways they directed traffic over the years before forming the Traffic Squad. 

Officer Robert W. Peregoy

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Retired Officer Calvin McCleese

On March 5, 1989, retired officer Calvin McCleese would die, effecting an arrest in his neighborhood. For years, the toll bridge at the end of Dundalk Ave. in Baltimore County was closed; it sat unused and inoperable. Even longer than that, it was under the watchful eye of one of our department’s finest. Southeast District’s Officer Calvin McCleese lived on the corner of Dundalk Ave. and Bullneck Rd., just across the street from the bridge and Watersedge Park. The ladies and gentlemen that collected tolls were safe from anyone trying to bring them harm. Even though its location is in the county, like his family and his post, Officer McCleese protected his neighborhood. He had two sons, Michael and Jeff, who would also grow up to be police officers.

Calvin McCleese worked his entire career with the Baltimore Police Department, all in the same area since his joining in 1957. He started out in the Eastern District's Southeast Substation until 1958/59, when Southeast Station House on Eastern Ave. opened. The kind of police Calvin was; on January 22, 1970, while patrolling in Highland Town, he grew suspicious of a car parked around the corner from The Chesapeake Federal Savings and Loan. Officer McCleese approached the car just as the car’s tag number was broadcast over his radio in a report about a bank robbery at The Chesapeake S&L. Officer McCleese pulled his handgun and single-handedly captured the two men in the car, one of whom was armed with a sawed-off shotgun. But that was 1970, and that was the way Officer McCleese worked.

He retired from the department in 1985 and went on to be the typical retired police officer. He still looked out for his family and his neighborhood… until this day in 1989, when a vehicle being operated by a drunk driver, either not knowing the bridge was closed or just plain losing control, hit the bridge embankments, had an accident and his car burst into flames. Retired Officer McCleese ran to the driver’s aid; after breaking the windows and getting the driver out, the driver woke up. Fearing he would be arrested for DWI and an out-of-state warrant, he decided he would fight the man who just came to his aid and saved his life. Having just fought his way into a burning car and got a man out, then realizing the man was drunk, Officer McCleese wasn’t about to just let him go. So he fought back, subduing the individual until Baltimore County Police would show up on scene, laying on top of him and pinning him down when police arrived and took over the arrest. Officer McCleese had had a heart attack, which he would succumb to on the scene. Officer McCleese had held on for as long as he could. His last action in his life was to first save a life and then to effect the arrest of a drunk driver and wanted fugitive.

Those that knew him knew how much he loved being a Baltimore Police Officer and the pride he had in wearing our badge. While he had already been retired for a few years, he died on this day in 1989 doing what he loved best: serving his community. BTW, one of the ladies P/O McCleese was intent on guarding at that toll booth was his wife, Rebecca McCleese, the mother of his two sons.

May he never be forgotten as "His service "Honored" the City of Baltimore and the Police Department." God bless and RIP

Captain Charles H Burns

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 Serge Michael McSweeny
Serge Michael McSweeny

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Patrolman Irvin E Martz

 D.O.D     5 Sept 1934

Captain Edward J Carey

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Captain Edward J Carey  

 D.O.D 10 Nov 1931

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Patrolman Charles R. Bozman

While this is not a line of duty death, it was the result of a combination of the job and stupidity; therefore, we should remember Patrolman Charles R. Bozman, and hopefully, by taking a minute to remember him, we might reduce the chances of similar deaths in the future. By educating our brothers and sisters to be more serious about the weapons we carry, hopefully we can prevent us from ever having to take a moment of silence in the future for this type of senseless act. Let us remember our brother patrolman, Charles R. Bozman, who today, March 5, 1932, in Baltimore Police History, lost his life as he carelessly began playing with his issued service revolver. In a carry-out full of people, he drew his service weapon, put it to his head, and began using it to scratch his inner ear as he said something to the effect that this is the perfect way to clean out your ear. Just then, the pistol discharged instantly, taking his life.  #‎BPDNeverForget‬

 

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Patrolman Irvin E. Martz

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Patrolman Irvin E Martz

D.O.D. 22 August 1925