From the ArcaMax Publishing, News & Features Newsletter:
http://www.arcamax.com/news/newsheadlines/s-372830-309549
BALTIMORE (UPI) -- A judge said it is "outrageous" that a convicted
drug dealer easily escaped from a van while being transported to
Baltimore Circuit Court to face gun charges.
Officer Deborah Barron said she tried to drive prisoner Marcus
Anderson, 22, to court Tuesday without handcuffs, in a prison van
without security cages or extra locks.
Anderson, who is more than six feet tall and weighs 220 pounds,
"leaped out" of the van when it came to a halt at a red light, Barron
told the court.
Barron said she kept driving and had no cell phone or radio to report
the escape, the Baltimore Sun reported.
Judge Charles G. Bernstein said Anderson's illegal firearms trial
would continue, even though he was still missing.
"If I were a young enterprising criminal, I'd come to Baltimore to set
up my practice. This is the place to be. This is the Promised Land,"
Bernstein said sarcastically.
Barron was being investigated Wednesday, the newspaper said.