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Teen suspect in Edgewood brawl arrested again in Aberdeen
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Harford County (Map, News) - An Edgewood teenager is back in jail this week after being arrested in an Aberdeen hotel room containing drugs and guns — days before a hearing to determine if a separate attempted murder case will be sent to juvenile court.
Shamere Tiarra Germany, 17, was one of four teenage girls charged with beating and stabbing Gregory Simmons, 44, in a brawl outside his Edgewood town house last Thanksgiving weekend.
She was scheduled for a reverse waiver hearing today to determine whether she will be charged as a juvenile in the November fracas, but prosecutor Joel Muneses said her July 4 arrest on charges of possession with intent to distribute and illegally possessing a firearm may hurt her chances.
“The recent arrest makes it less likely the court will waive her,” Muneses said.
She had been out on bail, but state law requires she be held without bail after picking up the additional felony charges, he said.
Germany was arrested at the Red Roof Inn in Aberdeen, along with her boyfriend, 19-year-old Andrew Lee Clark, according to charging documents.
Clark had been selling drugs behind the hotel, and when Aberdeen police followed him to a hotel room, they found bags of suspected crack cocaine, materials for measuring and packaging drugs, money, and two weapons, the documents said.
Clark told police that the money on the floor was Germany’s bond money.
Police found one working revolver and one pellet gun, which dealers keep to duplicate the look of a real gun without the risk of being prosecuted for handgun violations, the documents said.
Germany’s purse, in a car parked outside the room, also contained marijuana, police said.
Germany had been one of nine people charged in the Thanksgiving weekend brawl on Eloise Lane, including several of her cousins and her mother. The girls and as many as 40 others went to the town house to confront one of Simmons’ daughters over her relationship with a man one of Germany’s friends was dating, police said.
Simmons’ wife testified last month that Germany wielded the knife that severed her husband’s spine, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down.
Germany is scheduled for trial on the assault and attempted murder charges in October.
Two of the other suspects were acquitted, but one pleaded guilty to second-degree assault, and Germany’s mother was found guilty of first-degree assault in June.
msantoni@baltimoreexaminer.com
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Examiner Reader said:
Some of you people are "TOTALLY OUT OF CONTROL" first off u only know what the news is telling you! second to the man who is talking about BET and everything else u need to be smacked the hell out of!! its one thing to leave a comment but its another to blame others for your problems, cuz if it wasnt for african americans being portrayed as "animals" in the news then you probably would be blaming the "white man"! so get over yourself! your a loser because you chose to be!!!!! how about that. and to the women who called these people animals???? have you lost your freaking mind??? your a animal yourself for even parting your lips and even letting that cross your mind! and to the rest of u being rude as hell get over yourselfs! thats why they were found NOT GUILTY!!!!! animal that! and thanks to everyone else with the support!!!!!! we need more of it
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Examiner Reader said:
We shouldn't judge, innocent until PROVEN guilty! That is what the constitution says and as americans we are too easily forgetting. I knew this girl, not on a personal level, but in a very professional atmosphere, and I would never have thought she would be involved in something like this. We can all remember what it's like to be a teenager, the pressure of your peers, and I believe that pressure is to the 10th power living in an area such as Edgewood, where crime, poverty and racism is a way of life. Sometimes, I believe, it may even be a matter of your life to follow. Once you get pulled into the society of "poverty", it's almost impossible to get out. This gets passed on one generation to the next. Not an excuse for violent crimes, my heart goes out to this man and his family, but resources should be more readily available for these kids and their parents so they can be raised in a more positive and encouraging environment!
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Examiner Reader said:
who are any of you to judge were any of you there no you go by what them lazy cops say that dwell in one area those punks in belair and jarretville got the money to buy the drugs you idiot so they are the source of the problem the reason they dont get caught is because cops profile the hispanics, blacks and all other races that are not white lazy belair cops need to start raiding some of them houses in belair thats where the goods at probably get a platoon of elephants high up there
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concerned said:
Another of Jansen Robinson's "stop sniching" group in trouble? Hard to believe that children are responsible for their actions. As Jansen Robinson and the Edgewood Community Council would have it, it is the state's fault, not his people that crime is so bad in Edgewood. The community council demands to know why so many of their children are being suspended from school. The answer is simple. Poor parenting skills and a community council, lead by Jansen Robinson, who make excuses for those who break the law. Jesse Jackson philosophy. Obama has it right!
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Examiner Reader said:
What gets me most about this story is that up to 40 people showed up at the house to fight but you cant get forty "parents" and students to a school PTA meeting in a whole year. Black people as a black male I am disgusted by the way you act and then blame everybody else for your problems. I work everyday and stay out of trouble so you wont get any sympathy from me--Get a DAMN JOB! and turn BET off and read a book sometime! I am sick of this crap!!!
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Examiner Reader said:
Ghetto! Nothing else needs to be said!
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Examiner Reader said:
Another person who is a poor excuse of a human being. Put her in jail forever.............she will never understand the value of life and how wonderful it truly is.
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