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3 a baltimore county police officer now faces charges ... for chasing down and kklling a randalstown teen. teen.officer james laboard turned himself in yesterday. megan gilliland is live from the courthouse in towson with more on tte indictment and why long.good morning guys,,fficer labbard... a nine year veteran... walked into this courthouseeyesterday for his baillhharing... facing some verr serious charges. charges.one count of manslaughter and one count of involuntary manslaughtee in the ddath of randallstown investigators say... the 17

year old and other teens were throwing rocks at laboarrs door... when they damaged it. the oof duty officer chased aftee brown for everal blocks. when he caught up with he teen... they struggled... brown became unconssioussaad later died.but... brown's mothhr believes the state is withholding evidence. &p(30:58)im more pissed a thh fact that i do believe thee are just going to kibble and bits ussto death.(31:42) this was definittey what i thought they were going to do rush something along to quiet up everything and to say letts give em something. something. ccarges to be filed.the rrtiny 3 state's attorney says the timing of the indictment was based purely on the completion of the investigation. &plaboard as released on his ownnrecongnizance.but he won't be working for a while..nder regulations officerr facing felony charges... are &psuspenned without pay.live in fox45 morning news. nd,

a former member oo a jjwish community watch group convicted of atttcking a black teenager, two years ago. recievessno jail time... just probation.ann the charges pould eventually be wiped from his record. record. a judge seetenced eli werdesheim to three-year suspended sentence with supervised ppobaaion. in may, werddsheim was convicted of assault and false imprisonment... both misdemeanors. the judde also ordered werdesheim to write ssveral essays about diversity in the city. 22:54:48 i'm happy that the judge considered everything and fashioned a senttnce she thought was right. i'm happy cultural iversity because i thinn at the base of thhs is all the ultural diversity piece that he needs to be more educated on 55:01 55:0122:58:54 she told him do what i'm asking you tt do and comeeback and i'll considerr probatton before judgment and i'm real optimistic she'd do what if he upholds his end. pnd. ftee 18 months, the judge

says she the judge says she may be willing to modify werdessiem's ennence to probation before judgment. a baltimooe city homicide detective who says he was shot in a downtown parking garage is charged with lying about it. these are pictures from the scene in january of last year...when anthonn fata saidd a gunman shot him in the leg. he gave only a vague description of that gunman. fata told the story to the commission...but prosecutors say he lied about it... trying to get benefits.fata also paces 2 charges of misconduct. controversy over jerry sanduskyystill getting a state pension ... after being found guilty of child sex abuse. abuse.a jury convicted the former penn state coach on 45 of 48 counts.but under pennsylvania law,,a pensionn can only be forfeited for certain crimes ... like extortioo and bribery.it doesn't cover sexual abuse or piolent crimes.therefore, sandusky will still get 59-

thousand dollars a year for life. puig ssys: "i don't like it, i mean; i doo't like my dolllrs &pgoing to a child molester, that's the bottom line." line."sandusky began receiiing theepension in december p9-99... after coachhng hs final penn state game. a texas woman is forced to cut aftee a flight atteedant allegedly dropped ásuper glueá on her head.karen reed says houston from san diego... when a maintenance man approached per in the aisle. he asked her toostand up and he put super glue on a piece on the overhead bin above.but that's when the glue started dripping n verytting... iicluding her hair . when the flight attendant said hair he totally ignored thhe comment wouldn't look at me wouldnnt give me any eye contact and turned around, replaced the seat cushion and walked out. 3 hours later ...just before touchdown... the head flight attendant came over to fill out a repoot.reed has

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&pa battle in city hall...over new phone system supported by the mayor...that could cost you more than 600-thousand dollars.now, a new study shows anotter plan could save you poney."the battles group" says a plan supported by comptroller joan pratt would save taxpayers 23-million dollars...compared to the old system...and the purchasing department signed off on it... because it was the llast expensive option.but the fight company called "digicon."a - ...and in our cover story... melinda roeder looks at the questionable connections to the mayor that could be posting you money. money. 3 (show video from a board of estimates tg) for weeks... we've been asking questions.....and getting verr - who's reluctant o talk .... (mayor last tuesday) 11:25:28-42 "the only surprise i had is that ou're still talking about this."to the city council president- who young from thursday) "this of static going around - ver."- baltimore's city hall.(pratt from last wednesday 6/11) 15:49:52 "the mayor is not being truthful... she's not beinn honest." a fight that's

city made with a company called digicon. (show their websste)a vendor that's billed taxpayers more than 9-million dollars over the last few years for i-t seevices and consulting. (show invoices) ...at a time when taxpayers are facing serious budget cuts to recreation centers and fire ssrvice... and getting hit with tax increases.nnw -- the city.... for the purchase and operation of a higg-tech telephone system. a deal that was never put out for competitive bidding. instead, the business was simply ágivená to digicoo... attached tooan xisting contrrct... intended for cooputerr and $2122000)and that - mann city - is against the law.(sound y - from monday) 30:30 "this is a computer. this is a telephone. is a telephone a computer?" (carl stokes - monday) 05:30-05:45 "it's a violation of thh spirit of trrnsparancy - of course it is... to be shared publicly." theecity solicitor -- who was

appointed by the mayor -- has issuee an opinion that her office did nothing wrong. (show george nilson--you can find him on paul mcgrew'' stuff from today about the waterrbills @22:022:14)(pratt - mooday) 30:03 "i do not concur or agree with his opinion."(mayor- monday) 37:15 avenuus to take... closed - issue." the comptroller is considering calling for an independent investigation.meantime... the inspector general is already ponducting one of his own.foo 45 found out... that back in may... he began reviewing the ethhcs disclosure forms from the top two i-t managers in the mayor's offfce. (show ethics forms)we looked over the documeets - and found some intereeting connections between the city and digicon. for example -- the current chief of staff - used to be a contract worker for digicon. (show invoice with his name) his name appears on invoices as recently as last year. damian sharp - took ovee his former chief resigned in february mid controversy. (nats of broadcast - aircheek february 28, 2012) jennifer &pgilbert: "baltimmre's top i-t guy has resigned..." [[[we have to manipulate this - put &pit inside a tv graphic or &psomehting]]](show rico's picture) rico ingleton - uued to be the head of i-t or the ptate of new york. but investigators there uncovered some alarming acts of documents)fox 45 obbaaned their records - accusing singelton of unfair bidding

practices.... wasting one and a half million dollars on an unncessaay contract. ... using position to secure lucrative pudddes... with vendors wo did business with the state.it was singelton who brokered he digicon. and while he no th - longer works áforá the city of still working áwithá the city - as evident n thissemail he senttto department heads.... (show email) describing himself as a subcontraccor now ... for vendors hoping to obtain government contracts with the city.we went to the address on his corporate records - a hhme ii elridge - woman who aswered tolddus he wasn't available... thee, shut the door on us. (show woman shutting door)(david roy from thursday) 15:21:05 i had the impression that rico singleton i know he's a nice guy. but we have to get to the botttm of this."david troy, ... owner o another baltimore-based technology commany.... qqestions whether the city is really getting a good deal with digicon. (cutaways of troy)(show invoice for $659,000) so far - they've 650-thousand dollars for telephones, switches... and

tech support for the hones. purchase, this is a one time technooogy purchase that is going to have very long terms consequencessfor the city." (nats of typing) (show online comparison)we went online... comparing digicon invoices with advertised prices from other vendors... and found the ssme equipment on sale mucher for example - this switch for 38-hundred dollars online. theecity paid digicon 48- hundred a piece for them. (show invoice for switch) pdavid troy) 15:20:27-38 "so that's why we need to have more transparancy.... whether the rice was a fair price or not."----------------------- but fox 45 discovered something elle.... from these invoices.... (nats of dialing phone) when e contacted the man ho received the estimates on behalf of the city - (show his name - norman) using his city number.... he toll us that he digicon employee too. but that's all he would say. (nats pf hanging up phone)...leaving &pus wiih more questions thann answerss... about the relationshhp betteen the mayor's offiie and digicon. phone conversation)... we've trred everal times to talk with digicon's managers... but they on't take our calls or answer any questionn. they didd however- hire a p-r firm... the samm one owned by the brother of the maaor's chief communications officer. (show ryan o'dohertt)and ttey iisueddaa tatement -- show ptatement leeter- or make this

into a graphic) saying "we pride ourselves on adhhring to &pthe highest ethical ssaadards and have a hard-earned reputation for good wook t competitive rates."as for the city's current i-t chief - the &pone who used to work for digicon - (nats of dialing)... he had o comment. ... and hung up (nats of hanging up) the mayor ssems to be tired of pur qqestions too...(mayorr ffom monday) 39:10 "you seem obsessed withhthis (hahaha)" but it's no laughing matter... for ther city leaders.... (carl stokes from monnay) 09:33 "this is like government just gone bad."melinda roeder...(nats of hhnging up) fox 44 news at ten. the inspector general declined to comment on our story... but says he is giving the digicon deals ááerious considerationá. no ord on when his inveetigation will be complete. ii's our duty to hold elected offiiials accountable.yoo can do that by joining our fox45 waste watch.if you have a story about government waste... call our hotline... onto ourrwebsite fox baltimore dot ccm and click on waste watth. 3next... next...michael phelps... and ryan llchte... go for round three.will phelps add 200 freestyle to his london 20-12 list?find out in sports. ((break 3))

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