BALTIMORE — Police from Baltimore County and the city failed to execute a search warrant at the home of a city teenager until a day after he allegedly killed someone, even though it had been issued four days before the homicide.
Baltimore County Police already were looking for the Mergenthaler Vocational-Technical High School student who they suspected in an armed robbery Jan. 6 at a Wendy’s in Parkville, but planning, scheduling issues and overtime concerns with city police delayed the execution of the search warrant that resulted in his arrest.
County police secured a so-called no-knock warrant four days before the Jan. 25 killing of James Blue III, a veteran Amtrak conductor and husband of a Baltimore Police Department lieutenant, but plans to use it weren’t finalized until Jan. 24.
