2/18/2023 0 Comments Shad detective agency![]() As he approached Echodale Avenue, he saw a man sitting crouched down on the steps leading from the street to the play ground lot of St. ![]() While off duty, Sergeant Grunder was driving on Harford Road in Hamilton with his wife, and their three children. ![]() Grunder had not yielded any positive results, the Sergeant went home empty handed. Grunder, was the head of the Department’s new escape and apprehension unit, had spent several weeks attempting to track down the elusive members of a slippery hold up team. On 1 August, 1974, after a day of patrolling locations in the city in an attempt to find these dangerous hold-up men Sgt. Sergeant Grunder was killed in the line of duty on that 1st day of August, 1974 based on the following: Det. In a few days Det Leo Smith would be Paul Bearer for his Sergeant Baltimore Police, Detective Sergeant, Frank W. After talking to the Rangers, my uncle quickly broke camp, and he and his family left for their trip back home. It was Thursday, August 1st, 1974 when the rangers saw me sitting there, they decided to call him away from me to talk, calling him to the end of the driveway they gave him some bad news, I could tell it was bad because it seemed that this group of as many as five or six adults were choked up, as if they wanted to cry, they were all emotional, but didn't shed a tear. While we talked two trucks with camp rangers went to my uncles site, my aunt directed them over to our site. During a camping trip 1974 when I was just ten years old, we were on a family camping trip, he was telling some of his war stories while we sat at a picnic table in our camp site D40 Shad Landing State Park in Snow Hill MAryland (My Uncles Camp Site was D39, right next store to ours). Det Leo Smith was a great story teller, with enough experience to tell some great first hand police, "WAR STORIES", I know first hand, he is my uncle and to me he was both an amazing Police Officer/Detective and an Outstanding Uncle. ![]() They are what they are, and really your friend. If a person feel they can trust you, they will continue to bring you information even after their debt to you has been paid, to them it is not just putting a favor in the bank, but they really want a police as a friend, it makes them feel important, at the same time, you can't trust them. He told me when I joined that it is important to build a rapport, never breaking a promise, or making a promise you can't keep. Det Smith was an above average police officer, an exceptional K9 handler, and an outstand Detective, assigned to fugative section in it's infancy, he had an eye for detail, and a way with those he had arrested that made them feel as though they owed him something, so when they got out, they would often contact him to give him information of others he was looking for. He was said to have been an outstanding Military K9, a war hero that risks his life to save the life of an American Soldier. Before long Prince couldn't be counted on for the tasks of a Baltimore K9 dog, so he like so many others was flunked out of the Baltimore K9 program, and drafted into the Military where he would eventually serve in Vietnam. Prince once bit either a doctor, or male nurse at the ER - and was rumored to have bitten an Officer at a Lumber Yard in the Central District. While in the K9 unit Det Smith handled two dogs, 1st Rusty, a great dog, then Prince, a bit of a biter. Section before going to K9 in 1962 (K9 was formed in 1956 by Commissioner James Hepbron, and became official in 1958, 4 years later while it was still being molded into the unit it is today). During his time in the Baltimore Police Department Officer Smith was first assigned to the Western District where he worked Tact. Police Stand Guard Outside Black Panther Hallĭetective Leo Smith joined the Baltimore Police Department in Dec 1960. Smith retired long before these cards were ever thought of. Mock Baltimore Police "Trading Card" made to honor my uncle (Ret Det Leo Smithĭet.
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