A suspect in the March shooting of a Baltimore police officer faces more court time following charges this month that he spat and threw a cup of urine at a Department of Corrections employee, court records show.
Jobrea Lodge, 20, has been in custody since March in connection with the ambush on Detective Dante Hemingway, who was called to the Westportarea and shot in an attempted robbery, according to court records.
Lodge was being held in segregation at Central Booking in downtown Baltimore on Aug. 6, when a corrections officer tried to pass him breakfast through a slot, according to charging documents. Lodge took the food before throwing the cup of urine, and spat on the officer?s “face and company uniform,” the documents say.
Detective Hemingway had apparently met a friend of Lodge?s co-defendant in the case, Sherray Douglas, the night before the shooting, defense attorney Warren Brown said, citing the state?s evidence.
Douglas allegedly had the woman?s cell phone when Hemingway called it the next day to follow up, he said. It doesn?t appear to investigators Douglas had Hemingway?s cell phone number before that, he said.
“If you filter through all the state?s evidence, nobody knew he was a police [officer] until after,” said Brown, who is representing Douglas. “Until they saw it on TV, in fact.”
Lodge and Douglas, also known as Brittaney Johnson, each face attempted murder, assault and armed robbery conspiracy charges connected with the March 30 shooting of Hemingway, a plainclothes police officer.
A Sept. 18 court hearing is scheduled on the two assault charges. Lodge and Douglas are set to appear in court Oct. 12 on the shooting case.
Lodge?s attorney said he knew nothing about the assault charges and declined to comment Tuesday on the attempted murder case. Hemingway has been released from the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center and hopes to return to work at the police department, officials said.
