Baltimore mystery sollved

[tiny tim]

wjz.com - Baltimore Co. Light & Boom Mystery Solved

Mystery solved. Police say they've made an arrest in the case of the loud bang and bright flash of light disturbing a neighborhood in Pikesville.
Derek Valcourt explains he never thought he'd be reporting that the mystery is solved just hours after it first aired on Eyewitness News.

Police say the cause of the disturbance was a frustrated neighbor. But even more surprising is what police found inside his home.

The man behind this mystery is now behind bars. Police blame 59-year-old Fred Mackler for the flashes of bright light and loud bangs that bothered neighbors in Pikesville for years.

"The noise is deafening and wakes us up out of a very deep sleep," said a neighbor.

They called police, who set up cameras to catch it. Police studied the shadows in these images and changed their camera angles accordingly.

 

[SamSpade]

Police studied the shadows in these images and changed their camera angles accordingly.

I'm amazed, because that's what I said they should do in one of my earlier posts.

 

[mAlice]

I'm so disappointed it wasn't little green space monsters.

 

[RadioPatrol]

Speaking of dim bulbs ...

That's how police met Mackler, who apparently confessed to creating the disturbance. Inside his home, investigators found quantities of drugs, guns and fireworks. Police say he had been having problems with neighbors in the building.

"He would get up in the middle of the morning, around 2 a.m., fire one of these pyrotechnic devices and be done," Hill said.

let us maintain an illegal stash and then call attention to ourselves ....

 

[Sweet 16]

I can't believe they had to set up cameras and it took them SIX MONTHS to pinpoint where it was coming from and catch this guy. This went on for years -- you mean to tell me that not one of the neighbors ever called the cops and said, "It's coming from the apartment upstairs!"?