Baltimore police officer overdoses at Halethorpe motel and dies

By Halethorpe on February 25, 2019

An off-duty Baltimore police officer overdosed on heroin and died Friday at a motel in Halethorpe, authorities said.

Officer Joseph Banks Jr., 25, had been assigned to the juvenile booking unit. At Tim’s Motel on Washington Boulevard, he had been using drugs with his girlfriend and overdosed, Baltimore…