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Former Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby stands outside the federal courthouse in Greenbelt after being sentenced to three years of probation, which includes a year of house arrest, May 23, 2024. She was convicted earlier this year of perjury and fraud.
Marilyn Mosby can keep her law license while she appeals, Maryland Supreme Court rules
U.S. District Judge Lydia Kay Griggsby sentenced Mosby, 44, who served as the city's top prosecutor from 2015-23, on charges of perjury and mortgage fraud to three years’ supervised release, with one year of home detention, and ordered her to perform 100 hours of community service.
Helen Williams, 43, of Baltimore, was pronounced dead after 7 p.m. on June 26 while in custody at the Baltimore Central Booking & Intake Center. She is at least the fourth person to die in 2024 in the custody of the city’s jail system.
Woman dies while in custody at Baltimore Central Booking & Intake Center
Helen Williams, 43, of Baltimore, is at least the fourth person to die in 2024 in the custody of the city’s jail system.
A Harford County grand jury on Tuesday indicted Victor Martinez-Hernandez, 23, on charges of first- and second-degree murder, first- and second-degree rape, third-degree sex offense and kidnapping in the killing of Rachel Morin, a 37-year-old mother of five, which happened in 2023.
Harford County grand jury indicts man in killing of Rachel Morin on Ma & Pa Heritage Trail
Victor Martinez-Hernandez, 23, is charged with first- and second-degree murder, first- and second-degree rape, third-degree sex offense and kidnapping. He’s being held without bail in the Harford County Detention Center.
Somil Trivedi, chief legal and advocacy director at Maryland Legal Aid, speaks at a news conference outside the Edmondson Community Center in West Baltimore shortly after a lawsuit challenging city tax sales was filed in court on July 2, 2024.
In lawsuit, West Baltimore community association alleges city’s tax sale system is unconstitutional
The Edmondson Community Organization filed the case on Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Baltimore.
In 1999, Tyrone Jones was found guilty of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder — a crime he maintains that he did not commit — and sentenced to life in prison. Prosecutors agreed that he was entitled to a new trial in 2010 and, several months later, dropped the case. But an administrative law judge later ruled that he was ineligible for more than $900,000 in compensation.
Tyrone Jones served 10 years for a crime he says he didn’t commit. He could finally see compensation.
In 1999, Jones was found guilty in Baltimore Circuit Court of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder — a crime he maintains that he did not commit — and sentenced to life in prison. But an administrative law judge later ruled that he ineligible for compensation and benefits because the crime was a misdemeanor, not a felony, at the time in Maryland.
David Boykin, a rising local rapper best known around Baltimore as President Davo, was fatally shot on Oct. 6, 2023.
Man convicted in fatal shooting of Baltimore rapper President Davo
Earl Lee, 28, of Mid-Govans, is set to be sentenced Oct. 1 in Baltimore Circuit Court on charges of first-degree murder, use of a firearm during the commission of a crime of violence, and illegal possession of a regulated firearm.
A Baltimore Police vehicle is seen in Fells Point on April 14, 2024.
Baltimore cop sentenced for trading ghost gun, homicide intel with biker boss for cocaine
“This will not define your life,” U.S. District Judge Ellen L. Hollander told Baltimore Police Officer Steven Angelini, as she sentenced him to 2 1/2 years in federal prison.
Brandon Russell. A Maryland woman conspired with the Florida neo-Nazi leader to carry out an attack on several electrical substations in the Baltimore area, officials said Monday, Feb. 6, 2023.
Feds to reveal key detail to judge in case against neo-Nazi charged in power grid plot
Prosecutors have agreed to tell a judge whether the government used a controversial foreign surveillance method in their case against Brandon Russell, 28, of Orlando, Florida, who is accused of plotting to attack power substations around Baltimore.
A view from the entryway of a construction site that will become The Whitney, on South Caroline Street in Fells Point.
Contractor alleges Chasen Cos. owes almost $1 million for Meyer Seed Co. project
In court documents filed on April 15 but not previously available in Baltimore Circuit Court, Patriot Steel Fabrication Inc., a firm based in Church Creek, Dorchester County, asserts that Chasen Cos. owes the business more than $915,000.
Frederick Williams talks about his yearslong legal odyssey related to the tax sale in Baltimore during an interview at Maryland Legal Aid on April 17, 2024.
Baltimore mistakenly sold his home at tax sale. His legal odyssey might finally be over.
The Maryland Supreme Court on June 18 refused to hear an appeal in the case.
Bar One owner Peter Thomas.
Bar One’s Peter Thomas agrees to plead guilty in $2.5 million federal tax case
According to court records filed this week, Bar One owner Peter Thomas failed to pay more than $2.5 million in employment taxes withheld from his workers’ paychecks in Baltimore and beyond.
Real estate developer Brandon Chasen is photographed during an interview at his company’s office building in Fells Point on May 30, 2024.
Baltimore’s flashiest developer wanted to expand nationally. Now he’s rethinking everything.
Brandon Chasen’s development company is dialing back its national expansion plans and slowing its pace in Baltimore, too.
Kanisha Spence, 45, of Poppleton, was employed as a security guard at Maximum Protective Services when she fatally shot Marquise Powell during an argument at a Royal Farms on Washington Boulevard near Carroll Park on Oct. 30, 2022.
Jury returns $4.16M award against security company in murder at Royal Farms in Baltimore
Kanisha Spence, 45, of Poppleton, who was employed as a security guard with Maximum Protective Services, was previously found guilty in Baltimore Circuit Court of second-degree murder and use of a firearm during the commission of a crime of violence and sentenced to serve 60 years in prison in the deadly shooting of Marquise Powell on Oct. 30, 2022.
BALTIMORE, MD - DECEMBER 08:  A sign stands outside the Edward A. Garmatz U.S. Courthouse, where a man accused of plotting to bomb an armed forces recruiting station will appear on December 8, 2010 in Baltimore, Maryland. A 21-year-old man was arrested and will appear in court in Baltimore this afternoon.
Prosecutors said a US Army veteran faked paralysis for higher benefits. A jury agreed.
William Rich, 43, of Windsor Mill, stood trial in U.S. District Court in Baltimore on five counts of wire fraud and one count of theft of government property.
Jessica, who asked to only be identified by her first name, reported that an acquaintance raped her in 2023 in Baltimore. Then a series of delays and scheduling conflicts began to upend the trial.
Delays in Baltimore rape case led her to a daunting decision: Testify or pay rent
A woman reported that an acquaintance sexually assaulted her in 2023. Then a series of delays and scheduling conflicts began to upend the trial in Baltimore Circuit Court.
Law enforcement agents on Thursday escort Victor Martinez-Hernandez, 23, from an airplane at Martin State Airport after his extradition from Tulsa, Oklahoma, to Harford County. Hernandez is accused of raping and killing Rachel Morin, a 37-year-old mother of five, who went missing during a walk on the Ma & Pa Heritage Trail in Bel Air in 2023.
Man charged in killing of Rachel Morin in Harford County to be held without bail, judge rules
Harford County District Judge Kerwin A. Miller Sr. said he agreed with the state’s attorney that Victor Martinez-Hernandez, 23, posed both a danger to the community and a flight risk.
6/16/22—A Baltimore County police car sits outside of the Public Safety Building and Police Department in Towson.
Man sentenced to prison for leaving pipe bomb in pickup near Baltimore County middle school
“The facts of this case are terrifying,” Baltimore County Circuit Judge Robert E. Cahill Jr. said as he sentenced Joseph Vickery, 44, of Wilmington, North Carolina, on a charge of attempted manufacturing of a destructive device.
William Rich, 43, of Windsor Mill, is standing trial in U.S. District Court in Baltimore on five counts of wire fraud and one count of theft of government property.
A suicide bomb injured an Army veteran. A jury will decide if he faked paralysis.
William Rich, 43, of Windsor Mill, is standing trial in U.S. District Court in Baltimore on five counts of wire fraud and one count of theft of government property. The indictment alleges that he faked being paralyzed and lied to receive more than $767,000 in benefits to which he was not entitled.
The Robert C. Murphy Courts of Appeal Building in Annapolis hosts the Court of Special Appeals and the Court of Appeals. A state constitutional amendment on the ballot in 2022 would rename the courts to the Appeals Court of Maryland and the Supreme Court of Maryland.
Maryland high court to hear appeal from ex-Baltimore Police officer who failed to prevent assault
The Maryland Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear an appeal of a reckless endangerment conviction by a former Baltimore Police officer. A judge found Christopher Nguyen had failed to prevent a suspect in an assault from attacking a man lying on the ground.
Former Howard County Sheriff's Deputy Ryan Demby was shot and killed in Baltimore.
Man found guilty of manslaughter in off-duty Howard County sheriff’s deputy’s death in Baltimore
Jewel Crowder, 41, of Baltimore, testified in Baltimore Circuit Court that he acted in defense of another person when he shot and killed Ryan Demby on South Charles Street near East Cross Street in Federal Hill on Sept. 29, 2023. He was 23.
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