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.

The Edmondson Community Organization filed the case on Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Baltimore.

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.

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.

“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.

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.

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.

The Maryland Supreme Court on June 18 refused to hear an appeal in the 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.

Brandon Chasen’s development company is dialing back its national expansion plans and slowing its pace in Baltimore, too.

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.

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.

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.

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.

“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. 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 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.

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.

Troy Spencer, 49, of Allendale in Southwest Baltimore, pleaded guilty on Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Baltimore to possession of a firearm and ammunition by a prohibited person and possession of a firearm in a school zone.

Jewel Crowder, 41, of Baltimore, is charged in Baltimore Circuit Court with first-degree murder, use of a handgun during the commission of a crime of violence and reckless endangerment in the deadly shooting of Ryan Demby, which happened on South Charles Street near East Cross Street in Federal Hill on Sept. 29, 2023.