Polymer80, one of the largest makers of parts for ghost guns, agreed to curtail its business in Maryland and to stop selling its parts to Maryland residents in neighboring states.
The first leader of the state’s Independent Investigations Division is out at the attorney general’s office after 2.5 years. Police found her biased, her former boss called her a “rock star.”
With his immense media holdings, Smith is one of the most influential figures in American journalism. Yet he rarely gives interviews, in part because of the contempt he feels toward mainstream media
The killing of Noah Gibson, the first homicide in the city in 2024, continues an upward trend in the number of Baltimore youths who have been shot since the coronavirus pandemic.
Attorneys on both sides are again seeking limits for the other ahead of Mosby’s federal mortgage fraud trial. Mosby, the former Baltimore state’s attorney, was convicted of perjury in November.
A key Baltimore City Juvenile Justice Center official is out after a pointed letter from top lawmakers prompted a DJS investigation into the failure to detain kids accused of violent crimes.
The city will likely record fewer than 300 homicides this year, but Baltimore’s young people were shot and killed at the highest rate in at least a decade.
These figures come as a series of juvenile justice reforms the Maryland General Assembly passed in 2022 have drawn criticism from prosecutors and police chiefs around the state.
Even with the reduction in killings — Baltimore will record its lowest homicide total since tallying 211 in 2014 — the city’s murder rate remains among the highest in the nation and is similar to what it was in the 1990s.
The lawsuit seeks five years of ATF “trace data,” which shows where a gun recovered by police or other officers was manufactured to where it was sold at retail.