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Baltimore has a machine gun problem
More and more, Glock switches — tiny devices that turn a handgun fully automatic — are appearing on city streets.
A semi-automatic pistol with a conversion device installed making it fully automatic is fired as four empty shell casings fly out of the weapon. The country has seen a new surge of weapons capable of automatic fire. Small pieces of plastic or metal used to convert legal guns into homemade machine guns are helping to fuel gun violence.
Arrest made in death of former Loyola Maryland basketball standout Jamal Barney
Authorities charged a Baltimore man with murder, accusing him of killing Jamal Barney, a former basketball standout at Loyola University Maryland and Southwestern High School.
Former Loyola University Maryland and Southwestern High School standout Jamal Barney, pictured in 2011, was found dead in a vacant rowhome in October 2023.
Baltimore-area men impersonated cops, tortured carjacking victims
A four-man crew impersonated police officers to carjack and kidnap people throughout Baltimore, Baltimore County and Harford County, according to federal court records
Baltimore Police crime scene tape remains on the scene after a vehicle exploded inside a five-story parking garage in Baltimore’s Fells Point neighborhood on 7/27/22.  Two people are being treated for injuries, fire officials said Wednesday afternoon.
Charges downgraded in fatal shooting of truck driver that witnesses say was accidental
Tony Jones now faces a charge of involuntary manslaughter, a far less serious charge than first- or second-degree murder.
Delroy Plummer, 68, died Jan. 24 after Tony Jones, a mechanic at Fix It All Repairs, shot him in the chest in the shop’s office.
‘Everyone loses.’ An attempted carjacking and what gets left behind
Rob Mealey recounts his experience of an attempted carjacking that occurred in 2022 while he was driving his two young kids home in Baltimore. He got away, but the effect the incident had on him and his children still lingers, he said.
Maryland Attorney General, Baltimore Police say local gang behind dozens of carjackings
The group, four adults and two juveniles, are accused of committing at least nine commercial robberies and 35 armed carjackings throughout the Baltimore area, mostly from April 2022 to March 2023.
Maryland Attorney General Organized Crime Unit Chief Paul Halliday, center, talks about an investigation that led to six people being indicted in connection to dozens of carjackings and a murder. Also pictured, from left: Attorney General Anthony Brown, Assistant Attorney General Katie Dorian, ATF Assistant Special Agent Joseph Persails and Mayor Brandon Scott.
Johns Hopkins University faculty committee demand City Council hearing over police force
“The worst case scenario that I have in my head is a member of the Hopkins police force using violence to adjudicate an issue with somebody either in this community or in the surrounding ones,” Councilwoman Odette Ramos said.
Gilman Hall at the Johns Hopkins Homewood Campus.
1 in 5 guns on Baltimore’s streets don’t have serial numbers. That’s a problem.
A Banner analysis of newly obtained police data shows ghost guns make up 20% of crime-related guns in Baltimore.
Police recovered this gun, a Polymer80 with an extended magazine, after a car chase involving a teenager and a stolen car in Lochraven last October.
Baltimore settles ‘ghost gun’ lawsuit: Maker halting sales, ads in Maryland
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.
Polymer80 80% frames for Glock Inc. pistols for sale at Hiram's Guns / Firearms Unknown store in El Cajon, California, U.S., on Monday, April 26, 2021.
Baltimore man gets 3½ years in federal prison for trafficking ghost guns
Mark Ryals, 35, assembled 3D printed handguns and sold them, along with a silencer, to undercover agents on multiple occasions.
Polymer80 80% frames for Glock Inc. pistols for sale at Hiram's Guns / Firearms Unknown store in El Cajon, California, U.S., on Monday, April 26, 2021.
Head of state AG unit that investigates police-involved deaths resigns
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.”
Dana Mulhauser, shown in this file photo from Clayton, Missouri on July 24, 2020, has left the Maryland attorney general’s Independent Investigations Division on Feb. 2 to take a job with the nonprofit Everytown for Gun Safety.
Was it murder or an accident? Truck driver’s death raises tough legal question
Baltimore man held without bond, but judge concedes case could be wrongly charged
Delroy Plummer, 68, died Jan. 24 after Tony Jones, a mechanic at Fix It All Repairs, shot him in the chest in the office at the business. Jones and other witnesses described the shooting as an accident; the Baltimore Police Department arrested Jones, 58, on charges of first-degree murder.
Sinclair’s David Smith financed lawsuit against candidate during 2020 mayor’s race
Just like the case against Baltimore schools, Fox45 covered the 2020 lawsuit without disclosing their owner’s involvement.
Sinclair Broadcast Group President and CEO David Smith, left, financed a lawsuit against former mayoral candidate T.J. Smith, right.
How a small team in the Baltimore mayor’s office hopes to better serve crime victims
After years of poor treatment, one small team in the mayor's office is trying to better help crime victims in Baltimore.
Tierra Morales, Social Services Coordination Supervisor, and Mark Mason, Associate Director of Victim Services, go down a checklist of people on January 24, 2024.
Sinclair exec, Sun owner David Smith behind lawsuit against Baltimore schools
Fox45 says reporters didn’t know their station’s owner is financing high-profile suit and station will add disclosure to stories.
Sinclair Broadcast Group President and CEO David Smith testifies before the legislature’s Joint Government Oversight Committee meeting in this 2007 file photo.
New Baltimore Sun owner on tape bashing city schools, local politicians and more
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
Sinclair Broadcast Group President and CEO David Smith testifies before the legislature’s Joint Government Oversight Committee meeting in Des Moines, Iowa, in this 2007 file photo.
New Baltimore Sun owner insults staff in meeting, says paper should mimic Fox45
Baltimore businessman David Smith told Sun staff he had not been a regular newspaper reader for decades.
The current newsroom of The Baltimore Sun is located in St. Paul Plaza. (Dylan Segelbaum/The Baltimore Banner)
Baltimore Police identify Jan. 2 homicide victim as 16-year-old Carver Vo-Tech student
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.
A police line do not cross tape blocks a pathway near Penn Station.
Tax debt, hearsay and perjury: Evidence in question for Marilyn Mosby’s fraud trial
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.
Former Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby was found guilty of perjury
Baltimore youth jail official removed after investigation into improper releases
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.
Baltimore Juvenile Justice Center at 300 N. Gay St. opened it’s doors in October 2003
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