Criminal justice

Eric Eiswert’s lawsuit also names Dazhon Darien, the man accused of using artificial intelligence to impersonate him.

Maryland leaders are continuing to take an aggressive approach to solving and curtailing crimes in Baltimore after the city significantly reduced homicides and most violent crime in 2024.

Social media influencer Daniel Hentschel said he once thought about being a school shooter at John Carroll School.

Maryland’s Office of the Attorney General on Tuesday released body camera footage from the fatal police shooting of 29-year-old Tyree Winslow of College Park.

The man accused of gunning down UnitedHealthcare’s CEO outside a New York City hotel is unlikely to appear in Manhattan federal court again before mid-February.

Federal prosecutors are seeking a sentence of 35 years in prison for a former teacher at the Gilman School who was convicted of sexually abusing a student and recording videos of it.

The Banner previously examined how a woman took the rare step of reporting that she was sexually assaulted, only to face a series of delays outside her control.

Charles Robert Smith stands accused of shooting six, killing three. He says it was self-defense.

President-elect Donald Trump vowed he would act quickly — on his first day in office — to look at individual cases and pardon people who attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

Baltimore Police say 201 people were killed in 2024, with more than 400 people shot and wounded.

A Columbia woman is facing charges in Howard County tied to an Oct. 12 shooting that injured two teenagers.

In a motion for change of venue filed on Monday, Victor Martinez-Hernandez’s attorneys wrote that the case has been the subject of “numerous inflammatory and prejudicial reports in both legacy and social media.”

Maya Dennis, 32, has been arrested on charges of first-degree murder and first-degree child abuse.

A vehicle drove into a crowd on New Orleans’ famed Canal and Bourbon Street in the first hours of New Year’s Day.

Baltimore County Police arrested a suspect on Tuesday following a stabbing in a Pikesville home that left an unidentified person dead.

Baltimore County Police have arrested Mark Jones, 30, and charged him with the killing of his son and shooting two others in Rosedale on Christmas Eve.

The skilled sniffers scan Baltimore Ravens and Orioles home games for threats.

The Baltimore Banner will continue reporting on these and several other notable cases in Baltimore and the surrounding counties.

News details are emerging about the domestic dispute at a Rosedale apartment on Christmas Eve that left a child dead.

In a 19-page opinion issued on Dec. 9, U.S. District Judge Matthew J. Maddox wrote that while the allegations in the complaint were “tragic and alarming,” he was constrained to dismiss the case.