Criminal justice

Maryland State Police are investigating the death of a person who was incarcerated at a state prison as a homicide, they announced Wednesday.

Judge Jennifer B. Schiffer says she has no recollection of overseeing a student attorney who handled an unrelated drug possession case in 2001 against Jay Wilds.

Montgomery County Police arrested an FBI agent who was charged with multiple counts of second-degree rape, fourth-degree sexual offense and other offenses.

Three people were arrested in the Federal Hill shooting that left 19-year-old Cameran Holt dead.

The Baltimore County State’s Attorney’s Office reviewed the case against Jackie Conway, 60, of Baltimore, and declined to move forward with prosecution.

Forty people were charged in local, federal takedown of alleged criminal organizations in Southwest Baltimore.

Buckel, 53, a Republican who represents Allegany County, entered an Alford plea to one count of driving while impaired by alcohol and received probation before judgment.

Medical malpractice attorney Stephen L. Snyder was convicted in a federal attempted extortion case.

Medical malpractice attorney Stephen L. Snyder’s federal attempted extortion case is headed to closing arguments.

Tyler Mailloux, 24, of Berlin, is charged in Worcester County Circuit Court with 17 counts in the deadly 2022 crash.

Police say a Baltimore man who allegedly shot and wounded a co-worker on Interstate 95 in Howard County may have blamed the victim for a demotion.

Prosecutors accuse trial lawyer Steven L. Snyder of exceeding the demands of his client when he demanded $25 million from the University of Maryland Medical System.

Baltimore County Circuit Judge Nancy M. Purpura on Wednesday sentenced Jalen Green, 23, of Northwest Baltimore, to 10 years for first-degree rape and use of a firearm during the commission of a crime of violence.

On Nov. 15, the co-owner of Dapper Dog Tattoo Shop on Maryland Avenue called police to report destruction of property to a flagpole at the store, according to a police report. A Naval Academy graduate was later charged in the incident.

The deputy chief of a volunteer fire company in Cecil County faces multiple charges stemming from a brush fire that authorities say he started.

A Baltimore man was arrested Tuesday in connection with a shooting that left a Laurel man hospitalized and shut down I-95 North for several hours on Monday, according to Maryland State Police.

Twishae Tyler, 25, of O’Donnell Heights, impersonated a representative of Metro Crime Stoppers of Maryland and sent a threatening text message.

When Anne Arundel County voters rejected Circuit Court Judge Ginina Jackson-Stevenson for lawyer Tom Casey, they reduced the number of Black judges on the bench by one-third.

Many of the state’s treatment centers for young people are in western Maryland.

Kevin Stern and Stephen L. Snyder faced off in a courtroom Monday, with Stern appearing under immunity as a witness for the prosecution and testifying that his former boss asked him to destroy evidence.