Criminal justice

A specialized wing of the attorney general’s office launched 22 investigations and its first prosecution in 2024.

Harford County Circuit Judge Yolanda L. Curtin said she believed that the jury selection process is adequate to address any concerns.

Navy facilities in the Annapolis area, including the U.S. Naval Academy, were locked down on Friday afternoon due to threats, military officials said.

Police Commissioner Richard Worley, at a news conference late Friday morning, said the 35-year-old man was in critical condition.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Erin Aslan concluded in the case of Dazhon Darien that there was no combination of conditions that could adequately assure the safety of the community.

Women say Justin Tucker repeatedly exposed his genitals and, in three instances, apparently left ejaculate on tables after massages.

On April 12, 2023, Joseph White III pushed Christopher Foster and caused him to fall onto the tracks at the Baltimore Metro SubwayLink Shot Tower Station.

Billinger, 47, of Baltimore, has always maintained that he did not kill Earline “Smiley” Thomas and Howard “Mike” Martin, both 53, whose bodies were discovered in their apartment on St. Paul Street in Old Goucher on March 14, 2017.

Circuit Judge Jennifer B. Schiffer set a hearing for Feb. 26 on the motion for reduction of sentence under the Juvenile Restoration Act.

The 10-year-old girl was pronounced dead Tuesday after suffering an accidental gunshot wound on Saturday, police said.

Brandon Russell, 29, of Orlando, Florida, who’s the founder of the Atomwaffen Division, is standing trial in U.S. District Court in Baltimore on a charge of conspiracy to damage an energy facility.

After a former employee at Pikesville High School was accused of using AI to impersonate the school’s principal, lawmakers are considering a bill to target the practice.

The 15-year-old is being charged as an adult with first-degree murder, Baltimore Police said.

Dazhon Darien, 32, is now charged in U.S. District Court in Baltimore with sexual exploitation of children and receipt of child pornography.

Baltimore City Police Commissioner Richard Worley called the situation preventable and infuriating.

The officer, a five-year veteran, has been suspended without pay.

LifeBridge Health says gun trafficking is a public health problem and it needs the public to get involved to find solutions.

Dazhon Darien is charged with disturbing school operations, retaliating against a witness, stalking and related offenses.

A community is outraged, and a family is devastated by the murder of Anntoinette Tunstall-Jennings, a Baltimore schoolteacher’s aide, who was fatally shot after watching her grandchild play basketball.  

President Donald Trump pardoned more than 1,500 people in connection with the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. Dozens of those people are from Maryland.