Criminal justice

A Windsor Mill woman was sentenced last week to more than five years in prison for attempting to fraudulently receive more than $3 million in COVID-19 CARES Act loans to pay for a Jamaican vacation and more.

Attorneys said Susman Godfrey is known for its innovative approach and that adversaries know it isn't bluffing about taking cases to trial.

State's Attorney Ivan Bates said Friday evening that 24-year-old John Callis has been indicted allegedly for attacking three men after a Ravens-Commanders game in Baltimore on Oct. 13. Video of the attack went viral.

A 48-year-old from Anne Arundel County left scrap tires strewn across an industrial property in Western Maryland. He has pleaded guilty to 17 environmental crimes, authorities say.

A new lawsuit accuses the WWE and its founders of fostering a culture of sexual abuse and looking the other way while a longtime ringside announcer preyed on young men he hired as “ring boys.”

The order follows murder charges against a Howard High School student with a prior criminal record.

Howard County Police teamed with Loyola University Maryland interns and NamUs to create an AI-generated image of an unidentified woman who died in 1971 — the county’s longest cold case — in hopes of identifying the Jane Doe.

A 16-year-old boy was critically wounded and a woman was grazed when someone fired a gun into a crowd in Severn on Thursday night, Anne Arundel County Police said.

A jury could not reach a unanimous verdict in the case of Daaon Spears, 18, of Edmondson Village, who stood trial in Baltimore Circuit Court on charges including first-degree murder.

District Judge LaTina Burse Greene on Wednesday ordered Jack Callis to continue to be held without bail.

Councilman Dion Guthrie, 86, a Democrat, is charged with one count of theft between $1,500 and $25,000 from the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 1501.

The Baltimore Police Department released body-camera footage from the officers who fatally shot a 54-year-old man after he fled the scene of a car crash in West Baltimore.

Jack Callis, 24, faces one count of first-degree assault and three counts of second-degree assault.

A win on fraud and deceit would be a "huge win" for tenants, attorneys for the case said.

Her parents told police they could not remember when she had last been fed or seen alive.

The state has devoted significant legal resources toward getting out of a four-year-old settlement agreement.

Daaon Spears, 18, of Edmondson Village, is charged with first-degree murder and related offenses in the mass shooting in the Edmondson Village Shopping Center in Baltimore on Jan. 4, 2023. At the time, he was 16.

Howard County School Superintendent Bill Barnes said the school district did not know until a bail hearing what the extent of the teenager’s offenses were.

John Callis, 24, of Baltimore, is wanted on one count of first-degree assault and three counts of second-degree assault, Baltimore Police reported on Thursday.

That prisoner was airlifted Tuesday night by Maryland State Police to a nearby hospital “for treatment of his injuries.”