Criminal justice

A theft and embezzlement case against a former citizens association president is the latest turn in a saga that’s shaken Oyster Harbor, a community along the Chesapeake Bay near Annapolis.

A man was found dead early Saturday morning behind an office building in Columbia. Hours later, two teens were found with non-fatal gunshot wounds on the same block.

The Independent Investigations Division of the Maryland Office of the Attorney General said Friday that Robert Phillip Nedd Jr. of Baltimore died Wednesday in the fatal shooting involving police officers.

Two teenagers have been charged as adults in connection with the shooting of a Rodgers Forge man behind his home on Sept. 13. Police say a struggle between the victim and an armed teen was captured on video.

Officials arrested a second teenager in connection to a non-fatal shooting that’s rocked the Towson neighborhood of Rodgers Forge, the Baltimore County Police Department announced Thursday night.

The lawsuit was filed on Thursday in Baltimore County Circuit Court against Concrete General Inc., the state of Maryland and two drivers arrested and charged in the crash.

At 9:15 a.m. on Thursday, Scott walked into Courtroom 636 in the Clarence M. Mitchell Jr. Courthouse with two members of his security detail trailing him. His time as an alternate juror, though, quickly came to an end.

Baltimore police officers shot and killed a man following a pursuit in the Upton neighborhood Wednesday night, the department said.

A federal investigation has led to the takedown of 17 people allegedly involved in a nationwide marijuana trafficking organization that laundered its proceeds through China.

The court deferred to a decision made by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in January. That decision stated that the county law was in-bounds and required the shop owners to continue handing out pamphlets.

Tensions had escalated between neighbors in the Oliver community and the bikers who rode in to the old brick warehouse.

One of Maryland’s biggest unions has been sounding the alarm on state-run prisons. Is anyone listening?

Baltimore County detectives arrested a 15-year-old on Wednesday in the nonfatal shooting of a 50-year-old Rodgers Forge man on Sept. 13.

The incident has triggered the latest discussion of the state’s youth legal system, a seemingly perpetual cycle of frustration and finger pointing.

Authorities allege that a group of 14 men ran a street-level drug ring out of the Obery Court townhouse complex in Annapolis, less than a mile from the Maryland State House.

The two men are accused of carrying out a string of contract shootings and killings across Baltimore over a bloody eight-month period.

Following the string of shootings during homecoming celebrations in recent years, campus police departments are implementing additional security measures and protocols.

Gov. Wes Moore announced that the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services will cancel millions of unpaid parole debts for more than 6,700 people.

“We do not believe this was a random act,” Jackson said. “We are confident we’ve got the right person.”

Harford County Circuit Judge Yolanda L. Curtin on Friday granted a request from Victor Martinez-Hernandez’s attorneys to postpone his trial until April 1, 2025. Martinez-Hernandez is charged with first- and second-degree murder, first- and second-degree rape, third-degree sex offense and kidnapping.