Criminal justice

Joshua Matthew Duerk, a business owner and former volunteer coach for Centennial High School, is facing charges in Howard County after police say he sexually assaulted a teen this month in his Ellicott City home.

A Maryland woman was found shot and killed inside her dorm room on Monday at Rice University in Houston, according to police.

One by one, Assistant U.S. Attorney Colleen McGuinn played clips from eight videos to the jury in the trial of Chris Bendann, 40, of Baltimore, a former teacher at the Gilman School.

Jason Dean Billingsley, 33, pleaded guilty Monday to attacking and sexually assaulting a Baltimore couple.

Baltimore County Police said a 31-year-old woman was found stabbed at a home in Catonsville early Sunday. The victim was transported to a local hospital, where she was pronounced dead.

Maryland State Police said Quwan Gordon of Owings Mills was charged with shooting at the driver of another car on Interstate 95.

Christopher Gamble left an unsecured, illegal handgun in the presence of his daughter, who died from a gunshot wound in December 2023.

A man, 23, testified for more than two hours in U.S. District Court in Baltimore about how his former teacher at the Gilman School, Chris Bendann, sexually abused and extorted him.

A federal appeals court ruled Friday in favor of Maryland’s tough requirements for obtaining a handgun license, a blow to gun rights supporters who have been fighting the law for years and a win for gun safety advocates.

Justin Lee ignited and threw a smoke bomb into the tunnel entrance on the Capitol’s Lower West Terrace, where a mob of rioters attacked a group of outnumbered police officers. The device struck a police officer’s riot shield and filled the mouth of the tunnel with a large plume of smoke, prosecutors said.

Investigators arrested Jalesia Offer, 34, and her fiance Brandon Wheatley, 34, and charged them in connection to the death of Offer’s 6-year-old son Brian Graham, who died this week from blunt force trauma.

Detectives with the Baltimore County Homicide Unit arrested Bryan Demetric Cherry, 36, on Thursday. He faces a count of first-degree murder charges and is being held without bond. An attorney was not immediately listed in online court records.

The Sunday night shooting near the building killed one person and wounded seven others. Law enforcement is investigating if the group is involved after noise complaints from the community earlier that night.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Colleen McGuinn and Christopher Nieto, one of Chris Bendann’s attorneys, are set to deliver their opening statements Friday.

ABC Capital’s Jay Walsh was convicted Thursday of acting as a contractor without a license and acquitted of the most serious charge he faced, one count of felony theft.

Antoinette Gray, who was a double amputee and bedridden because of a stroke 15 years ago, was found covered in feces, bedbugs, maggots and disposable absorbent pads used to collect her waste, according to court documents obtained by WJZ.

U.S. Senior District Judge James K. Bredar had to direct deputy U.S. marshals to go to the cell of Chris Bendann and deliver instructions that he must appear for jury selection.

Chris Bendann, a former teacher at the Gilman School, is set to stand trial Wednesday on charges alleging that he victimized a student and recorded videos of the sexual abuse.

David Philpot was walking his dog on Saturday afternoon when he was approached by Clinedinst, 43, who asked for money, Philpot’s wife of 30 years said. When Philpot said he had no money, he was shoved to the ground and repeatedly kicked.

U.S. District Judge Peter Messitte set the trial date for Nicholas John Roske during a hearing Tuesday at the federal courthouse in Greenbelt, Maryland. It was the first hearing for the case in nearly two years.