Criminal justice

Davis, 34, stood trial four times in for a deadly shooting that he always maintained that he did not commit.

Catherine Barney pleaded guilty for threatening to blow up Baltimore City Hall over water shut-offs.

Lakia Stevenson pleaded guilty to failing to immediately stop at the scene of an accident involving bodily injury and related crimes in the hit-and-run that injured Baltimore Police Officer Jordan Brandner.

Anne Arundel County Executive Steuart Pittman said ICE enforcement makes “communities less safe” and that agents are detaining “people who make our communities better.”

A teenage girl was killed in a Silver Spring vehicle collision Wednesday morning, Montgomery County Police said.

Frederick County Sheriff Chuck Jenkins plans to keep working with federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement, even in light of the killing of an American citizen by an ICE agent.

The incident took place at a SWAT team holiday party at the Admiral’s Cup saloon in Baltimore City.

In Maryland, anyone can seek criminal charges on their own without input from police or prosecutors by going before a district court commissioner, a judicial officer who is not required to have a law degree.

A driver died after colliding with a tree overnight Wednesday near the intersection of Bethesda Church Road and Johnson Drive in Damascus, Montgomery County police said.

Maria Luisa Alvarez, 20, of Lanham, pleaded guilty to negligent manslaughter by motor vehicle in November. Boris Josue Bonilla of Rockville, 30, Alvarez’s front-seat passenger, died on the Inner Loop of the Beltway in 2024.

Montgomery County pPolice Tuesday afternoon identified the pedestrian struck and killed on a Fairland roadway Monday evening as Florence L. Chumbow, 73, of Silver Spring.

Wisdom Da-Silva Baptista, 16, of Gaithersburg, and Kevin Jesus Perez Fierro, 20, of Montgomery Village, have been charged with first-degree murder and armed robbery in the death of Taeyon Malachi Prather, 18, according to Montgomery County police.

Baltimore Police on Monday released body camera and private video footage of three nonfatal shootings by officers.

A former congressional staffer from Glen Burnie has been federally indicted on allegations that he stole and sold 240 government cellphones.

Police are asking for the public’s help in locating a red 2025 Chevy Equinox that officials believe was involved in a fatal hit-and-run on Sunday. Investigators think the vehicle’s front and passenger side are damaged.

The Catonsville community rallied around small businesses after a rare string of break-ins early Sunday.

On Nov. 20, 2025, Darryl Nichols swiped a package that contained a stainless steel bowl worth $20 from the house of Baltimore Police Commissioner Richard Worley.

Sari Kurland, a former Rockville bankruptcy lawyer, pleaded guilty Friday to orchestrating three schemes that victimized 21 people between May 2022 and September 2024, and totaled more than $4.2 million, authorities said.

Homicides in Montgomery County rose 20% in 2025, but were down from a 10-year high in 2021.

Baltimore City has achieved a stunning turnaround in violent crime despite a rift between State’s Attorney Ivan Bates and Mayor Brandon Scott.