Criminal justice

An arrest warrant was issued for Arjun Sharma, 26, of Columbia, who was charged with first-and second-degree murder in the death of Nikitha Godishala, Howard County Police said Sunday.

A 55-year-old man was killed in East Baltimore Saturday, the first homicide of 2026 following another year marked by a notable decline in violence in the city.

COLUMN: Anne Arundel County Police will have to figure out not only what happened and why but whether Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents lied.

The accused kidnapper of a 13-year-old Kentucky girl met her online, drove her from her home state to Florida and then to his Silver Spring home, according to news reports. He is now in a Kentucky jail.

A Baltimore County paramedic has been under investigation for allegedly ejaculating and urinating on his colleagues' belongings.

An Annapolis woman who works as a sergeant for the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, D.C., faces assault and firearm violation charges for an alleged road rage incident last month.

The company contracted to care for the teenage girl who had been living in an East Baltimore hotel for weeks failed to lock up her medication or properly supervise her, a state report found.

Baltimore County Police officers fatally shot Howard Sye, 31, after he tried to punch another member of the force, body camera footage released on Friday shows.

Keon Wilson-Hawkins, 22, of Baltimore, was found guilty in Frederick County Circuit Court of first-degree murder and related crimes in the killing of Brice Boots, 65, of Pikesville.

Tiago Alexandre Sousa-Martins, an immigrant from Portugal accused of driving his van at ICE agents in Glen Burnie, was moved to the Caroline Detention Facility in Virginia, according to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement online detainee database.

Baltimore Police released a year-end report Thursday celebrating everything from improvements in hiring and retaining officers to higher clearance rates.

The Banner will continue to report on these court cases and others in Baltimore and the surrounding counties.

Baltimore County police arrested a 21-year-old woman for the death of a man and his dog after a crash last month, officials announced Tuesday.

Howard County police officers, with the assistance of a drone thermal camera, apprehended three suspects who allegedly broke into roughly 50 cars in the early hours of Christmas Eve.

Baltimore County police arrested a suspect after a barricade situation early Tuesday morning closed a street near an apartment complex in Cockeysville.

Baltimore County police are investigating after emergency personnel found a man dead in a burning car in Dundalk, officials announced.

Baltimore County police say a 22-year-old was fatally stabbed in Edgewood on Monday morning and a suspect has been arrested.

Thirteen incarcerated people have been killed by other prisoners this year, state officials said, marking the highest annual total in at least a decade.

Since 2023 Baltimore has seen the number of victims fall below 300, then below 200 and now below 150 — the first time since the 1960s, when gun violence soared and then rarely abated. People are still getting killed at an alarming rate.

Baltimore is on track to end 2025 with its lowest homicide total in 48 years, with fewer than 150 killings expected, marking a significant decline since 2022.