Criminal Justice

Baltimore Police and firefighters were called to the 2600 block of Port Covington Drive at around 5:50 p.m. Saturday to a report of multiple people in the water, said Lindsey Eldridge, a spokesperson for the Baltimore Police Department.

Marcel Traoren was last seen in Dundalk early Friday around 5 a.m., police said. The child was reported missing, and a search was launched around 7 a.m.

Join Baltimore Banner Senior Deputy Managing Editor Richard Martin and reporters Jessica Calefati, Justin Fenton and Julie Scharper for a discussion on the Greater Grace investigative series on June 27.

A West Baltimore man said he feared for his life when he tried to help a 67-year-old woman being attacked by pit bulls and the dogs turned on him. Police say one woman was killed and two people were injured when stray pit bulls attacked people last weekend.

Harford County District Judge Kerwin A. Miller Sr. said he agreed with the state’s attorney that Victor Martinez-Hernandez, 23, posed both a danger to the community and a flight risk.

A Salvadoran immigrant was flown back to Maryland Thursday to be tried in the rape and killing of Harford County mother Rachel Morin last summer.

Darrell David Rice, a computer programmer from Columbia who was arrested in 2001, was charged with capital murder, and authorities alleged that he selected the victims because of his hatred of women and gay people.

“The facts of this case are terrifying,” Baltimore County Circuit Judge Robert E. Cahill Jr. said as he sentenced Joseph Vickery, 44, of Wilmington, North Carolina, on a charge of attempted manufacturing of a destructive device.

Advocates hope the system will empower sexual assault survivors while holding police and prosecutors accountable for what happens to evidence kits.

“I was just so very grateful that they didn’t give up,” Patty Morin said. “That she wasn’t the folder on the desk that I was afraid might happen.”

City leaders, health care providers and law enforcement can work together to provide treatment, prevention and other strategies to confront Baltimore’s drug overdose crisis, directors of health and public innovation efforts at Johns Hopkins University say.

William Rich, 43, of Windsor Mill, is standing trial in U.S. District Court in Baltimore on five counts of wire fraud and one count of theft of government property. The indictment alleges that he faked being paralyzed and lied to receive more than $767,000 in benefits to which he was not entitled.

Nicholas Francis Xavier Giroux, 36, has been charged with first-and-second-degree murder in the death of Isaiah Oludayo Olugbemi.

A Baltimore spokesperson said that Mace was released after two groups of people got into an altercation, but people who attended think something else happened.

Just over a month away from its premiere, Apple TV+ released the first trailer for “Lady in the Lake,” the drama based on the 2019 novel by New York Times bestselling author — and Baltimore resident — Laura Lippman, staring Natalie Portman and Moses Ingram.

Burton was arrested at the Miami International Airport in January and charged with one count of conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business and one count of operating an unlicensed money transmitting business.

A group raised to revere their pastors reaches out to former classmates and friends. They discover dozens of abuse allegations, including several linked to one family.

Authorities said Shelia Jones, 54, died following a stray dog attack in West Baltimore on Friday. Police said three people were attacked by two pit bull terriers.

The Maryland Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear an appeal of a reckless endangerment conviction by a former Baltimore Police officer. A judge found Christopher Nguyen had failed to prevent a suspect in an assault from attacking a man lying on the ground.

The decision clears the way for the Harford County Sheriff’s Office to bring the suspect back to Maryland to be tried for Rachel Morin’s rape and killing.