Criminal Justice

A Prince George’s County canine officer is charged with animal cruelty over the mistreatment of a police dog.

Howard County Police still have no suspect in the 2020 killings of Rabiah Ahmad and her baby, Ahja.

Baltimore Police have arrested a 15-year-old boy in the July 21 shooting death of 14-year-old Jasper Davis at the Mondawmin Metro Center.

Howard County Police are searching for a suspect in the fatal shooting of a 17-year-old male at The Mall in Columbia on Saturday night.

Details about Dazhon Darien's troubled work history were listed in a national database.

He shared details of the vandalism with his 1.7 million TikTok followers and has seen an outpouring of support.

Police said the investigation is ongoing and that no additional information was available.

A 52-year-old Owings Mills man has been arrested for his alleged involvement in scams while posing as a government official dealing in gold bars.

Snyder, 77, who was one of the most successful plaintiffs’ lawyers in Maryland, is accused of threatening to extort the University of Maryland Medical System for $25 million in 2018.

Police say a teenage driver struck a 31-year-old man on a scooter at the intersection of North Conkling Street and Pulaski Highway and left the scene. The man died of injuries suffered in the crash, and the 16-year-old driver was later arrested and charged in the incident.

In the two weeks since 14-year-old Cortez Lemon Jr. was fatally stabbed on an MTA bus in Baltimore July 10, multiple vigils have been held to remember the young man they called “Bubbles.”

Lewis M. Laury Jr., 24, a U.S. history teacher who taught at Mergenthaler Vocational-Technical High School in Baltimore, faces 24 counts, including second-degree rape and sexual assault in the third degree. He is awaiting trial at the Baltimore County Detention Center.

United Food & Commercial Workers Local 400, which represents Annapolis Police officers, accused Chief Edward Jackson of unlawfully retaliating against two officers it described as “whistleblowers.” Jackson, whose agency recently got a vote of confidence from a civil rights group, had no immediate comment.

The charged officer was found by investigators to have given a prisoner “unauthorized privileges,” and to have spoken to her on a recorded phone line more than 800 times in three months.

Jasper Davis, 14, was shot and killed Sunday near the Mondawmin metro station in Baltimore.

“She didn’t bother nobody. She was sweet, quiet and respectful,” her grandmother said after a vigil Monday evening. “My heart hurts so bad for her.”

The story of Brandon Bowden reveals disturbing truths about the Maryland prison system.

Police said officers arrested a man Sunday morning who is suspected of fatally shooting a 12-year-old girl in an East Baltimore rowhouse two days earlier.

A Baltimore Police Department spokesperson said in an email a child was shot in the 500 block of North Kenwood Avenue.