Criminal Justice

“Luckily,” Baltimore Police Commissioner Richard Worley told reporters, “his protective vest saved his life.”

The festival — they are calling it MegFest — was supposed to pair up with the day of the trial of the man who fatally shot her. It is supposed to bring closure to a community that is still piecing together what happened that night in December.

The animals were in an unsafe and unhealthy environment — officials said they were found covered in excrement and insects.

Officers were “reacting to deadly force being used on them and in the vicinity of civilians in the area” when they shot and killed Darryl Gamble, 40, of Baltimore, on June 29, 2023, according to a report from the Baltimore State’s Attorney’s Office.

Officer Alexia Davis pleaded guilty on Monday in Baltimore Circuit Court to reckless driving and failure to control speed to avoid a collision for a $2,000 fine. Meanwhile, former Detective June Hall pleaded guilty to theft and misconduct in office for probation before judgment.

A woman struggling with fentanyl addiction died in the Harford County Detention Center after being declared a “danger to self + community” and held without bail following a home-invasion burglary charge.

U.S. District Judge Lydia Kay Griggsby spared Marilyn Mosby, 44, a Democrat who served term terms as the city’s top prosecutor from 2015-2023, from going to prison on two counts of perjury and one count of making a false statement on a loan application.

The charges were dismissed with prejudice, meaning they cannot be retried.

Howard County Police have recovered about 15,000 tools worth up to $5 million total, county officials announced Thursday.

Police found dozens of 3D-printed handgun components, in a variety of colors, that could be readily assembled into a usable weapon. Some were hanging like ornaments on an artificial Christmas tree.

Vickie Gipson, the chief judge of the Orphans’ Court of Anne Arundel County, has accused Judge Marc Knapp of multiple instances of aggression in a criminal complaint. A district court judge on Tuesday issued a peace order in the case.

“I need to do everything that I can to try to avoid the avoidable ones, and then try to help people once they have been evicted,” Cogen said.

Baltimore County Circuit Judge Dennis M. Robinson Jr. reset the trial of David Linthicum, 25, of Cockeysville, to begin on Sept. 16. It’s scheduled out for 10 days.

The discovery was made indoors, on a conveyor belt, a police spokeswoman said.

In Maryland’s coastal tourist hub, the top prosecutor is accused of trying to chill citizen complaints about police.

The Supreme Court on Monday declined, for now, to hear a challenge to a Maryland law banning certain semiautomatic firearms commonly referred to as assault weapons.

U.S. District Judge Lydia K. Griggsby is scheduled on Thursday to sentence Mosby, 44, a Democrat who serve two terms as the city's top prosecutor from 2015-2023, on two counts of perjury and one count of making a false statement on a loan application. She maintains her innocence.

A Baltimore Department of Public Works employee was injured in a shooting Friday morning in West Baltimore.

Read former Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby’s application for a presidential pardon.

The public defender’s office described “horrific” and unsanitary conditions at the jail.