Criminal Justice

Aaron Brown, 19, pleaded guilty in Baltimore Circuit Court to conspiracy to commit first-degree murder for his role in the shooting that killed two people and wounded 28 others at the Brooklyn Homes housing project on July 2, 2023.

A 19-year-old man pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in the killing of a Baltimore T-Mobile store employee during a string of armed robberies last year.

An American accused of sexually assaulting a Pennsylvania college student in 2013 and later sending her a Facebook message that said, “So I raped you,” has been detained in France after a three-year search.

Matthew Scott Banks Schlegel, 44, was arrested Thursday.

Maryland state officials are moving forward on massive new contracts for prison and jail mental and medical health care, ousting a problematic contractor.

Leon Hill, 55, of Windsor Mill, said he wanted to take responsibility for his actions and understood that he needed to be held accountable for fatally shooting Elaine Jackson at a Maryland Transit Administration lot in Southwest Baltimore on Oct. 18, 2022. She was 40.

Prosecutors will not charge the Anne Arundel County Police officer who used a Taser on a man who later died.

Markis Russell, 22, pleaded guilty in Baltimore City Circuit Court to second-degree murder and use of a firearm during the commission of a crime of violence, according to the Baltimore State’s Attorney’s Office.

Sarah Beth Clendaniel told a confidential FBI source that the attack would be “legendary” and “probably permanently completely lay this city to waste.”

The state has been in talks with county executives about expanding “diversion” programs to reduce the number of people with mental illness from being funneled into the court system in the first place.

Three people accepted responsibility on Monday for their roles in a mass shooting that killed two and wounded 28 others in the Brooklyn Homes community in Baltimore, where hundreds had gathered for an annual celebration the weekend before the Fourth of July.

Callum Robinson was a standout lacrosse player at Stevenson University, a hulking figure who was hard to miss. But friends remember the former Locust Point resident, who was found fatally shot in Mexico last month in a robbery attempt, for his big hugs, big heart and zest for life.

A 47-year-old woman has been arrested and charged with arson and related offenses in connection to a May 6, 2024 fire at Papi Cuisine in South Baltimore.

A crush of court orders and the lack of psychiatric hospital bed space have led to a record-high waitlist for jail transfers.

Jeremiah Brogden, a junior at Mergenthaler Vocational-Technical High School and a running back on the Mustangs varsity football team, was shot and killed as classes let out for Labor Day weekend in 2022. He was 17.

A Maryland teen is part of a group facing federal charges for calling in hoax threats to an airport, a school, a casino and people’s homes across the country, according to a newly unsealed indictment.

Mosby’s attorneys, Federal Public Defender James Wyda and Assistant Federal Public Defenders Maggie Grace and Sedira Banan, said, “Jail is not justice for Marilyn Mosby.”

The Maryland Emergency Medical Services System, which monitors hospitals across the state, placed St. Agnes in mini-disaster status, meaning new patients to the emergency room were rerouted to other hospitals.

“Lady in the Lake,” the Apple TV+ drama based on the 2019 novel by New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman, will have its global premiere date of July 19. The miniseries stars Natalie Portman and Baltimore-native Moses Ingram.

In total, the former PTA president is accused of taking $23,134.58 from multiple bank accounts and forging signatures 46 times to do so.