Criminal Justice

Baltimore County authorities charged Jake Burdett in March 2025, claiming he jeopardized immigration cases by deleting dozens of electronic forms and stealing physical files including passports.

Restaurateur Desmond Reilly and his companies — Star Restaurant Group LLC and Chicken + Whiskey Columbia LLC — are facing lawsuits and tax liens more than a year after leaving The Mall in Columbia.

Janey Sears was convicted of defrauding a Silver Spring man of more than $400,000 by grooming him over years and then spending the money at casinos and on an Italian car.

University of Maryland cornerback Dontay Joyner was sentenced to three years of supervised probation after pleading guilty to telephone misuse and electronic communications harassment.

Baltimore County Police Chief Robert McCullough said officers responded around 7:20 p.m. Tuesday to a house in the 6100 block of Talles Road. Officers found a 9-year-old and a 15-year-old, who appeared to be brother and sister, dead from gunshot wounds.

Johnnie Wade Jr. was found not guilty because he didn’t actually see a Towson University student inside her room.

Bryan Neal Gordon, of Silver Spring, is accused of kidnapping two sex workers, claiming to be a police officer and handcuffing them, according to court records from several counties.

The Maryland attorney general’s office has identified the Anne Arundel County man who was fatally shot by six Baltimore Police officers following a high-speed chase early Sunday morning.

The leader of a nonprofit that mentors children, who has come under scrutiny for his ties to a County Council member and as the recipient of millions of dollars of county funds, was arrested earlier this year for driving under the influence and other related charges, court records show.

A Montgomery County man charged with kidnapping a woman near Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport is facing similar charges in Charles County.

A man died and another was seriously injured in a shooting at a Maryland house party attended by about 100 people, according to the Harford County Sheriff’s Office.

Andrew Britt, 28, of Windsor Hills, said he does not remember shooting Baltimore County Police Officer Jordan Riddick in the parking lot of the Wilkens precinct.

William Nelson II, of Elkridge, pleaded guilty to sexually abusing a student he met on the Grindr app.

A naked man momentarily stood where the Christopher Columbus statue used to be near the Inner Harbor on Saturday morning.

Jalen Godard, 29, of Odenton, reported his truck stolen to police minutes after he allegedly broke the window and stole a Verizon store in Ellicott City last week, police said.

All fireworks, including sparklers, are illegal in Montgomery and Prince George’s counties. Possessing or lighting them can lead to hefty fines.

The Maryland attorney general’s office is investigating an in-custody death along the Baltimore-Washington Parkway involving the U.S. Park Police and the Greenbelt Police Department.

A Montgomery County man was arrested Monday after a woman exited his car during a traffic stop near Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport and told police she had been handcuffed and kidnapped by the driver.

An Annapolis Police Department officer shot and killed an “aggressive” dog on Saturday, the department said.

Howard County residents and immigrant rights activists plan to rally Thursday morning outside the federal courthouse in downtown Baltimore ahead of a crucial hearing on a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Elkridge.