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Criminal Justice

    Youths operated from a ‘clubhouse,’ police say, carrying out armed carjackings, other crimes
    Now, after months of compiling evidence, police say they have connected 20 youths between the ages of 12 and 17 to more than 50 incidents that had a connection to the home.
    Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott and Baltimore State’s Attorney Ivan Bates held separate news conferences Wednesday to discuss an investigation into an alleged juvenile crime ring operating out of what police described as a “clubhouse” in West Baltimore. Law enforcement revealed few specifics about the cases, stating that they were constrained because of privacy laws.
    2 Baltimore Police officers suspended in Northwestern District probe
    Two Baltimore Police officers were suspended this week after internal affairs investigators served a warrant at the Northwestern District station, sources said.
    7/8/22—A Baltimore Police officer’s car is parked on the corner of E Lombard St. & President St.
    BPD to write more parking, traffic tickets in 25 spots starting Friday
    Baltimore Police Department is re-prioritizing a citywide traffic enforcement initiative set to run through mid-August.
    A rectangular grey box that houses an automated traffic camera stands on a city sidewalk as a blurred black SUV drives by.
    17-year-old killed in shooting near the Inner Harbor
    Officers responded to the 200 block of East Pratt Street Monday night, where they found a teenage male suffering from a gunshot wound.
    A Baltimore Police car.
    2 more men die in Baltimore jail system, 1 after surgery: ‘We have to do better’
    The deaths of Edward Bentley and Stephon Martin are putting a spotlight on the state’s ongoing challenges with providing adequate medical and mental health services in the jail system in Baltimore.
    Barbed wire is pictured along the exterior of the Baltimore Central Booking & Intake Center.
    Lawmakers want to toughen laws on youngest offenders committing fraction of crimes
    Gov. Moore has committed to signing a juvenile justice bill that holds youth accountable
    Photo collage of silhouette of young boy’s head and shoulders, with photo of court room with American flag and empty judge’s seat in background.
    Annapolis, Baltimore police jointly investigate shooting death of man who was reported kidnapped
    The mother of a Baltimore man called police early Thursday to report that men had broken into her home and demanded money for her son, whom they claimed to be holding. They fled without the money, and hours later the man was found dead in a wooded area of Annapolis.
    David Winchester Jr., 47, of Baltimore.
    Officer names, body cam footage released in shooting death of Pikesville man
    Sha-Kim Akil Webley, 29, of Windsor Mill, was shot Jan. 9 at a BP gas station near Slade Avenue and Reisterstown Road in Pikesville.
    6/16/22—A Baltimore County police car sits outside of the Public Safety Building and Police Department in Towson.
    Man sentenced for 2 killings, including deadly shooting of Baltimore Police Officer Keona Holley
    Baltimore Circuit Judge Althea M. Handy sentenced Travon Shaw, 35, of Catonsville, on two counts of first-degree murder and related crimes.
    Baltimore Police Officer Keona Holley was fatally shot while sitting in her patrol car on Dec. 16, 2021. She died one week later at the Maryland Shock Trauma Center.
    Maryland appeals court reinstates charges in deadly hit-and-run of 14-year-old Gavin Knupp outside Ocean City
    The Appellate Court of Maryland issued the ruling in the case of Tyler Mailloux less than one month after hearing oral argument.
    Tyler Mailloux, 23, leaves Worchester County Courthouse in Snow Hill, MD on August 18, 2023. Mailloux was charged with 17 counts in the deadly hit-and-run of 14-year-old Gavin Knupp, who was struck on a road outside Ocean City on July 11, 2022.
    Three Calvert County students charged with hate crime violations
    Three Calvert County middle school students were charged as juveniles with harassment and violations of Maryland’s hate crimes statutes.
    The case is being forwarded to the Maryland Department of Juvenile Services for further action.
    Someone has been making hoax distress calls from Baltimore. The Coast Guard isn’t amused.
    The U.S. Coast Guard is asking for assistance in identifying an alleged Baltimore hoax caller.
    The U.S. Coast Guard is asking for the public’s assistance identifying a serial hoax emergency caller the agency said is likely based in Baltimore.
    ‘Shameful and insulting.’ Baltimore police union rejects city’s contract offer
    More than 99% of members casted “no” votes, marking the culmination of weeks of an impasse in negotiations, according to the union president.
    A Baltimore Police car and crime scene tape remains on the scene after a vehicle exploded inside a five-story parking garage in Baltimore’s Fells Point neighborhood on 7/27/22.  Two people are being treated for injuries, fire officials said Wednesday afternoon.
    Former Anne Arundel County teacher charged with possession of child pornography
    A former Anne Arundel County school teacher was charged with 16 counts of child pornography.
    An Anne Arundel County Police vehicle.
    She dropped a loaded gun at school. A judge said jail time would be a ‘miscarriage of justice.’
    Baltimore Circuit Judge John Addison Howard said it would be a “miscarriage of justice” to impose a harsh sentence for Tracie Minor, 36, of Mondawmin, a former educator who accidentally dropped her bag containing a loaded handgun at KIPP Harmony Academy in West Baltimore on Dec. 21, 2023.
    Tracie Minor, 36, of Mondawmin, a former teacher’s assistant at KIPP Harmony Academy, pleaded guilty on March 6 in Baltimore Circuit Court to carrying a loaded handgun. Circuit Judge John Addison Howard then struck the guilty finding and placed her on three years’ unsupervised probation. “It would appear to the court that Miss Minor has suffered in substantial ways well beyond what most people who appear before me have experienced in terms of negative impact on their lives,” Howard said.
    A town on the Eastern Shore suspended its entire police force. Residents want to know why.
    The largely unexplained decision has left Ridgely residents skeptical and on edge.
    The sign outside the town government and police department offices in Ridgely, Maryland.
    Letters: Bar association applauds passage of bill to protect judges
    The killing of a Maryland judge and a rise in threats against the state’s judges necessitated the passage of legislation to better protect them, the president and president-elect of the Maryland State Bar Association say.
    (L) Jason A. DeLoach is president of the Maryland State Bar Association, and Raphael Santini is the association’s president-elect.
    Mother’s fierce defense of daughter in fatal Ellicott City crash elicits police pushback
    Howard County Police have not released many new details about the recent Ellicott City fatal crash.
    The Howard County Police logo seen outside their headquarters on January 25, 2024.
    Man accused of shooting 2 Baltimore County Police officers alleges ‘prosecutorial misconduct’
    In court documents filed on Monday, Deborah Katz Levi and James Dills, David Linthicum’s attorneys, asked a judge to throw out the charges against their client or bar all witnesses from the Baltimore County Police Department from testifying at trial.
    6/16/22—Exterior of the Baltimore County Courts Building in Towson.
    Maryland labor attorney becomes first openly gay judge on 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals
    A Maryland labor attorney is set to become the first openly gay judge on the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals after winning final confirmation by the U.S. Senate.
    The U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals hears federal cases from Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina.
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