Criminal justice

The wrenching testimony from the mother of a victim halted the hearing, which had been focused on a breakdown in police-community relations.

Federal authorities have claimed the CCC gang was behind 18 killings and 28 attempted killings between 2015 and 2020.

Baltimore Police have arrested a 15-year-old boy and are charging him with 44 offenses in connection to the fatal shooting in July at a block party in the Brooklyn Homes housing project of South Baltimore.

Overnight into Wednesday, heavily armed law enforcement officers searched for the fugitive through a night of downpours and thunder.

Days after the shooting, the Housing Authority of Baltimore City cut the tree down, but the camera now faces a different direction.

These photos show the different viewpoints BPD's CitiWatch cameras had into the main courtyard of Brooklyn Homes, where the mass shooting occurred.

Tonya Lucas, 59, of Northwest Baltimore, was awaiting a fifth trial in Baltimore Circuit Court on arson and murder charges after a previous conviction was set aside. She had spent more than two decades in prison and will not have to serve any additional time.

Trone, a Democrat who represents much of Western Maryland in Congress and is running for the U.S. Senate, echoed concerns detailed by the American Civil Rights Union in a complaint last July.

“It hurts us more when kids are the ones perpetrating or falling victim, because we feel like we failed them,” said state Del. Luke Clippinger, a Baltimore Democrat who is leading a review of whether juvenile laws need adjusting.

A shooting incident near a popular Hampden skate park ended with a chaotic arrest Monday afternoon as dozens of students departing a nearby high school looked on.

Officer Steven Angelini is scheduled to be sentenced on charges of conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute oxycodone and cocaine and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime on Feb. 9, 2024.

Baltimore County Police reported a man was shot in the hand Monday afternoon in the neighborhood next to Lansdowne Middle School, resulting in a brief lockdown at three schools.

Baltimore County Circuit Judge Dennis M. Robinson Jr. remarked that “drug dealing is bad enough on its own” when sentencing former Baltimore Police Officer Cejus Watson on a charge of distribution of marijuana.

FBI agents visited the school headquarters a year ago, probing timecard irregularities and overtime fraud, sources said at the time.

Mosby, 43, who was in office from 2015-2023, is charged in U.S. District Court in Baltimore with two counts of perjury and making false statements on a loan application

City officials might have expected tough questions Thursday night at a community forum following up on an investigative report of the July 2 mass shooting in Brooklyn. Instead, some community members wanted to say thanks.

Chris Bendann, 39, now of Baltimore, is charged in U.S. District Court in Baltimore with five counts of sexual exploitation of a minor and one count of possession of child pornography.

The shooting happened on the evening of June 11 during a birthday party when a dispute broke out over a parking issue on a residential street.

A 2017 federal consent decree required the Baltimore Police Department to install an advanced “early intervention system” that will track its officers.

The Appellate Court of Maryland ruled in 2022 that people whose probation is unsatisfactorily closed are not entitled to expungement.