Criminal Justice

Howard County Police have arrested a 41-year-old man in the Feb. 8 fatal shooting of 67-year-old Perry Comeau inside his home on the 9500 block of Half Dollar Court in Columbia.

The federal court’s decision, depending on which way and how aggressively it rules, could have serious implications for any laws restricting gun ownership.

Maryland automatically charges more teens as adults than almost any other state. An analysis of recent decisions found that some judges rely on what juvenile justice advocates say is unfair reasoning to keep those young people in adult court.

New mothers face a lot of challenges, and in Baltimore one of them is serving jury duty.

A Baltimore County music shop is trying to find the man who stole a $2,200 electric guitar from them last weekend.

Brice Boots was found dead on Jan. 10 inside a 2003 Toyota Sequoia in a field about 650 feet off the road in Frederick County. He was 65. The Frederick County State's Attorney's Office alleges that his estranged wife, Frances Hamilton, and one of her nephews, Keon Wilson-Hawkins, conspired to kill him.

While shootings victimizing teens between ages 13 and 18 remain above pre-pandemic levels, they have fallen sharply this year compared to the same time period in 2023, according to a Baltimore Banner analysis of police data.

Louis Maurice Mason, 67, died recently in the Baltimore Central Booking and Intake Center. He struggled with homelessness and substance use issues.

Police and the FBI on Monday identified Donald Willard, a former Montgomery County resident who died in 2010, as the second suspect in the killing of 16-year-old Pamela Lynn Conyers in 1970. An initial suspect, also deceased, was named a year ago. DNA tests helped solve a case that had gone cold for decades.

Most of the proposals on the long wish list Gov. Wes Moore sent to lawmakers are moving forward ahead of a key deadline Monday.

More and more, Glock switches — tiny devices that turn a handgun fully automatic — are appearing on city streets.

A 21-year-old student was found dead Saturday near a parking garage at Towson University, and police were investigating the circumstances.

An inmate at Jessup Correctional Institution set a fire Friday night that prompted the evacuation of a housing unit at the maximum-security prison, a Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services spokesperson said.

James Michael Harris, 46, stole $29,000 tied to the chocolate sale organized by the parent teacher student association for Stemmers Run Middle School in Essex, Baltimore County.

Matthew Hebert, 44, of Concord Township, Delaware County, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Baltimore on Thursday to knowingly or willfully violating U.S. national defense airspace, according to court records.

A federal judge agreed Thursday to early termination of former Baltimore Mayor Catherine E. Pugh’s probation related to her conviction in the “Healthy Holly” scandal.

The proposed 854-bed facility will be a hybrid jail, hospital and mental health and substance use treatment facility for people facing criminal charges.

The Frederick County State’s Attorney’s Office alleges that Wilson-Hawkins and Hamilton together went to Boots’ home the night before he was found dead and remained there until early morning the next day.

City officials announced a renewed priority for police making more traffic stops this week as drivers continue to violate traffic laws.

About 6,000 current and former state correctional officers were paid thousands of dollars that they missed out on, representing the overwhelming majority of officers working in state-run prisons and jails, according to their union.