Criminal Justice

YesCare has come under fire in Maryland and nationally for the quality of its care of incarcerated people and for a controversial bankruptcy that critics say is an attempt to evade responsibility for medical malpractice and other problems.

Following an inquiry by The Baltimore Banner this week, county police announced that five suspects had been arrested on Feb. 3. In court records, police said the suspects were positively identified through border control as members of an organization known as the South American Theft Group.

Police in Laurel are investigating a shooting inside a recording studio that left two people dead and wounded a third person.

Baltimore County Circuit Judge Jan Marshall Alexander ruled that prosecutors violated David Davis’ constitutional right to a speedy trial.

Frederick sheriff’s deputies and the U.S. Marshals Service have arrested Keon Wilson-Hawkins in the Jan. 10 killing of a Pikesville man.

Identified only by their initials, 11 women, one man, and one person who identified as non-binary, filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the state of Maryland and three of its agencies, claiming they were sexually abused as children while residents at the Good Shepherd Services treatment center before the facility was closed in 2017.

The suspect is facing several charges, including robbery and assault.

The attack happened about a quarter of a mile from the school.

William Brown Jr., of Essex, recently pleaded guilty in Baltimore Circuit Court to bigamy. According to data from the Maryland Judiciary, there were 16 cases filed statewide containing at least one count of bigamy between 2013 and 2023.

A driver died early Sunday after their vehicle went through a closed gate at the Port of Baltimore's South Locust Point Terminal and broke into flames.

Maryland’s corrections department says Dominetreous Anthony was assaulted by two prisoners. His mother believes there is more to the story.

A former Maryland deputy secretary of state was indicted last month on federal charges related to child sexual abuse material. He had previously been charged with sexual solicitation of a minor.

Maryland is proposing to spend nearly $125 million to continue having YesCare provide medical care to the 20,000 people in state-run jails and prisons through the end of the year.

Authorities charged a Baltimore man with murder, accusing him of killing Jamal Barney, a former basketball standout at Loyola University Maryland and Southwestern High School.

Baltimore Circuit Judge Jeffrey M. Geller issued the ruling at the conclusion of a motion hearing.

Baltimore officials and members of the city’s flagship violence-intervention program, Safe Streets, have gone more than a year without a homicide in the area where their Penn North site is located.

Elliot Knox, 34, of Mount Holly, stood trial in Baltimore Circuit Court on two counts of first-degree murder, two counts of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder and related offenses.

Maryland must be one of the places that will protect artistic expression, including rap music lyrics, from being used by prosecutors in criminal cases, say a state lawmaker and an author who has written about those prosecution methods.

Swatting calls can be initiated by individuals or groups and experts say are increasingly weaponized against people with opposing political viewpoints.

The jury has deliberated in Baltimore Circuit Court for more than eight hours in the case of Elliot Knox, 34, of Mount Holly, who’s charged with two counts of first-degree murder and related offenses.