Criminal Justice

With scant police resources to locate missing people, the Missing in Baltimore City Facebook group has increasingly become a resource for families to crowdsource and find support as they search for their loved ones.

Harford County leaders are paying a $1 million settlement to avoid a lawsuit in a 2022 deadly shooting involving a deputy.

David Linthicum, 25, of Cockeysville, had been scheduled to stand trial on May 20 in Baltimore County Circuit Court on five counts of attempted first-degree murder and related offenses.

The state is paying a small portion of the $200,000 settlement.

Mosby, 44, is set to be sentenced on May 23 in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt on two counts of perjury as well as one count of making a false statement on a loan application. She maintains her innocence.

Maryland Transportation Authority warns E-ZPass customers to delete texts immediately and do not click on any links to avoid smishing scams.

The families of three firefighters who died in a blaze at a vacant home on Stricker Street in two years ago are suing the city, saying officials were negligent in cataloging dangerous buildings.

“We are actively negotiating some of those pleas,” said Michael Dunty, chief of the homicide division in the Baltimore State's Attorney's Office, to Baltimore Circuit Judge Melissa K. Copeland. “We are asking the court to allow us about one more month to hammer out the details.”

Officers responded to Marley Middle School in Glen Burnie on Tuesday after school officials found an unloaded 9 mm handgun in a student’s backpack, according to Anne Arundel County Police.

Gary Washington, now 63, of Baltimore, spent more than 31 years incarcerated on charges of first-degree murder and use of a handgun in the commission of a crime of violence in the deadly shooting of Faheem “Bobo” Ali, which happened on Barclay Street between East 23rd and East 24th streets in Barclay, on Dec. 27, 1986.

Aberdeen Police say a suspect has been arrested after a triple homicide and suspected arson at the Highland Commons apartment complex earlier this month.

The deal is the state’s first enforcement action against the real estate company. Jay Walsh, who ran ABC, faces criminal charges in Maryland.

A plan discussed by Baltimore State’s Attorney Ivan Bates to prosecute parents whose children are arrested would only make matters worse for marginalized families in the city, a graduate student at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health says.

Cogen’s endorsement means the city’s two elected law enforcement officials are backing Dixon, following Baltimore State’s Attorney Ivan Bates’ endorsement earlier this month.

The girl was struck once in the abdomen and once in the hand.

Attorney General investigating fatal crash in Montgomery County

Before he arrived at Pikesville High School last year, Dazhon Darien appear to have held jobs in at least five states.

“AI and its easy availability is relatively new,” Baltimore County State’s Attorney Scott Shellenberger said in an interview. “And it usually doesn’t take very long for the bad guys to come up with ideas.”

A 42-year-old Montgomery County man has been charged in a fatal hit-and-run that happened earlier this month.

Sarah Beth Clendaniel, of Catonsville, was indicted in February last year on charges that she conspired to destroy an energy facility. Clendaniel now faces a charge that she possessed a firearm even though she was prohibited from doing so, according to online court records.