It’s not clear how a gunman found Judge Andrew Wilkinson's Hagerstown home Friday night and shot him to death in his driveway. Maybe he followed him home, or maybe he stalked him on the Internet. But Maryland lawmakers knew this kind of violence was a threat.
Rondell Henry, 32, of Germantown, Maryland, pleaded guilty in August to attempting to perform an act of violence at Washington Dulles International Airport in northern Virginia. U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis agreed to sentence Henry to the jail time that he already has served since his March 2019 arrest.
Mosby, the former Baltimore City state’s attorney, is accused of improperly obtaining early access to her own retirement funds by saying in sworn documents that she had suffered adverse financial consequences as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Federal prosecutors wrote in charging documents the men exchanged thousands of dollars worth of the dimes at Coinstar machines in Cockeysville and Towson.
Timothy Reynolds, 48, of Hampden, was shot and killed at the intersection of Light and Conway streets near the Inner Harbor in Baltimore on July 7, 2022. He was an engineer and a married father of three.
Officials said Pedro Argote, 49, is suspected of gunning down Circuit Court Judge Andrew Wilkinson in his driveway on Thursday, hours after Wilkinson ruled against him in a divorce case.
The Montgomery County Police Department said in a news release that it has suspended Officer Justin Lee without pay and is “taking steps to terminate his employment” after his indictment on felony charges.
Circuit Court Judge Andrew Wilkinson, 52, was found with gunshot wounds around 8 p.m. Thursday. Police were searching for 49-year-old Pedro Argote, now identified as a suspect in the case.
Lea Skene, Michael Kunzelman and Sarah Brumfield, Associated Press
The results of the second community survey, mandated by the Baltimore Police Department’s federal court oversight, suggest that residents’ attitudes toward local law enforcement remain dismal, despite widespread reforms.
The acting police chief for Baltimore City Public Schools, then a major, approved Lawrence Smith’s fraudulent overtime, the court documents say, raising serious questions about supervision and policies.
Linda Malat Tiburzi, a survivor of the notorious child rapist John Merzbacher while a student at the Catholic Community School of Baltimore in the 1970s, died at age 62. She was an advocate for survivors of abuse and rejoiced at the release of the Office of the Maryland Attorney General’s report on child sexual abuse in the Archdiocese of Baltimore.