Criminal justice

As marijuana laws are reformed in Maryland, measures are needed to help repair the disproportionate damage the application of those laws did to Black communities and to Black men, Banner columnist E.R. Shipp says.

Documents obtained from state prosecutors shed new light on the early days of the Roy McGrath scandal — including what then-Gov. Larry Hogan knew, and when he knew it.

Davis, 28, who had been living in Parkland, Florida, is incarcerated in the Baltimore Central Booking & Intake Center after a judge revoked his home detention in a 2020 hit-and-run case.

K’mauri Ebanks was set to graduate on June 13 from Digital Harbor High School, where he was the football team’s quarterback. He was shot multiple times and killed after leaving a baby shower for his unborn daughter.

Baltimore Police Commissioner Michael Harrison gave more details about how officers will utilize the ability to cite, or even arrest, people for low-level offenses, during the police budget hearing on Tuesday night.

Baltimore State’s Attorney Ivan Bates last week unveiled his plan to launch a court docket aimed at addressing citations for low-level, nonviolent crimes including drinking in public, disorderly conduct and drug possession.

The judge revoked Davis’ home detention in a 2020 hit-and-run case after learning that he’d been spending that time without permission at a Four Seasons Hotel and a $3.4 million high-rise penthouse that he bought in Silo Point.

Officers responding to the 500 block of Orchard Street found K’mauri Ebanks “suffering from numerous life-threatening gunshot wounds.”

Six years after the Baltimore Police Department entered a federal consent decree, courtroom relationships have gotten closer, while community input remains sparse.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and others can’t stop talking about the crime in Baltimore, which doesn’t make where they live any safer.

In a one-page court document filed on Thursday, Assistant U.S. Attorneys Aaron Zelinsky and P. Michael Cunningham wrote that the government is “prepared to proceed to retrial” against Anna Gabrielian and Jamie Lee Henry.

Sahiou Kargbo, 19, of Hillen, shot and killed James Blue III, the husband of Baltimore Police Capt. Lekeshia Blue and the brother of Downtown Partnership of Baltimore President Shelonda Stokes, on Jan. 25, 2022.

Baltimore Circuit Judge Althea M. Handy revoked Davis’ home detention and ordered him to immediately begin serving the “remaining balance of his sentence.”

Ziaullah Salarzai died May 26, just shy of his first birthday, days after falling from a third-story balcony, police said.

The lawsuits against Lutherville-based Castle Title come amid an investigation by the Maryland Insurance Administration into discrepancies raised by a civil lawyer and reported on by The Baltimore Banner last week.

A judge ordered Davis to serve the remainder of his sentence for a hit-and-run crash in jail, Baltimore Sheriff Sam Cogen said.

Bates campaigned on reversing a policy of his predecessor, Marilyn Mosby, not to prosecute low-level, nonviolent offenses such as drug possession, trespassing and prostitution.

Anna Gabrielian, 37, and her spouse, U.S. Army Maj. Jamie Lee Henry, 40, both of Rockville, stood trial on charges of conspiracy and wrongful disclosure of individually identifiable health information.

After spending weeks combing through hundreds of flight records, analyzing flight-tracking software and interviewing experts, here are answers to some — but not all — of your spy plane questions.

Frederick County Sheriff Charles “Chuck” Jenkins denied having “any financial incentive or fraudulent intent” when he helped a gun dealer obtain machine guns to rent out to the public