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Criminal Justice

    Baltimore County detective suspended after warrantless search of murder suspect’s phone
    Detective Storm Sheckells correctly guessed the passcode of the suspect’s iPhone. He’s suspended with pay pending an internal investigation.
    Baltimore County police at the intersection of Middle River Road and Bird River Road after a suspicious package was reported at Freedom Church Middle River on Saturday, July 12, 2025.
    Case dismissed against great-aunt who hid missing Baltimore child Tristan King
    Baltimore State’s Attorney Ivan Bates said he considered Denise Day’s humanity in the decision.
    Denise Day, the great-aunt of 9-year-old Tristan King, had been the only person facing accountability for Tristan’s case.
    Silver Spring man charged with multiple sex offenses
    Melesse Semegne is accused of sexually assaulting a woman in May at the Silver Spring business that lists him at its president and CEO.
    Mangione will assert psychiatric defense in murder case in UnitedHealthcare CEO’s killing
    Luigi Mangione will assert a psychiatric defense at his state murder trial in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, a judge said Wednesday.
    Luigi Mangione appears for a pre-trial hearing at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York, Wednesday, June 17, 2026.
    Pedestrian killed in hit-and-run in Gaithersburg
    A man was killed while crossing the street in Gaithersburg on Wednesday morning, according to Montgomery County Police.
    A Baltimore County police vehicle’s lights flash while parked outside of the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center at the University of Maryland in Baltimore, Md. on Thursday, March 13, 2025.
    ‘Enough is enough’: Dali crew members ask court to let them go home
    The operator of the container ship that crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge demanded its crew members be allowed to return home after more than two years “marooned” in the United States.
    A crew member who was aboard the Dali cargo ship and his attorney Owen Duffy leave the court in Baltimore on Tuesday.
    Fake cop pulled over actual cop working in unmarked cruiser, police say
    Melvin Andrew Pinkney Jr. was arrested for posing as a police officer after conducting a traffic stop on a Montgomery County Police officer who was working in an unmarked cruiser.
    Melvin Andrew Pinkney Jr., of California, Maryland, was driving a Ford Taurus when he was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly posing as an officer after he pulled over a Montgomery County Police officer.
    Luigi Mangione hearing delayed after DA failed to tell jail he’s needed in court
    A hearing in Luigi Mangione’s state murder case in the killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was postponed until Wednesday after prosecutors failed to inform his jailors that he was needed in court.
    FILE - Luigi Mangione appears in Manhattan Criminal Court for an evidence hearing, Dec. 18, 2025, in New York. (Shannon Stapleton/Pool Photo via AP, File)
    Dali’s chief engineer becomes latest to face criminal charges in Key Bridge disaster
    Federal prosecutors have filed additional criminal charges in the Francis Scott Key Bridge disaster, adding as a defendant the chief engineer of the Dali container ship.
    The site of the collapsed Key Bridge and the container ship that toppled it, The Dali, are seen from a debris retrieval vessel, The Reynolds, on April 4, 2024.
    Search for swimmer who went missing in Potomac River will continue Tuesday
    The search for a man who disappeared from a group of swimmers in the Potomac River on Sunday will continue on Tuesday, according to the Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service.
    Authorities on Monday continue their search for a swimmer who is presumed to have drowned in the Potomac River near Great Falls on Sunday.
    Police arrest a Silver Spring father and daughter in stabbing incident
    The father and daughter stabbed the victim inside their shared home in Burtonsville on June 4, according to court documents.
    Who will be the next Baltimore County sheriff: A union leader, deputy or Facebook campaigner?
    Three men — Clyde Boatwright, William Merrill III and Adam Schuster — are vying to become the Democratic nominee to replace Baltimore County Sheriff R. Jay Fisher, who is retiring after 24 years.
    The Baltimore County Courts building in Towson, where the sheriff's office is housed.
    Baltimore cop kept his badge 11 years after talking to FBI source about drug dealing
    Former Baltimore Police officer Alexi Correa was caught on tape talking to an FBI confidential source about his own involvement in drug dealing.
    Temple Hills teen is 1 of 3 charged with assault in connection with brawl at a Chipotle in D.C.
    A Temple Hills teenager was one of three arrested by D.C. Police on suspicion of participating in the brawl that broke out at a Chipotle in Navy Yard. The teens have been charged with assault and affray, according to police.
    A Baltimore County police vehicle’s lights flash while parked outside of the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center at the University of Maryland in Baltimore, Md. on Thursday, March 13, 2025.
    ICE vehicles hit Baltimore father’s car as he took his children to school, attorney says
    ICE says Jesus Acevedo Sanchez and his wife, who were detained while dropping off their children at a Baltimore school, face federal charges.
    Police vehicles were parked outside Commodore John Rodgers Elementary/Middle School after ICE agents detained two people during school drop-off on Thursday.
    Longshot governor candidate Douglas Larcomb convicted of stalking, intimidation
    The case dates to October 2020, when protective orders were issued against Larcomb and his then-wife. Larcomb was ordered not to contact her.
    Douglas Larcomb was convicted by a Frederick County jury of stalking, witness intimidation and 22 counts of violating a protective order. He's a Republican running for governor.
    Police quietly deactivated South Baltimore action team over supervision concerns
    Police temporarily deactivated a South Baltimore plainclothes crime unit amid supervisory changes and an ongoing internal investigation, a move that has sparked concerns among some community leaders.
    The Southern police station’s district action team was “temporarily deactivated” in late March “due to staffing and supervisory changes within the unit.”
    17-year-old shot and injured in East Baltimore
    A 17-year-old was shot and left with nonfatal injuries on Thursday afternoon in McElderry Park in East Baltimore, police said.
    A teenager was shot and injured on Thursday afternoon in East Baltimore.
    No charges brought against officers who fatally shot man near his family’s Belair-Edison home
    Attorney General Anthony G. Brown announced that he will not seek criminal charges against the two Baltimore Police detectives who fatally shot Dwight Hawkins, concluding the shooting was legally justified.
    Dwight Hawkins was fatally shot by two Baltimore Police officers near his family home in the 2800 block of Pelham Avenue on Tuesday, February 24. He was 37.
    Pasadena man accused of fleeing mounted Ocean City Police, causing horse to collide with tree
    A Pasadena man allegedly ran circles around mounted Ocean City Police, caused one of the animals to collide with a tree and sprinted into traffic on Coastal Highway before being arrested, according to court records.
    Cooper Vann Choney, 19, of Pasadena, was charged with trespassing, interfering with a police animal and resisting arrest after allegedly fleeing from police in Ocean City.
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