Criminal Justice

Police apprehended the teen, Jabre Griffith, on June 6 at Paul Laurence Dunbar High School, where he was enrolled as a student.

Here’s what it looks like after a mass shooting in Maryland’s small-town capital.

Baltimore Circuit Judge Gregory Sampson found Officer Maxwell Dundore, a more than five-year veteran, guilty earlier this year of second-degree assault and misconduct in office.

Six people were shot — three of them fatally — on Sunday at a house on Paddington Place near Edgewood Road.

Annapolis Police Chief Ed Jackson said he believed the three men who died ranged in age from their 20s to their 50s. He described the case as a "very active and fluid investigation."

Police said it appeared the shooting occurred during a domestic dispute.

Two teenagers, a male and a female, showed up at hospitals with gunshot wounds to the lower body early Sunday morning. Baltimore County Police are trying to determine what led to the shootings.

Baltimore Police Commissioner Michael Harrison, who has led the department for the last four years, announced he will step down on Thursday.

President Donald Trump's attorney M. Evan Corcoran is a former federal prosecutor and joined Silverman Thompson in March 2021 after almost four years as managing director of a global investment company.

“Mr. Davis should not be punished merely because his attorney failed to properly advise him,” his new attorney says.

Within the department, Richard Worley maintains a reputation as a respected and seasoned patrol officer and commander, someone who knows the streets of Baltimore.

“He took on a very, very challenging job, and he is a true man of honor and integrity,” Gov. Wes Moore said Thursday.

Attorney urges the court to take up the appeal and ensure that victims are given a “meaningful voice.”

Mayor Brandon Scott will nominate Richard Worley, the deputy commissioner for operations, as interim commissioner and intends to nominate him to the position permanently.

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.