Criminal justice

“Prison is supposed to be rehabilitation,” said Tia Hamilton, the owner of Urban Reads Bookstore on Greenmount Avenue in Waverly. “And it doesn’t provide rehabilitation. It creates a stronger monster.”

Federal investigators are digging into a group of New York investors who borrowed more than $100 million in private credit and rapidly built a real estate portfolio of about 700 homes in Baltimore.

Andre Duvall was identified as the man who police say fired at an officer in Montgomery Village this week before being wounded by returning gunfire.

Kathleen Amesbury, 28, and Dale Brown Jr., 25, of Hanover, Pennsylvania, are facing charges in Howard County following a yearlong investigation into the 2025 death of her 3-year-old child.

A Silver Spring man was wearing earbuds and driving a U.S. Postal Service van when he fatally struck a pedestrian last year in Kensington, Montgomery County Police said.

A 13-year-old suspect is charged with attempted murder in the alleged stabbing of another minor in Rockville.

Baltimore Police Department officials released bodycam and Foxtrot footage of a hostage situation this month that left an officer shot, two women hospitalized and a 33-year-old man dead.

Denise Day, Tristan King’s great aunt, was charged with abduction of a child under age 16 by a relative and with harboring a child.

The attorney general’s office’s Independent Investigations Division is investigating 31-year-old Jamal Thompson’s Dec. 15 encounter with the officers.

The Baltimore City Sheriff's Office on Tuesday arrested Dana Davenport, 32, of Reisterstown, in West Baltimore.

Montgomery County Police wounded a man who first fired at officers in Montgomery Village on Tuesday afternoon.

Steven Heggie Sr., 62, of Northwest Baltimore, pleaded guilty in Baltimore Circuit Court to involuntary manslaughter.

A BMW M8 overturned in Rockville early Sunday morning, Montgomery County Police said.

Authorities said Dayton Webber was driving a Tesla with Bradrick Wells in the passenger seat when the shooting took place on Sunday night.

Charges won’t be filed in a fatal police shooting of a man armed with a knife who attempted to punch officers during a domestic response in Baltimore County last December, according to the Maryland Attorney General’s Office.

Ermias Semaie, a Silver Spring dentist, was arrested and charged with sex offenses for allegedly assaulting a patient. Montgomery County Police suspect there may be other victims.

Under the bill, Maryland district court commissioners would no longer be able to issue arrest warrants other than to police or a state’s attorney.

A professional cornhole champion who is a quadruple amputee awaits extradition to Maryland after he was accused of killing a friend in Charles County late Sunday, authorities say.

Fort Washington Park remained closed Monday as Prince George’s County and federal officials investigated explosive devices found in the wooded areas of the historic site.

Baltimore Police are investigating a Sunday evening shooting near the Maryland Science Center along the Inner Harbor.