Criminal Justice

A Pasadena woman is charged with embezzling nearly $250,000 from a youth sports club she served as treasurer, allegedly using the money for personal expenses including bills, shopping and Disney tickets.

Melachi Brown, 23, of Gwynn Oak, pleaded guilty on Tuesday in Baltimore County Circuit Court to driving with a revoked license and admitted to violating his probation.

A Gaithersburg man pleaded guilty to selling a 15-year-old girl the fentanyl she later overdosed on, the Department of Justice announced Monday.

Charging documents say that Mark Thomas Ryan was angry after his wife obtained a temporary protective order against him.

Baltimore County Police on Sunday charged a 41-year-old man after the fatal shooting of his father-in-law in his quiet neighborhood in Phoenix, officers said.

Two Baltimore residents were arrested at Washington’s Dulles International Airport last month when federal officers say they tried to board a London-bound flight with more than 50 pounds of marijuana packed in their luggage.

Police said Friday they have identified a body found inside a van pulled from the Inner Harbor last summer.

A 34-year-old man was arrested for allegedly abducting a Cockeysville Middle School student Thursday morning before dropping her off at school, police said.

Federal prosecutors accuse Matthew Bathula, a longtime pharmacist at the University of Maryland hospital in downtown Baltimore, of hacking hospital computers to spy on doctors, nurses and medical students.

A teen arrested in connection with a Wednesday shooting at James Hubert Blake High School aimed a handgun at a school security officer who had commanded him to drop the weapon, according to court records.

After raising alarms last week, Towson roommates Devin Kaestner and Chloe White say one of the “Peeping Toms” returned Monday night, captured on Ring cameras. Baltimore County Police have not made an arrest.

Brady Ebert, 33, of Silver Spring, is accused of intentionally hitting William Yates, the father of Turnstile frontman Brendan Yates, with a 2001 Buick LeSabre on March 29.

The four homicides recorded in April represent the fewest killings in a month in the city since 1970, when police began tracking monthly crime statistics.

The details of how Maryland authorities first approached Joseph “Jay” Attar as part of their investigation were revealed in newly unsealed federal court documents.

Montgomery County Police identified and charged a suspect with first-degree assault in connection with Wednesday’s shooting at Silver Spring’s Blake High School.

Police are looking for a man whom they accused of indecent exposure and voyeurism in the University of Maryland library in College Park.

A fight in the parking lot at Blake High School in Silver Spring resulted in a minor being shot, Montgomery County Police said on Wednesday. A 19-year-old man was taken into custody.

A Halethorpe woman charged with hundreds of counts of animal cruelty is now facing additional charges.

San Francisco prosecutors declined to bring charges against four Baltimore Police officers who have been under investigation in the city after a woman says she reported a sexual assault.

A 23-year-old jailed for a Thanksgiving Day 2023 shooting in Landover Hills was found dead in his Allegany County prison cell, Maryland State Police said.