Criminal Justice

Two suspects face attempted murder charges in connection with a shooting inside a Germantown grocery store on March 20, Montgomery County Police said on Wednesday.

Howard County’s Chief of Police Gregory Der is planning to retire from the department on June 1 in the wake of two fatal police-involved incidents.

A judge on Wednesday granted Luigi Mangione only a slight delay of his federal trial in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, moving it from September to October instead of next year, as his lawyers had wanted.

Dayton James Webber appeared in Charles County District Court via videoconference for the bail review, where Judge Patrick Devine noted that he left Maryland after the March 22 shooting of Bradrick Michael Wells and ordered him to remain jailed.

Montgomery County Police released body camera footage that shows the moments leading up to a police shooting of a suspect in Montgomery Village.

A Florida judge ruled Tuesday that famed Baltimorean and boxing champion Gervonta Davis’ ex-girlfriend can seek punitive damages against him in the latest chapter of a saga that began after an alleged altercation between the two last fall.

Rodney Ward was sentenced to 20 years and ordered to pay $12,525 in restitution after pleading guilty to theft and other charges related to his fraudulent pet cremation business.

The officers were indicted on Friday in Baltimore Circuit Court, where they’re scheduled on April 27 to make their initial appearances.

James Appel, a Maryland Republican Party official, was indicted on federal charges of wire fraud and money laundering, court records show.

State investigators released video Monday that shows the fatal police shooting of a young man with autism outside his apartment in Columbia.

Montgomery County Police seek the public’s help finding the family of a man who was struck by a Ride On bus last week and remains in critical condition.

Davis, 31, now of Parkland, Florida, alleges that Courtney Rossel provoked an encounter on Oct. 27, 2025, as part of a scheme to frame and extort him.

A 20-year-old was found shot in a Rockville parking lot and later pronounced dead, Montgomery County Police said. The department said no one is in custody, and no suspect information has been released.

“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.