Criminal Justice

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.

Assistant State’s Attorney Rita Wisthoff-Ito said prosecutors will retry Eric Kibler, 44, of Hagerstown, on two counts of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder and related offenses.

A Montgomery Circuit Court judge sentenced Jonathan Leon-Chacon, 28, to 75 years in prison for the 2022 shooting death of Willians Anderson Alberto Cruz, 19, in Silver Spring.

Officer Mamoudou Diallo accused a woman of lying about the identity of her abuser and then falsely arrested the father of her children.

Being the top prosecutor in Maryland’s smaller jurisdictions means taking on daunting caseloads for less pay than a legal professional could earn in private practice.

ABC Capital employees created fake email addresses, forged signatures, falsified wire transactions and faked deeds as part of a scheme to defraud unsuspecting overseas investors seeking to purchase Baltimore real estate, according a lawsuit filed last week.

The suspect, 44-year-old Michael Eggleston, was arrested Thursday night after detectives tracked him down through phone and license plate records, the charging documents show.

A Howard County Circuit Court judge sentenced an Ellicott City teen to 45 years in prison after the 2024 fatal shooting that occurred near Howard High School.