Criminal Justice

    Boxer Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis countersues ex-girlfriend for more than $20M
    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.
    Gervonta “Tank” Davis poses for photographs after a World Boxing Association lightweight championship boxing bout in 2022.
    Police investigate Rockville fatal shooting
    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.
    A Baltimore County police vehicle’s lights flash while parked outside of the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center at the University of Maryland in Baltimore, Md. on Thursday, March 13, 2025.
    A man broke into Tia Hamilton’s business in Baltimore. She hugged him in court.
    “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.”
    Tia Hamilton at her business, Urban Reads Bookstore, on Greenmount Avenue in Waverly, earlier this month.
    The FBI is investigating the New York investors behind Baltimore’s foreclosure wave
    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.
    The New York investors started snapping up hundreds of homes across East and West Baltimore in 2022, buying or refinancing them at values often double or triple their prior sales price.
    Germantown man charged after allegedly shooting at police officer in Montgomery Village
    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.
    A police line do not cross tape blocks a pathway near Penn Station.
    Columbia mother, boyfriend charged in death of 3-year-old child
    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.
    Following a yearlong investigation, a Columbia mother and her boyfriend are facing murder charges in Howard County.
    Silver Spring man driving U.S. Postal Service van charged in death of pedestrian
    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 man who was driving a U.S. Postal Service van when he fatally struck a pedestrian last year has been charged with criminally negligent homicide, Montgomery County Police said on Friday.
    13-year-old charged with attempted murder in alleged Rockville stabbing
    A 13-year-old suspect is charged with attempted murder in the alleged stabbing of another minor in Rockville.
    A Baltimore County police vehicle’s lights flash while parked outside of the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center at the University of Maryland in Baltimore, Md. on Thursday, March 13, 2025.
    Bodycam video shows chaos of Park Heights hostage standoff that left officer shot, suspect dead
    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.
    A still from body camera footage shows SWAT officer involved in shooting during an interaction in Park Heights on March 10, 2026.
    Baltimore Police arrest Tristan King’s great-aunt on abduction charges
    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.
    Tristan King.
    AG releases videos of police encounter with Silver Spring man who died a week later
    The attorney general’s office’s Independent Investigations Division is investigating 31-year-old Jamal Thompson’s Dec. 15 encounter with the officers.
    The Maryland State's Attorney General's office released body camera footage from Montgomery County Police officers who detained Jamal Thompson, who was having a mental health crisis, and who died a week later.
    Man awaiting new murder trial in Baltimore released from prison, then calls cops and is caught
    The Baltimore City Sheriff's Office on Tuesday arrested Dana Davenport, 32, of Reisterstown, in West Baltimore.
    Dana Davenport was released from North Branch Correctional Institution on March 3.
    Montgomery County Police: Officer shoots man who fired first
    Montgomery County Police wounded a man who first fired at officers in Montgomery Village on Tuesday afternoon.
    Baltimore Police crime scene tape remains on the scene after a vehicle exploded inside a five-story parking garage in Baltimore’s Fells Point neighborhood on 7/27/22.  Two people are being treated for injuries, fire officials said Wednesday afternoon.
    ‘I lost my entire family’: Baltimore man sentenced for fatal overdose of 13-month-old grandson
    Steven Heggie Sr., 62, of Northwest Baltimore, pleaded guilty in Baltimore Circuit Court to involuntary manslaughter.
    Exterior of the Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr. Courthouse on Calvert Street in Baltimore, Md. on Saturday, July 19, 2025.
    2 killed in single-vehicle crash in Rockville
    A BMW M8 overturned in Rockville early Sunday morning, Montgomery County Police said.
    A Baltimore County police vehicle’s lights flash while parked outside of the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center at the University of Maryland in Baltimore, Md. on Thursday, March 13, 2025.
    Victim’s father says quadruple amputee cornhole pro accused of murder had ‘unstable reputation’
    Authorities said Dayton Webber was driving a Tesla with Bradrick Wells in the passenger seat when the shooting took place on Sunday night.
    Baltimore Police crime scene tape remains on the scene after a vehicle exploded inside a five-story parking garage in Baltimore’s Fells Point neighborhood on 7/27/22.  Two people are being treated for injuries, fire officials said Wednesday afternoon.
    No charges in deadly police shooting of man armed with knife in Essex, AG says
    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.
    The Office of the Attorney General said the officers involved in the December 2025 shooting did not commit a crime under state law. 
    Silver Spring dentist charged with sexually assaulting patient
    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.
    Facing deadline, Maryland lawmakers advance changes to court commissioner system
    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.
    The Maryland House of Delegates met for hours in multiple voting sessions on Crossover Day, a deadline for bills to pass one chamber and cross over to the other chamber for the best chance of passage.
    Quadruple amputee cornhole champion arrested in Charles County murder
    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.
    A Baltimore County police vehicle’s lights flash while parked outside of the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center at the University of Maryland in Baltimore, Md. on Thursday, March 13, 2025.
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