Criminal Justice

Luigi Mangione’s state murder trial in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, which was slated to begin Sept. 8, has been postponed indefinitely.

Actor Sonja Sohn rejects Trump’s claim of credit for Baltimore’s crime drop. In a social media video this weekend, she praised grassroots work, saying that’s why the city has made progress.

Violence in Maryland prisons, which have experienced amongst the highest homicide rates in America correctional facilities, has dropped precipitously since guards were equipped with body cameras for the first time, officials said.

Sydnie Haywood, 34, of Pikesville, pleaded guilty in Baltimore County Circuit Court to nine counts of fourth-degree sex offense.

COLUMN | The Mayor’s Anti-Animal Abuse Advisory Commission, which was disbanded in 2020 during COVID, is back. And I’m glad, because when our economy suffers, as it is right now, so do our pets.

A Curtis Bay man has pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in the killing of his wife in Brooklyn Park last year.

A Milford Mill Academy student has died two weeks after she was critically wounded in a shooting in West Baltimore.

A teen pleaded guilty to gun possession and was sentenced to 98 days in jail in connection with a shooting in the parking lot of Blake High School in April.

Luigi Mangione pleaded guilty in federal court Friday to federal stalking charges in the 2024 killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, admitting matter-of-factly that he trailed the executive to an investor conference in 2024 and gunned him down on a New York City street.

A Baltimore County man was arrested Wednesday and charged with multiple counts of sexual abuse, authorities said.

The Maryland attorney general’s office said Officer Derek Hadel “did not commit a crime.”

After more than three weeks in immigration detention, a University of Maryland School of Pharmacy instructor is expected to appear in court for the first time Friday.

A grandmother from Hagerstown faces prison after failing to notice her 7-year-old grandson’s fatal fall from her car.

Luigi Mangione is expected to plead guilty as early as Friday in the federal case accusing him of stalking and killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, according to a person familiar with the matter.

A North Carolina man has been arrested and charged with urinating on a family at Morgan Wallen’s Baltimore show last month, Maryland officials announced Wednesday.

ICE’s presence at Bohrer Park in Gaithersburg in late July has sparked conversations about whether the city is doing enough to protect residents from federal immigration enforcement.

Marquis Brown, 20, of Washington, was found guilty in Baltimore Circuit Court of five counts of attempted second-degree murder and related crimes.

Ambrose Kennedy Pool was closed Wednesday due to vandalism, officials said, the latest in a string of such incidents at public pools across the city.

Michael Burnett, 37, was charged with first-degree murder and the use of a firearm in the death of India Johnson, 32.

Prince George’s County Police arrested a 31-year-old suspected of stealing more than 60 reptiles from pet stores in Maryland and Virginia.