Criminal Justice

Baltimore County Police officers fatally shot Howard Sye, 31, after he tried to punch another member of the force, body camera footage released on Friday shows.

Keon Wilson-Hawkins, 22, of Baltimore, was found guilty in Frederick County Circuit Court of first-degree murder and related crimes in the killing of Brice Boots, 65, of Pikesville.

Tiago Alexandre Sousa-Martins, an immigrant from Portugal accused of driving his van at ICE agents in Glen Burnie, was moved to the Caroline Detention Facility in Virginia, according to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement online detainee database.

Baltimore Police released a year-end report Thursday celebrating everything from improvements in hiring and retaining officers to higher clearance rates.

The Banner will continue to report on these court cases and others in Baltimore and the surrounding counties.

Baltimore County police arrested a 21-year-old woman for the death of a man and his dog after a crash last month, officials announced Tuesday.

Howard County police officers, with the assistance of a drone thermal camera, apprehended three suspects who allegedly broke into roughly 50 cars in the early hours of Christmas Eve.

Baltimore County police arrested a suspect after a barricade situation early Tuesday morning closed a street near an apartment complex in Cockeysville.

Baltimore County police are investigating after emergency personnel found a man dead in a burning car in Dundalk, officials announced.

Baltimore County police say a 22-year-old was fatally stabbed in Edgewood on Monday morning and a suspect has been arrested.

Thirteen incarcerated people have been killed by other prisoners this year, state officials said, marking the highest annual total in at least a decade.

Baltimore is on track to end 2025 with its lowest homicide total in 48 years, with fewer than 150 killings expected, marking a significant decline since 2022.

Since 2023 Baltimore has seen the number of victims fall below 300, then below 200 and now below 150 — the first time since the 1960s, when gun violence soared and then rarely abated. People are still getting killed at an alarming rate.

Police say they’re conducting a homicide investigation after officers found a man shot dead in a Federal Hill parking lot.

Police say they found 13-year-old Wynter Wagoner in a Silver Spring home Friday. Wagoner had been missing since Oct. 14.

A 34-year-old man was killed and a 57-year-old man was injured after a double shooting Friday night in Baltimore, according to police.

Two people were hospitalized Wednesday morning after federal immigration officials opened fire on a vehicle in Glen Burnie, Anne Arundel County officials said.

Questions surround the violent confrontation on Christmas Eve in a neighborhood court in Glen Burnie.

A federal judge this week canceled the trial of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Salvadoran man who was mistakenly deported, and scheduled a hearing on whether the prosecution is being vindictive in pursuing a human smuggling case against him.

Baltimore Police have long used department vehicles to inflict serious injuries on suspects, a recently filed lawsuit alleges.