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Criminal Justice

    She rejected a plea deal. Now prosecutors will seek homicide charges in city employee’s death.
    Kiannah Bonaparte, 49, of Original Northwood, appeared on Tuesday in Baltimore Circuit Court for her trial on charges of first- and second-degree assault, conspiracy to commit first-degree assault and reckless endangerment.
    The 500 block of St. Paul St. is pictured on Friday, Nov. 28, 2025, where a 49-year-old woman from Northeast Baltimore was arrested last month and charged with fatally beating a city traffic worker during an argument over a parking spot.
    Man charged with attempted murder in weekend Baltimore shooting
    Baltimore Police arrested a man in connection with the weekend shooting of a 55-year-old man on Bateman Avenue.
    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.
    Teen charged in 15-year-old girl’s shooting death turns himself in to police
    Baltimore Police said a 15-year-old boy has turned himself in to face first-degree murder charges in the shooting death of a 15-year-old girl in February.
    Baltimore Police crime scene tape sits unused on a police vehicle at 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.
    Police seize 9 dirt bikes from gathering at Northeast Baltimore park
    Baltimore detectives seized nine illegal dirt bikes and ATVs from a gathering at Herring Run Park on Sunday and are seeking to pursue criminal and traffic-related charges against the operators.
    Baltimore Police and the State's Attorney's office have announced a crackdown on riding dirt bikes on city streets.
    Streeter: What justice can — and can’t — do for the families of the Key Bridge victims
    COLUMN | The civil trial against the owner and operator of the Dali, which caused the fatal collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, was settled days before the trial. Does justice help with healing?
    The remains of the Francis Scott Key Bridge are seen before dawn on the one year anniversary of the collapse of the bridge after being hit by the container ship Dali.
    Ex-postal worker in Baltimore caught with $700K in stolen checks — and a plan to sell them
    A former Baltimore postal worker pleaded guilty to stealing checks from the mail after investigators found nearly 200 stolen checks worth more than $700,000 and evidence he planned to sell them.
    A United States Postal Service mail collection box is seen as a person walks in to the USPS building on Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2026, in Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)
    1 dead, 2 injured after separate Baltimore shootings hours apart
    Two shootings within a span of about three hours left one man dead and two wounded across Baltimore early Saturday, according to police.
    A police line do not cross tape blocks a pathway near Penn Station.
    Police seek public’s help finding people who shot 11-year-old in Upton
    Baltimore Police released surveillance footage after an 11-year-old boy and a 26-year-old man were shot in Upton on Wednesday.
    A still from surveillance video released by the Baltimore Police Department on Friday in an attempt to identify people in connection with a drive-by shooting on Wednesday in Baltimore's Upton neighborhood that injured an 11-year-old boy and a man.
    Trial in the Key Bridge collapse is set for Monday. Will any eyewitnesses show up?
    A civil trial in the Key Bridge disaster is set to begin Monday in Baltimore’s federal courthouse. A judge will determine whether Synergy Marine Group and Grace Ocean Private can cap their liability in the bridge collapse at about $44 million, roughly the value of the container ship Dali and its cargo.
    The remnants of the Francis Scott Key Bridge photographed from across the Patapsco River on March 27, 2024.
    2 suspects arrested in Oxon Hill fatal shooting
    Two people were arrested and charged with first- and second-degree murder on Thursday in connection with the February killing of Ricardo Lee Vance in Oxon Hill.
    Davidsonville man found guilty of possessing child sexual abuse material
    A jury convicted a 38-year-old Davidsonville man on seven counts of possession of child sexual abuse material, the Anne Arundel County State’s Attorney’s Office announced Friday.
    Exterior of the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County in Annapolis, Md. on Thursday, May 15, 2025.
    Baltimore’s Safe Streets program linked to decrease in youth homicides, Hopkins study finds
    A new study by researchers at Johns Hopkins University found that Baltimore’s flagship violence intervention program, Safe Streets, was associated with a decrease in youth violence.
    Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott is greeted by Safe Streets leaders J.J. Hughes and Denise Preddy at the opening of the a Safe Streets location in McElderry Park in December.
    Person of interest in custody after 14-year-old shot in East Baltimore
    Police responded around 3:17 p.m. to reports of a shooting at a home in the 3600 block of Noble Street, where the teen was found with apparent gunshot wounds to his body.
    Police responded around 3:17 p.m. to reports of a shooting at a home in the 3600 block of Noble Street on Thursday, May 28, 2026.
    She is charged with attempted murder. Her attorney says she acted in self-defense.
    The lawyer for a North Bethesda woman charged with attempted murder this month said his client stabbed the man to save her life.
    Christine Fils-Aime is claiming self-defense after stabbing a man she was seeing, critically injuring him on the night of May 2 at her Pike and Rose apartment. Fils-Aime alleges the man yanked her hair out of her head and beat her to the point of losing consciousness before she stabbed him.
    11-year-old shot on West Baltimore playground during drive-by shooting, police say
    An 11-year-old was shot while playing on a playground in West Baltimore Wednesday night during an apparent drive-by shooting targeting a man who was also struck by gunfire, officials said.
    Baltimore Police blocked off the area between the McCulloh Homes and Furman L. Templeton Elementary School with yellow tape and littered the corner of Pennsylvania Avenue and Dolphin Street near the Robert C. Marshall Recreation Center with over a dozen orange evidence cones on Wednesday, May 27, 2026.
    Ex-Frederick Police corporal pleads guilty to possessing child sexual abuse material
    James Dodson Jr., 39, of Emmitsburg, faces a maximum sentence of 1 1/2 to five years in prison.
    A spiderweb shines in the early morning light in downtown Frederick on Aug. 8, 2024. The city is part of the expanding Washington, D.C., metropolitan area.
    Suspect arrested in North Bethesda fatal shooting
    Terrance Brainell Williams was arrested Wednesday in connection with a fatal shooting earlier this month outside the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel & Conference Center, according to Montgomery County Police.
    Terrance Brainell Williams was charged with first-degree murder, according to Montgomery County Police.
    Baltimore County man told police voices in his head pushed him to kill brother’s friend
    A 22-year-old man was jailed and held without bond after Baltimore County Police said he told them voices in his head prompted him to kill his brother’s friend.
    6/16/22—A Baltimore County police car sits outside of the Public Safety Building and Police Department in Towson.
    She waited years for Baltimore County to prosecute her alleged rapist. Now, a judge will weigh in.
    A Baltimore County judge is weighing a “complicated” and “unprecedented” request to appoint a special prosecutor.
    A woman poses for a portrait at Towson District Court Commissioner’s Office, in Towson, Thursday, December 18, 2025. The woman was there to file the paperwork with the county and try to convince the Baltimore County Commissioner to arrest her rapist in order to re-open the case.
    Baltimore Police sniper won’t be charged after fatally shooting man who fired at officers
    Prosecutors will not charge a Baltimore SWAT sniper who in March fatally shot a man who fired at officers, hitting one, while holding women hostage in Northwest Baltimore.
    A still from body camera footage shows SWAT officer involved in shooting during an interaction in Park Heights on March 10, 2026.
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