Criminal Justice

Howard County Police have obtained an arrest warrant for Darwin Carcamo-Santiago, 24, who is accused of strangling his girlfriend.

A prominent appellate attorney who argued dozens of Supreme Court cases and helped launch SCOTUSblog was sentenced to six years in prison.

Baltimore County Police are investigating after a cyclist was fatally struck by a vehicle that fled the scene in Dundalk over the weekend.

Del. Gary Simmons, an Anne Arundel County Democrat, was charged July 23 with one count of second-degree assault.

A serial flasher has been on the loose in Canton. Police know who he is but have not caught him yet.

A driver died after a single-vehicle crash early Saturday morning, according to Montgomery County Police.

This is the second time the pool in the popular East Baltimore park closed because people damaged the facilities this summer.

Montgomery County Council member Kristin Mink said firefighters violated county law when they allowed ICE to join them as they prepared for a potential water rescue on the Potomac River.

Baltimore prosecutors said they are investigating the leak of documents outlining a witness’s cooperation in a high-profile murder-for-hire case, as defense attorneys denied they had provided materials to anyone outside the case.

Human remains found in a creek bed of Back River in Baltimore County last week have been identified as those of a New Jersey woman who went missing in Maryland, police said.

The teenager was at Hammond High School when a school resource officer received a report that the suspect had a gun in his possession, police said.

Baltimore prosecutors are seeking emergency court action after documents identifying rapper Keith Ambush as a cooperating witness in a high-profile murder-for-hire case leaked online.

More than 300 birds were seized from a Baltimore pet store this week after animal control officers found them living in unsanitary conditions, leaving the BARCS animal shelter scrambling to care for hundreds of chirping survivors.

Four years after being stabbed on an amphitheater stage, Salman Rushdie sat across a Buffalo, N.Y. courtroom from his convicted attacker Thursday and told jurors for a second time about the ambush that nearly killed him.

The Indian community in Howard County has more than doubled since 2009 and now accounts for 6.7% of the population.

The 16-year-old charged with killing Giovanna Myrie, 15, and her brother, Steve Allen, 9, threatened Myrie days before the shooting, police said.

The Banner reported this week that Maryland has one of the highest rates of killings in state-run correctional facilities in the nation. Since 2023, 32 incarcerated people have been killed in state institutions, more than all neighboring states combined.

U.S. District Judge Julie Rubin ruled that ICE lacked probable cause to arrest Jesus Acevedo Sanchez and ordered the federal government to release him.

Jesica Argueta, of Silver Spring, pleaded guilty this week to a 2025 crash that killed an elderly woman, according to the Montgomery County State's Attorney's Office.

For 25 years, Anthony Hall sat in prison for a crime he did not commit. Next month, Baltimore will pay for the mistake.