The Victim Compensation Reform Act of 2024 will overhaul the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board, a body that’s supposed to help victims of crime in Maryland.
Three suspects, all from Baltimore, are charged with murder and other offenses in the kidnap-slaying of 47-year-old David Winchester Jr. His body was found in a wooded area along Spa Road in Annapolis on March 28.
The Commission on Judicial Disabilities canceled a hearing that had been scheduled for May 20 and 21 to consider the charges against District Judge Kevin M. Wilson.
A federal jury in Baltimore returned a $250,000 verdict against an off-duty Baltimore Police Department officer who in 2017 pulled a gun on two 16-year-old boys as they waited for transportation to an after-school program in their Columbia neighborhood.
Now, after months of compiling evidence, police say they have connected 20 youths between the ages of 12 and 17 to more than 50 incidents that had a connection to the home.
Two Baltimore Police officers were suspended this week after internal affairs investigators served a warrant at the Northwestern District station, sources said.
The deaths of Edward Bentley and Stephon Martin are putting a spotlight on the state’s ongoing challenges with providing adequate medical and mental health services in the jail system in Baltimore.
The mother of a Baltimore man called police early Thursday to report that men had broken into her home and demanded money for her son, whom they claimed to be holding. They fled without the money, and hours later the man was found dead in a wooded area of Annapolis.