Criminal justice

Anne Arundel County announced the organizations that will implement a violence interruption program in the Eastport Terrace neighborhood.

Officials identified the man as Brice Wendell Boots and said they had made next-of-kin notifications.

Maryland lawmakers must approve funding needed for civil legal aid to ensure low-income families have access to stable and effective representation, the directors of legal services organizations say.

Police have found skeletal remains near a business that specializes in recycling construction and demolition debris in Baltimore’s Hawkins Point neighborhood, according to authorities.

Adam Michael Nettina, 34, of West Friendship has been sentenced to two years in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for making death threats and other calls for violence against advocates for LGBTQI+ people as well as two legislators.

Carlos Ayala is a Republican from Salisbury who was appointed to the elections board last year by Gov. Wes Moore, following a recommendation from the Maryland Republican Party.

The Baltimore Police Department Thursday released body-worn camera footage of a police shooting that happened in late December. The footage shows a man attacking officers with multiple handheld weapons and an officer shooting him in the leg.

The Maryland General Assembly passed the measure requiring people to obtain a handgun qualification license, or HQL, in 2013 following the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.

Officials with the attorney general’s office identified the man killed by police in Pikesville this week as Sha-Kim Akil Webley.

Last June, Baltimore State’s Attorney Ivan Bates announced that his office was launching a court docket to handle citations for quality-of-life crimes. The Baltimore Banner analyzed 227 citations from July through December.

Officer Eric Payton, 46, of Parkville, a more than seven-year veteran, stood trial in Baltimore Circuit Court on charges of theft and misconduct in office.

A detective was posing as a 13-year-old girl online when the man initiated communication with her on a mobile messaging app, according to the Frederick County Sheriff’s Office.

When Baltimore State’s Attorney Ivan Bates, a Democrat, ran for office, he promised to rescind a policy from his predecessor, Marilyn Mosby, against prosecuting low-level, nonviolent offenses including including trespassing, loitering and disorderly conduct.

One person is dead after being shot during a confrontation with Baltimore County Police officers Tuesday near a gas station in Pikesville, the Maryland Attorney General’s Office said.

Officers responded to a fatal shooting Saturday evening at a Giant grocery store in a shopping center on Sugarloaf Parkway.

The killing of Noah Gibson, the first homicide in the city in 2024, continues an upward trend in the number of Baltimore youths who have been shot since the coronavirus pandemic.

The Rev. Ray Cotton said six or seven cars were broken into while church members were in service.

Baltimore Police are investigating a death near the Harborview Marina and Yacht Club.

The Maryland residents charged as part of the investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection have received sentences from probation to multiple years in federal prison. Several have pending cases.

A 2-year-old died in a house fire Friday evening in Washington County near Hagerstown, the Maryland State Fire Marshal said.