Criminal Justice

In the two weeks since 14-year-old Cortez Lemon Jr. was fatally stabbed on an MTA bus in Baltimore July 10, multiple vigils have been held to remember the young man they called “Bubbles.”

Lewis M. Laury Jr., 24, a U.S. history teacher who taught at Mergenthaler Vocational-Technical High School in Baltimore, faces 24 counts, including second-degree rape and sexual assault in the third degree. He is awaiting trial at the Baltimore County Detention Center.

United Food & Commercial Workers Local 400, which represents Annapolis Police officers, accused Chief Edward Jackson of unlawfully retaliating against two officers it described as “whistleblowers.” Jackson, whose agency recently got a vote of confidence from a civil rights group, had no immediate comment.

The charged officer was found by investigators to have given a prisoner “unauthorized privileges,” and to have spoken to her on a recorded phone line more than 800 times in three months.

Jasper Davis, 14, was shot and killed Sunday near the Mondawmin metro station in Baltimore.

“She didn’t bother nobody. She was sweet, quiet and respectful,” her grandmother said after a vigil Monday evening. “My heart hurts so bad for her.”

The story of Brandon Bowden reveals disturbing truths about the Maryland prison system.

Police said officers arrested a man Sunday morning who is suspected of fatally shooting a 12-year-old girl in an East Baltimore rowhouse two days earlier.

A Baltimore Police Department spokesperson said in an email a child was shot in the 500 block of North Kenwood Avenue.

A plea agreement for Nicholas John Roske, who is accused of plotting to kill Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh, fell through.

A still-unsolved double homicide earlier this month in Middle River has left a family without three generations of women in just three years.

Assistant Public Defender Jason Rodriguez, Jason Billingsley's attorney, unsuccessfully argued that Baltimore Police did not properly read the Miranda warnings to his client and failed to promptly take him to a district court commissioner.

Baltimore Police Commissioner Richard Worley on Thursday backed an officer held a gun to the temple of a man who was being restrained by other officers.

A circuit court judge has sentenced Erica Griswold, the former register of wills in Anne Arundel County, to two years of probation after she pleaded guilty to misconduct in office.

The Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, which runs Baltimore jails, confirmed on Wednesday that one of its facilities has been without air conditioning since Friday after a blower motor malfunctioned on a housing unit tier.

Melvin Clark, 41, of Severn, is accused of shooting at a silver Mitsubishi multiple times while driving recklessly across the westbound span of the Bay Bridge around 11:45 p.m. on June 8.

Defense attorneys and relatives of Jaemaun Joyner, 24, are calling for accountability after watching police body camera footage showing officers restraining him and one holding a gun to his head.

“Open borders are often portrayed as compassionate and virtuous,” said Michael Morin, 40, of Churchville, Maryland. “But there is nothing compassionate about allowing violent criminals into our country and robbing children of their mother. My sister’s death was preventable.”

The number of high school-aged teens shot in Baltimore has fallen by more than two-thirds compared to last year’s 10-year-high watermark.

Maryland law enforcement officials and the NTSB are investigating a small plane crash that is believed to have left a person dead in Royal Oak on Maryland’s Eastern Shore.