A 15-year old boy was arrested while leaving school Friday and charged in a series of armed robberies this month in Federal Hill, police said. Detectives are in the process of charging the boy as a juvenile in four cases, police said Sunday. They believe he had accomplices and they’re working to...
In touting its technology, the private Ohio-based company that has conducted hundreds of hours of aerial surveillance on behalf of the Baltimore Police Department since January often pointed to a privacy policy that includes restrictions on footage retention. "All media will be stored in a secure...More
When an Ohio company pitched its aerial surveillance technology to the Baltimore Police Department in the summer of 2014, department officials weren't interested, according to internal emails obtained by The Baltimore Sun through a public records request. Persistent Surveillance Systems said it...
Before the first plane left the ground, the company operating an aerial surveillance program for the Baltimore Police Department recommended that the department conduct focus groups and other outreach efforts to gauge community acceptance and concerns. But the department did not hold any such meetings....
A man was fatally shot in the Sandtown-Winchester neighborhood of West Baltimore on Wednesday afternoon, police said. The 28-year-old victim was found in the 1300 block of N. Calhoun Street around 12:45 p.m. Police said the victim was approached by a suspect on foot when he was shot, and that the...
A second victim who caught fire during an altercation in White Marsh nearly two years ago has died, Baltimore County police said. Shawn Michael Scarinzi, 25, of the 900 block of Topview Drive in Edgewood, died Monday after being inadvertently set on fire during an altercation between his friend,...
In one of her first acts on the job in 2015, U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch called for an end to rioting in Baltimore by promising an independent civil rights investigation into the death of Freddie Gray, the 25-year-old black man whose fatal injuries in police custody had provoked the unrest....
Prosecutors dropped all charges Wednesday against three Baltimore police officers accused in the arrest and death of Freddie Gray, bringing to an end one of the highest-profile criminal cases in the city's history with zero convictions. Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby acknowledged the...
Six Baltimore police officers cleared of criminal charges in Freddie Gray's arrest and death will be investigated by Montgomery County police, who are leading the internal affairs reviews that could determine whether the officers can return to policing city streets. Officers from the Washington...
Prosecutors in Baltimore failed for the fourth time to secure a conviction in the Freddie Gray case, with Circuit Judge Barry G. Williams acquitting Lt. Brian Rice of all charges Monday related to Gray's arrest and death. Williams cleared Rice, 42, of involuntary manslaughter, reckless endangerment...
The lead Baltimore police detective in the Freddie Gray investigation said she reluctantly read to grand jurors a summary of evidence provided by prosecutors that she believed was misleading, according to police records reviewed by The Baltimore Sun. Hours later, the grand jurors issued criminal...