Apr 23, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
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The 19-year-old Harford County man with developmental disabilities who is accused of killing his 2-month-old niece was ordered Monday to continue being held without bail.
Colin Christopher Wolf, of the 2000 block of Bay Meadows Court in Forest Hill, is...
Apr 20, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
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Caught with a couple of joints he didn't get the chance to light up, Eric Staton was ordered to appear before a Baltimore judge. Two weeks later, in a basement courtroom on North Avenue, prosecutors said they would drop the possession charge if Staton...
Apr 17, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
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Harford County's top prosecutor said Wednesday that he does not have enough evidence to show that Alexander Kinyua is criminally responsible for killing a family friend and eating his organs last year.
A state psychiatric hospital previously found that...
Apr 15, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
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While the nation celebrated the 50th anniversary of a poor person's constitutional right to a lawyer, Maryland legislators' support for House Bill 153 in the recently concluded General Assembly session threatened to return to the days when an accused...
Apr 14, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
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When Howard County authorities said they found the badly decomposed remains of Christine Jarrett beneath a shed in her own backyard, they moved swiftly to charge her husband — long a suspect — with the murder.
That discovery — two...
Apr 9, 2013
|Story| Patuxent Homestead
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A Havre de Grace High School senior is the second person to be charged in an Aug. 28 armed robbery of BP gas station, in the 1000 block of Pulaski Highway in Havre de Grace.
Nigel Johnson, 18, of the 800 block of Garfield Court, was ordered held on $200,...
Mar 2, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
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In-patient units at Spring Grove Hospital Center in Catonsville have become troubled environments where serious assaults on hospital staff are common, according to a scathing new report from a consultant for the Maryland health department.
The chaos...
Apr 1, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
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I assumed that finding Policarpio Perez and Adan Canela guilty of the murders of their young relatives would be a slam dunk ("Split verdict in child killings," March 27).
After all, the prosecution had the blood of the victims on both of the defendants'...
Mar 17, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
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"Make me wanna holler, way they do my life." -- Marvin Gaye, "Inner City Blues"
Karen Houppert has written a book of nightmares.
Ms. Houppert, a veteran reporter for, among others, The Washington Post and The New York Times, is the author of...
Mar 26, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
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A Baltimore jury found Policarpio Espinoza Perez guilty of murder conspiracy charges Tuesday in the grisly deaths of three young relatives in 2004, a conviction that could put him in prison for the rest of his life.
While jurors found that he played a...
Mar 25, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
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When a warrant for his arrest arrived at his mother's house, Bryan Bookman went to the district court in Essex to clear up the matter.
"That's when I was handcuffed and shackled, right on the spot, like I was a common criminal," said Bookman, who didn't...
Mar 20, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
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A Baltimore judge threw out the murder conviction of a man who was to be sentenced Wednesday in the killing of 16-year-old Phylicia Barnes, saying prosecutors withheld information about a key witness from defense attorneys.
The second-degree murder...
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