Jessica Anderson
2,033 stories by Jessica Anderson
- A federal jury on Tuesday returned a $100,000 verdict against a former Baltimore Police officer who was already convicted of assaulting a 14-year-old while the teen was handcuffed to a hospital gurney, the teen’s attorney said.
- Baltimore Police Commissioner Michael Harrison and Mayor Bernard C. “Jack” Young announced a $200,000 marketing campaign at a news conference Monday.
-
Friends of an armed Baltimore County man killed by police remember him as kind, with inner struggles
The man shot and killed by Baltimore County Police in Phoenix last weekend was a “loyal and caring person” who also had inner struggles, - Sherry Elberfeld, a longtime educator who taught at the McDonogh School and St. James Academy, and who loved animals, died of a heart attack.
- Baltimore Police Commissioner Michael Harrison praises officers' quick reactions and points to adjustments he hopes will help.
- Police were investigating two homicides that happened within an hour of each other. It follows a violent weekend where 14 people were shot, three fatally.
- A gunman opened fire on a crowd in East Baltimore early Saturday, killing a 19-year-old man and injuring four others in one of several overnight shootings.
- A man died after Baltimore County Police responded to a barricade situation at a Phoenix home Saturday morning.
- Baltimore is among 10 cities where ICE agents could soon be making arrests, although President Trump appears to have delayed that action.
- A captain assigned to the Baltimore Police Northeastern District has been suspended, a department spokesman confirmed Friday.
- The Baltimore Police Department’s Central District is considering a move up the street to the former home of The Baltimore Sun on the edge of Mount Vernon.
- Baltimore Police officer Julie Pitocchelli, who has more than doubled her salary with overtime has recently been suspended,
- DEA and IRS agents executed two federal search warrants related to an investigation into Baltimore defense lawyer Kenneth W. Ravenell this week.
- The issue of police overtime resurfaces with the misconduct case last week against Sgt. Ethan Newberg.
- A dozen internal affairs charges against Baltimore Police officers were dismissed by a circuit court judge because the department filed them too late.
- A bail review hearing Richard S. Barnes is underway, although police have so far filed no charges against the Lyft driver.
- State correctional services said Wednesday that they are investigating how a loaded gun made its way inside a detainee’s wheelchair and into Baltimore’s jail.
- When Baltimore County Police officers stopped Richard Barnes for traffic-related violations in 1995, he told them he too was a police officer.
- A hospital security guard has been charged with impersonating a police officer and raping a Baltimore woman
- A loaded handgun was found inside the Baltimore jail’s Central Booking and Intake Facility Tuesday afternoon, state correctional service officials said.
- A 32-year-old rapper from Annapolis was found fatally shot inside a car that had been involved in a crash Friday night, Annapolis Police said.
- Two men were killed and another man was injured in separate shootings overnight in Baltimore, city police said.
- All Baltimore police cars returned to the streets Friday, less than a week after investigators pulled 115 vehicles from duty.
- A man connected to multiple acts of violence has been indicted on federal drug charges, according to Baltimore Police and court records.
- Baltimore Police Commissioner Michael Harrison announced the new policy Wednesday.
- Baltimore Police said Wednesday all but 12 patrol cars have returned to service amid an investigation into a rape that might involve an officer.
- Baltimore Police returned 34 patrol cars to service Tuesday after investigators determined they are not connected to a rape investigation
- Michelle Wilson, an attorney who was hired to serve as a Baltimore Police Department chief, will remain with the attorney general's office
- Five people were shot and wounded and another was fatally stabbed in a series of incidents late Friday into Saturday, according to Baltimore Police.
- weeks-long quest to identify a woman who was found covered in garbage inside a Baltimore shopping cart — her hands, feet, lower legs and head all missing
- A woman’s body found in a shopping cart outside a Northwest Baltimore apartment building two weeks ago was headless, according to two police sources.
- Officer Michael O’Sullivan has been criminally charged.
- Citing concerns of conflict of interest, Mayor Young moves Office of Civil Rights from under city solicitor's office
- Only 16 percent of Baltimore police officers are women. A new recruitment campaign aims to change that - and help heal troubled relations with residents.
- Baltimore residents could get paid thousands of dollars for tips on the city’s armed criminals.
- Michelle Wilson, the Baltimore Police deputy commissioner whose hiring was announced just two days ago, is not joining the department after all.
- A New York police officer was arrested and charged with being drunk at an Inner Harbor hotel Tuesday morning and assaulting Baltimore police officers who trie
- One hire, Michelle Wilson, recently publicly disputed Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby’s account of an incident central to a lawsuit against Mosby.
- Fort Worth Police Chief Joel Fitzgerald, a former nominee in Baltimore, was fired amid questions of his “judgment and leadership,” Texas officials announced.
- James Lomax wanted to buy a home and see his daughters, but his plans were cut short by gunshots.
- The officer’s condition was not immediately available. A police spokeswoman said he was taken to Maryland Shock Trauma center by other officers.
- Retired Baltimore police officers and firefighters are entitled to damages but active members will have to worker longer for pensions.
-
'It's a public safety risk': With summer looming, Baltimore police renew effort to target dirt bikes
Under new Chief Michael Harrison, the Baltimore police department's dirt bike violators task force will continue to target areas known for street riding. - Officer of Bar Counsel will not pursue a complaint last year from City Solicitor Andre Davis about Robin R. Cockey
- Markiyah Walker, 18, and her son, Chase Meade, were on their way to get crabs when they were shot along with a 1-year-old and two men outside the Busy Bee corner market at South Monroe Street and Ramsay Street in the Carrollton Ridge neighborhood Friday night.
- A community reels after a violent weekend in which 18 people were shot; among them were two small children, ages 1 and 2. A total of seven people were killed in three days, including one man who was fatally stabbed. The violence continued Monday as two additional people were shot.
- Youth arrests in Baltimore drop, but not enough is being done to steer kids from the juvenile justice system, a report says.
- Dawnta Harris, a 17-year-old accused of fatally striking Baltimore County police officer Amy Caprio last year, is the first teen accused in her death to stand trial this week.
- Baltimore Police Commissioner Michael Harrison announced additional command staff and structural changes Monday.
- A 13-year-old boy has been charged in connection with the death of a 17-year-old boy in East Baltimore last month, a city police spokeswoman said Monday.