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- A former Baltimore Safe Streets employee who also was a member of the Black Guerrilla Family gang has pleaded guilty to federal racketeering charges, authorities announced Tuesday.
- Second man found dead Saturday morning in partial building collapse at Southeast Baltimore Amazon warehouse, a fire department spokesman said.
- A proposed contract agreement between the city and the Baltimore police union released Saturday would require placing two civilian volunteers on trial boards, along with three sworn officers.
- Comedian Dave Chappelle was in Maryland to campaign for Ben Jealous, Democratic candidate for governor. First he had to eat and Friday he stopped by Wieland's Barbeque in Catonsville.
- The man accused of fatally shooting 3-year-old McKenzie Elliott in 2014 pleaded guilty Friday in U.S. District Court.
- A spokeswoman for Fort Worth Mayor Betsy Price said her comment about Joel Fitzgerald being chosen for the job had been taken out of context.
- It all began with a Tweet from a Baltimore-area Twitter account. The next morning, media in Fort Worth and Baltimore were reporting that Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh had selected Joel Fitzgerald as the city's next police chief.
- The company trying to bring back a surveillance plane to help in Baltimore’s crime fight does not currently have a license to conduct business in Maryland, state records show.
- Baltimore Police have agreed to change policies regarding protests after a settlement with local activists and others who sued the department following their arrest during a protest at Artscape in 2016.
- The president of the Baltimore Police union called a recent Saturday Night Live sketch portraying city officers a “grossly inapt portrayal,” in a letter addressed to the show’s executive producer Lorne Michaels.
- The Baltimore City Council’s public safety committee holds a hearing Tuesday on possibly bringing back the controversial, previously undisclosed surveillance plane that police said was used to capture criminal activity.
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Former Baltimore police spokesman T.J. Smith would have to move to the city before running for mayor
Former Baltimore Police spokesman T.J. Smith hasn’t said exactly what his plans are since abruptly leaving the department last week, but it could entail house hunting. - Police reform advocates pin hopes on Baltimore’s next police commissioner to resolve the “infighting” and “political turmoil” cited by recent high-level departures who described significant dysfunction within the department.
- Only 12 percent of Baltimore Police officers passed the most recent promotional exam for sergeant, leaving the department short on supervisors.
- After police said Deandre Sleet shot and a killed 26-year-old South Baltimore man in an attempted robbery near Federal Hill, he was not done, continuing a spate of armed robberies in the city.
- Today will be the third public quarterly hearing with the judge enforcing the Baltimore Police consent decree that calls for widespread reforms.
- Baltimore’s interim police commissioner — the third person to hold the commissioner’s seat this year — has withdrawn from consideration for the permanent job, the city solicitor told a judge this morning.
- Police have identified two people arrested after a lengthy police chase through Baltimore County on Friday.
- A man charged with a homicide near Federal Hill, who police said is also responsible for a series of robberies across the city, is being held without bail, online court records show.
- Police were carrying out a search warrant on the locker at Achievement Academy in the Hamilton Hills neighborhood when they found the firearm, the statement says.
- Sgt. Larry Worsley, a 15-year-Baltimore Police veteran, has been acquitted of DUI charges after crashing a department vehicle in July in Northeast Baltimore.
- Baltimore Mayor Catherine E. Pugh said Wednesday the city’s next police commissioner will be on the job in less than 30 days.
- September ended with 37 homicides and 64 non-fatal shootings, according to the Baltimore Police Department.
- Nathaniel Sassafras fired 10 rounds before he was killed in a shootout with Baltimore police officers, who shot at him 30 times, according to police.
- Interim Baltimore Police Commissioner Gary Tuggle announced increased patrols across the city and the cancellation of leave for officers over the next three days in response to the recent spate of violence.
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Officer interviews, body camera footage in Amy Caprio death shed light on possible defense for teens
Attorneys for some of the teens charged in the death of Baltimore County police officer Amy Caprio are attempting to distance their clients from murder charges filed in the case. - The Baltimore Police department requested that Axon — the body camera manufacturer — attempt to recover the footage from a shootout when officers Phillip Lippe and his partner, Steven Foster, exchanged gunfire with 29-year-old Nathaniel Sassafras, who died.
- Three separate shootings took place overnight in Baltimore, police said Thursday.
- Federal Drug Enforcement Administration officials, along with partnering law enforcement and health agencies, on Wednesday announced a new plan to combat heroin and prescription drug addiction in Baltimore.
- Former Police Commissioner Kevin Davis said he thinks Sgt. Mike Mancuso will be
- A city police officer who was involved in a shootout in West Baltimore that left one man dead has been released from the hospital, police said Monday.
- A recent federal lawsuit alleging Baltimore County police mishandled rape cases has drawn questions from an advocate who helped conduct an independent review that recommended changes to the way such incidents are investigated.
- Hayleen Reyes moved to Baltimore from the Dominican Republican five months ago in search of a better life. But on Thursday morning, the 21-year-old was among three workers who were shot and killed.
- Officers were called at 1:52 p.m. to a parking lot in the 700 block of Maiden Choice Lane for a report of a shooting.
- The crash occurred at the intersection of N. Bentalou St. and W. North Ave.
- The two women suing Baltimore County State's Attorney Scott Shellenberger and two prosecutors over their alleged failure to investigate sexual assault cases face an uphill battle overcoming special immunity given to prosecutors, some legal experts say.
- A 56-page, class action lawsuit filed Sept. 10 in federal court alleges a culture in Baltimore County — extending to the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, suppresses sexual assaults.
- The city this summer launched "Fit to Serve" classes, which help police recruits pass the fitness test and sworn officers boost their fitness.
- Defense attorney Ivan Bates’ campaign must repay an outstanding $150,000 loan that it received during the race for Baltimore State’s Attorney, according to recently filed campaign finance reports.
- A man fatally shot at a Lansdowne funeral Wednesday afternoon was mourning his brother, Baltimore County police said.
- The Baltimore Police Department has failed to prioritize patrol positions, leaving a 26.6 percent vacancy rate — significantly higher compared with other areas within the department — and should reconsider restructuring, a new report found.
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25-year-old woman shot, killed in Baltimore County was witness in fatal shooting case, attorney says
A 25-year-old woman who was a witness to a fatal shooting in Towson — according to an attorney involved in the case — was shot multiple times and killed Thursday night in Overlea. - A 14-year-old is charged as an adult in the death of an 83-year-old woman last month, Baltimore police announced on Friday.
- A Baltimore County police officer suffered minor injuries when his gun accidentally discharged during training Wednesday morning, a department spokesman said.
- Baltimore police said Wednesday they’ve arrested a man wanted in the death and kidnapping of Tiffany Jones in South Baltimore last month.
- Officers found Dorothy Mae Neal after a neighbor called police when friends grew concerned after not seeing Neal for days.
- Visits and mail service will return to Maryland correctional facilities in time for the Labor Day weekend after a ban was implemented in response to safety concerns in other states, Maryland prison officials said Thursday.
- Prosecutors said Cornell Harvey lured Rashaw Scott to a parking lot where a group of men opened fire on a vehicle, killing Scott’s son Carter.
- The Old Farmer's Almanac predicts below-normal snowfall this winter, but the Farmer's Almanac — a separate publication — says the exact opposite.
- With more than a murder a day in Baltimore thus far in August, Mayor Catherine Pugh and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Ben Jealous took to the streets of West Baltimore on Friday night.