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- It's been a big year for the retired Ravens linebacker.
- A man who Baltimore County police said set up a “spy cam” and recorded people inside a bathroom at White Marsh Mall was sentenced to supervised probation, court records show.
- Baltimore County Police body camera footage captured the 2017 drunk driving arrest of a city prosecutor, Andrea Mason.
- A prosecutor who has tried Keith Davis Jr. three times for the killing of a Pimlico security guard is no longer with the Baltimore State’s Attorney’s Office, a spokeswoman said Wednesday.
- A Baltimore rabbi has been suspended from a national rabbinic organization after allegations were made in May.
- Baltimore received “north of 40 applications” for the police commissioner job, a city spokesman said Tuesday.
- The alleged driver of the car, Callie Noble Schwarzman, 22, is charged with two counts of negligent manslaughter, a felony that carries up to 10 years in prison, as well as criminally negligent manslaughter and two counts of DWI.
- Baltimore police and prosecutors announced Friday that Keon Gray was arrested at a motel in Anne Arundel County, near BWI Marshall Airport. He was denied release at a hearing Monday.
- Two people were injured and a third was killed in three separate shootings Monday, Baltimore police said.
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Baltimore aims to fill the most 'challenging police chief job in the country.' So who would want it?
The sudden resignation of new Police Commissioner Darryl De Sousa in May has left Baltimore searching for a new top cop for the third time in three years. The turnover at the top has drawn wide concern. So who would want the job? - Four men were killed and nine others were injured in a spate of recent violence, Baltimore police said.
- One man died and two others were injured in shootings Tuesday, Baltimore police said.
- Janea Langston was just 16 when she lost her oldest brother to Baltimore’s violence. On Saturday, she will mourn and bury the second.
- One year later, Ceasefire events are now held quarterly, and city and neighborhood leaders agree the event has made a positive difference in the city’s fight against crime.
- City officials are looking to hire a marketing firm to attract “millennial, local, minority, female, and ‘ideal’ candidates” to fill 90 police officer vacancies.
- Baltimore Police issued an arrest warrant for Shamel Shavuo, 26, was wanted for a shooting July 20 in Baltimore. On Monday, he was killed in an attempted burglary in Queens, N.Y.
- Jarrod Ramos, the Laurel man accused of blasting his way into the Capital Gazette newsroom last month and killing five staff members, was scheduled to make his first appearance in Anne Arundel Circuit Court on Monday but the hearing was taken off the docket.
- A 28-year-old man was shot and killed shortly before 5:15 a.m. Sunday in West Baltimore, and three others were injured in separate shootings.
- The statement came after interim Police Commissioner Gary Tuggle ordered officers to comply with the questionnaire or face disciplinary action.
- Joyce Lyons Terhes was the first Republican woman elected to the Calvert County Board of Commissioners.
- Police said Cpl. James Evans fired at Tyler Winkler, striking him several times, after Winkler charged officers with what they believed was a “shank-”style weapon, the department said in a statement. Officers later determined the weapon was a comb.
- Anne Arundel County Circuit Judge Laura A. Kiessling has been assigned to preside over the case of the man accused of killing five Capital Gazette staffers last month.
- Interim police Commissioner Gary Tuggle would not say whether the officer resigned or was fired.
- The consent decree hearing comes after the department has suffered a series of blows in recent weeks.
- A 14-year veteran of the Baltimore Police Department was arrested for drug trafficking Tuesday.
- One man died and a second was injured in a home invasion in Essex on Tuesday morning, Baltimore County police said.
- A third annual adoption event held at the Maryland State Fairgrounds featured animals from the Baltimore area. All the adoption fees were waived, and owners got to take their new pets home the same day.
- One man died and nine others were injured in a spate of violence in Baltimore overnight, city police said.
- A Baltimore police detective who is suspended from the force amid domestic violence allegations appeared before the department’s internal trial board this week, accused of wrongdoing during a robbery investigation.
- Police announced they have located the vehicle that was seen fleeing the shooting July 5, but did not say how the development may have advanced the case. They continue to search for witnesses and the suspect.
- A restructuring that has moved the Civilian Review Board — an independent body that investigates police misconduct — under the city solicitor’s office presents a conflict of interest and more challenges for the oversight body, its members said.
- Police said Larry Worsley, a 15-year veteran of the Baltimore Police Department, was charged after his department-issued Dodge Charger struck several unoccupied parked vehicles.
- A man once dubbed the city’s “Public Enemy No. 1,” who was accused of firebombing and a shooting in March 2017, has now been acquitted of all charges.
- The Baltimore police response in Harlem Park following the fatal shooting of Det. Sean Suiter “raise clear constitutional concerns,” which included unwarranted stops, pat downs and warrant checks of residents, the monitoring team overseeing the consent decree has found.
- Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh said Wednesday she’s impressed with acting Police Commissioner Gary Tuggle — but is nevertheless collecting resumes from “across the country” for the job as the city’s top cop.
- The judge overseeing federally mandated reform of the Baltimore Police Department is expressing doubt the department has the leadership ability or resources to implement the needed changes.
- A man acquitted last month on charges related to a 2017 house firebombing that resulted in the death of two teens was in court Monday on a different charge — that he shot at several people at the same residence two days earlier.
- The task force reviewing civilian oversight of Baltimore police is calling for a more powerful “independent police accountability agency,” replacing the existing Civilian Review Board, which critics have complained lacks authority to hold officers accountable.
- Two former correctional officers and eight other defendants have pleaded guilty for their role in a smuggling ring at Jessup maximum-security prison, records show.
- Three weeks after Circuit Judge Althea Handy declared a mistrial in Davis’ third trial, a spokeswoman for Marilyn Mosby’s office said it is still reviewing its options. Davis is charged with killing a Pimlico security guard in 2015.
- Ryan Michael McGuire, 32, was being sought by authorities when he allegedly killed Cindy Berdina Testerman, 61, and Judy Elizabeth Slebzak, 66, his stepmother, who was found stuffed in a cedar cabinet in her home.
- A moment by moment account of the rampage that left five Capital Gazette staff members dead.
- Rebecca Smith was a recent hire at The Capital Gazette, but had already proven herself as a newsroom asset.
- An independent panel tasked with investigating the death of Baltimore Police Detective Sean Suiter said Thursday it will issue its final report at the end of July.
- Juvenile arrests in Baltimore have decreased by 46 percent since 2012, but more youth are being charged with violent crime, a newly released report found.
- Christine Nizer, the head of the Motor Vehicle Administration, came under fire Monday and Tuesday after the agency failed to forward voter information to the Maryland Board of Elections, forcing as many as 80,000 voters to cast provisional ballots.
- An 86-year-old pedestrian was struck and killed in Cockeysville, and another was injured in an Elkridge collision overnight, police said Saturday.
- The sellers came wheeling metal grocery carts full of worn cardboard boxes and large paper shopping bags, unearthed from basements and the backs of closets, carrying Lionel trains, delicate dolls in lacy dresses, dogeared board games and other childhood memorabilia.
- A man who was labeled as a Public Enemy No. 1 by city police, and who protested his innocence on Facebook after being charged with killing two teens in a firebombing in East Baltimore last year, was acquitted Friday.
- For a second time, a Baltimore judge declared a mistrial after jurors were unable to reach a unanimous verdict for Keith Davis Jr., who has been tried three times in the death of a Pimlico security guard three years ago.