Tim Prudente
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- After an outcry by attorneys, transparency advocates and journalists, Maryland courts officials said they would reconsider their decision to hide police officer names in the stateās online Case Search database of court cases.
- A judge convicted Anne Kirsch, 37, of manslaughter and child abuse last year in the death of her infant son Matthew.
- The strong winds blew off the roof, third floor and brick facade of a vacant rowhouse.
- The names of arresting officers and other law enforcement authorities involved in cases disappeared Thursday from the stateās searchable public court database.
- Baltimore Police Commissioner Darryl De Sousa announced the integrity tests Wednesday during filming of the WJZ special āBaltimore Standing Together.ā The hour-long panel highlighted work by community leaders, police and the mayorās office to tamp down Baltimoreās persistent street violence.
- Two city police officers and a civilian driver were injured in a car crash Tuesday morning in Southwest Baltimore.
- Darryl De Sousa became Baltimoreās new police commissioner Monday after a vote by the City Council. The 53-year-old career cop had enjoyed widespread support and breezed through the confirmation process since he was nominated last month by Mayor Catherine Pugh.
- An off-duty Prince Georgeās County police officer was shot and killed Wednesday morning while helping a woman next door who feared her estranged husband, the departmentās police chief said.
- A boyhood friend of Police Detective Momodu Gondo, Glen Kyle Wells was sentenced Thursday to 15 years in federal prison for his role in the million-dollar heroin ring.
- Acting Police Commissioner Darryl De Sousa apologized Wednesday for the crimes of a corrupt police squad and promised members of the City Council the scandal wonāt happen under his watch.
- Quamontae Johnson and Levi Bonds were convicted Tuesday of sex offense after carjacking two women leaving the Alewife bar in downtown Baltimore and forcing them at gunpoint to take off their clothes and perform oral sex.
- Antonio Shropshire, the head of a heroin ring that eventually led authorities to the Baltimore Police Gun Trace Task Force, was sentenced Friday to 25 years.
- Two Baltimore detectives were found guilty Monday of taking part in a racketeering conspiracy. Next, a judge will decide their punishments.
- Three Baltimore police officers have petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to hear their appeal of a $2.3 million judgment for maliciously prosecuting a formerly homeless man, Marlow Humbert, as the āCharles Village rapist.ā
- A Baltimore jury has awarded $130,000 to protester Myreq Williams, whose arm was broken by police during the riots after the death of Freddie Gray.
- Her newborn son was two days old when her house burned last week in Sandtown-Winchester. Keyona Weaver had one baby to bring home. And she had two to bury.
- Keyona Weaver, the mother of the 1-year-old and 2-year-old killed in a West Baltimore house fire last week, stood in the cold with a crowd of mourners at a candlelight vigil for the toddlers on Tuesday night.
- Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh has recruited the architect of predictive policing in Los Angeles and Chicago. āHis work has greatly changed how things are done in Chicago, and the early signs are encouraging."
- Baltimore police shot and killed a 33-year-old man who they say pulled a semiautomatic handgun on an officer during a foot chase Sunday night in Northwest Baltimore. "He turned and pointed that gun at the officer," said Chief T.J. Smith, police spokesman.
- Alphonso Smith III and Roger Eastmond Jr. have been charged with murder after police say they opened fire on a group of people sitting behind a Middle River 7-Eleven store and accidentally killed a 13-year-old girl.
- The convictions came after a two-month trial of members of the Greenmount Avenue Regime, a crew that prosecutors say committed seven murders also shootings, stabbings and robberies.
- An Annapolis man received 20 years in prison for opening fire during a street brawl after the bars closed in Federal Hill in November 2016, prosecutors said.
- A jury awarded $75,000 Wednesday to Larry Lomax, the 26-year-old who was doused with a spray canister and yanked down by two Baltimore police officers.
- One day before he was fired, Baltimore Police Commissioner Kevin Davis told reporters that departments around the country must partner to share methods, embrace technology and focus efforts on repeat offenders.
- The new police commissioner Darryl DeSousa was just hours on the job when gunfire rang out in East Baltimore and his administration had its first shooting victim.
- "What would a reasonable police officer have done?ā Larry Lomax, 26, has sued two Baltimore police officers, accusing them of battery and acting with excessive force.
- Hersh's pizza shop in South Baltimore printed "shithole" menus over the weekend, joining the political wordplay over President Donald Trump's reported remarks.
- Isabel Sainz, a political refugee from Cuba who became a devoted special-education teacher in Baltimore County, one who would bring her students to restaurants and shops and encourage them to participate in society, died Thursday of Alzheimerās disease at her home in Towson. She was 81.
- "They are like the terminator. They just never stop coming." A look at Derek Hines and Leo Wise, the two assistant U.S. attorneys prosecuting the corrupt squad of Baltimore police.
- The aged Lombard Street sniper struck a plea deal Monday in Baltimore Circuit Court to avoid a new prosecution for his murderous ambush of city police officers nearly 42 years ago. Under the deal, John Earl Williams, 60, could be released from prison in about 15 years, attorneys said.
- The improbable friendship between a former Baltimore police officer and the man who shot up his squad in the 1976 "Good Friday Shooting."
- If the marble walls of Baltimore's Mitchell Courthouse could talk, they would tell of 117 years of daring escape attempts, shootouts and sensational murder trials. Come along and listen with courthouse historian James Schneider.
- A fire Thursday night at the Fells Point restaurant Peterās Inn caused āsignificant damage, the staff wrote on Facebook.
- A 22-year-old man with gunshot wounds showed up at a Baltimore hospital Friday morning and police are working to determine when and where he was shot.
- A fuel truck overturned on Interstate 83 Tuesday morning, blocking traffic for hours in North Baltimore and spilling red-dyed heating oil into the Jones Falls stream.
- Howard County police said James Fallin Jr., 23, of Columbia, was killed in the attack shortly after 9:30 p.m. Warner Jackson, 22, of Columbia, was treated at the hospital and released, police said.
- A Baltimore judge on Monday ordered a psychiatric evaluation for MauSeanĀ Carter,Ā the 30-year-old Baltimore man accused by police of killing two people and wounding several others in a days-long āshooting spreeā that culminated in a dramatic 30-minute car chase through the city Friday.
- The driver who led police on a dramatic, high-speed car chase through West Baltimore was arrested at noon Friday on the 1800 block of Gwynns Falls Parkway near Mondawmin Mall.
- Police Det. Wendy Morton just happened to be patrolling Northeast Baltimore that April afternoon when the lonely widow called 911. Soon a routine stop led to regular visits with honey doughnuts, to midnight phone calls for āgirl talk,ā to dances around the living room.
- Prosecutors say Jermaine Doggett and Randy Case punched and kicked Darrell Webb. Then Doggett pulled out a knife, they said, and stabbed Webb.
- By Monday, Sgt. Alicia White was fully reinstated in the Baltimore Police Department, becoming the sixth and final officer who returned to work after being absolved of Freddie Grayās death more than two years ago.
- More than 20 people have been indicted on charges of running the Crips street gang inside Maryland prisons including inmates, their mothers and two guards, state officials announced Thursday.
- A 50-year-old man was shot multiple times and killed Tuesday night in the Dolfield neighborhood of Northwest Baltimore.
- A man was shot in his chest and killed Friday morning just east of the Patterson Park neighborhood in Southeast Baltimore.
- This Thanksgiving, thereās plenty to be thankful for in one Odenton home. Because two weeks ago, on a cold, cloudless afternoon, the Currys fell from the sky and crash landed an airplane on the freeway.
- Prosecutors urged a federal judge Friday to detain Philadelphia Police Officer Eric Troy Snell until trial. They say he threatened the children of his fellow corrupt cop, Det. Jemell Rayam.
- A three-member panel of law enforcement officers has cleared Baltimore Police Lt. Brian Rice of all administrative charges related to the 2015 arrest and death of Freddie Gray
- The question of whether Baltimore Police Lt. Brian Rice acted with reason or neglect in the arrest of Freddie Gray was left Thursday to members of a police trial board.
- Baltimore Police said two people being sought in connection with the killing of a 41-year-old man in South Baltimore have been apprehended in Atlanta.
- Philadelphia police officer Eric Snell has been arrested on federal drug charges and accused of conspiring with a Baltimore detective to sell cocaine and heroin seized from Baltimore's streets.