Tim Prudente
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- āWe are invisible ... We need to be seen.ā Baltimore's Latino families wrote of their fears and delivered them Monday to police officials.
- Closing arguments came Monday in the trial of a Southwest Baltimore man charged with the murder of 13-year-old Ronnie Barnes, who was shot accidentally and killed in June 2016.
- A 26-year-old man checked himself into a hospital with a gunshot wound to his torso. He was immediately taken into surgery, police said. Also a 52-year-old man checked himself into a hospital with a gunshot wound to his thigh.
- A 38-year-old man was tased by police Friday morning after he sped off during a traffic stop then jumped out and ran in Baltimore County.
- David Kendall Rahim, of Baltimore, admitted that he donned tactical gear and carried out the robbery at the direction of Det. Jemell Rayam, who himself pleaded guilty to committing a string of robberies over a number of years.
- "Weāre equal to the task ⦠and we deserve an equal chance.ā Marylanders behind a lawsuit over Trump's military transgender ban are asking a federal judge to stop the roll out
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Next trial boards in Freddie Gray case likely to focus on supervisors' responsibilities, experts say
After a Baltimore police trial board found officer Caesar Goodson not guilty of breaking any rules in the death of Freddie Gray, two remaining upcoming cases will likely zero on in what additional responsibility his supervisors had. - Baltimore police are turning to the public for help in finding a Baltimore mother who vanished before her baby shower. "We have exhausted every investigative means."
- A necropsy found lesions on one side of the brain of Julius the giraffe. The calf's adorable head tilt was not from an inquisitive brain, but a damaged one.
- Three people were shot in Northwest Baltimore were shot Monday morning, Baltimore police said.
- āIt was looking darker and darker. People were dying and dying ... So thatās what we need to do ā flick the lights on.ā
- Several witnesses told police the woman jumped in the path of the car.
- The man was shot in his lower back during the attempted robbery Monday evening, but he checked himself into the hospital Tuesday night.
- The convictions end a 10-day trial in federal court during which prosecutors anchored their case on accomplice testimony ā the word of cops imprisoned for robbery, rival drug dealers and recovering heroin addicts.
- "Have you ever seen a cast of characters like this?ā As Baltimore drug case ends, jurors urged to be wary of testimony from rogue cops, heroin addicts and drug dealers.
- Can jurors trust testimony from convicted drug dealers, heroin addicts and rogue cops? Defense attorneys to present closing arguments Friday in case against alleged drug dealers in Baltimore.
- Former Baltimore Detective Momodu Gondo told a Baltimore courtroom of his crimes and the code of friendship under which he protected a powerful heroin ring in North Baltimore.
- Diggins recounted the final days of the teenager girlās life in December 2011, describing to jurors their binge of heroin and sex, and how the warmth drained from her face after she died.
- Former college student Davonta Braxton is charged with killing a classmate at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore
- Nance made such disparaging and demeaning comments during trials two years ago, the commission wrote, that he undermined the integrity of the court.
- Enoc Villegas Sosa, 38, and Jose Roberto Flores Gillen, 37, were named Thursday as the two shooting victims.
- Mosby plotted to have the barber, Kenneth Collins, killed because the barber owed him money over a manipulated meter, prosecutors say.
- Assistant U.S. Attorney Leo Wise revealed his plans Tuesday to bring forth Detectives Momodu Gondo and Jemell Rayam, two ābombshell witnesses,ā as one defense attorney said in court.
- Leonard Chase, known as āNard,ā pleaded guilty to racketeering in July, admitting to his role in the killing of Freddie King.
- The drug case threw open the door on an alleged conspiracy by Baltimore police to rob and shakedown drug dealers.
- Four public meetings will be held this winter for Baltimore citizens to offer recommendations to the team writing a plan for police reform.
- Det. Momodu Gondo pleaded guilty Thursday to robbing and extorting citizens and protecting a North Baltimore heroin ring.
- A third member of an elite gun unit of the Baltimore police pleaded guilty to a racketeering conspiracy of robbery and extortion in federal court Tuesday.
- The guilty plea would bring to three the number of police detectives who have admitted to the criminal charges filed early this year in a federal racketeering case.
- Thieves dragged off Duane "Shorty" Davis' $5,000 grill, the one he's used to feed the homeless and neighborhoods across Baltimore.
- New chickens arrived last week at Green Street Academy in West Baltimore , a symbolic moment after vandals killed the school chickens
- A jury acquitted Davi Ralph of attempted murder Tuesday, more than one year after the 31-year-old was shot nine times by Baltimore police in what officers called an exchange of gunfire.
- The U.S. Supreme Court has decided not to take up the case of a man from West Baltimore facing his third criminal trial over the death of 16-year-old Phylicia Barnes.
- āNobody in their right mind cannot say that these internal complaint files would be chock-full of complaints."
- While Baltimore's rising homicide rate has grabbed attention, rapes, robberies, assaults and burglaries are also up.
- A 49-year-old man from Southwest Baltimore, described by prosecutors as a gang hit man, was found guilty Tuesday of executing a witness nine years ago in a murder-for-hire plot.
- Andre Mosby was charged with plotting to have barber Kenneth Collins killed last year over a tampered BGE meter
- The state's judicial oversight panel will decide what discipline, if any, it will recommend against Baltimore Chief Judge Alfred Nance.
- Local attorney Charles āChadā Curlett has requested the courts disqualify rival candidate Ivan Bates from the Democratic primary for Baltimore stateās attorney.
- Police said the boys opened fire last month on passing cars in northern Baltimore County, even shooting the unmarked car of an officer who was searching for them
- After spending more than a decade in prison for a murder that prosecutors now say he didnāt commit, Lamar Johnson was set free.
- A trial began Monday on charges Mosby, 33, plotted for Collins to be killed because the barber owed him money over a manipulated meter.
- Presidents of three Maryland universities will receive raises of $75,000, $50,000 and $20,000 after a vote Friday by the governing board of the state university system.
- A 22-year-old man from Odenton faces as much as six years in prison after pleading guilty Wednesday to stomping puppies to death in front of young children, prosecutors said.
- Chief judge of the Baltimore Circuit Court may have gone too far in ārelentlessly mockingā a defendant, berating an attorney and banging on his bench, according to investigators.
- Federal prosecutors say the theft of $10,000 in cash, allegedly pocketed by a veteran police sergeant, led to a murder over a drug debt.
- A 35-year-old man from North Baltimore, who told police he was a sex worker, was sentenced to life in prison fir killing his client.
- Edward Witherspoon of Howard County was sentenced in separate cases to a combined 40 years in prison for sexually assaulting two women he met in Baltimore bars, prosecutors said.
- Raeshawn Rivers senetenced for robbery in the murder of a high school girl in Baltimore
- Damon Stansbury was sentenced Tuesday to 45 years in prison for killing Nathan Walker Jr. during a shootout last year on Reisterstown Road, prosecutors said.