Jessica Anderson
Jessica Anderson started at The Sun in March 2010, writing about a little bit of everything as the night rewrite reporter. She now covers breaking stories across the region with the morning news desk.
Recent Articles
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Only 16% of Baltimore police officers are women. Meet the female commanders helping to change that.
The shiny black Ford Explorer with tinted windows rolls up on a narrow block in Ellwood Park, a place known for drug dealers, where shootings have hit hard lately. Residents frequently scatter at the sight of an unmarked police vehicle. But this spring day, the Southeastern District’s first African...
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Baltimore residents can get paid for reporting armed felons and drug dealers to law enforcement
Baltimore residents could get paid thousands of dollars for tips on the city’s armed criminals, federal and local law enforcement officials announced Thursday. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives will pay for information that leads to arrests of felons, drug dealers, and others...
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Deputy Baltimore police commissioner whose hiring was announced two days ago no longer joining department
Michelle Wilson, the Baltimore Police deputy commissioner whose hiring was announced just two days ago, is not joining the department after all. Baltimore Police would not say whether the abrupt reversal has anything to do with Wilson recently signing a sworn affidavit questioning the truthfulness...
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New York cop charged with intoxication, assaulting Baltimore police officers at Inner Harbor hotel
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 tried to get him to leave. Officer Eugene Donnelly, 32, of Bronxville, N.Y., was arrested after officers received a call at 7 a.m. for an intoxicated...
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Baltimore Police hires two key deputies, including one who accused State's Attorney Mosby of lying under oath
Baltimore Police Commissioner Michael Harrison continued shaking up his department Tuesday, naming two outsiders to key positions. One will oversee day-to-day operations of thousands of officers; the other will lead misconduct investigations when some of them get in trouble. Michelle Wilson, an...
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Former Baltimore Police Commissioner nominee Joel Fitzgerald fired from Fort Worth chief job
Fort Worth Police Chief Joel Fitzgerald — who was nominated in November to be Baltimore’s top cop but withdrew his name less than two months later — was fired Monday amid questions of his “judgment and leadership,” Texas officials announced. Fitzgerald had been former Mayor Catherine Pugh’s choice...
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'He wanted to turn his life around': After 21 years in prison, Baltimore man was killed 4 months after release
James Lomax had spent nearly half his life behind bars, and since coming home in January, he had told family he wanted a fresh start. Recently released from the Jessup Correctional Institution after serving a 21-year-sentence for drug-related charges, Lomax wanted to spend time with his two daughters,...
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Baltimore police officer struck by vehicle during foot chase, suffers non-life-threatening injuries
A Baltimore Police officer has been taken to a hospital after being struck by a vehicle during a foot pursuit, police said. A police spokeswoman said he was taken to Maryland Shock Trauma center by other officers, for non-life-threatening injuries to his left arm and leg. The officer is a member...