Carroll County Crime

House Bill 857 would give Attorney General Anthony Brown’s office the power to prosecute police officers who kill civilians. Elected state's attorneys said the "absurd" bill would usurp their authority.

Frederick Police Department officers fatally shot a wanted man who brandished a knife, according to investigators from the state Attorney General’s office, which is probing the shooting.

Howard County Police responded to an Elkridge residence around 10:30 a.m. on Friday for a possible home invasion.

A Carroll County grand jury has indicted a 17-year-old boy who is suspected of stabbing three teens on Feb. 20, in Mount Airy.

In May, Kevin James Pickett of Sykesville crashed into Tramellia Nicole Wright-Fox, a Glen Burnie resident and pastor in Baltimore, after taking methadone and driving.

A 17-year-old faces felony assault charges after police say he injured three people in Mount Airy early Monday morning, the Carroll County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release.

Two men were shot Friday afternoon in Taneytown and were airlifted to a hospital for treatment.

Justin M. Peterson, 28, of Westminster, was sentenced to 35 years in prison followed by 30 years of supervised release on Friday after pleading guilty in August to one count of sexual exploitation of a child and one count of distribution of child pornography.