Three hundred and thirty-three pounds. That’s the largest cocaine discovery in U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) history at the Port of Baltimore. That discovery came just one day after Customs seized 17.5 tons of the drug at a Philadelphia port on June 17. While the Philly bust dwarfs Baltimore’s...
A gunman opened fire on a crowd in East Baltimore early Saturday morning, killing a 19-year-old man and injuring four others in one of several shootings Saturday, according to police. In total, 11 people were shot, three fatally, in various incidents throughout the city Saturday. A total of eight...
Baltimore County police fatally shot a man Saturday morning during a barricade situation at a Phoenix home. Officers responded to a 911 call at the home on the 14000 block of Blenheim Road just before 7:30 a.m. Police said Scott William Robertson, 41, who resided in that block, pointed a handgun...
A Fulton dentist who is a longtime advocate for Haitian causes is one of two men who were convicted in a Boston federal court Thursday for conspiring to bribe senior Haitian officials in a scheme to gain business advantages in the Caribbean island nation. Dr. Joseph Baptiste, 64, the founder and...
President Donald Trump’s tweet that the United States will deport “millions” of undocumented immigrants next week has local immigration advocates seeking to delicately educate potential targets about their rights without creating panic. Trump, a Republican, tweeted Monday that “next week ICE will...
Maryland State Police have arrested a man in Virginia in connection with an October crash near Port Tobacco that left an 18-year-old woman dead. James Anthony Christian, 43, of Bryans Road in Charles County was apprehended in Richmond, Va., on Friday three weeks after being indicted on multiple...
A Cockeysville man is facing charges of homicide by vehicle and driving under the influence in connection with a fiery crash that left one person dead in Ocean City early Friday, the Ocean City Police Department said. Police responding to a report of a drunken driver tried to stop a vehicle driven...
A captain assigned to the Baltimore Police Northeastern District has been suspended, a department spokesman confirmed Friday. Capt. Daryl Murphy, the second in charge at the district, has been suspended, police spokesman Det. Jeremy Silbert said. He declined to provide additional information, including...
Morris Lee Krome was a man of many nicknames. He was known as “Moe” among his Maryland State Police colleagues during his lifelong service and “Mike” by those who knew him from his family’s farm. Friends teased that he was “Major Mower” for all the time he spent toiling over his property’s grass,...
Baltimore Police arrested two people in separate shooting incidents this week, the department announced Friday. A 21-year-old was arrested in connection to the shooting of a 17-year-old in the Frankford neighborhood, police said. Drashawn Alexander, of the 5000 block of Truesdale Ave., was charged...
Baltimore County Police officials are investigating the discovery of a body near the area of River and Thistle Roads in Patapsco State Park as a homicide. The body has been identified as Glenroy St. Aubyn Copeland, of the 7700 block of Alastor Court in Elkridge. Officer Jennifer Peach, a police...
A person beside Edward Montre Seay in the car where the Annapolis rapper was gunned down told investigators about the Baltimore man now charged with murder in his death. The man, it was revealed at court hearing Friday, had been convicted in a killing before. Seay, 32, better known as rap artist...
The Baltimore Police Department’s Central District, pushed out of its downtown offices last year after a pipe burst, is considering a move up the street to the hulking former home of The Baltimore Sun on the edge of Mount Vernon that has been vacant for nearly a year. The Sun’s former newsroom...
A 25-year-old Anne Arundel Medical Center surgical tech was found dead after she was reported missing out of Annapolis, police said Thursday. The Baltimore Police Department’s Northern District wrote on Facebook that Stephanie Ordonez was found dead after she was reported missing Wednesday. Sgt....
An advocacy group formed “to defend the rights of poor and working people” gathered early Thursday night in front of Baltimore’s Central Booking and Intake Center, demanding answers from the facility about five individuals who died under its custody at the city’s correctional complex in the past...
A veteran Baltimore Police officer who more than doubled her salary with overtime last year has recently been suspended, a department spokesman confirmed Thursday. Officer Julie Pitocchelli, a member of the Baltimore Police Department since 1994, is suspended with pay, police spokesman Det. Jeremy...
DEA and IRS agents executed two federal search warrants related to an investigation into Baltimore defense lawyer Kenneth W. Ravenell this week. Don Hibbert, the assistant special agent in charge of the Baltimore office of the Drug Enforcement Administration, confirmed that the raids related to...
A Baltimore County judge declared a mistrial Thursday in the murder case against a city teenager accused of killing bartender Sebastian Dvorak on the street in Canton two years ago. Malik Mungo, 19, was convicted instead of gun and drug charges. During a three-week trial, the teen from Northeast...
The U.S. Supreme Court is giving Adnan Syed’s attorney another month to appeal the refusal by Maryland’s highest court to grant a new trial to the subject of the “Serial” podcast. Chief Justice John G. Roberts this week granted the routine request by Syed’s appellate attorney, Catherine E. “Cate”...
A man was shot to death near the Hebrew Friendship Cemetery, just north of Highlandtown, before dawn Thursday morning, Baltimore police said. The 34-year-old man was shot about 1:47 a.m. in the 3700 block of E. Baltimore St. He was taken to a hospital, where he died from his injuries, according...
Baltimore Police Commissioner Michael Harrison has pledged to crack down on officers who continue to exceed the department’s limit of 32 overtime hours a week. Since becoming the city’s top cop in February, Harrison has reviewed police overtime and said the department struggles to enforce its own...