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Baltimore attorney Ken Ravenell helped Richard Byrd go from a Park Heights stick-up boy to a multimillionaire nightclub and branding impresario running a cross-country marijuana distribution ring, Byrd testified Wednesday in federal court.
- Baltimore Police Commissioner Michael Harrison and State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby are pushing back against criticism that criminals aren’t being arrested and prosecuted enough in Baltimore City.
- An Owings Mills man has been charged in federal court with buying fake COVID-19 vaccination cards online and reselling them to customers over YouTube and Instagram.
- Baltimore police say a 44-year-old was fatally shot in the city’s Sandtown-Winchester neighborhood Tuesday.
- Former drug-dealing clients who Baltimore attorney Kenneth Ravenell helped keep out of prison will take the stand against him at his racketeering trial in U.S. District Court, which kicked off Tuesday with opening statements.
- Valeria Smith took the witness stand Tuesday in Baltimore and accused her father of murdering his wife and blaming a panhandler. “Today is the craziest day of my life. I am officially on the run,” Valeria Smith wrote in her diary the day that father and daughter became fugitives.
- Baltimore County police have arrested and charged two men with murder as the department said they were involved in the fatal shooting of Indalecio Romero-Reyes, a 43-year-old man who was shot outside Gateway Tavern in Halethorpe last month and died from his injuries Thursday.
- The man charged with killing Evelyn Player at her East Baltimore church last month had been working there as a day laborer for a contractor, his attorney said.
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- Valeria Smith took the witness stand Tuesday in Baltimore and accused her father of murdering his wife and blaming a panhandler. “Today is the craziest day of my life. I am officially on the run,” Valeria Smith wrote in her diary the day that father and daughter became fugitives.
- Baltimore County police have arrested and charged two men with murder as the department said they were involved in the fatal shooting of Indalecio Romero-Reyes, a 43-year-old man who was shot outside Gateway Tavern in Halethorpe last month and died from his injuries Thursday.
- Anne Arundel County police have arrested and charged two people with a carjacking early Sunday morning in Glen Burnie, the department announced Monday.
- A 25-year-old man was injured after he was shot in Severn on Saturday night, Anne Arundel County police said Monday.
- The man charged with killing Evelyn Player at her East Baltimore church last month had been working there as a day laborer for a contractor, his attorney said.
- A man died in Baltimore from gunshot wounds Sunday, police said, and three other people were injured by gunfire.
- The video shows three adults holding down a student on the floor of the cafeteria. One of them punches the student in the head twice and holds on to his hair while the other adult appears to hold the student’s arms down.
- The man, a member of a local gang, said he was paid to carry out the killing.
- Mentally ill inmates at Maryland’s prisons are being unconstitutionally held in solitary confinement, exacerbating their illnesses and violating their rights against being submitted to cruel and unusual punishment, according to a federal lawsuit.
- An Anne Arundel County judge sentenced a Severn man to 40 years in prison, suspending all but 25 years, for involuntarily manslaughter after a woman riding in the passenger seat of a stolen truck exited the vehicle during a police chase, was run over and killed.
- A male who has yet to be identified was shot to death in Northwest Baltimore Thursday night, city police said.
- Baltimore police say that a suspect is in custody in relation to the killing of 69-year-old Evelyn Player last month.
- It was the specific details of his story that would trip up Keith Smith, exposing his hoax and revealing him to be his wife's killer, prosecutors told a Baltimore jury Thursday.
- In the biggest legal fight of his life, attorney Kenneth W. Ravenell will likely be silent — sitting beside his defense team in Baltimore’s U.S. District Court. Federal prosecutors have charged him with racketeering and money laundering for allegedly assisting a longtime client.
- Evelyn Player, 69, was remembered Tuesday afternoon for her kindness and sense of humor during a viewing at the March Funeral Home on North Avenue. Player was stabbed to death at Southern Baptist Church in East Baltimore on November 16.
- Baltimore County Police arrested a 33-year-old Windsor Mill man Monday and charged him with fatally shooting Adia Smith earlier this month.
- The Baltimore rapper known as YGG Tay was sentenced to a mandatory federal prison term of 15 years on Tuesday afternoon.
- Baltimore Police on Tuesday identified the off-duty sergeant who fatally shot a gunman who killed the owner of an eastside barbershop earlier this month.
- Gregory J. Der will assume the role of Howard County Police Chief on Jan. 1, replacing current Chief Lisa Myers, who announced her retirement earlier this month. The appointment was announced Monday by Howard County Executive Calvin Ball.
- Seven people were shot in a single incident in East Baltimore late Sunday afternoon, police said.
- The death of a 35-year-old man run over by a car outside of a hotel near Johns Hopkins Hospital in an apparent domestic dispute has been ruled a homicide, police said.
