The FBI has named Jennifer C. Boone as the special agent in charge of the bureau’s Baltimore office. Boone will replace Baltimore native Stephen E. Vogt, who was appointed to head the office in 2012. In a news release Friday, the FBI wrote that Boone started her career in Los Angeles in 1997 and...
For two weeks, Lisa Richard sat on the hard wooden benches of a Baltimore County courtroom and watched the trial for the teenager accused of killing her son unfold. The friends and family of Sebastian Dvorak — a beloved Canton bartender who was robbed and shot while walking home on Boston Street...
The man charged with impersonating a police officer and raping a woman was denied bail by a judge Friday afternoon. Richard S. Barnes, a guard at University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center, appeared via video screen for a bail review hearing. The hearing was originally scheduled for yesterday but...
A Columbia man was found guilty of indecent exposure and disorderly conduct for “exposing his genitalia and fondling himself” in front of a girls high school track team, the Howard County State’s Attorney’s Office announced Friday. Andrew James Cleary, 30, was found guilty of two counts of indecent...
NBA player Carmelo Anthony took to Instagram Thursday to mourn the loss of fellow Baltimore basketball star Gerald Brown. The NBA player had four posts on his story, writing that he “still can’t believe it.” Brown, 34, was shot and killed last Friday in Northwest Baltimore in the 3700 block of...
The Ellicott City man charged with murder for a church parking lot shooting was ordered held without bond on Friday. Rane Dellinger appeared in the Howard County district courtroom via video Friday, sitting across the table from his attorney with his fingers crossed in his lap for the duration...
A Maryland jury has awarded nearly $3 million to an inmate who was beaten by prison guards almost six years ago in what his attorney called a "systemwide failure." The Daily Record of Baltimore reports jurors in Baltimore awarded $2.7 million to Kevin Younger, who was assaulted by officers at the...
A former University of Maryland basketball player accused of having sex with a drunk woman without her consent was acquitted Thursday of all rape and sex offense charges after two hours of deliberations by a Prince George’s County jury. The case against Damonte Dodd, 25, turned on whether the 18-year-old...
Baltimore police say two men were found shot to death in Baltimore’s Carrollton Ridge neighborhood Thursday night. The department wrote on Facebook that Southwest District officers were called to the 500 block of S. Bentalou St. at 8:18 p.m. for a Shotspotter alert of shots fired. Officers found...
Two Baltimore women were convicted in connection with a retail theft ring that stole more than $100,000 worth of clothing and accessories from Victoria’s Secret, Dick’s Sporting Goods, True Religion and other stores in Maryland, the state attorney general’s office announced Thursday. Lisa M. Williams,...
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops passed three major proposals Thursday to address their own accountability in sex abuse cases. On the final morning of their three-day spring meeting in Baltimore, the most powerful clerics in the American church voted overwhelmingly to approve a measure that...
A 29-year-woman who told police she believed she was raped by a police officer — who detectives determined was actually a security guard — also told police her Lyft driver assaulted her several minutes earlier. Police have only charged the security guard so far, and the investigation of the Lyft...
Baltimore police say a man died after being shot in the city’s Mount Holly neighborhood Thursday morning. The department wrote on Facebook that Southwest District officers responded to a report of a shooting in the 2200 block of Chelsea Terrace at 11:35 a.m. Upon arriving, officers found a man...
Malik Mungo took the stand Thursday and admitted to making trouble that June night. He admitted to prowling Canton for unlocked cars to steal. He even admitted to ditching the weapon and later lying to FBI agents. The teen from Northeast Baltimore, however, insisted that he didn’t rob and shoot...
Maryland Police responding to a burglary at a Rockville gun shop say one person is dead and four others are at large and "armed and dangerous" after a clash with authorities. News outlets report five men used a stolen vehicle to smash into the gun shop early Thursday morning. Investigators responded...
A 36-year-old man died overnight Wednesday in a Southwest Baltimore shooting, police said Thursday morning. Just past midnight, officers were called to the 2000 block of Hollins Ferry Road for a shooting. Police found a man inside a car with a gunshot wound to the chest. The man was transported...
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...
Despite the corruption that has sometimes flourished in plainclothes squads such as the Gun Trace Task Force, Baltimore Police Commissioner Michael Harrison says such units still have a place in the city — particularly amid its relentless violence and other crime. But Harrison vows to institute...
A man died at the hospital after being shot in Northeast Baltimore on Wednesday afternoon as police say they’re investigating two afternoon shootings. The department wrote on Facebook that officers were called to the scene of a shooting in the 4400 block of Franconia Drive in the Frankford neighborhood...
State correctional services said Wednesday that they are investigating how a loaded gun made its way inside a detainee’s wheelchair and into Baltimore’s jail. “That’s what the internal investigation will be focusing on, reviewing the screening process conducted,” Gerard Shields, Department of Public...
When Baltimore County Police officers stopped Richard Barnes for traffic violations in 1995, he told them he too was a police officer and even produced a “special police officer license,” according to police records. But county officers weren’t convinced and arrested him. More than 20 years later,...