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 request by Syed’s appellate attorney, Catherine E. “Cate” Stetson,...
A chaotic scene overwhelmed the small neighborhood surrounding Tiki Lee’s Dock Bar in Sparrows Point Sunday, flustering police and leaving several people injured. Baltimore County police received calls early Sunday around 12:44 a.m. for a reported disturbance in the 4300 block of Shore Road at...
Baltimore Police are investigating a report of an officer sleeping in his patrol car that has been circulating on social media. Police said they were sent a photo of the incident Monday. The picture shows an officer in a black patrol car, who appears to be sleeping. Police spokesman Matt Jablow...
The substitute teacher arrested Monday for what police say was a sexual relationship with a student at North County High School was cited under a law amended five years ago to target just such allegations. Anne Arundel County school officials said the woman may be the first county substitute teacher...
The FBI has named Jennifer C. Boone as the special agent in charge of the bureau’s Baltimore office. Boone will replace Gordon B. Johnson, who was appointed to the job in October 2016 and retired in February. In a news release Friday, the FBI wrote that Boone started her career in Los Angeles in...
A Baltimore woman faces up to 40 years in prison after pleading guilty to conspiring to distribute fentanyl with a drug trafficking organization by the name of “Lex Luthor.” April Wilkes pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, particularly fentanyl, on June 7 in U.S. District...
Baltimore County Police are investigating after a man’s body was found Sunday evening in Patapsco Valley State Park near Catonsville and Oella, officials said Monday. A woman was walking her dog along a trail in the park and discovered the body around 5 p.m. in the area of River and Thistle roads,...
An Annapolis man and a 15-year-old boy from Glen Burnie, who police say rammed a stolen SUV into a gun store in Laurel last week, have been arrested and charged with stealing 18 guns and other charges, Howard County police announced Monday. Both also were charged in a similar case in Montgomery...
Anne Arundel County police said they arrested a public schools substitute teacher Monday after she engaged in sexual activity with a North County High School student. Police said they responded June 4 to North County High after a student, who also attends the Center of Applied Technology North,...
A wealthy stock trader was sentenced Monday to nine years in prison for his conviction in the fiery death of a man who was helping him secretly dig tunnels for a nuclear bunker beneath a Maryland home. Daniel Beckwitt, 28, had faced a maximum of 30 years in prison when Montgomery County Circuit...
Baltimore’s “Running Man,” Keith Boissiere, was attacked Friday afternoon while embarking on one of his famous jogs around town, police said. Boissiere, 67, was running along the 600 block of W. North Ave. around 1:20 p.m. when a teen wearing a white shirt and black shorts walked up to him and...
Two men were killed and two others were injured in shootings overnight, Baltimore police said Monday. Officers responded to a double shooting in the 2400 block of E. Oliver St. in Broadway East at 11:40 p.m., where they found a man shot in the head. Officers found a second victim one block north...
A dozen internal affairs charges against Baltimore Police officers were dismissed by a circuit court judge last week, including one case where an officer was criminally charged, because the department filed them too late. The failure to pursue the cases has drawn criticism from a state senator...
Baltimore police arrested and charged a man who officers allege stole a woman’s car Saturday night and crashed it into a tree near the Inner Harbor. The department wrote in a news release Sunday that officers were called to the 700 block of Light St. at around 11 p.m. Saturday for a report of a...
Maryland State Police say they arrested a police impersonator attempting to conduct a traffic stop on Interstate 695 on Saturday night. Police identified the accused in a news release Sunday as Timothy Ervin Trivett, 54, of Yorktown, Va. Trivett was arrested at the scene without incident and charged...
Police in Montgomery County, Md., have arrested three suspects — ages 21, 17, and 15 — in connection with a brazen gun store break-in that now has been linked to a similar heist 24 hours earlier in neighboring Howard County, officials said Friday. In both cases, intruders used a vehicle to ram...
A male victim was shot in Northeast Baltimore on Saturday night, police said. The shots were registered by Shotspotter at 9:23 p.m., said Detective Jeremy Silbert. Officers in the area also heard the shots and responded to the scene in the 2700 block of Hugo Ave. — just off Harford Avenue in the...
The Baltimore bank they hit Saturday afternoon made it a full dozen, and that’s not counting the unsuccessful attempt in the county hours before. According to the FBI, a single criminal crew of two men and two women is now suspected in 12 bank robberies across the Baltimore region since March....
The Johns Hopkins University is reviewing an incident this week in which a man with a machete near the school’s Homewood campus was confronted by a campus security officer before being taken to a mental health facility by city police, the school said in a statement Friday. University officials...
A 16-year-old boy was wounded in the leg aboard a bus in downtown Baltimore on Friday night in what police believe was an accidental, self-inflicted shooting. Detective Jeremy Silbert, a Baltimore Police spokesman, said officers were called to the 100 block of E. Baltimore St., near the intersection...
When Baltimore police Sgt. Ethan Newberg told fellow officers to arrest a bystander who criticized their tactics as they detained another man, the 24-year veteran of the department said the pedestrian had been “interfering.” Body camera footage from the May 30 incident released Friday by the Baltimore...