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An undercover agent and ATF source suggested a stash-house robbery to crew, who took the bait. Court filings show they are expected to plead guilty.

Jason Weinstein prosecuted some of Baltimore's most high-profile cases of the last decade, earning praise from police and others. But in a U.S. Department of Justice report last week, he was criticized for failing to spot problems with the Fast and Furious sting that led to the death of a federal agent. He stepped down from the agency.

Darrell Issa's feverish congressional investigation into a botched gun running investigation makes a scathing report of Justice Department failures seem like vindication for the Obama administration

The shooting at Perry Hall High School has raised questions about how shotguns are treated under state law and how firearms are kept from children.

SYKESVILLE — The Baltimore office of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Maryland Police and Correctional Training Commissions are alerting residents in the Sykesville area that big bangs on Monday, July 23, are no cause for alarm.

Republicans are going after Eric Holder based on a wacky theory that the Fast and Furious operation was a means to push for gun control.

Baltimore police are investigating two more attacks that occurred downtown, the latest Thursday morning in which a 51-year-old federal worker was assaulted by a group of youths.

A 51-year-old federal office worker was jumped and beaten by up to five juveniles Thursday morning in downtown Baltimore¿s Hopkins Plaza ¿ an apparent random attack and the latest in a series of assaults in the heart of the city.

About 100 U.S. Secret Service agents will take part in a two-day ethics training this week to be overseen by professors at Johns Hopkins University — a response to the widening prostitution scandal that began in Colombia, agency and university officials said Monday.

ATF sting nabs another group of would-be home invasion suspects

A federal indictment unsealed Friday accuses four people of directed drug dealing in Baltimore's red-light district, using violence and intimidation that included the 2010 murder of a dancer who they suspected of giving information to police.

Steven "J.R." Blackwell, the leader of an East Baltimore drug conspiracy linked to a yearlong street war with rivals, was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison Friday as part of a guilty plea he struck with prosecutors last fall.

An 84-year-old woman discovered dead in one-alarm blaze at her East Baltimore home had been stabbed multiple times, an autopsy found, turning a fire investigation into a murder case.

City police and the Baltimore field division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives are offering a $5,000 reward for tips in a series of recent attacks in which makeshift firebombs have been thrown against homes, causing minor damage but raising concerns.

Steven Blackwell, the 27-year-old reputed leader of an East Baltimore drug organization that authorities believe engaged in a prolonged street war with a rival faction, pleaded guilty Wednesday in U.S. District Court to heroin conspiracy charges, money laundering and tax evasion.

The vehicle accident and exchange of gunfire in South Baltimore Monday came as agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms moved to arrest a group of men who they say were en route to commit a home invasion and robbery, documents show.

The initiative Monday evening by federal agents in South Baltimore in which one was injured included an exchange of gunfire, which was not previously released by authorities..

A top supervisor with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is being reassigned to lead the Baltimore field office as the beleaguered agency attempts to remake itself amid the fallout from a failed gun-tracking operation along the Southwest border called Fast and Furious.

Former Orioles pitcher Mike Flanagan had threatened to commit suicide several times before taking his life last month, police records show.

Agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were looking for 55 suspects as part of a yearlong investigation into a drug organization operating out of South Baltimore with ties to Reservoir Hill and Anne Arundel County.

This week, Hawkins' death was officially reclassified a homicide. Police say new information uncovered in March of this year sparked a new investigation that determined Hawkins was killed