Starting in fall 2017, officials said, the men regularly purchased drugs in kilograms from a Miami-based drug trafficking organization, which had ties to Sinaloa and Tijuana Mexican drug cartels, the U.S. Attorney's Office said.

Facing life in prison and with his men turned government witnesses, alleged cartel king "El Chapo" has few allies. One is a lawyer from Mulberry Street in Baltimore.

Thirteen people were indicted on gang charges--including the June 2017 killing of Sebastian Dvorak, a 27-year-old bartender, in Canton--following a yearlong investigation into a Bloods gang subset in East Baltimore, prosecutors announced Monday.

For retailers, shoplifting is an unavoidable cost of doing business. But now, officials say, a greater threat is emerging: theft and fraud by highly organized criminal rings.

A Gwynn Oak man was sentenced last week in Harford County Circuit Court to serve 40 years in jail in what officials say is a "strong message" to drug dealers.

Calling it an example of the city's efforts to tackle rising crime, Baltimore Police Commissioner Kevin Davis and others on Tuesday announced a federal

President Donald Trump is reportedly under FBI investigation, again. The feds are reportedly looking into his campaign’s contacts with Russian government

A new book claims two honor roll teens from Freddie Gray's neighborhood masterminded the April 2015 looting of pharmacies across Baltimore, then created an "Uber-like" encrypted delivery app to spread the drugs throughout the country in partnership with the Black Guerrilla Family, the hacktivist collective Anonymous, and El Chapo's Sinaloa cartel.

In August 2015, authorities say a "street lieutenant" for Brandon Pride's west side drug operation got caught with 52 bags of heroin. The lieutenant, 43-year-old Jason Summers, offered to cooperate with police, and later that night helped officers arrest another member of Pride's operation with 230 bags of heroin.

Two dozen alleged gang members in Baltimore have been indicted on federal racketeering and other charges after an investigation by local and federal law enforcement agencies determined the gang oversaw a violent drug operation associated with murder, assault, extortion, witness intimidation, money laundering and other crimes, prosecutors said Tuesday.

For the second time in two months, the office of the Maryland attorney general has announced an indictment targeting street crime in Baltimore — territory the state's top prosecutors rarely pursue.

According to law enforcers in Maryland and Louisiana, Fred Douglas Brooks III is based in Houston and back to his old ways, overseeing the complex logistics of supplying kilograms of heroin from Mexican sources to wholesalers in Baltimore, New Orleans, New York, and elsewhere, and laundering the high-volume flow of cash that comes back to him in return.

Maryland gambling control officials said Tuesday they're "concerned" about allegations in other states involving the company building Baltimore's casino, Caesars Entertainment Corp., and are gathering information.

A woman who supplied Black Guerrilla Family gang members with drugs to sell at the Baltimore jail pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge Wednesday in federal court

MGM Resorts International presented an early look Wednesday at the design for its proposed $800 million casino and resort at National Harbor in Prince George's County.

A former corrections officer pleaded guilty in federal court on Monday to smuggling drugs into the Baltimore City Detention Center for members of the Black Guerrilla Family gang.

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Corrections officer Katera Stevenson, 25, pleaded guilty in federal court Tuesday to a racketeering charge, admitting her part in a Black Guerrilla Family gang network that smuggled drugs and other contraband into the Baltimore jail.

Jennifer Owens pleads guilty to a federal racketeering charge and could receive up to 20 years in prison

Why hasn't Maryland's corrections chief been held accountable for the ongoing prison scandal?

Legislators who shape criminal justice policy have joined union officials in demanding answers from the state in the violent assault on a Western Maryland corrections officer earlier this week

Barbara Poindexter saw the death of her son coming. She likens it to watching her mother's health deteriorate. In her son's case, death followed a slow and agonizing descent into gangs and criminal activity.

Tavon White, the alleged Black Guerrilla Family gang leader at the Baltimore City Detention Center, also admitted to the charges that originally put him in jail.

Two corrections officers at the troubled Baltimore City Detention Center have resigned after being charged with crimes, authorities said Friday.

Additional indictments may be coming in the corruption scandal after alleged ringleader Tavon White tells investigators there were more prison employees engaged in smuggling contraband than the 13 already indicted

The alleged Black Guerrilla Family leader who is accused of masterminding a sophisticated operation to smuggle drugs and other contraband into the Baltimore City Detention Center will plead guilty to a racketeering conspiracy charge, his attorney said Tuesday.

Vivian Matthews is accused of helping BGF gang members smuggle drugs into the Baltimore jail

Memories of the1933 Baltimore kidnapping of Albert Hendler, scion of the Hendler Creamery Co. family, have recently been revived in an exhibition of documents relating to the case at the Crime Museum in Washington.

On Saturday, crowds of people will gather at St. John's Church in Charles Village to experience the 8th annual Pile of Craft. It is, organizers say, not your grandmother's craft show.

Older consumers are no more vulnerable to identity theft, but they do tend to be victims of the types of ID theft that are on the rise — cases involving tax returns and medical care.

The head of security at the Baltimore jail failed a polygraph test administered after a federal indictment alleged widespread corruption on her watch, corrections secretary Gary D. Maynard told lawmakers at a hearing in Annapolis.

Since emerging as regional power players in 2006, BGF members have extended their reach and influence well beyond Baltimore's limits. Records show gang members have had access to marijuana and the ability to intimidate non-gang-affiliated inmates in corrections facilities outside the city, as well.

Baltimore County jail offers Baltimore Sun reporter a tour

Corrections officials are investigating whether an inmate at the Baltimore City Detention Center has been using a contraband cellphone to post photos and updates on Facebook and Instagram online accounts.

Fifteen people have been arrested following a two-year undercover investigation by the Harford County Task Force into a pot smuggling ring based in Harford with ties to California

Jesse Ballard III, the head of internal investigations at the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, will retire in June to take a federal job, the state agency said Friday.

The Palestinian immigrant and his brother lived side-by-side in homes in West Ocean City, over the years opening a number of businesses throughout the area — three pizza shops, a Mexican restaurant, a liquor store, gas stations, and development companies, court records show.

The Baltimore City Detention Center had the second-highest rate of sexual contact between jail staff and inmates in the nation, according to a U.S. Department of Justice study released less than a month after federal prosecutors accused corrections officers at the jail of sleeping with gang members.

The O'Malley administration should find the funds to expand its 'managed access' pilot project to correctional institutions statewide.

In the black market of Maryland's prisons and jails, where the right price can secure cellphones and drugs, transactions unfold through a complex system of currency. It uses 14-digit codes, prepaid debit cards and text messages.

Governor wants to 'root out corruption' and tackle gangs behind bars

A federal grand jury indicted 18 alleged gang members on racketeering charges, including a detainee at a state-managed detention center, news that could draw more scrutiny to the beleaguered state correctional system.

Months before an unsealed federal indictment blew the lid off allegations of widespread gang corruption at the Baltimore City Detention Center, those allegations were already common knowledge among many — including Shavella Miles, the jail's chief of security.

Senior administrators at the detention center have been investigated in wake of federal corruption indictment

With the state corrections system already under scrutiny, the Maryland Board of Public Works on Wednesday approved a $40,000 settlement with a former inmate of the Baltimore jail who claimed he was assaulted by gang members for not assisting with a drug dealing operation.