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Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh is considering hiring a former acting Baltimore Police commissioner - a recent critic of the agency and an advocate for tougher policing tactics - for a role in City Hall where he would advise her on crime policy. Anthony Barksdale was acting commissioner in 2012.

A Baltimore district judge has ordered a psychiatric evaluation for the 25-year-old woman charged with torching several random cars last week in Baltimore's Mount Vernon neighborhood.

Multiple calls were set on fire overnight in Mount Vernon, Baltimore fire officials said Friday.

Police are looking for a man they say stole a cellphone at gunpoint and fled on a Bird scooter in the Belair-Edison neighborhood Monday.

A former employee was arrested and charged Wednesday in the shooting of a Restaurant Depot employee during a pre-dawn robbery attempt at the restaurant supply warehouse in South Baltimore earlier this month, police said Thursday.

A 30-year-old man shot in the face and upper body late Wednesday night on Baker Street in the Western District died overnight, becoming the 300th homicide victim this year in Baltimore City.

The Harford County Sheriff’s Office and Maryland State Police report.

The Harford County Sheriff’s Office is asking for the public’s help in finding the man who allegedly directed his daughter to steal a package off the porch of a Bel Air home late last month.

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Crime logs for Towson and Cockeysville from Dec. 10-13.

One of two Philadelphia women who were arrested Friday for allegedly pick-pocketing at a Panera in Aberdeen is also charged in connection with similar thefts at Paneras elsewhere in Harford County, local law enforcement agencies said.

Khalil Rich, 19, of the 3000 block of Dudley Avenue, has been charged with theft $1,500 to $25,000, unlawful removal of property, unlawful removal of a motor vehicle and unlawful taking of a motor vehicle.

The Harford County Sheriff’s Office and Maryland State Police report.

The string of robberies took place between Nov. 28 and Dec. 1 at the Nordstrom Rack in the Columbia Crossing Circle shopping center.

James Leo Howes Jr., 53, of the 100 block of Stoner Avenue, was charged with first-degree burglary, second-degree assault, malicious destruction of property of less than $1,000 and theft $100 to $1,500.

Catalytic converters were stolen off six cars in the Belcamp the first weekend in December, according to the Harford County Sheriff’s Office.

Police reports from Harford County.

A Westminster man and woman were arrested after allegedly breaking a woman's car window, pepper-spraying her and taking her purse, police said.

A Columbia teenager who “preyed on the elderly,” said a Howard County judge, was sentenced to 10 years in jail, county prosecutors announced Tuesday.

Police items from around Harford County.

Dillon Augustyniak, 18, is being held without bond in the killing of 33-year-old Steve Bernard Wilson in a Hanover model home Dec. 5.

Security cameras seized as part of a theft investigation show young girl allegedly being used to steal packages off a porch in Bel Air, according to the Sheriff's Office.

A former Baltimore police officer has admitted to the FBI that he stole money, lied in police reports, and improperly used electronic surveillance devices, federal prosecutors in California said — widening the scope of police misconduct unearthed by the Gun Trace Task Force scandal.

Police say an inmate who escaped from a North Carolina prison may in St. Mary's County

Towson, Cockeysville Crime logs.

Christopher “Eric” Bouchat, commissioner-elect for District 4, will be sworn in as part of Carroll County’s 61st Board of Commissioners Tuesday, and will be free from his 2014 tax lien.

Howard County police have pieced together a burglary stint, arresting three out-of-state residents.

Two men and one juvenile were arrested Wednesday in connection with a series of automobile thefts and thefts from cars in the Riderwood area of Towson following a call for a parking complaint in Catonsville, Baltimore County Police said.

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The Carroll County Sheriff's Office is investigating the burglary of jewelry and coins from the Westminster Antique Mall on Nov. 20.

Spencer Whittaker Crane, 25, of Westminster, has been charged with second-degree burglary, theft from $100 to $1,500 and malicious destruction of property of less than $1,000, according to electronic court records.

Alexis Davis, a Westminster woman, was arrested Saturday after she allegedly made 16 fraudulent charges to a man's card and took his vehicle without permission.

A whistleblower within the Baltimore Police Department flagged investigators to corrupt members of the Gun Trace Task Force years ago — crucial information that later helped launch the federal racketeering case that took down an entire squad of crooked officers, new documents show.

A former top Montgomery County economic development official in Maryland has pleaded guilty to stealing millions of dollars from the public.

There was the Grinch who stole Christmas, and then there was the person who stole the red Salvation Army kettle at the Waverly Giant Tuesday afternoon.

Maryland police say three officers are recovering from injuries after a suspected thief resisted arrest.

Carroll County commissioner candidate Christopher “Eric” Bouchat said he intends to file a request for a pardon from the governor on Monday for two criminal convictions, dating back more than 20 years.

A 10-year-old and two 14-year-olds are accused of armed robbery after Howard County police said they pulled a gun on another youth and stole his backpack in a Columbia park last month.

UMBC starts an initiative, called Retriever Courage, to address sexual violence and misconduct prevention on campus.

A Littlestown, Pennsylvania, woman has been charged with numerous counts related to theft scheme after allegedly stealing money from a trust she was fiduciary on.

Convicted Baltimore Police Gun Trace Task Force Det. Momodu Gondo testified Tuesday that his stealing money started in 2008 as part of a “culture” of city plainclothes detectives building trust with each other.

People took more than a quarter of a million rides on the Bird and Lime scooters in the first month and a half of Baltimore’s pilot program with the two companies, according to the city Department of Transportation.

Towson, Cockeysville crime log.

A Baltimore teenager was arrested last Wednesday and charged with robbing a woman in September as she sat outside her Bel Air home, according to police.

A Havre de Grace native who allegedly stole proceeds from T-shirts to support law enforcement after the killing of two Harford County Sheriff's Deputies is scheduled to go to trial Tuesday.

A Sykesville man has been charged with armed robbery, assault, theft and other related charges in relation to allegedly robbing a man who owed him for drugs.

The following is the daily intake report for the Carroll County Detention Center provided by the Central Booking Unit. For more information, visit the Maryland Judiciary Case Search website.

Nathaniel Jacob Eckard, 19, of Westminster, was charged with first-degree burglary, third-degree burglary, second-degree assault and theft $100 to $1,500, according to electronic court records.

From the death of Freddie Gray to scandals over surveillance planes and body camera videos, the Baltimore Police Department has had a rocky three years.

After police said Deandre Sleet shot and a killed 26-year-old South Baltimore man in an attempted robbery near Federal Hill, he was not done, continuing a spate of armed robberies in the city.