Baltimore Crime

There have been (at least) 18 murders so far in 2006. Thirty-four-year-old James Lydell Ray went on a shooting rampage , killing a 12-year-...

The family of Raymond Smoot (left), an inmate beaten to death by guards at Central Booking, is suing the State for $130 million . Reporters,...

Reports the Catholic Reporter in an article about how "blighted" Baltimore is, in 2005 there was a weekly average of five murder...

Go-getter U.S. (Federal) Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein plans to expand the local office of the prosecutor. During last fiscal year his office b...

Two-double-oh-five... we learned so much. I started the blog to try to answer a basic question: how safe are you in Baltimore City? At the e...

The FBI is asking the public to help track down Lamont "Jamar" Jones and Javon Brewer , the latter of whom has a distinctive tatto...

Hamm: officers will now get rotated out of special units in three years , because that's "the amount of time that helps stop corrup...

What the ?!?!! The only word for the story out of the Southwestern is unfuckinggddamnedbelievable! Scores of city police officers were up ...

Two men were fatally shot in East Baltimore near Aiken and Curtain. Not to be Confused with Mr. Loverman: Dennis 'Shabba' Burke is ...

Mayor O'Malley was unable to attend a Planned Parenthood event due to the fact that his father, Thomas M. O'Malley , died of a lung...

In Greenbelt, James Everett Flood III, 28, got life in prison. Flood was accused of kidnapping and killing Eric Hayes II , a police officer...

The actions of the police "flex squad" will mean victory for the criminals in dozens of cases in the Southwestern. Meanwhile the ...

Police Behaving Badly Dept. January 6 a Baltimore City Grand Jury indicted three Baltimore police officers, Jemini Jones, 28, Brian Shaffer,...

The two men who were found dead near a school in Arbutus have been identified as 29-year-old Youani Alvares and 27-year-old Joel Gonzales , ...

The two dead men that were found this morning at a baseball field in Baltimore County are being treated as homicide victims. A human skelet...

A man fatally shot an acquaintance in the parking lot of the TGIFriday's in Owings Mills at 11:00pm last night. An off-duty VA police o...

Warren Fleming, the man killed yesterday at Security Square mall , was "described as a role model for aspiring young African-American e...

Police are seeking the person who fatally shot 25-year-old Gregory "Gotti" Ball at about 12:30am Tuesday in the 1300 block of Boo...

Sun columnist and longtime Baltimore writer Michael Olesker has resigned under suspicion of plagiarism . I'm usually infuriated by case...

Work continues on a plan to imprison violent felons who carry guns in the city. On that note, the Metro Digest reports a 20-year-old was sh...