Baltimore Crime

@ 3 p.m. Police tweet "SHOOTING: Reported @ S. MONROE ST." Jurors are due to begin death penalty deliberations in the Byers case t...

On Facebook, the BPD reports a major gun seizure: On April 30, Southest District Drug Unit & BPD SWAT executed a search warrant at 711 O...

Souter is stepping down , just as we were dabbling in Sparklit, begging the question: who is the ... Best! Judge! Ever! (see the sidebar for...

We all have to go sometime... Which would you rather? Run over by truck Executed by state Smoking-related illness Stabbed by love...

Buz left a brilliant comment a while back that deserves a bump. Buz has changed our minds on decriminalization, at least when it comes to th...

View Larger Map Melody Smith, age 54, dead by blunt force trauma/asphyxiation in the 500 block of Yale Avenue, Tuesday April 21

View Larger Map Frank Swiston, 48, was beaten to death five days ago in the 2800 block of Erdman Avenue . Porcine Republican delegate says g...

Patrick Byers' supposed low IQ could save him from the death penalty IV reports on gang-related harbor melees . (Best gang name ever: th...

Patrick Byers could get the death penalty for the same crime, so this guy got a pretty good deal. Details: At a hearing today, George Thomps...

.. does not seem like nearly enough. The details from the SAO: At a hearing yesterday Judge Timothy J. Doory sentenced Sampson Ashby, 28, of...

Police and prosecutors say they charged the wrong guy in the Chinese Cuisine beating and shooting case from last December LOLz.. barfing d...

Word is 15 .. wait, 21.. of the Sun 's mid- and top-level editors were laid off today , with more newsroom cuts to come, possibly as soo...

"The defense attorney for a Baltimore pastor accused of hiring a hit man to kill a blind and mentally disabled man for life insurance m...

Two men shot in the NE Due to a massive water main break at Lombard & Gay , all city buildings have closed, including the courts. The le...

View Larger Map A man's body found at Christian and Smallwood streets by Samuel Morse Elementary, two weeks after the body of 30-year-o...

A Saturday-night stabbing at the Inner Harbor The new Death Penalty bill could affect existing cases

View Larger Map Last night's double shooting on Normount killed 17-year-old Maurice Toomer Sentencing phase for Patrick Byers starts tom...

WMAR reports that another pastor, James Omar Clea, was arrested in Orangeburg, SC for the murder of Lemuel Wallace. Also, police tweet: ...

What the?! The man who has confessed to killing Lemuel Wallace was a "businessman" indeed-- a pastor who allegedly murdered him fo...

Steven Levin tells us that Jason Weinstein, Chief of the Violent Crime Section in the US Attorney’s Office in the District of Maryland, wil...