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Baltimore Man Takes Five-Year Plea for East 20th Street Shooting in 2022

Details A 38-year-old man accused of an attempted murder last year told Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Althea Handy that his actions were the result of him trying to protect his... Read More

Defendant Accepts Plea Agreement for the Murder of His Girlfriend

Details A homicide defendant accepted a plea offer for the murder of his girlfriend on June 27 before Baltimore City Circuit Judge Robert Taylor, with sentencing scheduled for later this summer. Defendant Bruce... Read More

Attempted Murder Defendant Takes Plea for Shooting Security Guard Outside Playbook Sports Bar and Lounge in 2017

Details Six and a half years after shooting a security guard outside the Playbook Sports Bar and Lounge, Dimas Osorio-Vasquez was sentenced to 15 years incarceration in accordance with a plea... Read More

Man Accused of 2022 New Year’s Eve Shooting to Serve Rest of Sentence on Home Detention

Details A Baltimore man charged with firing a handgun on New Year’s Eve in 2022 will serve the remainder of his sentence on home detention, following a plea agreement between the... Read More

Man Charged with 13-Year-Old Boy’s Murder Takes Plea Over Second Retrial

Details A 32-year-old Baltimore man was sentenced to 18 years incarceration on June 5 after pleading guilty to the murder of a 13-year-old boy earlier this year. On Monday, Anthony Clark... Read More

Defendant Shot Victim to Protect His Brother, Defense Counsel Says During Sentencing for 2021 Fourth of July Homicide

Details Homicide defendant Devin Davis openly apologized to the family of Christopher McCargo on June 5 when the 34-year-old man was sentenced for fatally shooting McCargo on the Fourth of July... Read More

Judge Hands Down Time Served, Home Detention to Man Accused of Attempted Murder on Roslyn Avenue

Details Attempted homicide defendant Tracey Louis Crosby Hargrove was sentenced to time served and supervised probation on May 24 in connection to violent dispute along Roslyn Avenue in April 2022. In... Read More

Emotional Outbursts Erupt from Defendant’s Family As He Pleads Guilty to Murder

Details In the midst of starting a jury trial, a homicide defendant’s family member was put out of a courtroom for disrupting court proceedings with emotional outbursts while the defendant took... Read More

Man Accused of North Eutaw Street Shooting Accepts 35-Year Plea after Jury Selection

Details Attempted homicide defendant James Wilkes accepted a plea of 35 years incarceration on May 16 for shooting a man outside the victim’s home on North Eutaw Street last summer. The... Read More

North Carolina Man Gets 25 Years for Baltimore Robbery Turned Shooting in 2019

Details “I can’t change the pain I’ve caused. I just hope, over time, the pain does heal.” As the family of Antonio Modica sobbed in the gallery of a Baltimore City... Read More

17-Year-Old Teen Faces 40 Years in Prison for Fatal BP Gas Station Shooting

Details A 17-year-old teenager, who was charged as an adult in a fatal shooting outside a BP gas station last year is expected to serve 40 years in prison after counsel... Read More

Man Accused of Fatal Stabbing of 28-Year-Old in 2020 Takes 20-Year Plea

Details A Baltimore man charged with fatally stabbing 28-year-old James Brown accepted a plea of 20 years incarceration on May 15 rather than proceed with his scheduled jury trial. In agreement with the... Read More

Orleans Street Shooter Takes 40-Year Plea for 2021 Homicide

Details A Baltimore City Circuit Court judge sentenced defendant James Darryl Smith to 40 years incarceration on May 15 for the murder of 32-year-old Dwayne Edmonds on Orleans Street in 2021.... Read More

Woman Charged with Bryant Avenue Shooting Takes Revised Plea Offer

Details A 27-year-old Baltimore woman accused of an attempted murder last May accepted a reduced plea on May 9 for a sentence of 18 years. In addition to attempted murder, defendant... Read More

Attempted Murder Defendant Takes Plea for Shooting Outside Wow Tobacco and Grocery

Details Two Baltimore men pleaded down from attempted murder to assault and weapon charges on May 10 in connection to a carjacking investigation in June 2022. Damyus Morris, 21, and Trevon... Read More

Homicide Defendant’s ‘Final Judgement Is to Come’ for Drug-Related Shooting in 2020

Details Homicide defendant Chance Taylor was sentenced to ten years of incarceration on May 9 after moving forward with a plea offer rather than a retrial. A jury acquitted the 24-year-old... Read More

N. Eutaw Street Attempted Murder Victim Initiated Confrontation, According to Court Documents

Details A 30-year-old Baltimore man agreed to 10 years incarceration on May 9 in connection to an attempted murder in West Baltimore last year. Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Charles Dorsey... Read More

Woman Accused of Partner’s 4-Year-Old Son’s Death to Plead Guilty in December

Details A 44-year-old woman accused of her 4-year-old son’s death from a scalding bath is expected to plead guilty to his murder in December. Shateka Lawson was originally scheduled to go to... Read More

Shooter of MTA Mobility Bus Driver Takes 60-Year Plea for 2021 Murder

Details A 35-year-old man accused of fatally shooting MTA Mobility bus driver Frankye Duckett in 2021 will serve a 60-year sentence after accepting a plea offer from the prosecution on May... Read More

Accused Killer Gets 25 Years in Prison For Fatally Shooting 54-Year-Old Man

Details A 52-year-old man charged with the murder of Ahnmad Artis in February 2022 was sentenced to 25 years of incarceration on April 11 before Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Kendra Ausby.... Read More

Co-Defendant Pleads Guilty to Murder For Deadly Home Invasion in 2019

Details One of the co-defendants accused in a deadly home invasion in 2019 has pleaded guilty to murder, among other charges. On April 11, Aaron Butler and his co-defendant, Kahlil Madden, appeared before Baltimore... Read More

Manslaughter Defendant in 2021 ATM Shooting Pleads Guilty to Assault

Details A 26-year-old woman accused of involuntary manslaughter in 2021 pleaded down to second-degree assault for a sentence of four years on April 10. Jasmine Jones was originally scheduled to begin jury... Read More

Defendant Takes 8-Year Plea for Non-Fatal Shooting in 2021

Details A 21-year-old Baltimore man accused of shooting a 32-year-old man agreed to a plea of eight years of incarceration on March 28, nearly two years after the incident. During reception... Read More

Judge Sentences Defendant to 25 Years For Murder, Assault, Probation Violation

Details Family members of homicide defendant Xavier Harper sat in the first row of a Baltimore City Circuit courtroom on March 20 to convince the 25-year-old defendant to take the prosecution’s plea offer... Read More