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Democratic lawmakers in Annapolis outline their approach to violent crime 02/03/2022 05:05pm • Maryland Senate Democrats rolled out their plans Thursday to address rising crime in the state, calling for a four-pronged approach. "There is nothing more important for government than making sure that people feel safe," Senate President Bill Ferguson told reporters at a news conference in Annap Police in DC, Prince George's Co. team up against repeat carjacking teens 02/02/2022 04:22pm • Prince George's County, Maryland, and D.C. leaders are exasperated and worried for their residents' safety as the number of carjackings, committed largely by teenagers, continues to escalate. Now they're banding together to try and put a stop to the crime. In announcing a task force of leaders an Stafford man arrested in hit-and-run that hospitalized teen 02/01/2022 09:28am • The driver accused in a Stafford County, Virginia, hit-and-run that hospitalized a 14-year-old boy out skateboarding in January was arrested Monday, the sheriff's office said. William Lopez Funes, 30, of Stafford, was arrested for felony hit and run, obstruction of justice and not having a driver Montgomery Co. council president calls for moves to slow police attrition 01/31/2022 02:57pm • The attrition of police officers in Montgomery County, Maryland, has more than doubled during the pandemic, and the president of the County Council on Monday underlined the importance of retaining officers and attracting new ones. Council President Gabe Albornoz said that while the Montgomery Cou Deputy injured, 3 suspects arrested in Loudoun Co. theft spree 01/30/2022 05:11pm • A Loudoun County Sheriff's Deputy was injured Saturday evening while helping apprehend three suspects in a regional crime spree. Around 6 p.m. Saturday evening, deputies from the Loudoun County Sheriff's Office (LCSO) arrived at a Target in Sterling, Virginia, after the store's loss prevention of Maryland’s General Assembly considering changes to juvenile justice system 01/29/2022 11:04pm • This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. Jabriera Handy told lawmakers that she was coerced into confessing to second-degree murder when she was a teenager so that her case would Virginia Republicans push for changes in marijuana law 01/29/2022 09:32am • RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Newly empowered Republican lawmakers in Virginia who opposed legalizing simple possession of marijuana say they don’t want to scrap the law, but they do want to make significant changes. Those changes could include moving up the start date for retail sales and getting rid Judge reverses decision: Teen convicted of Loudoun Co. high school sexual assaults will not go on sex offender registry 01/27/2022 02:46pm • The teenager convicted of two assaults at separate high schools in Loudoun County, Virginia, will not have to register as a sex offender after a juvenile court judge reconsidered her initial ruling. Instead, the now-15-year-old — who was found guilty of two counts of sodomy in a May 28 incident MS-13 gang members found guilty in slew of Maryland crimes, murders 01/27/2022 12:40am • A three-month federal trial ends with the conviction of four MS-13 gang members. Prosecutors say they carried out a string of murders and other crimes in Maryland between 2015 and 2017. A federal jury in Baltimore convicted Milton Portillo-Rodriguez, 26, Juan Carlos Sandoval-Rodriguez, 22, Oscar DC public defenders seek wider review into fingerprints, firearms evidence 01/26/2022 01:46pm • Federal and D.C. public defenders are calling on District officials to expand the review of past convictions involving fingerprints and firearms evidence following a series of highly publicized failures at the Department of Forensic Sciences. In a Jan. 24 letter, officials with the Federal Public 6 men charged with distributing cocaine across DC region 01/26/2022 06:40am • Federal prosecutors have charged six men with high-level distribution of cocaine and other drugs throughout the D.C. region. Prosecutors allege the men operated in Maryland's Montgomery and Prince George’s counties and elsewhere across the D.C. area, distributing cocaine and other illegal drugs As DC crime lab seeks path forward, council probes impact on current operations 01/20/2022 06:05pm • More than nine months after the D.C. crime lab lost its accreditation to perform forensic casework, the amount of DNA evidence from D.C. crimes uploaded to a national database — which can be used to link crimes and identify unknown perpetrators — has dropped significantly, according to testimony 2 men indicted in separate Dulles incidents 01/20/2022 09:04am • A federal grand jury in Virginia indicted two men — an Alexandria man and a New York City man — for criminal conduct on planes arriving at Dulles International Airport. According to a news release, Elias Fethamlk, 40, of Alexandria, assaulted a flight attendant while on board an Ethiopian Air 9 AGs back appeal of dismissed charges against officers who killed Ghaisar 01/18/2022 05:47pm • Three months after a federal judge ruled two U.S. Park Police officers were immune from charges in the killing of unarmed Virginia driver Bijan Ghaisar, nine attorneys general are asking a higher court to reconsider. After state prosecutors in Virginia appealed a U.S. district judge's decision fi Jail sued for giving inmates ivermectin: 'They used us as an experiment' 01/17/2022 06:52am • ▶ Watch Video: The controversy surrounding ivermectin A group of men detained at Washington County Detention Center in Arkansas say that the jail's medical staff gave them the anti-parasite drug ivermectin last year, without their consent, to treat COVID-19, while telling them the pill