TOWSON, MD—Homicide detectives with the Baltimore County Police Department have arrested and charged a suspect in connection with a fatal stabbing that occurred in Towson in December. Police on Monday announced that 46-year-old Michael Distance has been charged with first-degree murder. On Sunday, December 8, 2024, officers responded to the unit block of Ecoway Court (21286) following reports of a […]
BALTIMORE, MD—Maryland State Police are asking for help in locating a vehicle that struck a police cruiser on I-695 overnight. At just after 1:30 a.m. on Sunday, February 16, 2025, a trooper was assisting a motorist on the right shoulder of the I-695 inner loop in the area of Windsor Mill Road when their patrol vehicle, which was stationary with […]
ESSEX, MD—Police say three suspects are in custody after shots were fired in the Essex area on Friday. At around noon on February 14, 2025, officers responded to the 1400-block of Old Eastern Avenue (21221) for a report of shots fired. Authorities say three individuals have been arrested. No one appears to have been shot at this time. Motorists should use […]
EDGEWOOD, MD—An Edgewood man has been sentenced to prison after he opened fire at Harford Mall last year. Wesley Lyons Jr., 35, was sentenced to 65 years in prison on Thursday in Harford County Circuit Court for his involvement in a shooting at Harford Mall during his child’s birthday party last June. Lyons was convicted in December by a jury […]
ESSEX, MD—The aunt of two children that were found deceased during an Essex traffic stop in 2021 has been sentenced to prison. A Baltimore County judge has sentenced Nicole M. Johnson to life in prison, with all but 50 years suspended. At just after 11 p.m. on July 28, officers conducted a traffic stop on Eastern Boulevard near Wagners Lane […]
BALTIMORE, MD—The US Department of Justice announced the unsealing of criminal charges against two Russian nationals, Roman Berezhnoy, 33, and Egor Nikolaevich Glebov, 39, this week. They are accused of operating a cybercrime group that used Phobos ransomware to attack over 1,000 organizations worldwide, earning more than $16 million in ransom payments. Berezhnoy and Glebov are alleged to have been […]
MIDDLE RIVER, MD—A Rosedale man and a Middle River man were convicted of murder on Tuesday, February 11, 2025 in connection with a shooting death that occurred in Middle River in 2022. Deandre Antoine Wright, 21, of Rosedale, and Demetris Tyron Hollis, 20, of Middle River were each convicted by a Baltimore County jury of first-degree murder, robbery, and weapons […]
BALTIMORE, MD—U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers arrested an Uzbekistani native convicted of fourth-degree sex offense in Owings Mills on February 4, 2025. Islom Gaziev, 65, had been convicted of fourth-degree sex offense in Carroll County in 2024. He entered the United States legally in October 2015 via John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York. He later violated […]