BALTIMORE, MD—A Baltimore County man has pleaded guilty to bribing a state employee to secure contracts for his company, Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown announced on Monday. Mark Anthony Sykes, 51, of Randallstown, admitted to paying approximately $20,000 in bribes to the former Director of General Services for the Maryland Department of Labor. In exchange, the official helped steer […]
BALTIMORE, MD—A Baltimore County man has been sentenced to life in prison for a random road rage shooting that killed a woman and injured her passenger in Essex in 2023. Rylan Picard-Kevin Harris, 31, was found guilty of shooting Shalia Hendrix, 31, in the back on May 5, 2023, while she was driving on Route 702. According to the Baltimore […]
NOTTINGHAM, MD—Volunteers worked to clean up and beautify parts of Nottingham, Perry Hall, Kingsville, and White Marsh on Saturday morning. More than fifty volunteers worked with the Maryland Waterways Foundation and Councilman David Marks to clean trash along Philadelphia Road, Raphael Road, and Seven Courts Drive. “Thank you to Sam Weaver and his crew for all their partnership, and to […]
BALTIMORE, MD—A Baltimore County man who is a registered sex offender has pleaded guilty to possessing child sexual abuse material. Steven Christopher Kelban, 50, of Catonsville, pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography. Kelban was identified as a suspect in the trafficking of child sexual abuse material (CSAM), also called child pornography, during Baltimore County Police Department’s online investigation of […]
BALTIMORE, MD—A Baltimore man was sentenced on Friday to 32 years in federal prison, followed by 50 years of supervised release, for coercing and sexually exploiting six minors, including girls as young as 9, in a series of crimes that spanned several Maryland counties, federal authorities said. U.S. District Judge Ellen L. Hollander imposed the sentence on Delroy James Scott, […]
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—A former Gilman teacher will be spending more than three decades behind bars. This week, U.S. District Judge James K. Bredar sentenced Christopher Kenji Bendann, 40, of Baltimore, to 35 years in federal prison, followed by lifetime supervised release. After a three-day trial, on August 28, 2024, a federal jury found the defendant guilty of five counts of sexual […]
TOWSON, MD—While conducting a high-visibility enforcement operation following the mass shooting that occurred in east Towson last Tuesday, members of the Baltimore County Police Department’s Eastern Patrol Division Community Action Team initiated a traffic stop near Meteor Court and Cloister Road on Thursday, December 19th. This stop resulted in the recovery of several illegal items, including a stolen vehicle, a […]