UPDATE: Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown has also announced a lawsuit against the owners of the Dali. Original story below… BALTIMORE, MD—The Justice Department has filed a $100 million lawsuit against the owners of the container ship that destroyed the Francis Scott Key Bridge earlier this year, seeking reimbursement for the costs of clearing the wreckage and restoring shipping traffic […]
BALTIMORE, MD—The Johns Hopkins Health System has agreed to pay $150,000 to settle a federal lawsuit accusing it of discriminating against people with disabilities by denying them equal access to medical care. The lawsuit alleges that Johns Hopkins violated the Americans with Disabilities Act by failing to allow patients with disabilities to be accompanied by a support person, such as […]
BALTIMORE, MD—Two Baltimore County men were sentenced to federal prison on Monday, September 9, 2024, for their involvement in three armed carjackings, the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Maryland announced. Franklin Jay Smith, 34, of Catonsville, received 9 years in prison for carjacking and 60 months consecutive for use of a firearm during a crime. Davon Tramont Dorsey, 30, of Gwynn Oak […]
BALTIMORE, MD—A previously convicted bank robber from Baltimore has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for three new armed bank robberies that he committed while he was on parole. According to prosecutors, 55-year-old Kevin Maurice Lawson, of Baltimore, had been convicted of armed bank robbery in 2004 and sentenced to federal prison. Lawson committed all three robberies in 2022 […]
BALTIMORE, MD—A Washington D.C. man has been sentenced for the armed robberies of two cell phone stores in Baltimore County in December 2020, a federal judge in Maryland announced this week. Donte Antwaun Herring was sentenced to 20 years in prison followed by three years of court supervision after he was convicted of the two robberies in March 2024. On […]
BALTIMORE, MD—A Baltimore County man was sentenced this week to thirty months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release in Baltimore federal court for conspiracy to commit bank fraud. The sentencing of 67-year-old Theodore Sapperstein, formerly of Pikesville, is the result of his guilty plea to conspiracy to commit bank fraud. He will serve 30 months in […]
BALTIMORE, MD—U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents apprehended an unlawfully present 19-year-old Guatemalan national convicted of raping a Maryland resident. Deportation arrested Henry Argueta-Tobar on August 14 in Waldorf. “After unlawfully entering our country, Henry Argueta-Tobar made his way to Maryland and victimized one of our residents,” said Enforcement and Removal Operations Baltimore acting Deputy Field Office Director Vernon Liggins. […]
BALTIMORE, MD—A Jamaican National has been indicted for an alleged lottery scheme that defrauded victims of millions of dollars, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced this week. According to the indictment, between October 2020 and February 2024, Nickoy Campbell, 29, of Jamaica, and his co-conspirators contacted victims by mail or phone and convinced them that they had won millions of dollars […]