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Teen Testifies About Home Invasion Assault; Defendant Linked to Pattern Targeting Family, Police Say

TOWSON — A teenage girl testified Wednesday about the night a stranger entered her Nottingham home while she slept, bound her with duct tape, and assaulted her. The defendant in the attack, Albert Antonio Jones Jr., is also suspected in a series of unsettling incidents involving the girl’s family in

Two Dollars and a Killing: Clark Murder Trial Opens in Towson

Two dollars. That’s what James “J-Roc” Clark’s defense team says he and Romy Bogier argued about before Bogier was shot and killed last year. Clark, 45, is on trial charged with murder, attempted murder, and a firearms offense in the Sept. 2, 2024 shooting in the parking lot

Six Weeks After Psychiatric Release, Man Who Killed Brother Faces New Arson-Threat Charge

ESSEX— A man who killed his brother as a teenager has been jailed in Baltimore County, accused of threatening to burn down his mother’s home just six weeks after his release from a state psychiatric hospital. Tylek Williams, 22, appeared via video for a bail review Monday at the

Judge Considers Independent Monitor to Help with Mental Health Bed Backlog

TOWSON — The defendant in the orange jumpsuit sits quietly in a courtroom beside his public defender.He’s jailed on a rape charge, and in July a judge ruled him incompetent to stand trial and ordered him committed to a state psychiatric hospital. Under Maryland law, he must be hospitalized

Judge Weighs Independent Monitor as Maryland Misses 10-Day Hospital Deadline by 100 Days for Jailed Defendant

TOWSON — The defendant in the orange jumpsuit sits quietly in a courtroom beside his public defender. He’s jailed on a rape charge, and in July a judge ruled him incompetent to stand trial and ordered him committed to a state psychiatric hospital. Under Maryland law, he must be hospitalized

Mother Charged in Baby's Drug Death

GWYNN OAK — A Baltimore-area mother has been charged with murder and child neglect after her baby allegedly died from opioid exposure earlier this year. Kevia Dijahmonte Gray, 26, currently of Baltimore City, appeared Monday in Baltimore County Circuit Court on charges of second-degree murder, manslaughter, first-degree child abuse resulting in

Three Plead Guilty in Bizarre Hotel Assault

WOODLAWN—Three men pleaded guilty Monday in a bizarre Baltimore County ransom scheme involving a hostage who was allegedly bound, assaulted and forced to eat urine-soaked dog food. A group of people held DeAnthony Phillips hostage at a Red Roof Inn in July, 2024, because they believed he stole marijuana,