Posts Tagged ‘Crime’

https://www.baltimoresun.com/2024/08/21/tension-between-biker-group-oliver-residents-boils-over-after-sunday-shooting-that-killed-1-injured-7/ Residents of Oliver believed they had come to an understanding with a group of bikers who regularly met near a small park at the center of the East Baltimore neighborhood. But those tensions were front and center again this week as police investigate motorcycle club members’ connection to a Sunday shooting near their hangout…

https://www.baltimoresun.com/2024/08/18/baltimore-shootings-sunday-eastern-district-oliver/ Investigators are “looking to see” whether a biker group was involved in a Sunday evening mass shooting in East Baltimore where eight people were shot, one fatally, a Baltimore Police spokesperson said. Residents of Oliver, a neighborhood they described as usually being quiet and peaceful, expressed shock Monday morning as investigators combed through evidence…

https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ero-baltimore-arrests-colombian-gang-leader-wanted-homicide-arms-trafficking BALTIMORE — Enforcement and Removal Operations Baltimore apprehended a unlawfully present Colombian fugitive and leader of a violent criminal organization who is wanted by authorities in his home country for homicide, arms trafficking and aggravated theft charges. Deportation officers from ERO Baltimore’s Fugitive Operations Team arrested the 29-year-old Colombian fugitive July 31 at his…

https://www.baltimoresun.com/2024/08/14/18th-street-gang-member-sentence-baltimore-county/ A Baltimore County gang member will spend life in prison for a 2021 murder. A jury convicted Hector Marroquin-Galdamez, 41, of first-degree murder in May over the killing of 30-year-old Orlando Carranza-Portillo. Marroquin-Galdamez was arrested and indicted in August 2021, according to court records. In a Baltimore bar in May 2021, Carranza-Portillo “created the…

https://www.baltimoresun.com/2024/06/04/man-given-two-life-sentences-in-murder-of-baltimore-police-officer-keona-holley-and-another-man/ Elliot Knox stood up to address a judge facing the prospect of life in prison and repeated calls from the relatives of two people he was convicted of killing to tell them why he did it. Knox spent an hour at his sentencing Tuesday reciting chilling details of the 2021 fatal shootings of Baltimore…

https://www.baltimoresun.com/2024/07/10/baltimore-rapper-ygg-tay-sentenced-25-years-conspiracy-charges/ Baltimore rapper YGG Tay, whose real name is Davante Harrison, was sentenced Tuesday to 25 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to allegedly paying $10,000 to a member of the Black Guerilla Family to kill a man. Harrison, 29, of Baltimore, was charged with one count of racketeering conspiracy by the U.S. District…

https://www.baltimoresun.com/2024/07/11/fox45-news-another-guilty-plea-given-in-federal-racketeering-case-linking-bgf-to-former-safe-streets-site/ Another man connected to a notorious Baltimore gang pleaded guilty in federal court to racketeering conspiracy Wednesday, marking the latest following the indictment of six people in 2022. David Warren pleaded guilty to one count of racketeering conspiracy connected to the Black Guerilla Family gang, or BGF. Court documents indicate Warren was involved in…

https://www.baltimoresun.com/2024/07/15/judge-removed-from-long-running-gang-and-racketeering-case-against-rapper-young-thug-and-others-2/ ATLANTA (AP) — The judge overseeing the long-running racketeering and gang prosecution against Young Thug and others has been removed from the case after two defendants sought his recusal, citing a meeting the judge held with prosecutors and a state witness. Fulton County Superior Court Chief Judge Ural Glanville had put the case in…

https://www.baltimoresun.com/2024/08/05/colombian-apprehended-college-park-ice/?clearUserState=true A leader of a Colombian criminal organization who is wanted for homicide, arms trafficking and aggravated theft charges in that South American nation has been apprehended by officers from Enforcement and Removal Operations Baltimore, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The 29-year-old from Colombia was apprehended July 31 at his College Park residence…