The best work from our Crime & Courts team, including stories about criminal justice issues, police reform, noteworthy trial coverage and exclusive investigative projects.
Monday, Dec 18 This week’s crime newsletter features an in-depth look at one of the Baltimore Police detectives who was among those indicted earlier this year in a sweeping federal corruption case. Reporter Justin Fenton brought to light documents that showed that years before Detective Jemell Rayam would plead guilty to robbing suspects and civilians as a member of the department’s Gun Trace Task Force, he was caught in an internal affairs investigation of the same sort of allegations in 2009. The newsletter also features a story about a 98-year-old widow whose chance meeting with a Baltimore Police officer blossomed into a friendship that brought joy to the woman’s final days.
--Richard Martin, Criminal Justice Editor |
| Baltimore Det. Jemell Rayam has pleaded guilty in federal court to years of robbing suspects as a member of the department’s Gun Trace Task Force. But years before the crimes for which he has pleaded guilty, Rayam was caught in an internal affairs investigation of the same sort of allegations. |
|
| Republican Gov. Larry Hogan announced his crime plan for Baltimore; it didn't take long for Democrats to slam it and him for playing politics with the issue. |
|
| The driver who led police on a dramatic, high-speed car chase through West Baltimore was arrested at noon Friday on the 1800 block of Gwynns Falls Parkway near Mondawmin Mall. |
|
| Police Det. Wendy Morton just happened to be patrolling Northeast Baltimore that April afternoon when the lonely widow called 911. Soon a routine stop led to regular visits with honey doughnuts, to midnight phone calls for “girl talk,” to dances around the living room. |
|
| Baltimore Police on Saturday identified the man they have accused of engaging in a “shooting spree” before and during a lengthy police chase through the city on Friday as Mausean Vittorio Quran Carter, 30. |
|
| Baltimore Police are investigating the discovery of a woman’s body wrapped in a blanket in a trash can outside a vacant home in Northwest Baltimore on Thursday, police said Friday. |
|
| The American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland on Thursday requested police body camera footage from the initial, days-long investigation into Det. Sean Suiter’s fatal shooting in Harlem Park last month, calling the police response there "unprecedented." |
|
|
