"Parents have a responsibility to protect and guide their children, not to become accomplices to their wrongdoing," Baltimore City State's Attorney Ivan Bates said in a statement released Friday. "When a parent chooses to interfere with the justice system, they must be held accountable. No one is above the law."
Bates’ statement came a day after Council President Zeke Cohen removed Conway as chairman of the committee and replaced him with Councilman John Bullock, a leadership change that came as Conway announced plans to collect signatures for a 2028 ballot measure aimed at strengthening the Baltimore inspector general’s access to city records.
In January, CBS New Baltimore spoke with a roommate who lived with Jones and Johnson about the case. The roommate, Sam Buckner, said he had lived with Jones for weeks after the murder without knowing his terrible secret.
A Baltimore police officer was indicted Tuesday for unauthorized use of a motor vehicle and theft of between $1,500 and $25,000, the state's attorney's office confirmed.
Johnnie Teague, 54, agreed to plead guilty to child abuse resulting in death in the January 2024 killing of 16-year-old Jibreal Payne. Other charges of murder, child abuse, assault and reckless endangerment were dropped.
State's Attorney Ivan Bates and Baltimore Police Commissioner Richard Worley announced an indictment of a woman who drove her vehicle at a police officer on a bike after he tried to issue her a parking citation. Tamia Anderson is charged with first-and-second-degree assault, fleeing and eluding, and related traffic offenses after she struck Baltimore Police Officer Lawrence Fasano's patrol bike when he attempted to give her a parking citation.
A Royal Farms employee was arrested on attempted murder charges in connection with a shooting earlier this month that happened while he was on the job near M&T Bank Stadium. Marquece Yarberough, 37, of Baltimore, was arrested in connection with the shooting of a 41-year-old man. Baltimore Police said officers responded to the shooting on Aug. 12 around 5:20 a.m.
The national violent crime rate decreased approximately 9.7% between 2024 and 2025, according to FBI data released Friday by the Trump administration. That included a 4.1 murder rate, which federal authorities said tied with 1955 and 1966 as the lowest in the agency’s data set.
A man was sentenced to life in prison for a shooting that killed one person and injured another at a shopping center in West Baltimore in 2024. Bishop Chance fatally shot Theodore Burrell on July 16, 2024, at the Westside Shopping Center on Frederick Avenue, according to police.
