In the first case, Bates said three Baltimore County police officers were taking a man, who had just been picked up on an arrest warrant, to Johns Hopkins Hospital for a wrist injury. At one point, Bates said the man told officers that he couldn’t breathe and banged his head against the window of the police car.
Fox45 Baltimore provided me with the platform to sit down with the governor of Maryland, Wes Moore; Baltimore City State’s Attorney Ivan Bates; and Prince George’s County State’s Attorney Aisha Braveboy during a critical town hall to discuss the state of criminality among juveniles in the state. Fox45’s unwavering efforts in reporting on issues such as education and crime — issues that disproportionately affect Black families — and their willingness to bring together the media, the governor and the state’s attorneys for this critical conversation is invaluable.
Hickey, 31, was a Baltimore County volunteer firefighter and photographer who had been accepted into the next recruit class for the Baltimore Fire Department. Greene had worked as a firefighter for Prince George’s County Fire Department until 2013.
On Sept. 27 at about 7:15 p.m., Small was with more than a dozen officers from the city and the county in the 400 block of North Washington Street, pursuing a man who had escaped from police custody at Johns Hopkins Hospital, the indictment said. Police had arrested the man on county charges related to several armed robberies in summer 2023, court records show.
Baltimore City State's Attorney Ivan Bates also expressed his support for the bill with this statement to WJZ: "I am proud to support HB547 alongside my colleague, State's Attorney Aisha Braveboy. HB547 is an important piece of public safety legislation that will enhance protections for some of the most vital areas of our communities. Common sense bills like this make the 2024 legislative session so critically important to Maryland's public safety."
“We want the lawmakers to help change the laws that weren’t very effective,” Caroline LaPere said. “If House Bill 301 can pass, that would eliminate some of the violence because you shouldn’t have violent criminals released early from prison to go out and create havoc. In our case, murder someone that you love.”
There were 16 homicides in January, the fewest killings to start a year in Baltimore since 2016, according to a Baltimore Banner analysis of the Baltimore Police Department’s Part 1 Crime database. It’s also tied for the seventh fewest homicides in any month since Gray’s death.
"While this lengthy sentence ensures this defendant will never be free to walk our streets again, it still cannot bring back Kelsey Washington, whose life was taken from her family and community at just 13 years of age." Baltimore City State's Attorney Ivan Bates said. "This case is a painful reminder of what is at stake when gun violence takes hold of a city, and we must do everything in our power to eliminate it."
U.S. District Judge Ellen L. Hollander sentenced Jose Hilario Aldana-Moreno, age 37, of Baltimore, Maryland, yesterday to 22 years in federal prison, followed by 40 years of supervised release, for sexual exploitation of a child to produce of child pornography. Judge Hollander also ordered that, upon his release from prison, Aldana-Moreno must register as a sex offender in the places where he resides, where he is an employee, and where he is a student, under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (“SORNA”). The sentence was announced by United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Erek L. Barron; Acting Special Agent in Charge R. Joseph Rothrock of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Baltimore Field Office; Commissioner Richard Worley of the Baltimore Police Department; and Baltimore City State’s Attorney Ivan Bates.
