UPDATE: Brandon Russell has been sentenced to twenty years in prison. Original story below… BALTIMORE, MD—A Florida man has been found guilty of plotting to blow up substations in Maryland, prosecutors said this week. A federal jury on Monday found Brandon Russell, 29, of Orlando, Florida, guilty of conspiracy to damage an energy facility on Monday after a six-day trial, […]
BALTIMORE, MD—Maryland State Police investigators secured a guilty verdict against Quwan Lamar Gordon for an armed road rage incident on Interstate-95 in Howard County. Gordon was convicted of attempted murder, first-degree assault, and related weapons offenses in the Circuit Court for Howard County following a three-day jury trial. He is currently in custody at the Baltimore County Detention Center pending […]
BALTIMORE, MD—A Baltimore County man has been convicted on 13 counts of fraud, three counts of money laundering, two counts of filing false tax returns, and one count of aggravated identity theft for his role in a $20 million life insurance scheme. Federal prosecutors say that 77-year-old James William Wilson, Jr., of Owings Mills, defrauded life insurance companies by taking […]
UPDATE: Wesley Lyons Jr. has been sentenced to 65 years in prison. Original story below… BEL AIR, MD—On December 11, 2024, an Edgewood man was found guilty of attempted second-degree murder following a four-day jury trial in the Circuit Court for Harford County. Wesley Larry Lyons Jr., was found guilty of attempted second-degree murder, use of a firearm in the […]
BALTIMORE, MD—A Harford County man has been found guilty of sexual assault while aboard a cruise ship. After a two-week trial, a federal jury found Jalen Thomas Kelley, 22, Abingdon, Maryland, guilty of aggravated sexual abuse, sexual abuse, and assault within the territorial jurisdiction. Erek L. Barron, U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland announced the verdict with Special Agent […]
BALTIMORE, MD—Two CEOs were convicted by a federal jury in Maryland for a scheme to defraud investors about a drug being developed to treat HIV and COVID-19, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Nader Pourhassan, 61, of Lake Oswego, Oregon, and Kazem Kazempour, 71, of Potomac, Maryland, were found guilty of the scheme involving CytoDyn Inc., a publicly traded […]
EDGEWOOD, MD—A Harford County man has been convicted on drug and weapons charges. On Thursday, July 18, 2024, Sathrie Zach Robinson Jr., of Edgewood, was found guilty of possession cocaine and methamphetamine and weapons charges following a three-day jury trial in the Circuit Court for Harford County. Evidence presented at trial proved that, at around 4:15 a.m. on May 27, […]
BALTIMORE, MD—Two men have been convicted in federal court in Maryland of abducting, torturing, and carjacking three people, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Maryland announced this week. Dennis Hairston, 34, of Windsor Mill, and Donte Stanley, 33, of Rosedale, were each convicted on charges connected to the kidnapping, carjacking, and robbery of two check cashing business employees in May 2021. […]