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On December 26, 2020, a former Maryland mail carrier pleaded guilty to stealing credit cards from the mail. The federal prosecutor’s offices said that the 27-year-old female mail carrier, Daniyelle Barnes, faces up to five years in prison. The investigation into the mail carrier’s conduct started back in July 2019 when police officers “found 12 [...]

It’s one thing for a few college students to be charged with possession or even sale of small amounts of marijuana. It’s another when they’re charged with trafficking in more than 1,000 pounds of marijuana and large amounts of other drugs including several hundred kilos of cocaine and ecstasy. A federal investigation found that the [...]

When you’re facing criminal charges, whether you’re guilty or innocent, facing the criminal justice system is nerve-wracking. Your attorney is there to help you navigate the system and help you avoid criminal penalties and conviction. There’s a lot at stake, and sometimes nervous clients fail to divulge certain facts to their attorney about their case. [...]

Interesting news out of the Department of Justice (DOJ). Recent records show that prosecution of white-collar offenders has reached the lowest point since tracking began during the Reagan administration. Data published by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syracuse University found a 25 percent dip in the number of prosecutions in January 2020 as [...]

The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) District of Maryland is reporting the sentencing of a California woman to three years in federal prison for conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud. This is in connection with a wider scheme to fraudulently obtain goods using what appeared to be a military email address, but was [...]

Bank fraud is a federal crime that is prosecuted in federal courts in Maryland. Bank fraud includes a broad range of illegal financial transactions. Generally, it involves illegally using methods to obtain funds or assets held by a financial institution. Bank fraud also includes posing as a financial institution to obtain money from people. In [...]

It’s pretty hard to go a single day without hearing about a killing. Whether it happens to someone in our own area or across the country, nobody is truly shocked anymore, right? Typically it ends up being something common like a shooting or stabbing. Maybe someone with serious road rage ran someone off the road [...]

People go to protests to speak their mind and be heard on issues that are important to them. Okay, okay, most people who go to protests are there to promote change. Others are there for personal curiosity and to maybe mix it up with protesters. Part of the problem is that police rarely know exactly [...]

Show of hands: Who thought we’d still be living in this dystopian nightmare in June? I certainly didn’t, but here we are, nonetheless. We’re living in a pretty scary time, which for some will turn into opportunity. It’s just a fact of life that fear always leads to someone creating a new generation of scams [...]

Ok. If you’re going to engage in drug-fueled police chase where you could be charged with resisting law enforcement, possession of methamphetamine, reckless driving, auto theft, and common nuisance – the smartest thing isn’t also to have a tattoo on your forehead that says “Crime Pays.” Not only does the tattoo make you look like [...]