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A federal grand jury has indicted a pair of Washington men, charging them with taking $1.4 million from Baltimore's public housing authority and electronically transferring the funds to a nonexistent business, according to authorities. The men, William Alvin Darden and Keith Eugene Daughtry, were indicted last month on charges of bank fraud, according to federal court documents. The pair transferred money from the Housing Authority of Baltimore City's fund for Section 8 residents to a fictitious contracting company 30 times over a two-month period last year, according to the documents.

Michael Lee Cross pleaded guilty Friday to taking kickbacks from a Rosedale auto repair company, making him the third Baltimore police officer to be convicted in an extortion scheme that could involve more than 50 city officers, according to new documents filed in federal court. So far, 17 officers have been arrested and suspended without pay, and 14 others have been put on desk duty while the investigation continues. But new charges filed this week against the owners of Majestic Auto Repair allege that many more officers were part of the scheme, in which officers are accused of steering motorists involved in accidents to the tow company in exchange for cash.

Weeks after his office and home were raided by federal agents, attorney Stanley Needleman is in trouble again — this time for allegedly stealing a judicial clerk's school textbook from a Baltimore County courtroom. Needleman, 68, has been charged with one count of theft under $100 after police say a check of court surveillance cameras showed him on May 9 flipping through the textbook, "Understanding White Collar Crime," walking away with it and resuming his spot behind the defense table to represent a client.

Baltimore police announced Monday that detectives have linked last week's fatal downtown shootings of a one man sitting on a bench and another in his apartment and said that a suspect has been arrested and charged in both cases. Isaac Tyrell Truss, 23, who lives in the 900 block of Webb Court, just blocks from the crime scenes, was arrested Friday afternoon and charged with murder and robbery in the shooting of Edward Alfred Jones, 50. Jones was shot about 3:30 Friday morning as he waited on a bench for a bus in the 200 block of W. Fayette St. CityWatch cameras captured that shooting, and witnesses identified Truss as the person who attacked Jones, according to court documents.

They invaded a vending machine business in Canton. Next, they went after a pharmacy owner in Pikesville. Then a restaurateur in Cockeysville. The FBI arrested the robbers outside a cafe in Atlantic City as they prepared for another job. But even as four suspects are headed to federal prison after guilty pleas or convictions, authorities appear far from done with their investigation. Federal agents think they know who the group was going to hit next, and how they managed to get precise information on their targets — the Motor Vehicle Administration.

Court documents show a 30-year-old man has been charged with murder and attempted murder in a weekend stabbing that killed a 17-year-old who was defending his sister. Terrance Sims, of the 200 block of N. Bethel St., was arrested Monday and ordered held without bond at a bail review hearing Tuesday. Court records show Sims was charged in a previous murder in 2000, pleading guilty to manslaughter and receiving five years in prison. Detective Raymond Yost wrote in charging documents that Sims got into an argument with Rashawnda Gibbs in the 3900 block of W. Garrison Ave. and began to fight with her. Her younger brother Ronald Gibbs tried to help his sister and both of them were stabbed by Sims, Yost wrote.

The 21-year-old man accused of attacking a seventh-grader inside a Dundalk middle-school bathroom this week stuck a sock in the student's mouth, punched him in the face, neck and chest, and attempted to sexually assault him, according to court documents released Friday. Sean Thomas Schleigh, who has a history of arrests on theft, trespassing and drug offenses, was charged with two counts of attempted second-degree sex offense, second-degree assault, false imprisonment, resisting arrest and second-degree assault on a police officer.

A 15-year-old City College student has been charged with attempted first-degree murder and assault after he allegedly attacked a female classmate in the school last month, choking and beating her until she blacked out. Duane Geiger of North Baltimore was charged as an adult last month with attempted first- and second-degree murder, first- and second-degree assault, and reckless endangerment in the attack, which took place in an art class at the...

The City College staff member charged with illegally selling a gun to a city school police officer said he needed the money to celebrate his son's birthday, according to charging documents filed in Baltimore City District Court. Tyree Miles, 33, was arrested Oct. 14 after completing the $400 sale of a Russian SKS assault rifle to a school police officer on the City College campus, the documents said. He served as a student support specialist at the prestigious high school, where school officials said he had been hired "to make sure kids weren't in the hallway.

A Baltimore grand jury has indicted a 19-year-old man with schizophrenia on murder, hate crime and weapons charges in connection with the beating death of a 51-year-old Latino man, the city state's attorney's office announced Monday. According to court documents, Jermaine Holley, of the 3600 block of Erdman Ave., admitted to hating "Mexicans" and attacking Martin Reyes, who is from Honduras, in the early morning hours of Aug. 21. Holley is accused of ripping a wooden stake from the ground and using it to fatally club Reyes, a father of six. Police have described Holley as mentally unstable.