In August 2018, amid relentless gun violence sweeping the city, the Baltimore Police Department’s forensic laboratory dramatically shifted priorities: The lab began processing every recovered firearm for fingerprints and DNA instead of testing guns on a case-by-case basis. The policy change came at the urging of the Baltimore City State’s Attorney’s Office, which faced pressure .
Montgomery County Police have arrested 52-year-old Eric Phillip Bucksell of Baltimore in connection with the November 12 armed robbery of a Hillandale Metro by…
More than nine months after the D.C. crime lab lost its accreditation to perform forensic casework, the amount of DNA evidence from D.C. crimes uploaded to a national database has dropped significantly.