Month: March 2022

Our names are Garry and Debbie Sorrells. Twenty-nine years after the birth of our beautiful daughter Amy, she was murdered. Our son-in-law, Tim, has also been victimized by this horror. As such, we have collectively worked to address you in this manner. You may recognize our daughter, Tim’s wife, by her married name, Amy Caprio, and recall that she was the police officer murdered in cold blood, in Baltimore County.

While actions taken last legislative session were the furthest the General Assembly has ever gone on police reform, significant work remains. As a member of the 2020 Workgroup on Police Accountability, I offered several amendments during our floor debate last year to the 2021 Police Accountability Act that I believe are critical to building transparency and accountability.

Police in Maryland have charged a suspect in relation to a 1989 homicide cold case using DNA technology. The Prince George’s County Police Department announced on Thursday that James Clinton Cole, 65, has been changed with first degree murder, rape, and several other charges after allegedly killing 27-year-old Cynthia Rodgers in 1989.

Three Maryland high school students were sickened by food “laced with an unconfirmed drug substance” and another youth has been arrested, according to school and police officials. Baltimore County police said the school resource officer at Pikesville High School learned Monday of students suffering from “some type of medical issues,” and medics were requested, news outlets reported.

Often, when police officers arrive at the scene of a crime or a call for help, their training kicks in to establish control, seek out potential safety risks and begin laying the groundwork for an investigation. But University of Maryland Police Cpl. Barton Brady has a new way to safeguard the community when he encounters someone who’s clearly distressed or distraught but not a threat—he just listens.

A police lodge is seeking donations to assist Ukrainians and Ukrainian Soldiers. The Queen Anne’s County Fraternal Order of Police Lodge #108 is trying to help those over seas who are in need of help.

Baltimore County’s Fraternal Order of Police is criticizing Police Chief Melissa Hyatt, claiming she wants to fire officers without due process.

Sgt. Clyde Boatwright, president of the Maryland State Fraternal Order of Police and Sgt. with  Baltimore City Public Schools police said on Wednesday, school police seized a loaded ghost gun at the Academy for College and Career Exploration High School in Baltimore City.