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Attorney General Anthony G. Brown joined a coalition of 18 attorneys general in opposing needless barriers to mifepristone access imposed by the state of North Carolina.
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Attorney General Anthony G. Brown announced that four people have been charged after a long-term investigation in northern Baltimore City. Charges in the indictments include illegal possession of firearms; illegal sale of firearms; possession of large quantities of fentanyl, heroin, cocaine, and methamphetamines; and distribution of fentanyl and cocaine. The investigation was led by the Maryland Office of the Attorney General, the Baltimore Police Department (BPD), and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
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Attorney General Anthony G. Brown announced that Jose Walter Marquez Rivera, 43, of Beltsville, Maryland, was sentenced in the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County on one count of theft scheme having a value of $100,000 or more.
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Attorney General Anthony G. Brown’s Securities Division announced that the office has reached a settlement with True Bullion LLC DBA Gold Silver International Exchange DBA GSI Exchange LLC (“GSI Exchange”) and its Senior Partner, Anthony Allen Anderson.
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Attorney General Anthony G. Brown announced that Michael K. Hines pleaded guilty in the Circuit Court for Frederick County to one count of hunting mammals during closed season.
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Attorney General Anthony G. Brown announced his decision not to seek charges in the January 9, 2024 fatal police-involved shooting of Sha-Kim Webley in Baltimore County, Maryland.
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Attorney General Anthony Brown tday issued the following statement on appointing Adileh Sharieff to the Maryland Commission on Hate Crime Response and Prevention.
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Attorney General Anthony G. Brown announced the sentencing of Brittney Georgette Payne, 33, of Baltimore, Maryland, relating to the theft of a debit card from a resident of Keswick Multi-Care Center, a nursing home located at 700 W. 40th Street in Baltimore.
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Attorney General Anthony G. Brown joined a coalition of 16 attorneys general in urging the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to open a civil rights investigation into the recent raids by the Texas attorney general’s office that targeted Latino voting rights organizers, candidates for office, and volunteers, allegedly to investigate claims that they were registering noncitizens to vote.
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Attorney General Anthony G. Brown announced a conviction in a case of abuse of a vulnerable adult. On August 28, 2024, following a bench trial, Kehinde Oluwatobi Ososanya, 38, of Hagerstown, Maryland, was found guilty of Second-Degree Abuse of a Vulnerable Adult and Second-Degree Assault by Washington County Circuit Court Judge Viki M. Pauler.
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The Independent Investigations Division (IID) of the Maryland Office of the Attorney General is investigating a fatal collision that occurred in North Laurel, Howard County, Maryland, on Saturday, August 10, 2024.
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Attorney General Anthony G. Brown today announced the sentencing of former dentist Seyed Hamid Tofigh, 57, of Potomac, Maryland, after The Honorable Carol Ann Corderre of the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County found Tofigh to have violated the terms of his probation from a home-detention sentence imposed in February of this year.
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Attorney General Anthony G. Brown today announced that charges have been brought against four individuals, aged 16 to 20, for their roles in the string of commercial burglaries and attempted commercial burglaries of Federal Firearm Licensee (FFL) stores that plagued Anne Arundel, Prince George’s, and Baltimore Counties, between the months of December 2023 and March 2024.
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Attorney General Anthony G. Brown announced his decision to not seek charges in the April 27, 2024 police-involved fatal collision in Montgomery County, Maryland.
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Attorney General Anthony G. Brown joined a coalition of 22 attorneys general in support of commonsense state and federal laws that regulate the sale of guns to keep communities safe.
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The Independent Investigations Division (IID) of the Maryland Office of the Attorney General has identified the Baltimore Police Department officers involved in the fatal police-involved shooting that occurred on Monday, August 5, 2024, in the city of Baltimore, MD.
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The Independent Investigations Division (“IID”) of the Office of the Attorney General is investigating a fatal officer-involved shooting that occurred on Monday evening in the city of Baltimore, Maryland.
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Attorney General Anthony G. Brown announced that his Consumer Protection Division has filed charges against DARCARS of Bowie, Inc. d/b/a DARCARS Honda, its parent company Mariam, Inc., and both companies’ owners John Rahmangholi Darvish and Jamshyd Darvish.
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Attorney General Anthony G. Brown is pleased to announce appointments to the Maryland Commission on Hate Crime Response and Prevention following the passage of House Bill 763 during the 2024 General Assembly.
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Attorney General Anthony G. Brown announced that charges have been brought against five Baltimore-area individuals, aged 17 to 20, for their roles in the string of armed robberies and motor vehicle thefts that plagued Baltimore City, Baltimore County, and Howard County between November 2023 and January 2024.
