New Law Provides Harsher Punishments For Home Invasions
Cracking down on violent home invasions. In recent months, Marylanders have been hurt and even killed by robbers breaking into their homes. Now the state is toughening up with a new law.
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Cracking down on violent home invasions. In recent months, Marylanders have been hurt and even killed by robbers breaking into their homes. Now the state is toughening up with a new law.
Police in Delaware have charged a Maryland man they say was stabbed during a struggle with two men shot during a home invasion.
A father and his teenage daughter were tied up by two armed robbers as their house was ransacked---and investigators say it may not be the first time the gunmen struck.
A couple has been arrested after police say they forced their way into the home of the woman's former boyfriend.
A Maryland soldier already charged in a central Pennsylvania home invasion and assault of two 17-year-old boys now faces an attempted homicide charge connected to a second home invasion on the same night.
Wednesday night Anne Arundel Couny police responded to the 400 block of Darton Court in Glen Burnie for an armed home invasion/attempted robbery.
A Maryland man has been sentenced for his role in the slaying of a West Virginia woman during a home invasion.
The search is on for three masked men accused of robbing and beating an elderly couple in Anne Arundel County.
Anne Arundel County Police say an elderly couple were victims of a home invasion in Glen Burnie.
The Cecil County Sheriff's Office say five people have been charged with second-degree murder in the slaying of a North East man during a home invasion.
Anne Arundel County Police arrest two teens in a home invasion robbery and assault of a 60-year-old woman.
Baltimore County Police have identified the man who was killed by the resident of an apartment during a home invasion.
A man convicted of home invasions, burglaries and forced sex acts upon women is scheduled to be sentenced in Montgomery County.
Police in Baltimore County are asking for your help to find the men behind a home invasion.
City police were canvassing Forest Park neighborhoods in northwest Baltimore Tuesday in search of leads to a May 8 murder.
Authorities are looking for three men who they say held a family at gunpoint during a home invasion in Charles County.
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Authorities in Montgomery County say a man and juvenile girl were shot in a home invasion in Aspen Hill but both are expected to survive.
Howard County police are offering a $1,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of a man in a Jessup home invasion.
Two deputies opened fire on a robbery suspect who refused to drop a shotgun pointed in their direction, killing the man in a bedroom of his Mount Airy apartment early Thursday, the Frederick County Sheriff's Office said.
Anne Arundel County police say a man was shot during a home invasion in Brooklyn Park.
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Maryland State Police say a suspect in a home invasion in Grasonville has been arrested in Pittsburgh.
A Frostburg man has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for a home invasion in which an 89-year-old woman was assaulted.
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