Brandon Grimes, who is serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole for the murder of a Baltimore City police detective nearly 18 years ago, faces new charges in a scheme to get out of prison.
Prosecutors allege Grimes used outside help and spent years concocting a plan to falsify a ballistics report to secure his release.
They also claim he was trying to defraud the state out of more than $1 million.
New charges
According to charging documents obtained by WJZ Investigates, Grimes faked a ballistics report to show he did not kill Detective Troy Chesley in January 2007 and hoped to get hundreds of thousands of dollars as payment for being wrongly convicted…