Crime and Courts

Miranda Corsette, 16, was lured through a social media app to meet 35-year-old Steven Gress, police say.

A suspect has been arrested after allegedly punching a seven-months pregnant woman in the face while riding the subway in Queens, police said.

Prosecutors have said Jiang intended to shoot congregation members of the Park Valley Church in Haymarket in September 2023.

The night four college students were fatally stabbed, their surviving roommates at the Idaho home expressed worry about not being able to reach their friends and referred to someone in a “ski mask,” court documents unsealed Thursday show.

Gypsy Rose Blanchard says these words from her first husband changed her perspective.

A New Jersey school bus aide charged in the death of a 6-year-old girl took the stand in her own defense on the same day the jury saw new video showing what occurred leading up to the child’s death — and as prosecutors alleged the woman was on her phone the whole time.

Police uncovered a major break in a cold case from nearly 70 years ago. A Portland family went missing after a road trip to the Gorge and now it appears their car has been found at the bottom of the river. The case was one of the biggest stories that NBC affiliate KGW covered back in 1958 and this is...

Two people have been charged for allegedly reselling tickets to Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour illegally, facing up to 15 years in prison if convicted.

A crew nicknamed the “Bentley Bandits” target luxury vehicles by threatening the victims at gunpoint, according to the NYPD. NBC New York’s Marc Santia reports.

The “Bentley Bandits,” a group of armed robbers in Manhattan, earned their nickname from the first car they targeted. They just don’t always know how to drive the vehicle away, apparently

A New York City man was convicted in the 2021 beating death of his partner’s 10-year-old son, Manhattan prosecutors said. Ryan Cato “tortured” Ayden Wolfe for months before beating him to death in a Harlem apartment.

Twenty-three inmates at the troubled federal jail in Brooklyn have been charged with crimes ranging from smuggling weapons in a Doritos bag to the stabbing last month of a man convicted in the killing of hip-hop legend Jam Master Jay.

“This case is a tragic reminder of the dangers of street drugs,” Platte County Prosecutor Eric Zahnd told a news conference Wednesday.

New York authorities on Wednesday outlined an astonishing story of kidnap, torture and sexual assault in the killing of Sam Nordquist, a transgender man from Minnesota.

Jaythan Gilder, 32, allegedly swiped two pairs of earrings worth $769,500 from a Tiffany & Co. in Orlando before taking the expensive gulp, police said.

Exclusive video showed chaos inside a Nassau County courtroom on Monday, as 18-year-old Jeremias Ferrufino Rodriguez faced a judge on a murder charge. Court officers removed a man, said to be a member of the defendant’s family, who was subdued after shouting words of encouragement to the accused killer. NBC New York’s Greg Cergol reports.

Following an emotional day in court, a woman accused of owning a drug-filled Bronx day care learned her fate. Lawyers said Grei Mendez not only owned the day care where a toddler died after ingesting fentanyl, but she actually helped run the drug operation there, too. NBC New York’s Erica Byfield reports.

A woman who owned a New York City day care center where a toddler died after ingesting fentanyl has been sentenced to 45 years in prison after pleading guilty to federal drug charges.

A masseuse at Trump National in Doral was arrested Sunday after being accused of inappropriately touching a 17-year-old police said.

After a judge ordered a teen murder suspect held without bail, a young man sitting in the courtroom shouted several times to the defendant, telling him to “hold your head up.” As court officers tried to remove the unidentified man, the confrontation turned violent