Crime and Courts

Iran’s government directed three people to “target our citizens, including President-elect Trump, on U.S. soil and abroad,” the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York alleged.

A Brooklyn man is facing a litany of charges for allegedly staging a car crash as part of an insurance fraud scheme by cutting off another driver on the Belt Parkway, forcing the driver to stop and then reversing into the victim’s car — an incident that was caught on the victim’s dash cam and soon became a viral...

Zachary Alam was one of the first rioters sentenced since this week’s electoral victory by President-elect Donald Trump.

The deadline to submit bids and nondisclosure agreements on the Infowars assets is Friday afternoon.

In a recent court appearance in New York City, lawyers for Rudy Giuliani dismissed allegations that the former mayor is hiding assets to avoid paying a defamation payment he owes to two Georgia election workers. NBC New York’s Chris Glorioso reports.

Germany’s federal prosecutor office said it arrested an American citizen on Thursday who allegedly spied for China.

An athletic director at a Westchester County high school was arrested in a sextortion scheme targeting a teenager, according to prosecutors.

Celebrity chef Tobias Dorzon was shot then apparently robbed in Hyattsville, Maryland, shocking surveillance video shows.

Two former Georgia election workers who were awarded the massive judgment reported to the court that they went to Giuliani’s Manhattan apartment last week to see what assets were there, but that it had been cleared out.

Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine struck a deal to end his current jail stint, agreeing to serve a month behind bars for violating the terms of his release after a felony conviction, prosecutors said Wednesday.

A postal worker and her friend were arrested Wednesday in connection with the forging of stolen mail ballots in an alleged attempt to test the security of Colorado’s voting system, according to court documents.

A New York man was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison for a scheme that involved killing and dismembering a woman after fraudulently taking out a life insurance policy in her name to collect the benefits, federal prosecutors said.

Atlantic City Mayor Marty Small’s lawyer calls the latest charge “sheer nonsense” and says Small asked his daughter to tell the truth.

A 53-year-old woman from Germantown, Maryland, and a 40-year-old woman from Philadelphia were charged for an alleged murder-for-hire plot targeting the 53-year-old’s ex-boyfriend, according to police.

Two former Georgia election workers who were awarded the massive judgment reported to the court that they went to Giuliani’s Manhattan apartment last week to see what assets were there, but that it had been cleared out.

Skyler Philippi, 24, of Columbia, Tennessee, was arrested after the FBI found he planned to attach a bomb to a drone and fly it into an energy facility.

Lawyers say former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani has cleared his Manhattan apartment of valuables. That’s despite a court order to surrender his belongings as part of a $148 million defamation judgment. Lawyers for the two former Georgia election workers that were awarded the massive judgement also said in their Monday letter that Giuliani and his lawyers have refused...

Never-before-seen cellphone video showed the moment Daniel Penny put Jordan Neely in a deadly chokehold on a subway train in May 2023. It came out during day 2 of the manslaughter trial against the Marine veteran. NBC New York’s Gus Rosendale reports.

Jurors have seen video of Daniel Penny gripping a man around the neck on a New York City subway train as another passenger beseeched the Marine veteran to let go.

“When he heard that she’s afraid of flying, he took a bottle of alcohol out of [his] bag and said it would help her relax,” prosecutors wrote in a sentencing memorandum