Crime and Courts

The identity of one of the first victims to be found in connection to the Gilgo Beach killings is set to be revealed by police, according to a law enforcement source. Investigators have identified the woman who has become known as “Peaches,” due to a tattoo found on her body when her remains were found in 1997. The victim has…

NBC 4’s Marc Santia reports on the major gang bust in New York City that was announced today. 

Manhattan prosecutors say the case is the first to bring federal racketeering charges, which were famously used to bring down the Mafia, against the Venezuelan street gang. The more than two dozen accused also face charges including sex trafficking, drug trafficking, robbery, and firearms possession.

“Doomsday mom” Lori Vallow Daybell was convicted Tuesday of conspiring to kill her fourth husband, Charles Vallow.

A Florida man has been arrested for attacking an 11-year-old girl because he believed she’d thrown eggs at his home in an incident caught on video.

A man in Tampa is facing charges after he pinned down an 11-year-old girl who he thought was throwing eggs at his apartment building.

A jury has found Jose Morales guilty of the murder of his girlfriend, Christine Holloway, in December 2019 and tampering with evidence. Police found Holloway’s body on Dec. 2, 2019 in her home on Myrtle Avenue in Ansonia. The couple’s daughter, Vanessa Morales, was 14 months old at the time and she not in the home when police found Holloway....

Walgreens has agreed to pay up to $350 million in a settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice, who accused the pharmacy of illegally filling millions of prescriptions in the last decade for opioids and other controlled substances. In a settlement Friday, the nationwide drugstore chain must pay the government at least $300 million and will owe another $50 million...

The jury has found Jose Morales guilty of the murder of his girlfriend, the mother of his missing daughter, in her Ansonia home in December 2019 as well as tampering with evidence. Police found Holloway’s body on Dec. 2, 2019 in her home on Myrtle Avenue in Ansonia. Prosecutors believe that she was killed before. The couple’s daughter, Vanessa Morales,...

Karen Read’s second murder trial began Tuesday with a prosecutor saying the defendant’s own words will bolster evidence that she killed her police officer boyfriend three years ago and a defense attorney calling the case “the definition of reasonable doubt.”

A 30-year-old person was arrested after being spotted inside midtown Manhattan’s Trump Tower on what authorities described as an “elevated surface.”

Prosecutors said that Vallow Daybell and her brother, Alex Cox, planned to kill her estranged husband so she could collect money from his life insurance policy and marry her then-boyfriend, Chad Daybell, an Idaho author who wrote several religious novels about prophecies and the end of the world.

Nadine Menendez, the wife of former Sen. Bob Menendez, has been found guilty on all counts in her federal bribery trial. She was found guilty of bribery, obstruction of justice and helping her husband sell his office to work as a foreign agent for Egypt, all in exchange for taking hundreds of thousands in cash, gold bars and a new...

Nadine Menendez, wearing a pink facemask, stood beside her defense attorney as the verdict was read. Sentencing was scheduled for June 12. NBC New York’s Jonathan Dienst reports. 

A jury found Nadine Menendez guilty on all counts in a bribery case in which prosecutors said she was a “critical participant” in the five-year fraud with her husband, former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, as they accepted cash, gold bars and a luxury car from three New Jersey men looking for help with business dealings or legal woes. The jury...

A jury is resuming deliberations Monday in the bribery case brought against Nadine Menendez after a prosecutor told a jury that she was a “critical participant” in a five-year fraud with her husband, former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez. The jury began considering the charges against the 58-year-old Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, resident in mid-afternoon on Friday in Manhattan federal court. Jurors went...

The jury has started deliberating after closing arguments were delivered in the trial of Jose Morales, the man who is accused of killing his girlfriend, the mother of his missing daughter, in her Ansonia home in December 2019. Morales has been charged with the murder of Christine Holloway five years ago and tampering with evidence, and he pleaded not guilty...

Dawn Hughes has served as an expert witness in some of the most high-profile sexual misconduct trials of the last several years.

Nearly six years after a man fatally shot 23 people in a racist attack targeting Hispanic shoppers at a Walmart in Texas near the U.S.-Mexico border, the gunman’s criminal case is set to come to a close.

A judge says a former roommate of four University of Idaho students who were killed in 2022 can testify about seeing an intruder with “bushy eyebrows” around the time of the crime.