Crime and Courts

Prosecutors in Manhattan have charged the husband of a slain New York City art dealer in a murder-for-hire plot in Brazil.

The motion also suggests that someone else may have orchestrated the shooting and that witnesses who could testify on the matter are being interviewed.

The suspect in the ambush killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson thanked people who have written to him as he is jailed in a New York City detention facility.

A man who allegedly threatened no social media to kill Jewish people was arrested just outside New York City after driving across the country from Utah, according to NYPD officials.

Federal prosecutors have formally asked a judge to drop the federal corruption and bribery charges against Mayor Eric Adams. It comes after a number of high-ranking officials and prosecutors resigned because they refused to have the charges dropped. NBC New York’s Jonathan Dienst reports.

The U.S. Department of Justice formally filed court paperwork to dismiss federal corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams, after two days of resignations from prosecutors who refused to do so.

Another prosecutor who worked on Mayor Eric Adams’ corruption case quit after refusing to drop criminal charges and follow an order from the U.S. Department of Justice. NBC New York’s Jonathan Dienst reports. 

An 86-year-old Kansas City man has pleaded guilty to a lesser charge in the 2023 shooting of Ralph Yarl, a Black honor student who rang the man’s doorbell by mistake.

The AUSA’s resignation follows his boss, the acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, and other DOJ officials who stepped down this week

A man from Memphis, Tennessee, has been sentenced to life in prison for murdering his wife during their honeymoon in Fiji in 2022.

Nine people have been indicted in a child sex trafficking case involving a teen girl found on a boat docked at a Long Island marina following a nearly monthlong disappearance.

The top federal prosecutor in Manhattan resigned after refusing a DOJ order to drop corruption charges against NYC Mayor Eric Adams. Before quitting, Danielle Sassoon told President Trump’s new attorney general that she was “confident” Adams had committed the crimes.

The top federal prosecutor in Manhattan stepped down amid orders to drop the corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams. Danielle Sassoon, the acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, quit Thursday afternoon, after the Trump Justice Department ordered prosecutors in the SDNY to drop the case. NBC New York’s Jonathan Dienst reports.

Three staffers at an Arlington charter school are facing felony charges in an ongoing investigation into allegations of child grooming and an improper relationship with a student.

More than 160,000 counterfeit stamps were seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection last weekend at the Chicago International Mail Branch.

A former NYC Board of Corrections member Julio Medina, who was also CEO of a firm called Exodus, has been indicted for allegedly taking large bribes to help two others rip off millions from a city’s emergency housing program amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Medina, 64, is accused of “steering approximately $51 million in public funds” to a couple of businesspeople…

A jury has delivered a split verdict against former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, finding him guilty on 11 of 23 criminal counts in his case.

A staffer at FIFA reportedly has been arrested in Miami on suspicion of having sex with an underage boy while on a work trip from Zurich last year.

A New Jersey man was arrested after threatening a plane’s crew and a child with a disability, then banging on the cockpit door, while aboard a flight to Newark, according to law enforcement.

UPDATE 2/12: The owner of Presley said the dog was returned to him, healthy and safe. He did not provide any additional details. A man was brutally attacked while walking his dog in a Brooklyn park on Sunday night. To make matters worse, his dog disappeared during the melee — leaving the owners completely devastated. Everything from accompanying them on…