Crime and Courts

A former New York police sergeant was sentenced Wednesday to 18 months in prison in a U.S. case about China’s pursuit of critics abroad, a sentence that came after two members of Congress urged the judge to spare him from time behind bars.

Ten corrections officers face criminal charges — including murder — in the beating death of a young man from Harlem named Messiah Nantwi at Mid-State Correctional Facility in March. It comes after ten other officers were accused in a separate deadly assault caught on video at nearby Marcy Correctional Facility in December. NBC New York’s Sarah Wallace reports.

As nine jurors were picked on the second day of jury selection in Harvey Weinstein’s #MeToo rape retrial in New York, his lawyers looked to have him moved from jail to a NYC hospital during the trial, citing his health issues including cancer.

The Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, is a mega-prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador.

A woman was sentenced to 15 years in prison after she pleaded guilty to stabbing a U.S. Postal Service worker to death while at a deli in Harlem, according to prosecutors.

Ten New York prison guards have been charged in connection with the fatal beating of a 22-year-old prison inmate, including two charged with murder. Wednesday’s charges are the second time this year that correctional officers in the state were indicted for a death behind bars. A grand jury indictment accuses several guards of severely beating Messiah Nantwi, a prisoner at...

A federal judge said in an order Wednesday that he has found probable cause to hold the Trump administration in criminal contempt over the deportation flights that it sent to El Salvador, NBC News reports. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg found “the Government’s actions on that day demonstrate a willful disregard for its Order, sufficient for the Court to conclude...

A new 911 call details the “disturbance” in a South Florida restaurant that led to the arrest of Cuban-American actor William Levy.

Michelle Zajko’s denial was part of a 20-page handwritten “Open Letter to the World” her attorney provided to The Associated Press on Tuesday.

A former New York City councilman who once did time in federal prison in a bribery scheme has been indicted on child pornography charges in Miami.

Harvey Weinstein was back in court for the retrial of his sexual assault case that propelled the #MeToo movement into the spotlight and led to his 2020 conviction, which was ultimately overturned. NBC New York’s Erica Byfield reports.

An Indiana mom was arrested for allegedly bringing a gun to school and harassing a teacher for a class lesson on flags that featured one rainbow flag.

Hertz is notifying customers that a data hack late last year may have exposed their personal data.

New video shows the moments a man in a gas mask walked up to a courthouse in Woburn, Massachusetts, and forced his way inside while pepper-spraying officers on Monday.

A former cop and an apparent accomplice are facing charges in connection to an alleged scheme in which the cop made unauthorized searches on the NYPD database while assigned to Brooklyn Criminal court, according to the local prosecutor. Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced Monday that former NYPD cop Richard Arce, 54 and from Yonkers, and Raymond Ramos, 42 and…

As jury selection started in Harvey Weinstein’s New York City rape retrial, some prospective jurors made clear they couldn’t be fair in judging the one-time Hollywood mogul-turned-#MeToo pariah.

A Michigan man has been sentenced to eight months in prison for making a false bomb threat. Joshua Lowe was upset that he had to watch pets while his girlfriend’s family went on a cruise last year.

A federal prosecutor in New York said Monday that lawyers for music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs are looking for reasons to delay a sex trafficking trial slated to start in three weeks. The latest version of the indictment against Combs, 55, added two new charges this month but he still hadn’t entered a plea, prosecutors said. That, plus possible delays from the...

A person has been arrested near UnitedHealthcare’s headquarters after reports of an intruder.

A 17-year-old Wisconsin teen charged with killing his parents is also accused of plotting to assassinate President Donald Trump, according to an unsealed affidavit from the FBI, NBC News reported.