Crime and Courts

The U.S. Department of Justice says former NFL player LeShon Johnson has been indicted for allegedly operating a dogfighting venture in which authorities seized 190 dogs.

Thirty years ago, music legend Selena Quintanilla-Pérez was killed by her fan club’s president, Yolanda Saldívar. For the last three decades, Saldívar has served her life sentence in Texas. Now 64, Saldívar petitioned for parole under review, according to Texas Department of Criminal Justice online records. On Thursday, parole was denied. Saldívar is serving a life sentence at the Patrick L. O’Daniel Correctional...

A judge cleared the way for Luigi Mangione to get a laptop behind bars — if his jailers agree — so he can examine documents and other material in the UnitedHealthcare CEO murder case.

Days after an Atlanta man died in a scuba diving accident in Hawaii, authorities said they found the skeletal remains of his son who had gone missing four years prior in a tree house in his backyard, NBC News reported.

The woman convicted of killing Tejano music legend Selena Quintanilla-Perez has been denied parole after spending decades behind bars for fatally shooting the young singer at a Texas motel in 1995, the state’s parole board announced Thursday. Yolanda Saldívar is serving a life sentence at the Patrick L. O’Daniel prison unit in Gatesville, Texas. A three-member panel of the Texas Board of...

A New York City rapper who joined President Donald Trump during a campaign rally in the Bronx last year has pleaded guilty to attempted murder and conspiracy charges after prosecutors say he used earnings from his music career to fuel gang violence in Brooklyn.

An airman stationed in Alaska has been charged with child exploitation. Prosecutors say David Ibarra paid a young girl in Long Island, New York, to send him explicit images. Prosecutors say the 31-year-old man befriended the 9-year-old on TikTok by posing as a teenage boy. They say he moved the conversation to the children’s gaming platform Roblox and ultimately to...

The man tried to conceal 65 boxes of Cadbury Creme Eggs stolen from a grocery store in his coat and duffel bag.

A doctor accused of trying to push his wife off a hiking trail and hitting her with a rock has been charged with second-degree attempted murder.

A Connecticut man is facing several charges for allegedly defrauding his former employer out of millions of dollars, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

The revelation comes after Mangione’s lawyers requested that he be allowed to have a laptop to review legal material in his cell

A Connecticut woman who is accused of locking her emaciated stepson in a room and holding him captive for nearly 20 years will face a judge on Wednesday.

Former state senator Ray Holmberg is scheduled to be sentenced after pleading guilty last year to traveling to Europe with the intent to pay for sex with minors.

A California woman’s son is suing Trump International Hotels for alleged negligence, claiming a Trump Hotel Las Vegas door caused her to fall and later die.

A teenage suspect was arrested and charged with murder in the deadly stabbing of a man near Barclays Center in Brooklyn, according to police.

Two men out of New Jersey were charged in a wild smash-and-grab robbery at a Westchester County jewelry store. It only took seconds, but prosecutors say they netted close to $2 million in loot, including dozens of Rolex watches and more. Wild surveillance video showed the crew using hammers to smash cases in Hartsdale. NBC New York’s Jessica Cunnington reports.

The gunman who killed 23 people in a racist attack at an El Paso Walmart in 2019 in one of the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history has been offered a plea deal to avoid the death penalty.

Two New Jersey men could spend decades behind bars after allegedly sledgehammering their way into a New York jewelry store during a 2024 robbery and stealing more than $1 million in jewelry, prosecutors announced.

Luigi Mangione is asking for a laptop in jail for legal purposes as he awaits trial in the killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO.

A mother and her boyfriend are now facing murder charges in connection to the death of a 10-year-old boy, police said.