Crime and Courts

Father Michael Eguino was arrested Friday morning and charged with soliciting prostitution, police said. The 40-year-old was arrested less than 20 minutes away from his church, on East Gun Hill Road, sources said.

Two Mexican drug lords faced a judge in Brooklyn Friday afternoon, one of whom is linked to the murder of a DEA agent 40 years ago. Feds allege 72-year-old Rafael Caro Quintero orchestrated the killing of special agent “Kiki” Camarena. NBC New York’s Gaby Acevedo reports.

The White House called Caro Quintero “one of the most evil cartel bosses in the world” in a statement before his arraignment, where more than 100 Drug Enforcement Administration agents and other federal officials filled a large ceremonial courtroom.

Stephen Craig Campbell, 76, was arrested this month at his home in New Mexico after more than four decades on the run.

The Calhoun County Sheriff’s office said they believe the booby trap was intended to be aimed at law enforcement.

Joshua Cheatom of Maple Shade Township, has been arrested following multiple incidents of peering into windows and lewdness at an apartment complex.

Popular social media personalities Andrew and Tristan Tate are returning to the U.S. from Romania after officials lifted travel restrictions.

Joseph Czuba, 73, is accused of fatally stabbing the 6-year-old and wounding the boy’s mother, who were his tenants, after the Israel-Hamas war started in 2023.

A Montana man has been sentenced to four years of probation for threatening to assault former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.

A New York City man was arrested Wednesday and charged in federal court with conspiring to provide material support to the State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) and to the Islamic State-Khorasan Province (ISIS-K), according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York. Mansuri Manuchekhri is accused of wiring $70,000 to individuals overseas overseas, including...

Beau Shroyer, 44, from Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, was found dead in a vehicle in Thienjo, a town in southern Angola, in October last year.

A settlement claims the delivery platform “used tips to offset the base pay it had already guaranteed to workers, instead of giving workers the full tips they rightfully earned.”

New answers came in from a Long Island courtroom in the Gilgo Beach serial killer case, as it was confirmed that the case will be tried in Suffolk County. But will there be one trial for Rex Heuermann, or five separate ones? Questions still remain about the trial’s future. NBC New York’s Greg Cergol reports.

Despite documented problems with the evidence against him and an earlier request from prosecutors to clear his record, Adnan Syed will remain a convicted murderer, according to court papers filed Tuesday night.

The suspected Gilgo Beach serial killer was back in court for another pre-trial hearing on Tuesday, during which time prosecutors shared some new information about the man accused of killing seven women.

A detective investigating the death of a Telemundo reporter in New Orleans testified Tuesday that the journalist was found to have a commonly used anti-anxiety drug in his system that he did not have a prescription for, a Jefferson Parish official confirmed to NBC News.

One of the men convicted in the 2002 murder of Run-DMC star Jam Master Jay in New York City was stabbed at a Brooklyn lockup, according to two sources familiar with the matter.

The attorney for the Laundries issued a statement about the Netflix docuseries “American Murder: Gabby Petito,” saying there was only “one perspective depicted.”

A Missouri woman has pleaded guilty to a federal charge accusing her of concocting a brazen plot to defraud Elvis Presley’s family by trying to auction off his Graceland mansion and property.

A young American woman on a European trip has been taken into custody after she allegedly threw a newborn out of a hotel window in Paris, killing the baby.