Crime and Courts

The Oklahoma city police department has released video showing an officer slamming an elderly Asian man to the ground during a recent traffic stop. KFOR’s Adria Goins reports.

Conspiracy theory purveyor Infowars and most of its assets are set to go on the auction block on Wednesday.

The body of an 18-year-old last seen in late October was found in a wooded area near a Metro ventilation shaft for nearly two weeks before being discovered. Tuesday night, police confirmed the body found on Nov. 8 near the Anacostia Station is that of Alexander Pavón-Rios. Pavón-Rios was shot to death, D.C. police esaid. Family members said Pavón-Rios...

The operation uncovered a network of forgers in Spain, France and Belgium who produced the works, said Eurojust, the European Union agency for judicial cooperation.

Officers are searching for a teal-colored minivan the suspect may have used to flee the scene but do not say there is a threat the public. News 4’s Mauricio Casillas reports.

Apologetic rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine was sentenced Tuesday to 45 days in prison by a federal judge who said repeated violations of his probation after his cooperation against a violent gang won him leniency in a criminal case show that he doesn’t have sufficient respect for judicial system rules.

A loyal dog that refused to leave his dead owner’s side helped solve the case of her murder by allowing detectives to identify her body, prosecutors said.

D.C. police have found a 1-year-old girl more than a week after she went missing.

A man accused of murder after a 911 call about a fake bear attack in the mountains of Tennessee led authorities to a dead man in October has been found and arrested, police said Sunday, NBC News reported.

A domestic assault report led the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office to discover a cache of weapons last week, and authorities continue searching for the suspect. Officers responded to the domestic assault report at 9:23 p.m. Thursday in the 2000 block of Goddard Road in Lexington Park. The suspect, 39-year-old Jerod Adam Taylor, left the scene before law enforcement...

A 73-year-old farmer was crossing a road in Fauquier County, Virginia, after going to his mailbox Friday night when he was fatally struck by two drivers. Now his family is pleading for information in the hit-and-run case. For four generations, Garland Heddings’ family has been farming land near Catlett. Heddings devoted his life to raising cattle and baling hay. Married…

Someone smashed the front windows of Char Bar on L Street NW with two large stones early Saturday morning, police said.

A man was killed when two cars hit while he crossed the road to check his mailbox. Northern Virginia Bureau Chief Julie Carey reports neither driver stayed at the scene.

The vandalism of a kosher restaurant in D.C. is not being investigated as a crime of hate or bias by the Metropolitan Police Department. News4’s Mauricio Casillas reports.

Thieves broke into and stole from four businesses, three of which are in the Palisades area of Northwest D.C. News4’s Jessica Albert spoke with a business owner who had to repair her store after the crime.

D.C. police are investigating four back-to-back burglaries that happened over the weekend in Southeast and Northwest. The two suspects moved quickly, getting away with cash, an ATM and a car early Sunday morning. Three of the break-ins happened in less than 10 minutes, the Metropolitan Police Department said. “You say to yourself, ‘What is going on in this world?’” a…

The jury, which has been requested for 26 days, deliberated for 19.5 hours, WTHR said. Allen is expected to be sentenced Dec. 20.

The jury in the trial of an Indiana man charged with murder in the 2017 killings of two teenage girls who vanished during an afternoon hike near their small hometown of Delphi has reached a verdict after days of deliberations.

A 37-year-old Irish man was arrested in connection with the murder of an American woman vacationing in Budapest, local police said.

Will JonBenét Ramsey’s killer finally be brought to justice 28 years after her murder? The upcoming Netflix docuseries “Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey” claims that authorities continue to mishandle the case of the death of the 6-year-old in 1996, including the not-so-subtle blame they placed on the family.