Crime and Courts

A new phishing scam targets the bank accounts of transgender people. Scammers steal identities and send fraudulent emails requesting changes to their payroll accounts. SC Nealy, who runs LGBT+ Counseling Collaborative, wasn’t suspicious when opening an email from an employee reading, “Before the next payroll will be issued, I need to replace the account where my most recent deposit...

An FBI agent who was previously acquitted for attempted murder has been arrested on sexual assault charges.

Northern Virginia’s Nepalese community is mourning two young men from Nepal who were killed in a violent crash in Loudon County early Friday.

A new phishing scam targets the bank accounts of transgender people. News4’s Paul Wagner reports.

An FBI agent once charged with attempted murder and the and then acquitted after a 2020 shooting on a Metro train has been arrested for charges of sexual assault. Police say Eduardo Valdivia is in custody. Police plan to hold a news conference Tuesday to detail specific charges concerning the assault of two different women. They plan to explain why…

A new three-part Netflix documentary series, “Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey” examines how the actions of law enforcement and the media at the time may have influenced the investigation.

A Connecticut couple was arrested at a Lululemon store in Woodbury, Minnesota, on Nov. 14 and charged with retail theft.

Two people were arrested on Nov. 14 at a Lululemon store in Woodbury, Minnesota, according to court documents.

Erik and Lyle Menendez were part of a court hearing in Van Nuys to determine what happens next in the brother’s murder case.

Prosecutors in France are setting out the punishments they want for 51 men accused of raping a woman while she was drugged and rendered unconscious by her husband.

A bankruptcy judge on Monday ordered a new hearing in conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ effort to stop the satirical news outlet The Onion from buying Infowars and turning it into a parody.

A 7-Eleven in New Carrollton, Maryland along Annapolis Road was broken into on Monday shortly after 3 a.m., according to police. News4’s Megan McGrath shows the damage done to the store and the ATM.  

A newborn baby girl was removed from the Safe Haven Baby Box at the Grove Creek Medical Center on Oct. 13 in Blackfoot. Officials say she was dead before she was placed in the box. 

An Idaho teenager has been arrested in connection with the body of an infant found last month at a hospital in a box meant for people to anonymously give up a newborn, police said Friday.

A decision on whether Sean “Diddy” Combs’ will be released on bail was pushed back to next week by the judge overseeing his sex-trafficking case.

Police arrested a man suspected of taking a Bethesda, Maryland, couple for $400,000 in a gold bar scam. News4’s Jackie Bensen reports.

A woman was killed in a hit-and-run in Oxon Hill, Maryland, Thursday night. Sandra Abarca Orellana had been shopping at a mall on Oxon Hill Road and was crossing the road, headed for a bus stop, when she was struck by a car after 9 p.m. The 52-year-old mother of three was pronounced dead at the scene. The initial lookout…

He may be nicknamed the “Preppy Predator,” but police warn that an alleged robber in Manhattan should be considered extremely dangerous.

A jury found a 31-year-old man guilty of killing a woman he was in a relationship with and her unborn child – the first time a person has been convicted in Montgomery County, Maryland, of murdering someone who is unborn. In 2022, Torrey Moore, the father of 26-year-old Denise Middleton’s unborn child, shot Middleton inside the apartment they shared in…

A woman found shot to death in her car in Woodbridge in February may have been the victim of a murder-for-hire plot. Northern Virginia Bureau Chief Julie Carey spoke with the victim’s parents.