Crime and Courts

A woman from Germantown, Maryland, and a woman from Philadelphia were charged for an alleged murder-for-hire plot targeting the Maryland woman’s ex-boyfriend, according to police. News4’s Jackie Bensen reports.

D.C. police arrested a teenage boy in the brutal beating of a man last month that’s being investigated as a hate crime.

Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine struck a deal to end his current jail stint, agreeing to serve a month behind bars for violating the terms of his release after a felony conviction, prosecutors said Wednesday.

A postal worker and her friend were arrested Wednesday in connection with the forging of stolen mail ballots in an alleged attempt to test the security of Colorado’s voting system, according to court documents.

Two people, including an award-winning chef, were shot in Hyattsville, Maryland and are expected to survive. News4’s Paul Wagner reports.

Atlantic City Mayor Marty Small’s lawyer calls the latest charge “sheer nonsense” and says Small asked his daughter to tell the truth.

U.S. Capitol Police named the Michigan man accused in a scare on Capitol Hill on Election Day.

A 53-year-old woman from Germantown, Maryland, and a 40-year-old woman from Philadelphia were charged for an alleged murder-for-hire plot targeting the 53-year-old’s ex-boyfriend, according to police.

Two former Georgia election workers who were awarded the massive judgment reported to the court that they went to Giuliani’s Manhattan apartment last week to see what assets were there, but that it had been cleared out.

Skyler Philippi, 24, of Columbia, Tennessee, was arrested after the FBI found he planned to attach a bomb to a drone and fly it into an energy facility.

“When he heard that she’s afraid of flying, he took a bottle of alcohol out of [his] bag and said it would help her relax,” prosecutors wrote in a sentencing memorandum

A former police officer was convicted of murder in the 2020 shooting of Andre Hill, a Black man who was holding a cellphone and keys when he was killed.

YNW Melly is seeking immediate release from prison in a new lawsuit, in which he accuses the Broward Sheriff’s Office of cruel treatment and violating his constitutional rights.

The FBI is investigating the death of a Black man in Alabama who was found hanging in an abandoned house.

The Maryland National Capital Park Police have arrested 76-year old Steven Eisen of Silver Spring on multiple charges of indecent exposure and the possession of child pornography. The indecent exposure happened at Takoma-Piney Branch Park on Jan. 25. The park is a popular location, with families enjoying the playing fields and playgrounds. “I’ve come here for years with my kids…

A 76-year-old man has been charged with indecent exposure and possession of child pornography after allegedly exposing himself at Takoma-Piney Branch Park. News4’s Derrick Ward reports.

The Maryland woman accused of killing her own mother before dismembering her remains with a chainsaw has been convicted of first-degree murder.

According to prosecutors, the woman killed her mother in 2023 after an argument over fraudulent credit card charges.

For the first time, police and prosecutors in Montgomery County secured a conviction in a violent criminal case thanks to evidence from a drone camera.

The family of a Northern Virginia woman charged with fatally shooting her husband says she fired in self-defense, and in court this week, the woman’s defense attorney presented messages her family says came from the husband threatening to burn down the house.