Crime and Courts

MS-13 is a transnational criminal gang that has been declared a terrorist organization by El Salvador and the U.S.

The man told police he was “lying in wait” in her closet before killing her, documents said. News4’s Paul Wagner reports.

A suspect is in custody after a woman discovered a stranger who was fatally hurt inside her home in Fauquier County, Virginia, authorities say. Just before 10 p.m. Thursday a woman returned to her home in Linden and found 29-year-old Brandon Probst with traumatic injuries, the Fauquier County Sheriff’s Office said. The woman didn’t know Probst. Probst, of Stuarts...

Over the last year, thieves have targeted freight trains traveling through the Mojave Desert in the southwest, specifically targeting Nike sneakers.

An 87-year-old woman was found killed inside a home in Potomac, Maryland, Sunday night after her grandson showed up to a police station and confessed to the crime, police say. Spencer Dillon Hamilton, 27, walked into the Rockville City Police station just after 8 p.m. and told officers he killed his grandmother, Pauline Yvonne Titus-Dillon, at her home, according to…

Three teenagers were charged after multiple fights broke out at the Fashion Centre at Pentagon City on Saturday, according to Arlington County police. A 13-year-old girl, a 15-year-old girl and a 14-year-old boy were arrested after police closed the mall early from the fights. At 7:06 p.m., police responded to the 1100 block of S. Hayes Street for the report…

Multiple fights broke out at Fashion Centre at Pentagon City mall, causing the mall to close early on Saturday, according to police.

Genetic testing company 23andMe’s bankruptcy has led to a new consumer privacy issue: what happens to the DNA of millions of Americans when it goes on sale?

One month after a Maryland mother was killed in a crash on East-West Highway, a close friend is demanding justice. Investigators say Esmeralda Montoya died after she was struck by a driver who was trying to get away from police. Loved ones say the 33 year old mother of two was on her way home and waiting for a bus…

License plate readers, artificial intelligence and new technology led police to the crew believed to be responsible for a series of robberies of Ulta cosmetics stores in Maryland and Virginia, Fairfax County police said. At least three people worked together smashing display cases at stores in Northern Virginia and Montgomery and Anne Arundel counties in Maryland, police believe. They got…

Virginia’s governor signed legislation last week to prevent rapists from claiming parental rights to children born of the sexual assault. Virginia is one of two states where rapists can still make such claims. A sexual assault survivor worked for years to get the measure approved after she was raped by an abusive partner and decided to have the baby....

Friends and family of a Maryland mother demand justice a month after she was killed by a driver trying to get away from police. News4’s Walter Morris has video from the tragic night.

Virginia is one of two states in which a rapist can try to claim parental rights to a child born of the sexual assault, but last week, Gov. Glenn Youngkin signed a law to change that. Northern Virginia Bureau Chief Julie Carey spoke to the sex assault survivor and mother who worked for years to get the measure approved.

A group of at least three thieves took almost a quarter million dollars in luxury brand items from Ulta stores in Maryland and Virginia since November. News4’s Paul Wagner reports how new technology helped law enforcement bust the crew.

Singer Sean Kingston and his mother were found guilty in a $1 million federal fraud trial in Broward County.

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.

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.

A suspected top leader of the MS-13 gang was arrested in Northern Virginia, state and federal law enforcement announced Thursday morning. Northern Virginia Bureau Reporter Drew Wilder and Telemundo 44 heard from the mother of the suspect.

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

Metro is considering banning people who have committed sex offenses within the transit system or assaulted its employees. “We need a tool beyond the tools we have today. I personally have run into people on the system, I get e-mails from women who have been victimized. It’s just a horrible experience, and it’s preventable if we can keep people...