Crime and Courts

“This case is a tragic reminder of the dangers of street drugs,” Platte County Prosecutor Eric Zahnd told a news conference Wednesday.

New York authorities on Wednesday outlined an astonishing story of kidnap, torture and sexual assault in the killing of Sam Nordquist, a transgender man from Minnesota.

Jaythan Gilder, 32, allegedly swiped two pairs of earrings worth $769,500 from a Tiffany & Co. in Orlando before taking the expensive gulp, police said.

A Manassas mother who says she shot her estranged husband in self-defense was released on bond after the charge against her was elevated to first-degree murder.  Last week, prosecutors dropped the initial second-degree murder charge against LaToya Crabbe after they failed to meet key deadlines to prepare a trial that was supposed to start this week. Crabbe was arrested in October...

A Manassas mother who says she shot her estranged husband in self-defense will be released on bond after charges against her were elevated from second-degree murder to first-degree murder. 

A Fairfax County man faces more than 30 years in prison after pleading guilty to multiple felonies relating to child pornography and filming underage girls in his care. Northern Virginia Bureau Reporter Drew Wilder reports.

A security guard working inside a Hyattsville McDonald’s has been charged with murder after police say he shot a man during a fight Saturday night. Police say the security guard initiated the fight after the man refused to leave the restaurant, hitting the unarmed man with a baton before shooting him once in the chest. It all began after...

“It was the hardest thing of my life.” Sheila Caldwell spoke about days spent sitting through the trial of Markus Dowdy, 34, of Silver Spring, listening as prosecutors described a previous dispute between Dowdy and her late son Marvin Jefferson, also 34. They got into a fistfight where Jefferson allegedly got the better of Dowdy, and video of the fight…

News4’s Jackie Bensen spoke with the mother of 34-year-old Marvin Jefferson. She watched as a Montgomery County jury convicted a man of killing her son at a carryout in the White Oak area of Silver Spring in November 2023.

An off-duty federal law enforcement officer shot and killed a 61-year-old man in Stafford County, Virginia, during a fight about motorcyclists driving recklessly in the man’s neighborhood. But the victim wasn’t one of the motorcyclists — he was a neighbor. About 6:25 p.m. Friday, a man was revving his off-road motorcycle up and down an otherwise quiet Jenny Lynn...

An off-duty federal law enforcement officer shot and killed a man in Stafford County, Virginia, during a fight about motorcyclists driving recklessly in his neighborhood. Northern Virginia Bureau Reporter Drew Wilder reports the victim wasn’t one of the motorcyclists but a neighbor.

It was a somber Monday at a Northern Virginia high school after a 16-year-old student was killed in a head-on crash with a suspected drunken driver last week. Before 10:30 p.m. Thursday, when it would have been very dark in the area, a man driving a 2023 Toyota Corolla north on Pleasant Valley Road in Centreville crossed the double yellow…

A somber Monday at a Northern Virginia high school after a 16-year-old student was killed in a head-on crash with a suspected drunken driver last week. News4’s Adam Tuss reports.

A security guard working inside a Hyattsville McDonald’s faces murder charges after shooting a man during a fight. News4’s Paul Wagner has video that appears to show the guard hit the man with a baton before he shot him in the chest.

A masseuse at Trump National in Doral was arrested Sunday after being accused of inappropriately touching a 17-year-old police said.

The New Jersey man is accused of stealing cash and gift cards totaling nearly $20,000 and causing $10,000 in property damage.

A suburban Chicago man accused of carrying out the 2022 July 4 Highland Park parade shooting that killed seven people and wounded dozens more has agreed to plead guilty on the day opening arguments in his trial were set to begin.

The father is a suspect, but he’s never been charged with killing his sons. He received a 15-year sentence for failing to give them back to their mom.

The trial of a suburban Chicago man accused of carrying out the 2022 July 4 Highland Park parade shooting that killed seven people and wounded dozens more begins Monday at the Lake County Courthouse in Waukegan.

An 88-year-old man is in custody in Chantilly, Virginia, after allegedly shooting and killing his 87-year-old wife inside their home on Friday morning, police said.