Crime and Courts

The motion also suggests that someone else may have orchestrated the shooting and that witnesses who could testify on the matter are being interviewed.

The suspect in the ambush killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson thanked people who have written to him as he is jailed in a New York City detention facility.

The U.S. Department of Justice formally filed court paperwork to dismiss federal corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams, after two days of resignations from prosecutors who refused to do so.

An 86-year-old Kansas City man has pleaded guilty to a lesser charge in the 2023 shooting of Ralph Yarl, a Black honor student who rang the man’s doorbell by mistake.

The AUSA’s resignation follows his boss, the acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, and other DOJ officials who stepped down this week

A man from Memphis, Tennessee, has been sentenced to life in prison for murdering his wife during their honeymoon in Fiji in 2022.

As President Donald Trump prepares an executive order that will target crime in the nation’s capital, overall crime is down in D.C., but homicides are way up. News4’s Paul Wagner reports.

The case against a man accused of killing another man inside a Gold’s Gym in Reston last summer is moving forward, as a trainer testified at a preliminary hearing. Northern Virginia Reporter Drew Wilder was in court.

Three staffers at an Arlington charter school are facing felony charges in an ongoing investigation into allegations of child grooming and an improper relationship with a student.

More than 160,000 counterfeit stamps were seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection last weekend at the Chicago International Mail Branch.

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...

Metro leaders are considering banning people who commit sex offenses or assault Metro employees. News4’s Joseph Olmo reports.

A jury has delivered a split verdict against former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, finding him guilty on 11 of 23 criminal counts in his case.

A staffer at FIFA reportedly has been arrested in Miami on suspicion of having sex with an underage boy while on a work trip from Zurich last year.

More than three years before a Louisiana woman was arrested last week in the death of a TV reporter in New Orleans to cover the Super Bowl, a man visiting the city from out of state accused the woman, Danette Colbert, of drugging him, robbing his savings and leaving him for dead.

Under the terms of the plea agreement, the former Trump White House adviser will not be sentenced to any jail time.

Massachusetts’ highest court has denied an effort by the defense to have two of the charges dropped in the controversial Karen Read murder case. Read the full decision.

Mace, R-S.C., alleged “some of the most heinous crimes against women imaginable” were committed by her ex-fiancé and three other men, all of whom denied the accusations.

Testimony is wrapping up in the trial of two former Warren County deputies whose arrest of an elderly man with dementia left him injured. The man died 13 days later. Northern Virginia Bureau Chief Julie Carey reports.

Jayqwan Hamilton, Robert Demaio, and Jacob Barroso were accused of working together to drug and rob five men after meeting them outside Manhattan gay bars and nightclubs from March 2021 to June 2022.