Crime and Courts

It happened just before 2 a.m. on April 29, when video shows four men in hoodies using a stolen master key to open mailboxes at the Pinnacle at Park Central community.

A former Irving real estate executive has pleaded guilty to stealing people’s money in real estate deals for years. Dozens of people have waited more than 8 years for justice. On Wednesday, it was a step closer for those victims, but the trial isn’t finished quite yet. Sophia Beausoleil explains.

Investigators say the physical, emotional, and mental abuse went on for years and included daily beatings, strangulation and withholding food and water.

Mexico’s government has confirmed reports that 17 family members of the son of a former cartel leader crossed into the United States. Mexican Security Secretary Omar García Harfuch said Tuesday that it appeared to be part of a deal between the Sinaloa Cartel’s Ovidio Guzmán López and the Trump administration. Independent journalist Luis Chaparro reported over the weekend about Guzmán’s...

Defense attorney Mark Geragos speaks after the Menendez brothers were resentenced Tuesday, making them eligible for parole.

A scheme that saw a small New Jersey deli’s holding company valued at $100 million blew up after a hedge fund manager made fun of it in a client letter.

The Karen Read trial is not taking place on Tuesday due to “unavoidable circumstances,” a courte spokesperson said in an email.

Rapper Tory Lanez, who is serving a 10-year prison sentence after he was found guilty of shooting rapper Megan Thee Stallion, was stabbed in prison, officials said.

New details were released after a man was arrested on Saturday, accused of abusing his 6-year-old stepson in Miami.

Sean “Diddy” Combs allegedly turned his hip-hop conglomerate into a racketeering enterprise that forced women to satisfy his sexual desires.

Criminal proceedings were suspended Thursday against the man accused of stalking actor Jennifer Aniston and crashing his car into the gate at her home in Bel-Air, Los Angeles.

In the early hours of Nov. 13, 2022, when four University of Idaho students would be stabbed to death in an off-campus house as some of them slept, a neighbor’s home security video captured the same white car circling the block multiple times. The vehicle approached the house again and again before speeding away 13 minutes later. The previously unseen footage obtained...

The 57-year-old is accused of sneaking aboard a New York-to-Paris Delta flight at JFK in November, without a valid boarding pass.

After three former Memphis police officers were acquitted in the beating death of Tyre Nichols, community and civil rights leaders are expressing outrage over another disappointment in the long push for police reform. Nichols’s death more than two years ago sparked nationwide protests and renewed calls for systemic change as the first post-George Floyd case that revealed the limits of...

A 75-year-old man from Long Island, New York, has been arrested for animal cruelty after dozens of dead cats were pulled from his home last weekend.

Singer Smokey Robinson’s attorney responded to a lawsuit accusing the Motown legend of assault and sexual battery.

Three former Memphis officers were acquitted Wednesday of state charges in the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols in 2023.

Police arrested a suspect in an apparent road rage hit-and-run caught on video showing a car slamming into a motorcyclist at high speed on a highway.

Four women identified as housekeepers who worked for Smokey Robinson and his wife at their home filed a lawsuit accusing the Motown legend of assault and sexual battery.

Police in Beaverton, Oregon, shared dashcam video which shows a driver sideswiping a motorcyclist in a fit of early morning road rage.