Crime and Courts

Luigi Mangione pleaded not guilty to murder and weapons charges in the death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson during his arraignment on Monday morning.

His initial appearance in New York State Supreme Court was preempted by federal prosecutors bringing their own charges over the shooting.

A George Mason University freshman was arrested by the FBI and charged with distributing information about weapons of mass destruction online, after plotting a mass-casualty attack against people at the Israeli consulate in New York, according to court documents.

An Indiana man convicted in the 2017 killings of two teenage girls who vanished during a winter hike will face the maximum sentence of 130 years in prison, a judge ruled Friday in the case that’s long cast a shadow over the teens’ small hometown of Delphi.

Two Romanian nationals accused of posing as fake immigration agents to rob people in Southern California were in Orange County Superior Court.

Luigi Mangione, the accused killer of the UnitedHealth CEO, was helicoptered to New York Thursday after waiving extradition earlier while in Pennsylvania. Conan Nolan reports for the NBC4 News at 3 p.m. on Dec. 18, 2024.

A Southern California political operative is accused of acting on behalf of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) as an illegal foreign agent. 

Signal Hill Police Chief Wayne Byerley died Wednesday evening after a medical emergency while working, the city announced Thursday.

A lawyer for celebrity pastor Bishop T.D. Jakes filed a motion seeking more information about four YouTube accounts posting salacious misinformation about him.

A former bank teller is accused of embezzling more than $180,000 from customer accounts, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said Thursday.

Boston Scientific’s Relievant Medsystems used at least 25 unclaimed bodies for training, including that of a murdered 21-year-old woman whose family was fighting to bring her home. The company said it didn’t know.

Aurimar Iturriago Villegas left Venezuela hoping to lift her family out of poverty. When she was murdered, her corpse became a commodity in the U.S. body trade.

The Ivy League graduate was indicted on murder as an act of terrorism in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

Dozens of men, including the ex-husband of Gisèle Pelicot, were found guilty of raping and sexually assaulting her in a historic trial that shocked France. 

A 20-year-old Carlsbad man has been ordered to surrender his guns after authorities said he communicated with the teenage girl who committed a fatal school shooting in Wisconsin, allegedly expressing his own plans to carry out a deadly attack against a government building.

In addition to state murder charges already filed, federal prosecutors are looking into whether to file additional criminal charges against the suspect charged in gunning down UnitedHealthcare’s CEO outside a midtown Manhattan hotel.

The Justice Department has unsealed a civil complaint alleging CVS Pharmacy Inc. and various subsidiaries filled unlawful prescriptions in violation of the federal Controlled Substances Act.

Proposition 36, which increases punishments for some theft and drug possession offenses, went into effect in California.

A Fort Lauderdale tennis coach who’s the grandson of tennis legend Bobby Riggs has been arrested on federal child sex abuse charges, authorities said.

State leaders say the federal government has “stonewalled” their attempts to investigate the September assassination attempt. Ryan Routh already faces federal charges.