Crime and Courts

Santa Ana police announced on Thursday the identity of a woman who was arrested for fatally stabbing her 11-year-old son inside a hotel room.

Eugene “Big U” Henley Jr., 58, of the South LA community of Hyde Park, was arrested after he surrendered to law enforcement agents for being part of a “mafia-like” criminal operation identified in court documents as Big U Enterprise. Darsha Philips reports for the NBC4 News at 11 p.m. on March 19, 2025.

An 11-year-old boy with stab wounds is found dead in a hotel room. Video broadcast Wednesday March 19, 2025 on the NBC4 News. 

Santa Ana police responded to an emergency call regarding the stabbing of a minor.

Eugene Big U Henley is sought in connection with a vast criminal operation. Alex Rozier and Michelle Valles report for the NBC4 News at 11 a.m. on Wednesday March 19, 2025.

Eugene “Big U” Henley, considered a fugitive, portrayed himself as an anti-gang activist associated with a charity that defrauded celebrities and big-name athletes, authorities say.

A West Virginia couple is set for sentencing for mistreating their adopted children.

Police say a 13-year-old boy has been charged with murder in an apparently deliberate hit-and-run of a bicyclist heading to work in Albuquerque.

A former Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department recruit, who was about 14 weeks through academy training to become a deputy, was arrested on suspicion of threatening a man with a handgun in Lynwood. Kiwan Newbell, 36, was arrested March 10 by the LASD’s Internal Criminal Investigation Bureau on suspicion of assault with a firearm, a felony. Newbell posted a $30,000…

Two smugglers charged after 53 immigrants died in the back of a sweltering tractor-trailer with no air conditioning have been found guilty.

The purloined potty has never been recovered but is believed to have been cut up and sold.

The Louisiana woman accused of theft and fraud in connection with the death of a Super Bowl reporter near New Orleans last month will also be charged with second-degree murder in the case, authorities said Tuesday.

The device can jam a system within seconds with a push of a button, according to experts.

A federal judge has dismissed the charges against a Minnesota man accused of hiding a stolen pair of ruby slippers that Judy Garland wore in “The Wizard of Oz.”

Overall crime in the city of Los Angeles declined in 2024, with homicides dropping 14% and shooting victims decreasing by 19%, according to statistics released Monday by the Los Angeles Police Department. Mayor Karen Bass joined LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell and members of the LAPD Board of Police Commissioners at a news conference Monday at Hollenbeck Division in Boyle Heights….

Los Angeles police release 2024 crime data. Brittany Hope reports for the NBC4 News at 11 a.m. on Monday March 17, 2025.

An Australian woman narrowly avoided jail on Monday over her plans to sell on the black market two human toes that had been regurgitated by dogs at the animal shelter where she worked. Joanna Kathlyn Kinman, 48, was not present at the animal shelter in the southeastern state of Victoria when the two dogs vomited up the toes and other...

Robert Morris surrendered to officials in Oklahoma, where he was charged last week with five counts of lewd or indecent acts with a child.

Two men, a retired priest and a Catholic school teacher, have been charged with sexually abusing the same child multiple times between 1994 and 1996 when they worked in Wilmington, Delaware.

Audio from a 911 call made after four University of Idaho college students were fatally stabbed reveals the panic of the survivors as they struggled to understand what occurred, NBC News reported. The 911 audio call made on the morning of Nov. 13, 2022, was obtained by NBC News on Friday, about two weeks after the transcript of the call was entered into court...