Crime and Courts

Police in Florida are trying to find the rightful owner of over 55 pounds of cocaine, worth an estimated $1.7 million, that were found along the Atlantic coastline.

An American couple were shot to death while visiting the western Mexico state of Michoacan. Officials confirmed their nationalities on Saturday.

The suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO has added a prominent defense lawyer to his legal team as Manhattan prosecutors work to return him from Pennsylvania to face a murder charge. Luigi Mangione will be represented by Karen Friedman Agnifilo, who was a high-ranking deputy in the Manhattan district attorney’s office for years before entering private practice. Friedman Agnifilo’s...

Ahang Mirshojae, 53, is suspected to be one of several people accused of playing a role in the killing of the doctor, according to police. 

Ahang Mirshojae, the ex-wife of slain Woodland Hills physician, will appear in court next week after being arrested and booked on suspicion of murder, Thursday. Eric Leonard reports for the NBC4 Investigates at 4 p.m. on Dec. 13, 2024. 

From Utah to the U.K., authorities set on a worldwide chase to find the man, once praised for his work as a child advocate, behind a fake death and years of rape and fraud allegations.

Paula Abdul and former “American Idol” producer Nigel Lythgoe have agreed to settle a lawsuit in which she alleged he sexually assaulted her in the early 2000s when she was a judge on the show.

Police in California gave the FBI a tip about alleged UnitedHealthcare CEO killer Luigi Mangione a number of days before he was finally tracked down and captured, according to two senior officials.

The leader of UnitedHealth Group wrote that the health insurance executive gunned down on a Manhattan sidewalk last week cared about consumers and was working to make the system better.

An incoming West Virginia state lawmaker was arrested Thursday after he allegedly threatened to kill other state lawmakers.

The woman who in 2006 falsely accused three Duke University lacrosse players of raping her has admitted publicly for the first time that she made up the story.

Daniel Penny was acquitted of the charges he faced in New York over the 2023 chokehold death of homeless man Jordan Neely.

Oren and Alon Alexander, granted pre-trial release from Miami’s state cases, remain in custody before a federal hearing next week. The brothers are accused in a sexual assault investigation involving dozens in South Florida and New York.

Two people have been charged with animal cruelty after police say they “brutally” killed a pet rabbit during a party in Massachusetts.

The Los Angeles Police Department confirmed Thursday that the former wife of a Woodland Hills physician who was murdered in an ambush-style attack outside his office has been arrested. Eric Leonard reports for NBC4 at 6 p.m. on Dec. 12, 2024. 

Numerous law enforcement officers could be seen at a home inside a gated community in Calabasas Thursday, which property records show is tied to the former wife of Dr. Hamid Mirshojae, the physician who was murdered in an ambush-style attack in Woodland Hills. Eric Leonard reports for NBC4 at 5 p.m. on December 12, 2024. 

Taylor, a 26-year-old Black woman, was roused from her bed by police who came through the door using a battering ram after midnight on March 13, 2020.

A neighbor told NBC 7 this week that Robert Haxby was hospitalized not long before out-of-town family members reporter the grisly discovery to police last December.

Sean “Diddy” Combs has been granted a laptop to review documents in his federal case as he awaits trial in jail, according to a court order obtained by E! News.

A former FBI informant accused of falsely claiming that President Joe Biden and his son Hunter accepted bribes has agreed to plead guilty to federal charges, according to court papers filed Thursday.