Crime and Courts

Attorney General William Barr and Mexican Attorney General Alejandro Gertz Manero said the U.S. would drop the charges and allow Mexico to investigate and determine if Salvatore Cienfuegos Zepeda should be tried in that country.

Flames come shooting out from the weapon and high into the air, and later onto the ground, as the man jumps around on top of the bus that had about two dozen riders inside at the time.

A woman in New Jersey is facing charges after illegally giving medication to treat a sick puppy that she sold while falsely claiming to be a member on an animal rescue group, police and prosecutors say. It all started on Oct. 26, when troopers from the New Jersey State Police Red Lion Station was contacted about a Westie/Cavalier King Charles…

A woman was arrested in the attack of two employees of a Maryland ice cream shop.

The previously unknown assailant wanted for a brazen assault against Rick Moranis, star of “Honey, I Shrunk the Kids,” has been taken into custody, police said Saturday. The 67-year-old actor and comedian had just gotten back to his Upper West Side building from a morning walk on Oct. 1 when the suspect, without saying a word, allegedly punched Moranis in…

Two women in Maryland say they were attacked while working at an ice cream shop because they asked two customers to wear masks. Nythia Davis and her friend McKeniva drove to work Saturday at a Cold Stone Creamery ice cream shop in Edgewater. The trouble started when a man and woman walked in about 7:30 p.m., passing a sign on…

A convenience store clerk in New Jersey was arrested last week for allegedly asking underage customers to give him sexually explicit photos in exchange for free vape products, according to prosecutors. The Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office says Muhammad Ikram worked at Sam’s 2, a store located on Palmer Avenue within Hazlet. After receiving several reports of inappropriate behavior, police...

The self-improvement guru whose organization, NXIVM, attracted millionaires and actresses among its adherents, was sentenced to 120 years in prison Tuesday on convictions that he turned some followers into sex slaves branded with his initials

A former inmate at New Jersey’s Fort Dix facility conspired to smuggle contraband into the prison by way of drone, federal prosecutors announced last week. Prosecutors allege 27-year-old Johansel Moronta worked alongside three other men in a scheme to deliver contraband to inmates at the federal prison; charges have already been filed against the other three, they say. Moronta’s...

A college student visiting New York City was the unintended target of deadly gunfire Saturday morning in Brooklyn, police said. Police officials say 20-year-old Ethan Williams of Indiana was found around 2:30 a.m. on Eldert Street with a gunshot wound to his chest. He later died at Wyckoff Medical Center. The victim’s family says the Indiana University student was...

A Virginia woman who pretended to be a psychologist, treating hundreds of patients and even testifying as a medical expert during custody hearings in court, was sentenced Friday to 11 years in prison. Family after family testified in court in Stafford County on Friday about the damage done by Sharonda Avery. These families trusted Avery so much and were so…

New York City officials said they shut down an illegal party of more than 200 people who were violating pandemic restrictions at a catering hall.

A volunteer fire deputy chief in New Jersey was arrested this week for allegedly buying illegal firearm suppressors designed to muffle the sound of gunshots, county officials said over the weekend. Matthew Moran serves as the deputy chief of the Carlstadt Fire Department, according to the department’s website. Police arrested Moran on Thursday following an international arms-trafficking investigation by...

The expletive-filled video shows the state Supreme Court justice shouting at the officer who is subduing his wife during an argument with neighbors before he, too, is grabbed by police officers.

The man alleges that his father attacked him and he was defending himself when he strangled the older man in their home in 2008; he was also convicted of strangling his mother during the violent argument

A New York bar patron accused of shoving an 80-year-old, who later died, during a confrontation about the need to wear a mask has pleaded not guilty to criminally negligent homicide.

Rick Moranis, star of “Honey, I Shrunk the Kids,” was attacked by an unknown assailant near New York City’s Central Park on Thursday, police said. The 67-year-old actor and comedian had just gotten back from a morning walk and was standing outside his Upper West Side building when the suspect, wthout saying a word, punched him in the head,...

A 25-year-old youth program director in New Jersey is facing charges after being accused of possessing child pornography and luring children, according to the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office. Jack T. Anderson, of Fair Lawn, was arrested Thursday and is charged with production of child pornography, luring, endangering the welfare of a child, and providing obscenity to a minor, according...

A former chaplain at a Roman Catholic prep school in northern New Jersey faces criminal charges for engaging in “a pattern of behavior” that threatened the welfare of six students, prosecutors said. Salvatore DiStefano, 61, who had been chaplain at the all-boys Oratory Preparatory School in Summit, allowed students to consume marijuana products in his office and tried to entice…

A New Jersey hypnotist was arrested after allegedly subjecting patients to prostate exams, or asking them to submit to one, when they visited his office, prosecutors said.