Crime and Courts

A 33-year-old Queens woman was sentenced to more than a decade behind bars for her role in planning a terrorist attack in the United States, federal prosecutors announced Wednesday

The FBI is working to identify a woman found dead in a national park in Frederick County, Maryland.

Attorneys say the man who killed five people at a newspaper in Maryland told a state psychiatrist he wanted to destroy a building “Timothy McVeigh-style” and that there was “no defense” for the crimes he committed.

The wife of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman pleaded guilty Thursday to charges in the U.S. and admitted that she helped her husband run his multibillion-dollar criminal empire.

A Texas man has pleaded guilty to plotting to blow up an Amazon data center in Virginia.

A U.S. Capitol insurrection defendant who is charged with assaulting police on the frontlines said he has no regrets for his actions, has questions about the 2020 election and acknowledges he was seeking to confront lawmakers while in the crowd on Jan. 6.

The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled Monday that state Attorney General Gurbir Grewal can order the release of police disciplinary files, with some restrictions. The decision upheld a state appellate court ruling issued last October. That panel ruled unanimously that Grewal has the authority to release the files and rejected arguments made by police and troopers unions seeking to block…

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy said Monday he plans to shut down the state’s only women’s prison after reviewing a new investigative report he commissioned to look into a January attack by mostly male prison guards on female inmates. “I am deeply disturbed and disgusted by the horrific attacks that took place on January 11. Individuals in state custody...

A 15-year-old girl will be held in a youth detention facility until she turns 21 for a D.C. carjacking with another girl that left a Virginia man dead.

A Delaware judge says a jury must decide whether a grocery store should be held liable for a collision between a vendor’s snack food cart and a shopper riding an electric scooter.

Two men in New York and another in New Jersey were among the latest batch of suspects arrested by the FBI related to the events at the Capitol Building on Jan. 6. Christopher M. Kelly was arrested on federal charges at 5 p.m. Wednesday at his residence in New City, New York, law enforcement sources said. The court papers allege…

A mail carrier in New Jersey admitted Thursday that he threw away mail, including 99 general election ballots sent to West Orange residents, according to federal prosecutors.

The mother claimed at the time of 2014 arrest that her 5-year-old son disappeared when the two were at a carnival in May 1991, but investigators doubted her story — which changed several times

A former New Jersey police chief facing retrial on civil rights charges for allegedly slamming a handcuffed Black man’s head into a doorjamb in 2016 was sentenced Wednesday to more than two years in prison for lying to the FBI during an investigation into those allegations

Two men who worked at Los Angeles International Airport for a cargo handling company were arrested Tuesday and charged with stealing four gold bars

Eight people in a burglary crew have been accused of targetting Asian homeowners across several states, prosecutors said. Rabine Armour, James Hurt and Sherman Glasco of Pennsylvania; Kevin Burton, Kevin Jackson, Thomas Rodgers, Randi Barr and Terrance Black of New Jersey were charged with conspiracy to commit interstate transportation of stolen property of over 50 victims, according to U.S. Attorney…

A California man was arrested on accusations of possessing a massive collection of child pornography

Police in Thailand say they are pursuing more suspects in the kidnapping of a Taiwanese businessman in which an American entrepreneur with a criminal past and two other men have already been arrested

A woman testified that she was slipping in and out of consciousness on a night 18 years ago when she said actor Danny Masterson raped her

A New Jersey man who was found with apparent blood on his clothing as his home was on fire was charged in his mother’s killing, law enforcement officials said