Crime and Courts

Martin Shkreli gained infamy for raising the price of a pharmaceutical drug by more than 4,000%.

The state is recommending a sentence of three years for Thomas Lane — which is below state sentencing guidelines. He was one of two officers who helped restrain George Floyd while fellow officer Derek Chauvin knelt on his back.

Investigators reportedly found footage of the 29-year-old man peeing into a bag of milkshake mix as they were executing a search warrant on his phone as part of a child pornography investigation.

Ariel Robinson, former contestant and winner of “Worst Cooks in America,” was found guilty of homicide by child abuse in the death of her 3-year-old foster daughter, Victoria “Tori” Smith

Prosecutors claimed Alexei Sabb researched spots like Rockefeller Center, Grand Central Terminal, all three New York area airports, as well as the Brooklyn, Triborough and George Washington bridges; the jury was unable to reach a verdict on the charge of providing material support for a terrorist group

A New Jersey neighborhood was put on lockdown for nearly 24 hours due to a standoff between a SWAT team and a man with a flamethrower who refused to surrender.

Nathaniel Glover, better known as Kidd Creole, a founding member of Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five, was found guilty of manslaughter last month in the 2017 stabbing death of John Jolly on a midtown Manhattan street.

Amy Locane was convicted on vehicular manslaughter and other counts for the crash that killed a 60-year-old woman and severely injured her husband; the actor’s blood alcohol level was likely about three times the legal limit and she was going nearly 20 mph over the speed limit

George Huguely V is currently serving a 23-year prison sentence in the killing of Yeardley Love after being convicted of second-degree murder in 2012. Huguely and Love both played lacrosse at UVA and had an on-again, off-again relationship before Huguely drunkenly killed her.

The 6-year-old was found dead in the basement of her family’s home in Boulder on Dec. 26, 1996, bludgeoned and strangled, several hours after her mother called 911 to say her daughter was missing.

Thomas Webster, a 20-year NYPD veteran who retired in 2011 after 20 years of service with the department, was the first Capitol riot defendant to be tried on an assault charge and the first to present a jury with a self-defense argument.

The two have been missing since Friday, when she left a detention center with him, headed for a courthouse appointment that didn’t exist.

A manhunt is continuing for a dangerous inmate and a corrections officer after they went missing Friday

“American Idol” winner Laine Hardy has been arrested after being accused of putting a listening device in his ex-girlfriend’s college dorm room.

The remains of 11 people, including infants, were not properly taken care of, according to the LA City Attorney, and left to ‘rot.’

Body camera video captured a “rage-filled” retired NYPD officer attacking one of the outnumbered police officers trying to hold off a mob of rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol, a federal prosecutor told jurors Tuesday

Melissa Lucio was sentenced to death on charges she murdered her 2-year-old daughter, Mariah, in 2007. But the execution is postponed to review new medical evidence that 5 former jurors say they wished they had seen.

Melissa Lucio, a Texas mother of 14, has been on death row since 2008 after she was convicted of killing her 2-year-old daughter. Her execution was delayed just two days before she was scheduled to die to allow a lower court to review new evidence — including arguments that her confession was coerced. Molly Parmer, a criminal defense attorney who...

A New Jersey software developer was actually a highly trained terrorist scoping out U.S. landmarks in New York City, Washington D.C., and other major cities for possible attacks, federal prosecutors say.

The man was part of an exploitation ring in which members filmed themselves sexually abusing more than 20 children and then distributed the footage on the dark web.