Crime and Courts

The Chicago Police Department released the official portrait of fallen officer Enrique Martinez, who was shot and killed in the line of duty Monday night while performing a traffic stop.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson vowed in a statement Tuesday to bring justice to the family of Chicago Police Department Officer Enrique Martinez, who was shot and killed in the line of duty Monday night while performing a traffic stop.

Two former Georgia election workers who were awarded the massive judgment reported to the court that they went to Giuliani’s Manhattan apartment last week to see what assets were there, but that it had been cleared out.

Skyler Philippi, 24, of Columbia, Tennessee, was arrested after the FBI found he planned to attach a bomb to a drone and fly it into an energy facility.

More details are coming to light after a Chicago police officer while shot and killed Monday night while performing a traffic stop in the city’s East Chatham neighborhood.

More details are coming to light after a Chicago police officer while shot and killed Monday night while performing a traffic stop in the city’s East Chatham neighborhood. NBC 5’s Lisa Chavarria reports.

A Chicago police officer died after being shot Monday night in the East Chatham neighborhood on the city’s South Side, sources confirmed to NBC Chicago.

“When he heard that she’s afraid of flying, he took a bottle of alcohol out of [his] bag and said it would help her relax,” prosecutors wrote in a sentencing memorandum

A former police officer was convicted of murder in the 2020 shooting of Andre Hill, a Black man who was holding a cellphone and keys when he was killed.

YNW Melly is seeking immediate release from prison in a new lawsuit, in which he accuses the Broward Sheriff’s Office of cruel treatment and violating his constitutional rights.

The FBI is investigating the death of a Black man in Alabama who was found hanging in an abandoned house.

A federal jury on Friday convicted a former Kentucky police detective of using excessive force on Breonna Taylor during a botched 2020 drug raid that left her dead.

Surveillance video and bodycam footage captured the chaos unleashed during a mass shooting in downtown Orlando that left two dead and at least seven hurt while tens of thousands gathered for Halloween celebrations, according to the Orlando Police Department.

Specialist Wooster Rancy is charged with murder and obstructing justice linked to the death of Sgt. Sarah Roque, the Army said.

The agreement, which includes probation and time served, ends the Atlanta rap star’s part in a sprawling trial that began with jury selection in January 2023.

A Washington state man who authorities said killed at least 118 eagles as part of a wildlife trafficking ring that operated on a Native American reservation in Montana was sentenced Thursday to three years and 10 months in prison, and must pay more than $777,000 in restitution.

Jennifer Guilbeault has been charged with second-degree and third-degree assault as a hate crime after she allegedly pepper-sprayed her Uber driver as he was praying in Arabic on July 31.

A woman who was allegedly caught on surveillance video walking out of a Florida hair salon without paying for her hair extensions was arrested Wednesday, police said. 

The resentencing of Erik and Lyle Menendez will take place on Dec. 11, according to a court official.

Federal prosecutors say a former Louisville police detective’s actions were like “a drive-by shooting” the night of the deadly Breonna Taylor raid.