Crime and Courts

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.

An Orlando-area bail bondsman was arrested and accused of making women have sex with him in exchange for bonding them out of jail after a years-long investigation, according to the Metropolitan Bureau of Investigation (MBI).

The woman and another man kidnapped the victim and kept him locked in his car’s trunk as they drove around the Navajo Nation. Then, her co-defendant stabbed him to death.

Ed Kelley, who faces charges over Jan. 6 and plotting to murder FBI special agents, is an anti-abortion activist and was the fourth rioter to enter the Capitol, federal authorities say.

David DePape, the man who attacked Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul Pelosi, was sentenced to life without parole on his state conviction for the October 2022 assault.

David DePape, the man who attacked Nancy Pelosi’s husband in their San Francisco home two years ago, was sentenced to life without parole Tuesday on his state conviction.

Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine was arrested in New York City on Tuesday for alleged parole violations.

After the L.A. District Attorney recommended resentencing Erik Menendez and Lyle Menendez — who are serving life in prison for murdering their parents — Erik’s wife Tammi Menendez shared her thoughts.

A white Minneapolis man accused of shooting and critically injuring his Black neighbor was arrested early Monday following a SWAT standoff, after the department faced backlash for failing to address his escalating threats that turned violent.

The coach of a Brooklyn youth travel baseball team sexually abused multiple teenage boys who played for him, repeatedly insisting the players expose themselves and at times even refusing to stop difficult training exercises until they did so, according to the district attorney.

A firefighter and paramedic in Oklahoma was arrested in North Texas after investigators said he fell for a sex crime ruse, where he intended to meet and have sex with a teenage girl.

One person was killed and a second was injured in a shooting at Chicago’s Belmont Harbor early Saturday morning, authorities said.

A Florida woman accused of zipping her boyfriend in a suitcase and leaving him in there to suffocate was found guilty of murder on Friday, four years after what she had initially described to authorities as a case of drunken hide-and-seek gone wrong.