Crime and Courts

Boston Scientific’s Relievant Medsystems used at least 25 unclaimed bodies for training, including that of a murdered 21-year-old woman whose family was fighting to bring her home. The company said it didn’t know.

Aurimar Iturriago Villegas left Venezuela hoping to lift her family out of poverty. When she was murdered, her corpse became a commodity in the U.S. body trade.

The Ivy League graduate was indicted on murder as an act of terrorism in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

Dozens of men, including the ex-husband of Gisèle Pelicot, were found guilty of raping and sexually assaulting her in a historic trial that shocked France. 

A 20-year-old Carlsbad man has been ordered to surrender his guns after authorities said he communicated with the teenage girl who committed a fatal school shooting in Wisconsin, allegedly expressing his own plans to carry out a deadly attack against a government building.

In addition to state murder charges already filed, federal prosecutors are looking into whether to file additional criminal charges against the suspect charged in gunning down UnitedHealthcare’s CEO outside a midtown Manhattan hotel.

The Justice Department has unsealed a civil complaint alleging CVS Pharmacy Inc. and various subsidiaries filled unlawful prescriptions in violation of the federal Controlled Substances Act.

A Fort Lauderdale tennis coach who’s the grandson of tennis legend Bobby Riggs has been arrested on federal child sex abuse charges, authorities said.

State leaders say the federal government has “stonewalled” their attempts to investigate the September assassination attempt. Ryan Routh already faces federal charges.

Five family members were found dead at their home outside of Salt Lake City on Tuesday. Police in Utah say the lone survivor of the isolated incident is a teenage boy.

Ohad Fisherman, a friend of the Alexander brothers, is accused of joining Alon and Oren in assaulting a 25-year-old woman at a New Year’s Eve party on Miami Beach in 2016.

Megan Thee Stallion has asked a court to issue a restraining order against rapper Tory Lanez.

The woman was accused of selling counterfeit versions of popular weight loss drugs including Ozempic and Wegovy. Experts say fakes have exploded in the U.S.

In a news conference on Tuesday, Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg discussed the charges for the shooting of Brian Thompson on Dec. 4. 

The 26-year-old Ivy League grad charged with murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on a Manhattan sidewalk this month has been indicted by a grand jury in the case, the district attorney’s office announced Tuesday. Luigi Mangione stands accused of first-degree murder, in furtherance of terrorism; second-degree murder, one count of which is charged as killing as an act of terrorism;...

Bob Lee, who founded the popular money transfer service Cash App, was fatally stabbed by an IT consultant after an argument about the suspect’s sister, prosecutors said.

The New York City architect arrested last year in connection with a string of cold case bodies found on Long Island’s Gilgo Beach has been charged with another woman’s murder, bringing the body count against him thus far to seven, according to a superseding indictment unsealed Tuesday. Rex Heuermann is accused of murdering Valerie Mack, an escort who vanished in...

The accused stowaway on a flight from New York to Paris in November has been arrested again, this time caught at the U.S.-Canada border after ditching her ankle bracelet monitor, according to a senior official briefed on the matter.

Jay-Z’s lawyer expects the hip-hop mogul, whose real name is Shawn Carter, to soon be “cleared” from a lawsuit that accuses him and rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs of raping a minor in 2000, he told NBC News on Monday. 

A California man has been sentenced to more than three years in prison for running a business to help pregnant Chinese women travel to the United States to deliver babies who would automatically have American citizenship.