Crime and Courts

A former career American diplomat was charged Monday with serving as a secret agent for communist Cuba going back decades in what prosecutors portrayed as one of the most brazen and long-running betrayals in the history of the U.S. foreign service.

Four family members were killed in a violent stabbing spree at a Queens, New York residence early Sunday morning, police officials said, and the relative behind the attack went after two police officers before one shot him dead in the driveway.

Gregorian Bivolaru was known by his followers as “Grieg” and their guide through tantra yoga toward enlightenment and a higher state of consciousness.

A federal lawsuit accuses police officers of illegally entering a Maryland apartment without a warrant, detaining roommates and unnecessarily shooting their pet dog, which was left paralyzed and ultimately euthanized.

Authorities said at least 16 victims, many of them gay men, were targeted from September 2021 to August 2022 at bars and nightclubs, then often drugged and robbed of thousands of dollars while they were incapacitated.

Comedian Russell Brand has been interviewed by British police over three alleged sexual offenses.

A missing Florida woman was found dead in her estranged husband’s storage unit, authorities said.

A Los Angeles judge says there is enough evidence for A$AP Rocky to stand trial on charges that he fired a gun at a former friend and collaborator outside a Hollywood hotel in 2021.

Two people in Kentucky have been arrested in connection with an alleged murder after authorities said they believed they found the body of a 4-year-old girl who was reported missing this week but has not been seen since September.

Karen Koep and Davido were reported missing on Monday after Koep did not show up to work and no one could reach the couple

A U.S. Postal Service worker and two others have been charged in a scheme in which $24 million worth of checks were stolen from the mail and offered for sale online, federal prosecutors said.

The FBI has arrested a Miami Police officer who used traffic stops to steal money and drugs from people he thought were suspects but who turned out to be undercover agents, officials said.

Federal authorities say raids on storage facilities in New York City turned up a huge haul of counterfeit handbags, shoes and other luxury merchandise that could have been worth more than $1 billion if the knockoffs had been real.

A Broward Circuit Judge has reset the start date for YNW Melly’s double murder retrial to February 5th, after prosecutors requested more time for preparation.

Las Vegas police say eight teenagers were arrested in connection to the fatal beating of Jonathan Lewis, a 17-year-old student at Rancho High School. Police are searching for two additional suspects who were seen in a video of the incident that was shared online.

Police are searching for a man accused of stealing a police car from UDC’s campus.

Dallas Police Chief Eddie Garcia says it’s a sign that his violent crime reduction plan is working in some areas, but murders are up compared to last year, with at least four cases reported within the last week. NBC 5’s Candace Sweat talks with the chief about the challenges and some successes in the region’s crime fight.

The slayings of four University of Idaho students one year ago stunned the bucolic college town of Moscow, bedeviled its small police force and — because of the nature of the crime and weeks without a named suspect — spawned countless conspiracies from social media sleuths fixated with finding the killer.

Authorities have identified a 5-year-old girl whose body was found encased in concrete and dumped in rural Georgia woods nearly 35 years ago.

Police have released a suspect in the fatal stabbing of a Detroit synagogue leader. The suspect’s lawyer, Allison Kriger, confirmed the release but declined to elaborate further.