Crime and Courts

Apologetic rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine was sentenced Tuesday to 45 days in prison by a federal judge who said repeated violations of his probation after his cooperation against a violent gang won him leniency in a criminal case show that he doesn’t have sufficient respect for judicial system rules.

A loyal dog that refused to leave his dead owner’s side helped solve the case of her murder by allowing detectives to identify her body, prosecutors said.

Sean Higgins appeared in Salem County court on Tuesday, Nov. 12, for a brief hearing where the judge, his attorneys and the prosecutor agreed to an extension on the next steps in the case. This is video of the entire hearing.

The man accused of being drunk when his car struck and killed NHL star Johnny Gaudreau and brother Matthew as they biked near their South Jersey hometown the night before their sister’s wedding appeared in person in court Tuesday morning for a hearing.

A SEPTA transit officer has been arrested by the FBI and charged with sharing child pornography. SEPTA officials said the man has been placed on leave pending an investigation.

A man accused of murder after a 911 call about a fake bear attack in the mountains of Tennessee led authorities to a dead man in October has been found and arrested, police said Sunday, NBC News reported.

The jury, which has been requested for 26 days, deliberated for 19.5 hours, WTHR said. Allen is expected to be sentenced Dec. 20.

The jury in the trial of an Indiana man charged with murder in the 2017 killings of two teenage girls who vanished during an afternoon hike near their small hometown of Delphi has reached a verdict after days of deliberations.

A 37-year-old Irish man was arrested in connection with the murder of an American woman vacationing in Budapest, local police said.

Will JonBenét Ramsey’s killer finally be brought to justice 28 years after her murder? The upcoming Netflix docuseries “Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey” claims that authorities continue to mishandle the case of the death of the 6-year-old in 1996, including the not-so-subtle blame they placed on the family.

Iran’s government directed three people to “target our citizens, including President-elect Trump, on U.S. soil and abroad,” the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York alleged.

Attorneys for Bryan Kohberger — the Pennsylvania man charged with murder in the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students — have asked a judge to take the death penalty off the table.

Zachary Alam was one of the first rioters sentenced since this week’s electoral victory by President-elect Donald Trump.

The deadline to submit bids and nondisclosure agreements on the Infowars assets is Friday afternoon.

Now that Donald Trump has won the presidency, questions turn to whether he’ll face federal prosecution for the current cases he has. NBC10’s Claudia Vargas details what cases are ongoing and what is likely to happen now that he is President-elect.

Germany’s federal prosecutor office said it arrested an American citizen on Thursday who allegedly spied for China.

Celebrity chef Tobias Dorzon was shot then apparently robbed in Hyattsville, Maryland, shocking surveillance video shows.

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.

Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine struck a deal to end his current jail stint, agreeing to serve a month behind bars for violating the terms of his release after a felony conviction, prosecutors said Wednesday.

A postal worker and her friend were arrested Wednesday in connection with the forging of stolen mail ballots in an alleged attempt to test the security of Colorado’s voting system, according to court documents.