Crime and Courts

A 36-year-old New Jersey woman has been arrested and charged for allegedly abusing two children she cared for in her home daycare, officials said.

A former New Jersey police officer pleaded guilty after an investigation revealed that he hacked into the social media accounts of multiple women and then distributed nude photos they kept of themselves, officials said.

“This case is a tragic reminder of the dangers of street drugs,” Platte County Prosecutor Eric Zahnd told a news conference Wednesday.

New York authorities on Wednesday outlined an astonishing story of kidnap, torture and sexual assault in the killing of Sam Nordquist, a transgender man from Minnesota.

Jaythan Gilder, 32, allegedly swiped two pairs of earrings worth $769,500 from a Tiffany & Co. in Orlando before taking the expensive gulp, police said.

A masseuse at Trump National in Doral was arrested Sunday after being accused of inappropriately touching a 17-year-old police said.

The New Jersey man is accused of stealing cash and gift cards totaling nearly $20,000 and causing $10,000 in property damage.

A suburban Chicago man accused of carrying out the 2022 July 4 Highland Park parade shooting that killed seven people and wounded dozens more has agreed to plead guilty on the day opening arguments in his trial were set to begin.

The father is a suspect, but he’s never been charged with killing his sons. He received a 15-year sentence for failing to give them back to their mom.

The trial of a suburban Chicago man accused of carrying out the 2022 July 4 Highland Park parade shooting that killed seven people and wounded dozens more begins Monday at the Lake County Courthouse in Waukegan.

Stephen Craig Campbell, 76, was arrested this month at his home in New Mexico after more than four decades on the run.

The Calhoun County Sheriff’s office said they believe the booby trap was intended to be aimed at law enforcement.

Joshua Cheatom of Maple Shade Township, has been arrested following multiple incidents of peering into windows and lewdness at an apartment complex.

Popular social media personalities Andrew and Tristan Tate are returning to the U.S. from Romania after officials lifted travel restrictions.

Joseph Czuba, 73, is accused of fatally stabbing the 6-year-old and wounding the boy’s mother, who were his tenants, after the Israel-Hamas war started in 2023.

A Montana man has been sentenced to four years of probation for threatening to assault former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.

Beau Shroyer, 44, from Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, was found dead in a vehicle in Thienjo, a town in southern Angola, in October last year.

A settlement claims the delivery platform “used tips to offset the base pay it had already guaranteed to workers, instead of giving workers the full tips they rightfully earned.”

Despite documented problems with the evidence against him and an earlier request from prosecutors to clear his record, Adnan Syed will remain a convicted murderer, according to court papers filed Tuesday night.

The suspected Gilgo Beach serial killer was back in court for another pre-trial hearing on Tuesday, during which time prosecutors shared some new information about the man accused of killing seven women.