Crime and Courts

Dressed in a purple sleeveless shirt, purple basketball shorts and, seemingly, a pair of slide sandals, an unidentified good Samaritan tackled a man locked in a physical struggle with a police officer.

A decade-old scandal at a Massachusetts crime lab — which led authorities to dismiss tens of thousands of drug convictions — may involve wrongdoing by more people than was previously known, according to a recent court order. 

A man in Hawaii accused of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl last week kept the victim restrained in a yellow bus, according to court documents. The girl escaped from her abductor after she convinced him to take her to a cafe in Hilo on Saturday and bystanders intervened, according to police and the documents filed this week. Duncan…

A 2-year-old boy was found dead inside his family’s SUV hours after a man fatally shot his dad at a Houston gas station, then stole the vehicle, police said Wednesday.

The toddler was inadvertently left inside the truck for seven hours in 90 degree temperatures. He was discovered still in his car seat when the grandfather went to pick up the child from day care, where he thought he had been dropped off that morning.

Eleven worshippers were killed in the 2018 Pittsburg mass shooting in the deadliest attack on Jewish people in U.S. history.

The Washington Monument was vandalized with red paint and profanity on Tuesday night, and officials say it could take weeks to clean up. News4’s Dominique Moody reports.

A former Minneapolis police officer who pleaded guilty to a state charge of aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter in the killing of George Floyd was sentenced Wednesday to three years.

A man was arrested Tuesday night for allegedly dumping a bucket of paint and writing profanities on the Washington Monument.

A local elected official got court-appointed attorneys during his arraignment on Tuesday in the stabbing death of a Las Vegas investigative journalist who wrote articles critical of him and his managerial conduct.

The rap star has to stay away from the two sisters at the heart of the 2018 case out of Queens and complete 15 days of community service.

A former Mexican soccer star, Club Tijuana’s top goal scorer of all time, was arrested for alleged human trafficking Sunday trying to cross the border into the U.S.  

Former film producer Harvey Weinstein asked a judge Wednesday to allow him to see a private dentist to deal with dental problems that are causing him pain as he awaits trial on sex-related charges involving five women.

An Associated Press investigation found a woman informant was allegedly raped twice during an undercover drug sting last year in which her law enforcement handlers left her unmonitored and unprotected.

Juan Francisco Sillas-Rocha, known as “Ruedas,” or “Wheels,” was apprehended in Tijuana 11 years ago and has been fighting extradition to the United States.

A teenage human trafficking victim who was initially charged with first-degree murder after she stabbed her accused rapist to death has been sentenced to five years’ probation and ordered to pay $150,000 restitution to the man’s family.

During fight that allegedly began inside her apartment, he allegedly used a sword in a deadly attack on the street.

Former President Donald Trump’s longtime ally Steve Bannon surrendered Thursday to face state money laundering and conspiracy charges in New York alleging he duped donors who gave money to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. Bannon is scheduled to be arraigned Thursday afternoon.

Disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes requested a new trial Tuesday, asserting in a court filing that a key witness for the prosecution now regrets the role he played in her conviction for investor fraud and conspiracy related to her failed blood-testing startup.

Steve Bannon, a longtime ally of former President Donald Trump, said Tuesday that he expects to be charged soon in a state criminal case in New York City.