Crime and Courts

Operations specialist seaman apprentice Albert Soto, who was assigned to the San Diego-based destroyer USS Pinckney, was shot to death on Aug. 30.

The suspect showed up uninvited at the septuagenarian’s home on Carmel Valley Road and asked her if her dogs needed to be washed, authorities said

A federal jury on Friday convicted a former Kentucky police detective of using excessive force on Breonna Taylor during a botched 2020 drug raid that left her dead.

Surveillance video and bodycam footage captured the chaos unleashed during a mass shooting in downtown Orlando that left two dead and at least seven hurt while tens of thousands gathered for Halloween celebrations, according to the Orlando Police Department.

Specialist Wooster Rancy is charged with murder and obstructing justice linked to the death of Sgt. Sarah Roque, the Army said.

The agreement, which includes probation and time served, ends the Atlanta rap star’s part in a sprawling trial that began with jury selection in January 2023.

A Washington state man who authorities said killed at least 118 eagles as part of a wildlife trafficking ring that operated on a Native American reservation in Montana was sentenced Thursday to three years and 10 months in prison, and must pay more than $777,000 in restitution.

A woman suspected of stealing more than a quarter of a million dollars worth of jewelry from a 78-year-old Imperial Beach resident was arrested Wednesday.

Joshua Gilliland, 47, was killed on June 10, 2023, as he walked to his job at Cheers on Adams Avenue, reports NBC 7’s Kelvin Henry.

Jennifer Guilbeault has been charged with second-degree and third-degree assault as a hate crime after she allegedly pepper-sprayed her Uber driver as he was praying in Arabic on July 31.

A woman who was allegedly caught on surveillance video walking out of a Florida hair salon without paying for her hair extensions was arrested Wednesday, police said. 

Joshua Gilliland, 47, was killed on June 10, 2023, as he walked to his job at Cheers on Adams Avenue

The resentencing of Erik and Lyle Menendez will take place on Dec. 11, according to a court official.

Federal prosecutors say a former Louisville police detective’s actions were like “a drive-by shooting” the night of the deadly Breonna Taylor raid.

A murder trial has begun for a man who is accused of driving drunk and causing a 2023 crash that killed a beloved bartender before he fled the scene.

An Orlando-area bail bondsman was arrested and accused of making women have sex with him in exchange for bonding them out of jail after a years-long investigation, according to the Metropolitan Bureau of Investigation (MBI).

The woman and another man kidnapped the victim and kept him locked in his car’s trunk as they drove around the Navajo Nation. Then, her co-defendant stabbed him to death.

Ed Kelley, who faces charges over Jan. 6 and plotting to murder FBI special agents, is an anti-abortion activist and was the fourth rioter to enter the Capitol, federal authorities say.

Isaac Shekhayem of San Marcos, 17, was with a group of people in a parking lot when a vehicle stopped and the shooter stepped out and opened fire

David DePape, the man who attacked Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul Pelosi, was sentenced to life without parole on his state conviction for the October 2022 assault.