Crime and Courts

Investigators said they found an unserialized “ghost gun” inside Gonzalez’s car, ammunition in the center console and blood on the center portion of the steering wheel.

Six people were found dead on the property in Aguanga, in Riverside County, and a woman who was shot there died later at a hospital

A George Mason University freshman was arrested by the FBI and charged with distributing information about weapons of mass destruction online, after plotting a mass-casualty attack against people at the Israeli consulate in New York, according to court documents.

An Indiana man convicted in the 2017 killings of two teenage girls who vanished during a winter hike will face the maximum sentence of 130 years in prison, a judge ruled Friday in the case that’s long cast a shadow over the teens’ small hometown of Delphi.

Federal agents detained a 20-year-old Carlsbad man in connection with the deadly school shooting in Madison, Wisconsin. They say he was communicating with the teen who killed two people before turning the gun on herself. NBC 7’s Shelby Bremer reports on Dec. 19, 2024.

A Southern California political operative is accused of acting on behalf of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) as an illegal foreign agent. 

The autopsy report of a woman found in a chest freezer in Allied Gardens reveals her husband threatened his friend at gunpoint to help him move the body and keep her death a secret.

A lawyer for celebrity pastor Bishop T.D. Jakes filed a motion seeking more information about four YouTube accounts posting salacious misinformation about him.

Police and FBI agents went to the home of Alexander Paffendorf to seize his guns and ammunition after a San Diego Superior Court judge approved a gun violence restraining order, documents show. NBC 7’s Nicole Gomez has more. 

A former bank teller is accused of embezzling more than $180,000 from customer accounts, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said Thursday.

Boston Scientific’s Relievant Medsystems used at least 25 unclaimed bodies for training, including that of a murdered 21-year-old woman whose family was fighting to bring her home. The company said it didn’t know.

Aurimar Iturriago Villegas left Venezuela hoping to lift her family out of poverty. When she was murdered, her corpse became a commodity in the U.S. body trade.

The Ivy League graduate was indicted on murder as an act of terrorism in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

Dozens of men, including the ex-husband of Gisèle Pelicot, were found guilty of raping and sexually assaulting her in a historic trial that shocked France. 

A 20-year-old Carlsbad man has been ordered to surrender his guns after authorities said he communicated with the teenage girl who committed a fatal school shooting in Wisconsin, allegedly expressing his own plans to carry out a deadly attack against a government building.

In addition to state murder charges already filed, federal prosecutors are looking into whether to file additional criminal charges against the suspect charged in gunning down UnitedHealthcare’s CEO outside a midtown Manhattan hotel.

The Justice Department has unsealed a civil complaint alleging CVS Pharmacy Inc. and various subsidiaries filled unlawful prescriptions in violation of the federal Controlled Substances Act.

San Diego police arrested Robert Coleman last week after they say he used a sledgehammer to get into three restaurants. Now, he’s being looked at for several other burglaries.

A Fort Lauderdale tennis coach who’s the grandson of tennis legend Bobby Riggs has been arrested on federal child sex abuse charges, authorities said.

State leaders say the federal government has “stonewalled” their attempts to investigate the September assassination attempt. Ryan Routh already faces federal charges.