Crime and Courts

The suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO has added a prominent defense lawyer to his legal team as Manhattan prosecutors work to return him from Pennsylvania to face a murder charge. Luigi Mangione will be represented by Karen Friedman Agnifilo, who was a high-ranking deputy in the Manhattan district attorney’s office for years before entering private practice. Friedman Agnifilo’s...

Angel Garcia and Armando Alvarado were found guilty in the Nov. 25, 2020, shooting death of 18-year-old Eduardo Salguero, in what prosecutors said was a robbery gone wrong.

From Utah to the U.K., authorities set on a worldwide chase to find the man, once praised for his work as a child advocate, behind a fake death and years of rape and fraud allegations.

Paula Abdul and former “American Idol” producer Nigel Lythgoe have agreed to settle a lawsuit in which she alleged he sexually assaulted her in the early 2000s when she was a judge on the show.

Police in California gave the FBI a tip about alleged UnitedHealthcare CEO killer Luigi Mangione a number of days before he was finally tracked down and captured, according to two senior officials.

The leader of UnitedHealth Group wrote that the health insurance executive gunned down on a Manhattan sidewalk last week cared about consumers and was working to make the system better.

An incoming West Virginia state lawmaker was arrested Thursday after he allegedly threatened to kill other state lawmakers.

The woman who in 2006 falsely accused three Duke University lacrosse players of raping her has admitted publicly for the first time that she made up the story.

Daniel Penny was acquitted of the charges he faced in New York over the 2023 chokehold death of homeless man Jordan Neely.

Oren and Alon Alexander, granted pre-trial release from Miami’s state cases, remain in custody before a federal hearing next week. The brothers are accused in a sexual assault investigation involving dozens in South Florida and New York.

Two people have been charged with animal cruelty after police say they “brutally” killed a pet rabbit during a party in Massachusetts.

San Diego police homicide investigators say Mary Haxby-Jones had been missing or dead for up to nine years before her body was found. NBC 7’s Dave Summers reports on Dec. 12, 2024.

A man and woman who took part in a crime spree that included shootings and carjackings stretching from Imperial Beach to Encinitas were sentenced to lengthy state prison terms.

Alejandro Jose Confesor faces up to 25 years to life in state prison if convicted, according to prosecutors

Taylor, a 26-year-old Black woman, was roused from her bed by police who came through the door using a battering ram after midnight on March 13, 2020.

For weeks, a burglar with a sledgehammer has been breaking into dozens of restaurants and businesses. Three more places were hit on Thursday, but this time, police finally made an arrest. NBC 7’s Shelby Bremer reports on Dec. 12, 2024.

A neighbor told NBC 7 this week that Robert Haxby was hospitalized not long before out-of-town family members reporter the grisly discovery to police last December.

Sean “Diddy” Combs has been granted a laptop to review documents in his federal case as he awaits trial in jail, according to a court order obtained by E! News.

A former FBI informant accused of falsely claiming that President Joe Biden and his son Hunter accepted bribes has agreed to plead guilty to federal charges, according to court papers filed Thursday.

The 32-year-old DJ was booked for misdemeanor domestic violence Tuesday evening and later posted bail.