Crime and Courts

Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine struck a deal to end his current jail stint, agreeing to serve a month behind bars for violating the terms of his release after a felony conviction, prosecutors said Wednesday.

A postal worker and her friend were arrested Wednesday in connection with the forging of stolen mail ballots in an alleged attempt to test the security of Colorado’s voting system, according to court documents.

Rene Cruz, 27, pulled up next to victims in a white Toyota sedan or silver Buick SUV, then exposed himself through an open passenger-side door, according to investigators.

Atlantic City Mayor Marty Small’s lawyer calls the latest charge “sheer nonsense” and says Small asked his daughter to tell the truth.

A 53-year-old woman from Germantown, Maryland, and a 40-year-old woman from Philadelphia were charged for an alleged murder-for-hire plot targeting the 53-year-old’s ex-boyfriend, according to police.

Military contractor Leonard Glenn “Fat Leonard” Francis was sentenced to 15 years in prison and was ordered to pay $20 million restitution, NBC 7’s Todd Strain reports. 

Military contractor Leonard Glenn “Fat Leonard” Francis was sentenced to 15 years in prison and was ordered to pay $20 million restitution.

Military contractor Leonard Glenn “Fat Leonard” Francis will be sentenced on Tuesday, nearly nine years after pleading guilty to bribing Navy officials in a wide-ranging corruption scheme.

Two former Georgia election workers who were awarded the massive judgment reported to the court that they went to Giuliani’s Manhattan apartment last week to see what assets were there, but that it had been cleared out.

Skyler Philippi, 24, of Columbia, Tennessee, was arrested after the FBI found he planned to attach a bomb to a drone and fly it into an energy facility.

“When he heard that she’s afraid of flying, he took a bottle of alcohol out of [his] bag and said it would help her relax,” prosecutors wrote in a sentencing memorandum

A former police officer was convicted of murder in the 2020 shooting of Andre Hill, a Black man who was holding a cellphone and keys when he was killed.

YNW Melly is seeking immediate release from prison in a new lawsuit, in which he accuses the Broward Sheriff’s Office of cruel treatment and violating his constitutional rights.

The FBI is investigating the death of a Black man in Alabama who was found hanging in an abandoned house.

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.