Crime and Courts

President Donald Trump’s effort to install political loyalists as top federal prosecutors has run into a legal buzz saw lately, with judges ruling that his handpicked U.S. attorneys for New Jersey, eastern Virginia, Nevada and Los Angeles were all serving unlawfully. Now, another federal judge is poised to consider an argument&...

Minutes after police approached Luigi Mangione in a Pennsylvania McDonald’s, he told an officer he didn’t want to talk, according to video and testimony at a court hearing Thursday for the man charged with killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Although some video and accounts of police interactions with Mangio...

A high-stakes hearing in the murder case against Luigi Mangione continued Thursday, a year to the day after prosecutors say he gunned down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in midtown Manhattan. Mangione, 27, has pleaded not guilty to both state and federal charges in the death of the 50-year-old Thompson, who was shot from behind as he walked to...

A high-stakes hearing in the New York murder case against Luigi Mangione continues Thursday, a year to the day after prosecutors say he gunned down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Mangione, 27, has pleaded not guilty to both state and federal charges. Before any trials get scheduled, his lawyers are trying to preclude the eventual jurors from ...

A man has pleaded guilty to two counts of assault in a vicious attack on the manager of a Manhattan pizza place last year that put the victim in a coma and saw him mauled by a dog, prosecutors said Wednesday. Tyshaun Watson, of Secaucus, New Jersey, initially was indicted on attempted murder and other more serious offenses. The plea…

A 45-year-old man with a lengthy criminal history has been charged with persistent sexual abuse and forcible touching in an incident that a New York University student called “honestly, the scariest experience of my life.” Traumatized and shaken, Amelia Lewis took to TikTok to talk about a stranger who randomly attacked her Monday morni...

A person is in custody after allegedly attacking an NYU student on her way to class. The incident that put the campus on alert happened near Broadway and Waverly Place. NBC New York’s Melissa Colorado reports.

Suspected murderer Luigi Mangione was back in court for the second straight day for a series of pre-trial hearings having to do with evidence collected in the case and what will be allowed to be admitted. NBC New York’s Erica Byfield reports.

A Queens man was sentenced to 28 1/2 years to life in prison for a deadly Mother’s Day hit-and-run crash in 2022 that pinned the victim in between two vehicles in front of her home home, the local district attorney’s office announced. Roosevelt Rose, 59, was convicted in July of murder in the second degree, assault, criminal mischief an...

Video shown in court Tuesday documented how police approached, arrested and searched Luigi Mangione at a Pennsylvania McDonald’s — moments that underlie key questions about what evidence can and can’t be used in the case surrounding the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. The footage was taken on Dec. 9, 2024, five days afte...

A SoHo boutique that caters exclusively to famous clientele was left to pick up the pieces after an early morning break-in burglary by thieves who allegedly made off with nearly $2 million in stolen goods. 4G Sellers is the kind of New York City clothing store most people don’t know about — and that’s not because they haven’t been...

The owner of an exclusive SoHo boutique said thieves broke into the store and stole nearly $2 million worth of merchandise. NBC New York’s Ida Siegal reports.

Accused CEO killer Luigi Mangione is back in a lower Manhattan courtroom. His legal team is trying to get evidence tossed out, based on what the police did and did not do following his arrest almost a year ago. NBC New York’s Erica Byfield reports.