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A longtime resident of New York City was honored Wednesday for warning authorities about one of the devices in last year’s bombing in Chelsea and “saving countless lives.”

The brother of Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez created “state-sponsored” drug trafficking by corrupting the country’s politics to protect drug dealers, a prosecutor told a jury during closing arguments Wednesday at a drug trial. Assistant U.S. Attorney Emil Bove in New York made the allegation as he asked a jury to convict Juan Antonio (Tony) Hernandez, 41, a former Honduran...

A Coast Guard lieutenant accused of stockpiling weapons and drafting a hit list of prominent Democrats and TV journalists pleaded guilty Thursday to gun and drug charges.

A staff sergeant who led the U.S. Army’s communications detail at President Donald Trump’s club in Florida, Mar-a-Lago, admitted to lying to federal officers during a child pornography investigation, NBC News reports. Richard Ciccarella, 34, was alleged to have posted photographs of a young relative with the caption “dirty comment’s [sic] welcome” on a Russian message board between November 2017...

A former American Airlines mechanic who prosecutors say may have some links to terrorists pleaded not guilty Friday to charges that he sabotaged an aircraft with 150 people aboard. The plea came at a hearing in Miami federal court for Abdul-Majeed Marouf Ahmed Alani, 60. He’s charged with deliberately disabling a key navigation component inside the Boeing 737 at Miami...

A judge presiding over the disciplinary trial of the NYPD officer accused of using a banned chokehold in the July 2014 death of Eric Garner has recommended the cop be fired.

The judge recommended that Daniel Pantaleo be fired for the role he played in the death of Eric Garner five years ago, and the mayor, Garner’s family and other New Yorkers were happy justice was served, they said. Police officials meanwhile were upset with the ruling. NBC 4 has team coverage with Andrew Siff, Melissa Russo and Erica Byfield reporting.

Federal prosecutors are suing that landlord — Larry Nelson — for “severe, pervasive, and unwelcomed sexual harassment” of poor, sometimes homeless women.

A subdued Jeffrey Epstein listened passively in court Wednesday as a judge said he won’t face trial on sex trafficking charges before June 2020, and more likely a few months afterward.

A Florida lawmaker known as a champion for child sexual abuse victims asked Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday to authorize a state investigation into the circumstances of wealthy convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s freedom to leave jail on work release a decade ago. Democratic state Sen. Lauren Book said in a letter Tuesday that the Republican governor should order a...

The U.S. Department of Justice will not file charges against the NYPD officer accused of using a deadly chokehold on Eric Garner, whose final words, “I can’t breathe,” became a rallying cry for the national Black Lives Matter movement, federal prosecutors announced Tuesday.

Five years after Eric Garner died in a confrontation with police on Staten Island, the officer will not face federal civil rights charges, the Justice Department has ruled. Two rallies were set for Tuesday night in response to the decision. NBC 4 New York’s Andrew Siff reports.

Federal prosecutors say a search of Jeffrey Epstein’s home safe turned up a bogus passport that listed a Saudi Arabia residence along with “piles of cash” and “dozens of diamonds.” Assistant U.S. Attorney Alex Rossmiller revealed at a bail hearing in Manhattan federal court Monday that the passport, issued in the 1980s, has a photo of Epstein but a different...

The contents of a safe, including a pile of cash and diamonds, at the billionaire’s Upper East Side townhouse may impact whether Epstein will be free on bail or not before his trial. NBC 4 New York’s Gus Rosendale reports.

The son of a man with alleged mob ties who was shot to death at a New York City McDonald’s drive-thru last year was arrested on murder-for hire charges in connection with the plot to take out his father and brother, federal prosecutors announced Tuesday.

Two mob hits targeting a father and son were planned by the dead father’s other son for more than a year, who claimed the pair were ruining his business. NBC 4 New York’s Michael George reports.

A chief medical examiner from St. Louis flown in as a key expert witness in the administrative trial of a New York City police officer accused of killing Eric Garner several years ago testified Wednesday that a chokehold did not kill Garner, contradicting the ruling of the New York City medical examiner.

The defense rested its case after two witnesses, including a medical examiner from St. Louis, testified that Eric Garner died as a result of heart condition — not a chokehold. NBC 4 New York’s Andrew Siff reports.

A college student pleaded guilty Tuesday to sneaking into Mar-a-Lago during President Donald Trump’s Thanksgiving visit in a manner similar to how a Chinese national gained admission four months later. University of Wisconsin student Mark Lindblom apologized Tuesday and received a year’s probation after federal prosecutors agreed he meant no harm when he sneaked into the Palm Beach...

A federal grand jury has indicted the man suspected in the deadly shooting at a synagogue in Poway last month and arson at an Escondido mosque; he is now facing 113 federal counts, including hate crimes.