Crime and Courts

A former high-level DEA agent conspired to launder millions of dollars and obtain military-grade weapons for a Mexican drug cartel, an indictment alleges.

For years, the 1997 killing of a young woman found in a Long Island state park — her body dismembered, left unidentifiable beyond a tattoo of a peach — seemed destined to remain unsolved. But this week, police arrested and charged a man with murdering the woman, since identified as Tanya Denise Jackson, according to two people familiar with the investigation.

Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine was sentenced to three more months in prison Friday for violating the terms of his supervised release in a New York gang case.

Authorities Friday looked for a group of thieves who stole thousands of dollars worth of Pokémon cards from a Burbank business.

For 28 years, a tattoo was all investigators seemed to know about a female murder victim linked to a case out of Gilgo Beach, Long Island. Greg Cergol with the details. 

Heather Gibbs, the chief operating officer of Joe Gibbs Racing, said she’s operating under the current system “with a gun to my head.”

A pretrial hearing on Luigi Mangione’s bid to exclude evidence from his state murder case was postponed Friday because the defendant is sick, his lawyers and the judge said. The hearing is slated to resume Monday. Mangione is seeking to exclude a gun, notebook and other items police officers say they found in his backpack when he was arrested...

A Florida cheerleader was found asphyxiated under a bed on a Carnival Cruise ship inside a room she was sharing with her stepbrother, according to a new legal filing in a separate case.

Robert Cosby Jr., the son of “Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” star Mary Cosby, has pleaded guilty to charges of assault and violating a protective order, court documents show.

Luigi Mangione, the man accused of killing the UnitedHealthcare CEO, was back in court Thursday for more pre-trial proceedings — exactly one year since the shocking murder on a midtown sidewalk. NBC New York’s Erica Byfield reports.

A man was taken into custody after he was accused of brutally stabbing and killing the owners of a beloved Long Island deli. It happened during the breakfast rush, and witnesses said they believe the alleged killer is the couple’s own son. NBC New York’s Pei-Sze Cheng reports.

Police arrested an 18-year-old who they believe set a homeless person on fire aboard a 3 train in Manhattan. The suspect was arrested and taken into custody by members of a joint task force, and now faces attempted murder charges. NBC New York’s Charles Watson reports.

A man is in custody, accused of brutally stabbing and killing the owners of a beloved Italian deli on Long Island, and witnesses say the alleged killer is the couple’s own son. Crime scene detectives could be seen removing evidence from A&A Deli in Bethpage for hours on Thursday, as grieving family members and long time customers were trying...

Police arrested a teenager believed to be responsible for a terrifying attack on the subway in which a homeless man was set on fire aboard a train in Manhattan.

Brian Cole Jr., 30, was arrested and charged in connection to explosives left near DNC and RNC headquarters in Washington, D.C., the day before Jan. 6.

The NYPD is searching for a person who, they said, stole about $40,000 from a commercial vehicle in Washington Heights in October. According to police, on Oct. 21, at around 11:30 p.m., a person broke into a commercial vehicle in front of 2001 Amsterdam Avenue and took a bag with about $40,000 before escaping. Police describe the thief as a…

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 by New York Attorney General Letitia James that the administration also twisted...

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 Mangione emerged earlier in this week’s hearing, Thursday’s session brought new glimpses of the lead-up...

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 an investor conference on...

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 hearing about his alleged…