Crime and Courts

Five people have been charged with allegedly using children’s lunch boxes to ship millions of dollars in cocaine from Puerto Rico to New York, prosecutors said Wednesday. Authorities intercepted a total of 66 pounds of cocaine hidden inside school binders and lunch boxes with popular cartoon characters on them. U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents in New York on Wednesday...

A New York father charged with negligent homicide for his role in his 7-year-old son’s death is expected to appear in court on Thursday. Arturo Cuacuas allegedly left his son Peter Cuacuas in the care of his girlfriend, 39-year-old Letitia Bravo, when she brought “lifeless” Peter to Montefiore St. Luke’s Cornwall Hospital in Newburgh back on Feb. 10. The...

Five people have been charged in a scheme to smuggle millions of dollars in cocaine from Puerto Rico to New York and Massachusetts using the U.S. Postal Service.

The suspect allegedly behind a three-day crime spree that included bank robberies and a shooting aboard the subway at a Manhattan subway station has been identified by police, and now faces federal charges, officials said.

The trooper is accused of deliberately running a driver off the road, killing the driver’s 11-year-old daughter — who was in the car — in the process. NBC New York’s Jessica Cunnington reports.

“I think [social media] created a fake reality for him to escape his insecurities,” said the cousin of the TikTok star accused of killing his wife and a friend.

Pennsylvania prosecutors have dropped a felony theft charge against a man who underpaid for a soda by 43 cents.

A grand jury has returned an indictment against two law enforcement officers in the 2016 death of a man shot 76 times during an attempted fugitive arrest

A 58-year-old man who used to work as a bursar at City College of New York has been accused of stealing more than 900 checks from students, according to prosecutors. Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance announced Tuesday that Joseph Boselli of Hartsdale was charged with grand larceny, scheme to defraud and offering a false instrument for filing after Boselli allegedly…

The NYPD says the suspect who allegedly shot a man on a train in Union Square station was easily identifiable by his unique sneakers. NBC New York’s Checkey Beckford reports.

The suspect believed to be responsible for a shooting during an attempted robbery aboard a NYC subway has been arrested, police said, and it may have been something he was wearing that gave him away.

A 69-year-old Las Vegas woman is accused of defrauding the Social Security Administration of over $120,000 after she allegedly dismembered her dead husband’s body and threw his remains in the trash

Law enforcement officials in the U.S. and Europe have arrested 150 people and seized more than $31 million in an international drug trafficking investigation stemming from sales on the darknet

A 37-year-old Manhattan man has been arrested for allegedly defacing a statue of George Floyd in Union Square Park earlier this month, police said Monday. Michael Beals faces a single charge of criminal mischief in the vandalism, which was reported in the park’s south plaza on Oct. 3. It wasn’t immediately clear if he had an attorney who could...

A sheriff in Texas says the skeletal remains of a child and three abandoned children have been found in an apartment.

A New Jersey police department has decided to end the practice of releasing mugshots to the public of arrested individuals in relation to minor offenses, citing a disproportionate impact on marginalized communities. The Newark Police Department made that announcement early last week after a 2017 social media post recently gained viral attention and a spike in negative comments, according to…

A judge has rejected British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell’s bid to block the public and news media from jury selection in her New York City trial on charges she recruited teenage girls for financier Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse

An Amazon delivery driver was taken for a wild ride when he was carjacked Thursday afternoon in New Jersey, with the van ending up on railroad tracks.

A man is in custody in Florida after being arrested and charged with killing a man during a carjacking in New Jersey last month.

An associate of Rudy Giuliani hatched a scheme to funnel $1 million in funds from a wealthy Russian financier into U.S. elections knowing full well he was breaking campaign finance laws, a prosecutor said Thursday during closing arguments at a federal trial.