Crime and Courts

A 19-year-old woman was found dead Saturday morning, wrapped in plastic in Lower Manhattan, police said. NBC New York’s Anjali Hemphill reports.

A man who immigration authorities said was twice deported from the United States is going to prison for raping and killing a jogger in a New Jersey park in what local officials described at the time as a rare “stranger on stranger attack.“ A judge on Thursday sentenced Jorge Rios, 35, of Jersey City, to 30 years in prison for…

After spending decades behind bars for a double murder in New York City in 1996, three men will walk free Friday after having their wrongful convictions vacated. Chris Glorioso reports.

School administrators and town officials on Long Island issued a warning to parents at the end of the week following an attempted luring Thursday morning. NBC New York’s Greg Cergol reports.

The three men convicted of killing an NYPD officer are home with their families for the first time in more than 24 years, after prosecutors in the case withheld information during the trial. NBC New York’s Chris Glorioso reports.

School administrators and town officials on Long Island issued a warning to parents at the end of the week following an attempted luring Thursday morning. A 10-year-old boy had left his home in Russell Gardens, walking toward his school bus stop that morning when a light-colored van approached the boy, Nassau County police said. Officials said a man stepped out…

After spending decades behind bars for a double murder in New York City in 1996, three men will walk free Friday after having their wrongful convictions vacated. George Bell, Rohan Bolt and Gary Johnson were convicted in the Dec. 21, 1996 murders of Ira “Mike” Epstein and NYPD Police Officer Charles Davis in the course of robbing Epstein’s check-cashing business….

A federal grand jury returned two additional charges against one of the men accused of killing Run-DMC DJ Jam Master Jay inside his Queens studio in 2002, prosecutors said Friday. Karl Jordan Jr. faces an additional five years in prison if convicted on his latest charges, neither of which relate to the murder of Jason Mizell, known as Jam Master…

The founder of the anti-crime patrol in Brooklyn is facing federal charges, accused of transporting a minor for the intent of having having sex. NBC New York’s Myles Miller reports.

Another attack on an New York City resident of Asian descent has left a man bloody and bruised after a brutal surprise attack, police said

Gun arrests across the five boroughs remain at a record high, according to the latest NYPD crime statistics. Gun violence in the city remains a central focus for police, as investigators continue to work closely to build strong cases against those who traffic, sell or use illegal firearms. “Gun violence coming out of last year and into this year continues…

NBC New York’s Checkey Beckford reports.

The indictments handed up last month charge Mendez and Jackson with multiple counts including election fraud, unauthorized possession of ballots and falsifying or tampering with public records

A New Jersey man was arrested and charged in connection with the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol in January after FBI agents conducted a search at his Atlantic City home, law enforcement officials said. Authorities from the FBI, including members of its Joint Terrorism Task Force, descended on the home of James Rahm on Penrose Avenue Friday morning,...

A 31-year-old New Jersey man is accused of sexual assault, and other crimes, against children in his care, according to the Passaic County Prosecutor’s Office. Ricardo Palma, of Passaic, was arrested Tuesday and has been charged with two counts of second degree sexual assault, three counts of second degree endangering the welfare of a child, two counts of third...

In what is the latest in a string of violence on New York City subways in recent weeks, police said a man slashed two others on a platform of a Manhattan station Tuesday morning.

The 22-year-old suspect was involved in an argument with two men before allegedly slicing them, the latest in a recent string of subway violence. NBC New York’s Erica Byfield reports.

An indictment charges a New Jersey school bus company with failing to conduct criminal background checks or drug tests, and using unsafe buses

Two men are facing sexual assault charges in connection to an alleged attack on a 15-year-old girl brought to New Jersey from Ohio with a 14-year-old friend, the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office announced Tuesday. Norman Berry, 32 and of the Bronx, was charged with sexual assault in the second degree, criminal sexual contact in the fourth degree and four counts…

Authorities say a police officer in Virginia has been shot and killed by a driver during a traffic stop