Crime and Courts

News 4’s Jonathan Dienst reports.

At least four gold bars found in the FBI search of Sen. Robert Menendez’s home had been directly linked to a New Jersey businessman now accused of bribing the state’s senior senator, records show

A Queens man working at a state-run residential facility for adolescent girls admitted to raping one of the teens at the Long Island center after giving her marijuana edibles, prosecutors said

Opening arguments began Monday in the criminal trial of actor Jonathan Majors, who was charged last spring for allegedly assaulting his then-girlfriend during an argument.

Happening today, actor Jonathan Majors is set to be in court for opening statements in his assault trial. Today in New York’s Tracie Strahan is in Lower Manhattan with what we can expect in court in the days ahead.

A former career American diplomat was charged Monday with serving as a secret agent for communist Cuba going back decades in what prosecutors portrayed as one of the most brazen and long-running betrayals in the history of the U.S. foreign service.

Gregorian Bivolaru was known by his followers as “Grieg” and their guide through tantra yoga toward enlightenment and a higher state of consciousness.

A 21-year-old man was convicted of murdering his cousin and dumping her body in a plastic bin on a Bronx sidewalk — while he took money from her, used her home and tricked her young child into helping cover up his crime, according to the district attorney.

Jonathan Majors appeared in court in New York on Wednesday for the expected start of jury selection in a trial in which he is accused of injuring his then-girlfriend during an argument last spring.

U.S. authorities announced murder-for-hire charges against a man from India who they say plotted to pay an assassin $100,000 to kill a prominent Sikh separatist leader living in New York City after the man advocated for the establishment of a sovereign state for Sikhs.

A man who barricaded himself inside a Long Island home was accused of raping and assaulting a teen girl before the standoff with police that forced the neighborhood and nearby schools into hours-long lockdowns.

Police responded to the home in Woodbury after getting a call and finding a teenage girl who they believe had been assaulted by a man who chased her outside naked. NBC New York’s Greg Cergol reports.

A federal lawsuit accuses police officers of illegally entering a Maryland apartment without a warrant, detaining roommates and unnecessarily shooting their pet dog, which was left paralyzed and ultimately euthanized.

A pair of multicolored briefs peeking out above a robbery suspect’s low-slung trousers helped police arrest him more than a year later, federal authorities in New York said Wednesday.

Authorities said at least 16 victims, many of them gay men, were targeted from September 2021 to August 2022 at bars and nightclubs, then often drugged and robbed of thousands of dollars while they were incapacitated.

Comedian Russell Brand has been interviewed by British police over three alleged sexual offenses.

A missing Florida woman was found dead in her estranged husband’s storage unit, authorities said.

A Los Angeles judge says there is enough evidence for A$AP Rocky to stand trial on charges that he fired a gun at a former friend and collaborator outside a Hollywood hotel in 2021.

The lawsuit states that when the woman stood up, New York State Sen. Kevin Parker, of Brooklyn, grabbed her wrists, took her down a hallway to her bedroom, made a sexual comment, and then raped her, the lawsuit said.

Two people in Kentucky have been arrested in connection with an alleged murder after authorities said they believed they found the body of a 4-year-old girl who was reported missing this week but has not been seen since September.