Crime and Courts

Home Depot has agreed to pay nearly $2 million to resolve allegations that the company overcharged customers and falsely advertised prices on items, it was announced Thursday.

NYPD Commissioner Edward Caban announced Thursday he is resigning from his post helming the country’s largest police department amid a federal investigation into its nightclub enforcement, according to an internal memo obtained by News 4.

NYPD Commissioner Edward Caban is expected to resign from his post helming the country’s largest police department amid a federal investigation into its nightclub enforcement, three sources familiar with his plans said Thursday.⁠

The Internal Revenue Service’s Criminal Investigation division has joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York in looking into questions about the NYPD‘s nightclub enforcement, a senior official tells NBC New York. The SDNY and IRS have seized the cellphones of numerous NYPD officials, including at least one phone belonging to Commissioner Edward Caban. Caban’s brother,...

A former CIA officer and contract linguist for the FBI who received cash, golf clubs and other expensive gifts in exchange for spying for China was sentenced Wednesday to 10 years in prison.

State investigators have ended their investigation into disgraced Michigan State University and USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar.

Justin Timberlake is expected to plead guilty to a lesser charge related to his Hamptons intoxicated driving arrest, according to a Suffolk district attorney spokesperson.

A New York City police officer has reached a $175,000 settlement with the city in a lawsuit that illuminated the use of the “courtesy cards” that officers dole out to friends and relatives to get out of traffic stops and other minor infractions, according to an agreement filed in Manhattan federal court Monday. The deal brings an end to a lawsuit...

New York City Mayor Eric Adams declined to say Tuesday if he remained confident in the city’s police commissioner, days after federal agents seized the cellphones of the head of the police department and at least four other high-ranking mayoral deputies. In his first news conference since the whirlwind of seizures, Adams — whose own devices were taken by FBI agents in...

Disgraced and jailed former movie mogul Harvey Weinstein underwent emergency heart surgery on Monday in New York City, according to a legal representative.

The mayor faces continuing questions about his police commissioner, Eddie Caban. News 4’s Andrew Siff reports. 

Two people who prosecutors say were motivated by white supremacist ideology have been arrested on charges that they used the social media messaging app Telegram to encourage acts of violence against minorities, government officials and critical infrastructure in the United States, the Justice Department said Monday.

The man allegedly behind an attack on the manager of a Manhattan pizza place that left the victim beaten and mauled by a dog was indicted on attempted murder and multiple other charges, the district attorney said.

The former head of food services for New York City public schools was sentenced to two years in prison on Monday for a bribery scandal that resulted in children being served chicken tenders contaminated with metal and bone. Eric Goldstein, the former school food chief, was sentenced in Brooklyn federal court along with three men who ran a vendor that had...

Jury selection is scheduled to begin in the federal trial of three former Memphis officers charged with violating the civil rights of Tyre Nichols.

The body of an Oregon nurse who went missing earlier this week has been found and her neighbor has been arrested and charged with her murder, police said Saturday.

A Long Island man accused of shooting his ex-wife and her boyfriend to death inside their home after warning his teen daughter to get out suffered a spinal cord injury while being held in jail ahead of his court hearings, police said.

Greg Cergol reporting on the charges being upgraded in the Long Island double murder. 

Marc Santia reporting on the search for scooter-riding robberies in Queens. 

The suspect planned to launch an antisemitic attack around Oct. 7, the date Hamas attacked Israel in 2023. This year, that date falls right between the Jewish high holy days of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. Among the targets would have been a Jewish center in Brooklyn. NBC New York’s Jessica Cunnington reports.