Crime and Courts

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 plea deal reduced a murder charge to manslaughter for Gerardo Contreras. The I-Team’s Eric Leonard reports for the NBC4 News at 5 p.m. on Monday, Sep. 9, 2024.

Through Operation Online Guardian, suspects were arrested for various child sexual exploitation charges. This video was broadcast during the NBC4 News at 11 a.m. on Monday, Sep. 9, 2024.

While the prosecution claimed the accused committed the murder because of his hatred for women, the defense argued race was the factor in this case. Ted Chen reports for the NBC4 News at 4 p.m. on Monday Sep. 9, 2024. 

More than 200 people were arrested across Southern California for sexually exploiting children on the internet.

A man initially facing up to life in prison for setting his girlfriend on fire, killing her, cuts deal and gets 12 years.

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

Jury deliberations have begun in the trial of a man accused of fatally stabbing a UCLA graduate student inside a Hancock Park furniture store in 2022.

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.

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 Pakistani citizen has been arrested and charged with planning a terror attack in New York City with the goal of killing as many Jewish people as possible, the Department of Justice announced.

Nine Chicago-area mayors sent a letter to President Joe Biden Friday seeking a pardon for former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.

A 23-year-old man has been charged with first-degree intentional homicide in the fatal shooting of a national gymnastics champion in his apartment near the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater campus.

The police department said they were notified of a Department of Children and Families (DCF) investigation at Bradley Inn on Ella Grasso Turnpike Thursday. Authorities said they removed a child from a motel room and later discovered that there were drugs in the child’s system, including cocaine and methamphetamine. Windsor Locks police obtained a search warrant for the motel...

A former Mafia hitman was sentenced to 25 years in prison Friday in the 2018 fatal prison bludgeoning of notorious Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger.

Ugandan Olympic athlete Rebecca Cheptegei has died at a Kenyan hospital after an attack by her partner left her with burns over 80% of her body

The man accused of being drunk when his car struck and killed NHL star Johnny Gaudreau and brother Matthew as they biked near their South Jersey hometown the night before their sister’s wedding will remain jailed for at least another week.