INVESTIGATIVE

Experts say crooks steal mail from home and USPS mailboxes, searching for checks they can wash and sell online.

If you’re thinking of hiring someone for a home improvement project, make sure they have a state issued license. Carolyn Johnson reports for the NBC4 News on Jan. 5, 20223.

Rosa Crespin wanted window shutters for her new home. She said she got a good price through Glendora-based Affordable Window Coverings – $1,750 for shutters on six windows. But Crespin said the company offered her the deal only if she paid full price upfront.

Four years after an Oakland priest seemingly vanished after being accused of sexually abusing two minors, NBC Bay Area’s Investigative Unit has new answers on what happened to Fr. Alexander Castillo, in addition to a never-before published letter where the priest professes his innocence and blames another clergy member for his suspension.

Does Your Middle Class Tax Refund Debit Card Have a $0 Balance? Experts say fraudsters are stealing your money and the Franchise Tax Board should have seen this coming.

Have you ever been surprised to find your gift card has a zero balance? Here’s how it can happen and what you can do to avoid problems.

During the holiday season scammers are finding new ways of swiping money from cards even before recipients get a chance to use the funds. Carolyn Johnson reports for the NBC4’s I-Team on Dec. 21, 2022.

Cynthia Marino and Dio Lokes are longtime neighbors in a condominium complex in Pomona. Their homeowners insurance company recently dropped them, and pointed to the hills that surround their condos, and said the fire risk is too high. Marino and Lokes said there haven’t been any nearby fires in years.  “I was just stunned. I was shocked. I just...

More and more homeowners seemed to be getting dropped by insurance companies due to wildfire risk. Carolyn Johnson reports for the NBC4’s I-Team Dec. 13, 2022.

The NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit traveled to Canada to get a firsthand look at supervised injection sites, which supporters say have helped reduce overdose deaths and the number of used syringes discarded on streets and sidewalks.

About 80 endangered whales are killed off the west coast each year by a phenomenon known as ‘ship strikes,’ which is when vessels unintentionally, and sometimes unknowingly, hit and kill whales.

A former owner of the $15 million Atherton estate where a buried car was discovered Thursday had reported the vehicle stolen NBC Bay Area’s Investigative Unit has learned. He also had a decades long history of arrests for fraud and even homicide.

The allegations come at a time when Catholic dioceses across California are being hit with a wave of new child sex abuse lawsuits enabled by a recent state law.

Six Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s deputies and detectives appeared in court Monday detailing what happened the night 16-year-old Emma Lace Price was found dead in 23-year-old Michael Russell’s home in Corralitos, Calif. back on Nov. 12, 2021.

Authorities are investigating the death of a 35-year-old man who twice told police and fire crews he couldn’t breathe as he was being held, face-down, after being handcuffed for several minutes, NBC Bay Area’s Investigative Unit has learned.

Two San Francisco police officers surrendered Tuesday to face charges of destroying evidence, while a retired officer, who had been working part-time with the gun destruction unit at the SFPD evidence room, faces unrelated felony charges of taking a soon-to-be-destroyed MP5 submachine gun and silencer home from the property room, authorities said.

A notorious defrocked Oakland priest accused of sexually abusing dozens of children was arrested Saturday night after allegedly hitting and killing a pedestrian while driving drunk in a Walnut Creek retirement community, NBC Bay Area’s Investigative Unit has confirmed.

The break in a decades-old cold case came from a lucky break by out-of-state police. Law enforcement officials will not discuss how they solved the case, but the NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit has learned it started with Oklahoma police finding a private journal with a confession to a crime nearly 1,500 miles away.

The engineer responsible for the troubled fix of the Millennium Tower acknowledged Thursday that the building is continuing to tilt about 3 inches a year since work began.

Cal Fire has determined the massive Dixie Fire that destroyed nearly 1 million acres across five counties last summer was caused by a tree hitting a PG&E power line.