Crime

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took to Twitter Tuesday afternoon for an indictment of “robotic dogs” used to aid police visibility on crime scenes.

A man threw hot liquid into a New York City bus driver’s face during an altercation because he did not pay his fare, according to a video released by the New York Police Department (NYPD) Thursday. The video showed the

Two armed conmen posing as plumbers broke into a New York City residence, where they beat and tortured two people with a hot iron for 15 hours, police said Thursday.

Former USA Gymnastics coach John Geddert has been charged on Thursday with 24 counts of criminal misconduct, including human trafficking and sexual assault, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced.

Sen. Ted Cruz issued a stunning rebuke on Thursday of President Joe Biden’s “most radical immigration plan any administration has ever proposed in history.”

Lady Gaga’s dog walker was shot and two of the singer’s French bulldogs were stolen in Hollywood during an armed robbery, according to police.

Police arrested an Arizona man after he faked his own kidnapping because he wanted to skip work, authorities said.

Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol agents continue to find stash houses near the border where smugglers warehouse their human cargo. Most recently, agents in Pharr, Texas, found 71 migrants packed into a single house.

A recent report by the University of Illinois claims Chicago is the most corrupt city in America, according to a WGN 9 article published Thursday.

A former member of Syrian President Bashar Assad’s secret police was convicted by a German court of facilitating the torture of prisoners.

Authorities on the Indonesian island of Sumatra charged four healthcare workers with blasphemy, a crime in the country, on Tuesday after they allegedly violated Islamic law by bathing a deceased coronavirus patient’s corpse despite not being her mahram, or unmarriable close family.

The NYPD released an image on Tuesday, showing the woman who violently assaulted a two-year-old boy in a subway last weekend.

Officer Jeff Koenig returned to work on February 19, after two years of recovery from a shooting during a routine traffic stop.

An Oklahoma man accused of murdering three people has admitted to carving his neighbor’s heart out and cooking it for his family, according to authorities.

A judge dismissed two charges, DWI and reckless driving, against rocker and outspoken Joe Biden supporter Bruce Springsteen, who pleaded guilty to consuming alcohol in an enclosed area, related to his November 14 arrest. He has been fined $540, per Magistrate Judge Anthony Mautone.

San Diego Sector Border Patrol agents disrupted a “brazen smuggling event” when they discovered a convoy of six human smuggling vehicles loading a large group of migrants. The smugglers loaded up the migrants after they illegally crossed the border through a compromise in a border wall section.

A grand jury in New York decided Tuesday that no charges would be filed against police officers in Rochester who detained a mentally ill black man, Daniel Prude, 41, last year, who later died. The incident led to riots in the city last summer.

Prosecutors filed paperwork on February 11 confirming that the two lawyers have been offered a deal to reduce their sentence.

PARIS (AP) — The Paris prosecutor’s office said on Tuesday that French actor Gerard Depardieu was charged last December with rape and sexual assault after authorities revived a 2018 investigation that was initially dropped.

Former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund rejected claims on Tuesday by Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) that his officers were more lenient toward the Capitol rioters than they would have been to Black Lives Matter demonstrators.

Former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund testified Tuesday at a Senate hearing that he did not believe officers were “complicit” in the January 6 riot, as charged by Retired Army Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré.

Parents who recently bought a Glo Worm doll for their child at a thrift store in Arizona found thousands of fentanyl pills stashed inside the toy.

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker signed the Pretrial Fairness Act (HB3653) making the Land of Lincoln the first state to eliminate cash bail.

Witnesses at the first major congressional hearing on the Capitol riot testified that they did not expect the building to be targeted by violence — directly contradicting what Democrats told the Senate impeachment trial earlier this month.

Rapper Killer Mike’s Atlanta, Georgia, barbershop was struck by several stray bullets during a shootout last weekend, according to reports.

Over 1,500 people have died in Nigeria in the first six weeks of 2021 due to general insecurity including terrorist attacks from the Nigerian Islamist terror group Boko Haram and kidnappings, local media reported on Monday.

A German man suspected in three heists against money transporters was arrested in the Netherlands on Tuesday, German investigators said.

The wife of notorious Mexican kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman faces drug trafficking charges after U.S. agents arrested her in Virginia. She is expected to appear before a judge Tuesday, February 23.

The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office has released video of a deputy rescuing a one-year-old girl who was inside a vehicle when it was allegedly stolen Tuesday in Florida.

Attorney General nominee Merrick Garland struggled Monday with questions about the death penalty during his confirmation hearing in the Senate.