Category: Crime

Ex-cop gets 5 years for rough arrest of woman with dementia
By The Associated Press
DENVER (AP) — A former Colorado police officer shown on body camera video roughly arresting a 73-year-old woman with dementia ...

Dave Chappelle tackled during comedy show, police arrest man
Photo Source: The Independent
By The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Comedian Dave Chappelle was tackled during a performance at the Hollywood B ...

Brooklyn subway attack suspect ordered held without bail
By Tom Hays | Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — The man charged with opening fire on subway riders on train in Brooklyn was ordered held without bail ...

Police make arrest in deadly Iowa nightclub shooting
By Associated Press
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — Police have made an arrest in a shooting during a birthday party inside a crowded Iowa nightclub that l ...

Body of missing Nevada woman found, suspect charged
By Scott Sonner | Associated Press
RENO, Nev. (AP) — Authorities discovered the remains of an 18-year-old northern Nevada woman who was kidnapped ove ...

AP: 2 Pennsylvania troopers, man killed; police open DUI probe
By Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — State police have opened a driving under the influence investigation following the deaths of two Pennsylvania ...

AP: Jussie Smollett sentenced to 150 days in jail in fake attack
By Don Babwin and Kathleen Foody | Associated Press
CHICAGO (AP) — A judge sentenced Jussie Smollett to 150 days in jail, branding the Black and gay ...

Ex-UFC champ accused of attempted murder was targeting alleged child molester: police
By Lisa Fernandez | KTVU
SAN JOSE, Calif. - Former UFC champ Cain Velasquez was shooting at a man who allegedly molested a 4-year-old relative of the ...

Girl brings note to school, leading Las Vegas police to brother’s body in freezer
By David K. Li | NBC News
A Las Vegas mother sent her daughter to school with a note, begging to be rescued from an abusive boyfriend, which led poli ...

For 5 Years, Florida Couple Allegedly Kept 14-Year-Old Son Locked in Garage When He Wasn’t at School
Photo credit: People / Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office
By Tom Helling | People
Police have arrested a Florida couple, alleging that they phys ...

Suspect in church killing dead after Colorado cops shoot him
By Associated Press
AURORA, Colo. (AP) — A man wanted for shooting and killing a woman in a suburban Denver church and wounding two other churchgoers ...

Suspect arrested in Washington state grocery store shooting
By Nicholas K. Geranios | Associated Press
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — A man suspected of opening fire inside a grocery store in Washington state, killing ...

2 Miami men get prison time for stealing medical ventilators
By Associated Press
MIAMI (AP) — Two Miami men have been sentenced to 41 months in federal prison for stealing ventilators bound for a COVID-19 inten ...

Boy, 11, charged in armed carjacking in Chicago neighborhood
By The Associated Press
CHICAGO (AP) — An 11-year-old boy has been charged in an armed carjacking last fall where he and other males allegedly stol ...

An hour before DWI crash, Hennepin County sheriff called for a ride to a bar
By Ricardo Lopez | Minnesota Reformer
An hour before he crashed his county-owned vehicle, Hennepin County Sheriff David Hutchinson called an Alexandr ...

Pardoned Kentucky killer sentenced to 42 years in prison
By Dylan Lovan | Associated Press
LONDON, Ky. (AP) — A man pardoned by Kentucky’s former governor for a 2014 drug robbery killing will return to pris ...

Missouri man to be sentenced for killing wife he buried
By Associated Press
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri man who admitted to burying his wife’s body and misleading authorities for more than a year about ...

Man Killed After Being Pushed in Front of San Diego Train ‘Without Provocation,’ Per Police
By Abigail Adams | People
Police are looking for the person that killed a man by shoving him off of a platform in front of an oncoming train at t ...

UPS driver kidnapped, packages stolen in brazen Atlanta heist
By David K. Li | NBC News
Hijackers seized a UPS big rig, kidnapping its driver and stealing an untold number of packages, during a brazen heist Tues ...

Armed man killed in LAPD shooting in Eagle Rock
By City News Service | Daily Breeze
EAGLE ROCK — A man who was allegedly in possession of a knife was shot by Los Angeles police in Eagle Rock on Sun ...