Crime

A former mayor associated with presidential candidate Abelardo de La Espriella was shot and killed in Colombia’s heartland, local authorities reported on Saturday. One of his aides was also killed.

Olena Oblamska, a Ukrainian national also known as Lola Ferrari, was detained in Thailand on an unspecified date.

Martin Mander, Sulev Kohjus, and Kustas Kirsipuu were arrested in late March.

The Justice Department is advocating for the indictment of 94-year-old Raúl Castro, the former president of Cuba, as per two U.S. officials familiar with the situation.

A man, whom experts for both prosecutors and defense attorneys claimed was intellectually disabled, became the 600th person executed in Texas since 1982. He was put to death Thursday evening for the murder of a 77-year-old retired college professor.

Mackenzie Shirilla earned the nickname “Hell on Wheels” for a tragic 2022 crash in Ohio where she drove into a brick building at 100 mph, resulting in the deaths of her boyfriend and his friend.

An Oregon emergency room doctor was sentenced to prison on Tuesday after striking a man with his car and leaving him for dead.

A 20-year-old man sought in connection with the shooting of Missouri football star Ahmad Hardy at an outdoor concert in Mississippi has been arrested.

Mitchell Gaff, a convicted double murderer and diagnosed sexual sadist, will likely be ruminating on this for the remainder of his life — in prison.

A Michigan State student seemed to be wielding a knife and charging at officers when he was shot during multiple rounds of police gunfire, as shown in body camera footage of the fatal encounter released on Friday.

A U.S. federal grand jury on Thursday expanded the charges against the deputy leader of Mexico’s Jalisco New Generation Cartel, accusing him of methamphetamine trafficking and conspiracy to launder money.

An Iraqi national allegedly planned to execute terror attacks in the U.S., including targeting a Jewish institution in New York, federal prosecutors announced Friday.

The trial focused on accusations that the former leading film producer raped aspiring actress Jessica Mann in 2013.

A worldwide network of organized crime groups has ventured into the profitable business of trafficking drugs through Fiji — and they are increasingly arming themselves, the Pacific island nation’s defense minister said in an interview with OCCRP this week.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has requested a federal court to approve final judgments to resolve a civil case against Indian billionaire Gautam Adani and his nephew Sagar Adani.

A child residing in an illegal care home is being exploited by an organized crime gang. He might be distributing drugs across the country, transporting weapons, or laundering money through his bank account.

Human remains were found at a home in Texas during an investigation into the case of a 6-year-old boy who has been missing for nearly four years.

A man sought in connection with the murder of a transgender University of Washington student turned himself in to police, providing "some sense of relief" to the Seattle campus, officials said Thursday.

A fugitive from Detroit who was recently arrested for murdering his punk rock singer roommate in 1993 has been referred to in news reports as a "ghost" due to his ability to evade authorities for over 30 years.

The proprietor of a healthcare software company was found guilty of extensive Medicare fraud on Thursday, as announced by the Department of Justice, concluding what Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche described as "one of the most egregious fraud schemes in Florida history."

An Oklahoma inmate who was granted a new trial after spending nearly three decades on death row has now been granted bond, paving the way for his first release from prison since 1997.

The Supreme Court unanimously ruled on Thursday that a man injured in a tractor-trailer crash could sue the broker who arranged the load. This is a significant victory for highway safety advocates who have raised concerns about unsafe trucking companies and the high number of deaths and injuries resulting from truck crashes.

The FBI is offering $200,000 for information that could lead to the arrest of a former Air Force intelligence specialist charged in 2019 with spying for Iran.

Oklahoma carried out the execution of a death row inmate by lethal injection on Thursday morning. The inmate had been found guilty of murdering his ex-girlfriend and her baby nearly two decades ago.