Crime and Courts

Prosecutors in Los Angeles filed a murder charge with special circumstances Monday in the disappearance and death of Oscar Omar Hernandez, a 13-year-old boy who vanished last month after visiting a soccer coach.

Karl Mitchell, 71, did not have the proper permits to own the animals, and violated other rules over the years, according to the NYE County Sheriff’s Office.

Indian police have arrested a 24-year-old American Youtuber who visited an off-limits island in the Indian Ocean.

A man attempted to rob a Houston convenience store earlier this year but as he was drawing a handgun from his waistband, the weapon slipped and slid down the leg of his sweatpants.

Lori Vallow Daybell, who was convicted of killing her two youngest children and conspiring to murder a romantic rival, is on trial again Monday. This time, she’s accused in Arizona of conspiring to murder her estranged husband.

A suspect accused of stealing a luxury car from a Miami neighborhood was arrested on Sunday, police said.

According to Miami police, the theft of the $400,000 Black Badge Rolls-Royce happened in a matter of minutes that same morning at the luxury Paraiso Bayviews condominiums in Edgewater. NBC6’s Daniela Cado reports.

Prosecutors are seeking more than seven years in prison for disgraced former congressman George Santos after he pleaded guilty to federal fraud and identity theft charges. The U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York argues in a court filing filed Friday that a significant sentence was warranted because the New York Republican’s “unparalleled crimes” had “made a mockery”...

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and other officials announced on Friday the arrests of nine alleged MS-13 gang members in homicide cases that had gone cold in Broward and Palm Beach counties. At the news conference on Friday, a poster stood next to the podium with photos of the suspects under the title “Operation Sombra de la Bestia (Operation...

A Miami man was charged with running an investment Ponzi scheme disguised as a cash advance business that bilked investors out of tens of millions of dollars, the United States Attorney’s Office announced Thursday. Pablo Silverio Rebollido, 47, was charged with wire fraud on March 26. Officials said his business, E-Card Lending, was supposed to be providing MCAs, “a type…

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced the arrests in four local homicides. Three of them happened in Oakland Park. NBC6’s Briana Nespral reports.

The British comedian and actor was charged with two counts of rape, indecent assault and two counts of sexual assault.

British police have charged comedian Russell Brand with rape and sexual assault after an investigation sparked by complaints from several women.

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and other officials announced on Friday the arrests of nine alleged MS-13 gang members in homicide cases that had gone cold in Broward and Palm Beach counties.

Nine alleged MS-13 gang members have been arrested in connection with homicide cases that had gone cold in Broward and Palm Beach counties, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and other officials announced on Friday. Bondi led a news conference in South Florida to announce the results of “Operation Sombra de la Bestia (Operation Shadow of the Beast).” The cases...

Jury selection continued for Karen Read’s retrial on Friday, but the day ended with the same number of jurors selected.

A South Florida man was found guilty Thursday afternoon of ambushing and killing a man outside a North Miami Motel in 2013. 

The convictions and death sentence of the one-time leader of an Atwater Village street gang, who police believed committed at least a dozen murders and who was once on the US Marshals most-wanted list, were overturned Thursday by the California Supreme Court, which found a juror was improperly dismissed during deliberations. Timothy McGhee was found guilty in 2007 of three...

A California man’s attorneys say he’ll plead guilty to trying to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh at his home in a suburb of Washington, D.C. In a court filing Wednesday, lawyers for Nicholas John Roske say he intends to plead guilty to attempting to murder a justice of the United States at a hearing next week. The charge carries...

A custodian at a Broward County middle school was arrested this week on charges of possessing child pornography.