Crime and Courts

Megan Thee Stallion has asked a court to issue a restraining order against rapper Tory Lanez.

The woman was accused of selling counterfeit versions of popular weight loss drugs including Ozempic and Wegovy. Experts say fakes have exploded in the U.S.

In a news conference on Tuesday, Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg discussed the charges for the shooting of Brian Thompson on Dec. 4. 

The 26-year-old Ivy League grad charged with murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on a Manhattan sidewalk this month has been indicted by a grand jury in the case, the district attorney’s office announced Tuesday. Luigi Mangione stands accused of first-degree murder, in furtherance of terrorism; second-degree murder, one count of which is charged as killing as an act of terrorism;...

Bob Lee, who founded the popular money transfer service Cash App, was fatally stabbed by an IT consultant after an argument about the suspect’s sister, prosecutors said.

On Monday afternoon, NBC6 cameras captured investigators taking out boxes and bags of evidence from the clinic while the three women were detained. 

An arrest report details that a witness called 911 at around 2 a.m. when she heard the little girl yelling, “Somebody help me!” from inside a car parked at 1601 NE 191st Street.

Police have arrested a man who they say stabbed and robbed an Amazon delivery driver in Fort Lauderdale. NBC6’s Steve Litz reports.

After a successful completion of a pre trial diversion program, state attorneys announced on Tuesday they have dropped a state drug charge for an associate of Sean “Diddy” Combs who was accused in a civil lawsuit of being a mule for the music mogul’s drugs and guns.

The New York City architect arrested last year in connection with a string of cold case bodies found on Long Island’s Gilgo Beach has been charged with another woman’s murder, bringing the body count against him thus far to seven, according to a superseding indictment unsealed Tuesday. Rex Heuermann is accused of murdering Valerie Mack, an escort who vanished in...

A former prison guard trainee has been sentenced to death for the 2019 execution-style killings of five women inside a Florida bank. Zephen Xaver appeared to gulp, but otherwise showed no emotion as Judge Angela Cowden pronounced the sentence Monday. The 27-year-old had pleaded guilty last year to the murders, but his attorneys had asked for a life sentence rather...

A woman is behind bars after a 5-year-old girl was found screaming for help inside a car early Monday in Ives Estates, according to authorities. 

The search is on for the people caught on surveillance video stealing two luxury vehicles in the middle of the night from a Coral Springs neighborhood. 

Surveillance video appears to show thieves stealing a luxury vehicle from a Coral Springs community. NBC6’s Kim Wynne reports

The accused stowaway on a flight from New York to Paris in November has been arrested again, this time caught at the U.S.-Canada border after ditching her ankle bracelet monitor, according to a senior official briefed on the matter.

Prosecutors and Miami Beach police were made aware one woman claims Oren Alexander raped her inside the Versace mansion in 2013. NBC6’s Tony Pipitone reports

Jay-Z’s lawyer expects the hip-hop mogul, whose real name is Shawn Carter, to soon be “cleared” from a lawsuit that accuses him and rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs of raping a minor in 2000, he told NBC News on Monday. 

A California man has been sentenced to more than three years in prison for running a business to help pregnant Chinese women travel to the United States to deliver babies who would automatically have American citizenship.

A man was arrested after he left the scene of a crash and trespassed onto someone’s northwest Miami-Dade property, where the homeowner shot him, police said.

Police in Florida are trying to find the rightful owner of over 55 pounds of cocaine, worth an estimated $1.7 million, that were found along the Atlantic coastline.