This story discusses suicide. If you or someone you know is having thoughts of suicide, please contact the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at 988 or 1-800-273-TALK (8255). When Theresa DeLucia, a 95-year-old mother of four from New York’s Long Island, died last month, she had already laid out her wishes in a last will and testament more than a decade …
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A staffer for New York City Mayor Eric Adams was fired Thursday after a Brooklyn bar owner claimed the staffer tried to extort money from him by leaning on former NYPD Commissioner Edward Caban’s twin brother. The news comes amid a growing federal probe of Adams’ inner circle. Ray Martin, an operations manager in the city’s community affairs unit, was …
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Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, a powerful longtime leader of Mexico’s Sinaloa drug cartel, pleaded not guilty Friday to U.S. narcotics trafficking and murder charges. Participating in a court hearing through a Spanish-language interpreter, Zambada didn’t speak, except to give yes-or-no answers to a judge’s standard questions about whether he understood various documents and procedures and how he was feeling — …
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Police in London have arrested and charged two men with burglary after the well-known Banksy artwork “Girl with Balloon” was swiped during a smash-and-grab raid at a gallery. Larry Fraser, 47, and James Love, 53, remain in police custody Friday following the incident at the Grove Gallery that unfolded around 11 p.m. Sunday night, according to the Metropolitan Police. “A …
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A 20-year-old Maryland woman who was caught on video spray-painting “Gaza” on the Columbus Fountain outside of Washington, D.C.’s Union Station earlier this summer has been arrested Friday and is now facing a federal charge, prosecutors say. Isabella Giordano of Towson is set to make her first court appearance this afternoon on one count of willfully injuring or depredating any …
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Two Colombian nationals will serve lengthy prison sentences for conspiring and attempting to murder U.S. soldiers by detonating a car bomb outside a military base near the Colombia-Venezuela border, the Justice Department announced Thursday. Colombian nationals Andrés Fernando Medina Rodriguez, 40, and Ciro Alfonso Gutiérrez Ballesteros, 31, were sentenced to 35 and 30 years in prison, respectively, for their involvement …
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A California man is facing federal charges for choking and assaulting flight attendants during a trip to San Francisco this week that had to be diverted to another airport, the Justice Department said Thursday. Charles Angel Salva, 30, of Fremont is charged with interference with flight crew members and attendants. He appeared in federal court on Thursday. On Monday, Salva …
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill Thursday that reinstates tough criminal penalties for those who conduct large-scale theft schemes and smash-and-grab robberies that continue to frustrate voters across the state. Under the new law, prosecutors are required to begin imposing harsher sentences on those who damage or destroy property with a value of more than $50,000 while committing a …
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California officials blamed then-Attorney General Kamala Harris for the state’s soft-on-crime policies after a small-town mayor and council member were reportedly attacked at random by a homeless criminal. Marysville Mayor Chris Branscum and City Councilman Dom Belza were both allegedly assaulted by the suspect during the daytime attack last month. Branscum said he was standing by Belza and the chief …
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A violent transnational gang from Venezuela allegedly first gained a “stranglehold” on an apartment complex in Aurora, Colorado, late last year, according to a local report. Tren de Aragua gang memberstook over the Whispering Pines Apartments in 2023, engaging in violent assaults, murder threats, extortion, child prostitution and strongarm tactics, Denver law firm Perkins Coie wrote to city leaders in …
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