Category: Crime and Judiciary

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado said she presented her Nobel Peace Prize medal to President Donald Trump at the White House on Thursday even as he has questioned her credibility to take over her country after the U.S. ousted then-President Nicolás Maduro. The Nobel Institute has said Machado could not give her prize to...

Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodríguez said Wednesday her government would continue releasing prisoners detained under former President Nicolás Maduro’s rule in what she described as “a new political moment” since his ouster by the United States earlier this month. It appeared to be an understatement for the Maduro loyalist now tasked with placating an unpredictable...

The 22-year-old Utah man charged with killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk is due back in court Friday as his attorneys seek to disqualify prosecutors in the case over an alleged conflict of interest. Tyler Robinson is charged with aggravated murder in Kirk’s Sept. 10 shooting on the Utah Valley University campus in Orem, just a...

A Brazilian Supreme Court Justice on Thursday ordered the transfer of former President Jair Bolsonaro from the federal police headquarters in Brasilia to a much bigger cell with an outside area in the Papuda Penitentiary Complex, also in the capital. The transfer was described as a move to a facility with “more favorable conditions” for...

The Chairman of the Lagos State Taskforce, CSP Adetayo Akerele, has once again demonstrated exceptional professionalism, vigilance, and keen observational skills with the arrest of three impostors who unlawfully paraded themselves as officers of the Nigerian Navy to defraud members of the public and obstruct lawful government operations . The suspects were apprehended following an...

The president of Oglala Sioux Tribe in South Dakota on Tuesday called for the immediate release of tribal members who were detained at a homeless encampment by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Minnesota last week. Three of the four Oglala Sioux Tribe members who were arrested in Minneapolis on Friday have been transferred to...

A federal officer shot a man in the leg in Minneapolis after being attacked with a shovel and broom handle while trying to make an arrest Wednesday, officials said. Smoke filled the street near the site of the shooting as federal officers and protesters squared off. A group of officers wearing gas masks and helmets...

The former CEO of a camp for kids with serious medical conditions has been been charged with 15 felonies after prosecutors said he embezzled more than $5 million over seven years from the nonprofit co-founded by Paul Newman. Christopher L. Butler, 49, of Porter Ranch, California, is expected to be arraigned Thursday in Los Angeles....

A former U.S. Navy sailor convicted of selling technical and operating manuals for ships and operating systems to an intelligence officer working for China was sentenced Monday to more than 16 years in prison, prosecutors said. A federal judge in San Diego sentenced Jinchao Wei, 25, to 200 months. A federal jury convicted Wei in...