Category: Crime and Judiciary

A Chinese national who United States authorities accuse of trafficking large quantities of cocaine and fentanyl into the U.S. before being arrested and then escaping custody in Mexico was recaptured in Cuba, Mexican authorities said Wednesday. Zhi Dong Zhang, alias “Brother Wang,” was indicted in federal court in Atlanta in 2022 on drug trafficking and...

The Louvre reopened Wednesday morning for the first time since the brazen heist of France’s crown jewels. Police are still hunting the four thieves who made off with eight priceless pieces from the museum’s Apollo Room in a daylight robbery that took just four minutes. Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau revealed in a television interview Tuesday that the stolen...

Indonesian authorities have announced plans to repatriate a British grandmother who has spent years on death row for drug trafficking. The woman, whose case drew international outrage and human rights appeals, is finally set to return home following a bilateral agreement between the UK and Indonesia. Indonesia signed an agreement on Tuesday to repatriate two...

A 55-year-old Palestinian woman has been taken to hospital after being clubbed over the head by a masked Jewish settler as she was picking olives. The unprovoked attack, which took place on Sunday morning in the Palestinian village of Turmus Ayya in the occupied West Bank, was captured on video by US journalist Jasper Nathaniel....

A court in Slovakia on Tuesday convicted the man in last year’s attempted assassination of the country’s populist Prime Minister Robert Fico of a terror attack and sentenced him to 21 years in prison. The shooting and the trial have shaken this small, European Union and NATO-member country where Fico has long been a divisive figure, criticized for straying from Slovakia’s...

A Kano State High Court has sentenced two men to death by for the murder of Buhari Imam, a lecturer with Northwest University, Kano. The convicts, Hussaini of Sheka Sabuwar Abuja Quarters and Zakariyya of Unguwar Malam Quarters, Kumbotso local government area, were found guilty on a three-count charge of conspiracy, armed robbery and culpable...

The troops of Operation Enduring Peace in Jos, Plateau state said to have bursted a location where arms and ammunition are being stockpile by a criminal syndicate. According to Major Samson Zhakom in Jos revealed in a statement that as part of efforts by security agencies to break the chain of illegal arms dealing and...

Texas authorities have arrested a 36-year-old U.S.-based Nigerian woman, Gbemisola Akayinode for the murder of her 9-year-old daughter, Oluwasikemi Akayinode, after being left inside a hot car. The Nigerian immigrant working at a USG Corporation plant in Galena Park, Texas, left Oluwasekemi unattended in a parked car for over eight hours on July 1, 2025,...

 A Utah judge on Monday sentenced a man who appeared to fake his death and flee the United States to avoid arrest on rape charges to anywhere from five years to life in prison. Nicholas Rossi, 38, is “a serial abuser of women” and “the very definition of a flight risk,” District Judge Barry Lawrence said before...

The Benue State Police Command has confirmed the death of a suspected armed robber and assassin identified as Saater of Wannune, Tarka Local Government Area, who had been on the Command’s wanted list for alleged involvement in multiple murders. According to a statement issued by the command’s Public Relations Officer, DSP Udeme Edet, the late...