Category: Crime and Judiciary

 The man accused of fatally shooting two staff members of the Israeli Embassy in Washington outside a Jewish museum has been indicted on federal hate crime and murder charges, according to court documents unsealed Wednesday. The indictment, filed in federal court in Washington, charges Elias Rodriguez with nine counts, including a hate crime resulting in death. The...

 A sergeant shot five soldiers Wednesday at one the country’s largest Army bases before he was quickly tackled by other Fort Stewart troops, forcing a brief lockdown, officials said. Few details were immediately available about what led to the gunfire, but officials said the shooter was Sgt. Quornelius Radford, 28, who used a personal handgun, not...

Michelle Wilson, a British mother claimed she was sexually assaulted midair by a parasail operator while parasailing in Tunisia, Africa.  The 52-year-old said she was assaulted by the operator while strapped into the harness as they soared through the air.  “I could feel the back of my bikini bottoms being pulled, and he was pulling...

The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Kayode Adeolu Egbetokun, on Tuesday decorated ACP Aliyu Shaba and CSP Sentome Obi, the 2023 and 2024 winners of the Police Officer of the Year award respectively, with their new ranks. The ceremony took place at the IGP Smart Conference Room, Force Headquarters, Louis Edet House, Abuja. Egbetokun re-echoed the...

Andy and Amy Schafer live with their five children in a reliably conservative corner of rural Ohio, where they hit the pool in the summer and attend high school football games Andy coaches in the fall. The Schafers said two of their children, recently adopted from crisis-torn Haiti, would be struggling without the help of...

A tragic incident has shaken the Badagry community as a Nigerian Navy officer, identified as OS Nuhu, lost his life during a daring operation against rice smugglers on the waterways. The incident happened during a large-scale naval raid aimed at curbing illegal rice smuggling from the Benin Republic into Nigeria. According to sources, the boat...

The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command has arrested four individuals including a man, his wife, girlfriend, and her younger sister for staging a fake kidnapping in a failed bid to extort ₦5 million from the girlfriend’s father. According to a statement by the FCT Police Public Relations Officer, Josephine Adeh, the alleged kidnap was...

The Operatives of the Lagos State Police Command have arrested one Wasiu Akinwande, a suspected hired assassin believed to be connected to a string of high-profile threats in the state. Wasiu Akinwande is currently being arraigned at the Ogba Magistrate Court, Ogba area of the state, on 11 counts bordering on murder, unlawful possession of...

Gareth Ward, an Australian politician convicted of rape is fighting – from his jail cell – to remain a member of the New South Wales (NSW) state parliament. Ward was last month found guilty of sexually assaulting two young men, aged 18 and 24, at his home between 2013 and 2015, and is now in...