Category: Crime and Judiciary

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...

A white South African farm worker accused of killing two black women says he was forced to feed their bodies to pigs, according to lawyers. Adrian de Wet is one of three men facing murder charges after Maria Makgato, 45, and Lucia Ndlovu, 34, were killed while allegedly looking for food on a farm near...

Police in Haiti have arrested a former senator charged with conspiring against the state and financing criminal organizations for allegedly supporting gang members. Nenel Cassy was arrested Saturday at a restaurant in Petionville, a wealthy district of the capital, Port-au Prince, Haiti’s National Police said in a post on Facebook. The police shared photos of...

 A Colorado funeral home owner accused of stashing nearly 200 decomposing bodies in a room-temperature building admitted in federal court Monday that she cheated customers and defrauded the federal government out of nearly $900,000. Carie Hallford, who ran Return to Nature Funeral Home with her husband Jon Hallford, pleaded guilty in federal court to conspiracy to commit wire fraud....

 Police in Tennessee have charged a 23-year-old woman with assisting a man wanted in the killings of the parents, grandmother and uncle of an infant found alive miles away from the crime scene. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said Dearrah Sanders of Jackson, Tennessee, was arrested on Monday and charged with being an accessory after the killings....

 Brazil’s Supreme Court on Monday ordered the house arrest for former President Jair Bolsonaro, on trial for allegedly masterminding a coup plot to remain in office despite his defeat in the 2022 election — a case that has gripped the South American country as it faces a trade war with the Trump administration. Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who...