Category: Crime and Judiciary

A New York City police officer who was among the four people shot and killed by a gunman during a rampage at a Manhattan office tower will be laid to rest Thursday. Officer Didarul Islam, 36, was fatally shot Monday in a midtown building housing the National Football League’s headquarters. A security guard, real estate firm employee...

A Tennessee hospital says it never agreed to a request by state officials who face a court order to turn off a death row inmate’s heart-regulating implant before his execution next week. After a Nashville judge ordered the deactivation of Byron Black’s device, a Tennessee Department of Correction official said in a court declaration that...

A city councilman in Virginia was seriously injured Wednesday when a man stormed into his office at a local magazine, doused him in gasoline and set him on fire — an attack that authorities say was rooted in a personal dispute, not politics. Lee Vogler, 38, who has served on the Danville City Council for...

Anambra Police Command has arrested a 24-year-old woman, Somtochukwu Nwafor over alleged involvement in gruesome murder of a pregnant nurse, whose mutilated body was recently discovered in a soakaway pit at Ogbunike, Oyi Local Government Area. According to the Command’s Spokesperson, Tochukwu Ikenga in a statement said the apprehension followed assistance of community members in...

The Niger State Police Command has busted a suspected human trafficking syndicate in Minna, arresting 10 suspects and rescuing 36 victims, mostly women and minors. The syndicate is believed to be acting as travel agents under false pretences and trafficking unsuspecting victims to different countries. According to the command’s spokesperson, DSP Wasiu Abiodun, the victims...

comrade Okhani who has become a voice for Afema/ Edo North people by tasking our political office holders to be accountable to the people. He had a programme yesterday – a Town Hall meeting for the legislators to brief the people at Auchi Council Hall, Auchi. At the commencement of the programme the Gov Monday...

“Leave legally—because you won’t miss this flight—and it’s your last chance to get on board the right way.” ✈️ “In a new DHS ad running nationwide, Kristi Noem encourages illegal aliens to go home the RIGHT way using the CBP Home App.”

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested 32 suspected internet fraudsters in Bauchi State during a coordinated raid led by the agency’s Gombe Zonal Command. The disclosure was made in a statement posted on the commission’s official Facebook handle on Monday. The statement said the suspects were arrested in Sabon Kaura and Gwalameji...

The officer killed in the Midtown shooting today was Bangladeshi New Yorker Didarul Islam, aged, 36, leaves behind two kids, aged 7 and 5, and his wife who is 8 months pregnant with a third. The off-duty police officer was killed while attempting to stop today’s shooting, he has worked for 3 ½ years with...