Category: Crime and Judiciary

The head of a violent Ecuadorian gang accused of smuggling cocaine and firearms between South America and the U.S. pleaded not guilty to drug and gun charges Monday in New York. José Adolfo Macías Villamar, whose nickname is “Fito,” appeared in federal court in Brooklyn a day after Ecuador extradited him to the U.S. A judge ordered...

A 16-year-old boy who described himself in a TikTok video as a “serial rapist” has been sentenced after raping three teenage girls and sexually assaulting a fourth. In what police described as “heinous” crimes, the boy used social media to contact the girls – who were between 13 and 15 – and convinced them to...

US President Donald Trump’s administration has released a trove of records on the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr, including FBI surveillance files on the civil rights leader. A court-imposed order had kept the documents, totalling 230,000 pages, blocked from public view since 1977. Prominent members of King’s family had opposed the release. A statement...

A man whose 9-year-old daughter was found dead in a wooded pond after he reported that she had been abducted while they were they were vacationing in upstate New York was charged Monday with murder. Luciano Frattolin, 45, of Montreal is charged with murdering and concealing the corpse of his daughter, Melina Frattolin, according to New York...

A mother has been jailed for 15 years after causing the death of her baby daughter by violently shaking her. Melissa Wilband’s four-month-old baby Lexi died in April 2020 at Bristol Children’s Hospital. Wilband, 28 and from Newent in the Forest of Dean, denied killing her daughter, but jurors found her guilty of manslaughter following a four-week...

A woman killed her husband with a samurai sword “stabbing and slicing him” more than 50 times before replacing the sword in its sheath on a stand, a court heard. Joanna Rowland-Stuart, 71, was arrested and originally charged with murdering her husband Andrew Rowland-Stuart, 70, after he was pronounced dead at their home in Lavender...

In fulfillment of his earlier promise, the Inspector-General of Police, IGP Kayode Adeolu Egbetokun, has arrived at the Peacekeeping Hall, Force Headquarters, Abuja, where he is currently addressing retired police officers who gathered peacefully to express their concerns over retirement benefits. The IGP’s presence is a demonstration of the Police leadership’s commitment to listening to...

A Bangladesh Air Force training aircraft crashed into a school campus in the capital, Dhaka, shortly after takeoff on Monday, killing at least 19 people including the pilot and injuring more than 100, officials said. According to the military and a fire official, the Chinese-made F-7 BGI aircraft crashed into the campus of Milestone School and College, in...

A court in India has acquitted 12 men previously convicted in the 2006 Mumbai train bombings that killed 187 people and injured over 800. Judges had in 2015 sentenced five of the accused to death and the remaining seven to life imprisonment. On Monday, a two-judge bench of the Bombay High Court overturned the earlier order, ruling...

Egyptian police said they killed two suspected militants in a shootout Sunday during a raid on their hideout in Cairo’s twin city of Giza. The Interior Ministry said the suspected militants belonged to the Hasm movement, which is affiliated with the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood. Hasm is designed as a terrorist group by the United States....