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Crime & Investigations Reporter
Henry covers arrests, charges and criminal investigations for Max Crime. Every story is built from at least two independent news reports or an official record, and each claim is attributed to its source.
Thomas Brady had jail maintenance workers fix his home heat. A fingerprint under a stamp tied him to a forged letter to state ethics investigators.
Herb Kimble once faced a five-year maximum under a cooperation deal. After he fled to the Philippines before sentencing, he got 20 years.
An NCIS affidavit says Miguel Alonso Maldonado Soriano used a sledgehammer from his vehicle and admitted the damage. He faces up to 10 years.
Ryan Flute, 46, admitted repeatedly pushing a woman during an argument while they drank in May 2024. She hit her head on furniture and died six days later.
Gail Starks, 63, is charged with stealing $397,120 in VA spousal benefits from 1991 to 2026 and telling a VA employee she was not married.
An ATF affidavit says Quentin Hanks admitted lighting couches at One Spa and Fuji Super Spa on Oct. 19, 2026. A body was found at Fuji Spa the next day.
A teller handed his masked brother nearly $200,000 from the vault in a staged 2024 robbery in West Roxbury. Each was sentenced to four months in prison.
Nearly 35 years after four girls were killed in an Austin yogurt shop, Amy Ayers’ brother and his wife question whether Robert Brashers acted alone.
Cornelius Bray was sentenced to 57 months for the 2025 Kennett, Missouri, pharmacy break-in that ended in a crash after a chase at more than 130 mph.
Robert Alexander Pitts hid ammo boxes in his pockets and waistband during repeated thefts at Bass Pro and Cabela’s stores in 2025, prosecutors said.
Christopher Harwood, owner of TelevisitMD, paid doctors to sign orders for braces and genetic tests Medicare patients did not need, prosecutors said.
Kenneth Gratto admitted billing weekend overtime he never worked on Hillsborough school projects and paying the district’s business administrator kickbacks.
Ibrahem Johnson robbed two Family Dollar stores and a Rite Aid at gunpoint in West Philadelphia in 2025 and was caught after a police officer recognized him.
Eric Washington shot Andreaia Worthem in 2023 after her son planned to kill her for a $150,000 insurance policy, federal prosecutors said.
Federal prosecutors say a Fall River woman ran a business arranging fake marriages so immigrants could seek legal status, charging $38,000 to $40,000 each.
A federal jury convicted Deshawn Donson, 23, after store clerks testified. Deputies caught him after a May 2025 robbery and a chase at over 100 mph.
Ramon Rodriguez, 22, shot Milton Grant in the head in June 2021 and took his watch, federal prosecutors said. He was also sentenced for a jail assault.
Prosecutors say Rajesh Patel created fake negative results for at least 380,000 PCR tests at a Hillside, Illinois, lab so it could bill a federal program.
Elderly victims were told they had won a sweepstakes and had to pay taxes and fees first. Alando Gentles, who took part from Jamaica, got 36 months.
Posing as local police on smuggled phones, they told at least 119 people they faced arrest for missing jury duty unless they paid with gift cards.
The 11th Circuit rejected Shannon Wilkerson’s challenges to the DNA evidence and to the exclusion of another soldier he wanted to blame.
Todd Jeremy Senff, 46, of Camarillo, faces 14 misdemeanor counts over photos and videos of military equipment and exercises that prosecutors say he shared.
Paul Hyon Kim was sentenced to the five-year minimum for the 2025 attack on a Tesla repair shop after a fight over whether it was terrorism.
El Mahdi Koutabi, 34, was found under a cargo crane on a ship bound for Louisiana and said it was his fourth such trip, a complaint says.
Lana Ruel, 71, was sentenced to two months in prison for depositing a stolen $931,745 tax refund check that was owed to a Brooklyn home health company.
Damion Hayes, 26, is indicted on escape and gun charges after prosecutors say he fled a Louisville reentry center on April 22, 2026.
Layne Lundeen, 67, of Tucson, is federally indicted over the Sept. 3, 2026, flight disturbance that forced a Dallas-to-Newark plane to land at BWI.
The Justice Department charged 16 people with election crimes in nine states. Here is every case, and an Idaho defendant the national list left out.
A Mexican judge found three men guilty on Oct. 9, 2026, of killing Callum and Jake Robinson and American Jack Carter Rhoad on a 2024 surf trip in Baja.
David Cruz Torres, 36, is charged with attempted murder after police say he cut the throat of a coworker who was driving him home in Saratoga Springs on Oct. 9.
Adam Abdihakeem Adam, 18, charged in the Oct. 2, 2026, shooting outside Eden Prairie High School’s homecoming game, posted bond and left jail on Oct. 10.
An ICE agent shot a 28-year-old man in Manhattan’s Marble Hill on Oct. 8, 2026, as his 5-year-old son sat in the car. A judge has barred his deportation.
Chicago police say former officer Thomas F. McInerney Jr., who died in 2006, killed 8-year-old Gloria Kowalewicz in 1960. DNA and a fingerprint led to him.
Matthew Stone, 45, killed eight people at his Erie, Pennsylvania, home on Oct. 9, 2026, including his pregnant daughter and two grandchildren, the coroner said.
Police in Douglas, Georgia, say five adult family members died in an apparent murder-suicide at their home late on Oct. 9, 2026.
Selma Blair was taken into custody after two flight attendants were hurt on a Delta flight to JFK on Oct. 11, 2026. Her rep cited a medical emergency.
Alvaro Pulido, 62, charged in Miami in 2019 and 2021 over alleged bribes for Venezuelan contracts, is in U.S. custody, officials said Oct. 11, 2026.
A superseding indictment unsealed Oct. 8, 2026, in New York charges Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores with conspiracy to commit torture.
Guojun Xuan and Silvia Zhang pleaded not guilty Oct. 6, 2026, to charges of abusing at least 14 surrogate-born children at their Arcadia, California, home.
Federal prosecutors say Sheikhdoon Abdullahi Mohamud, 18, planned an attack at the Mall of America and was arrested after buying an AK-47 in an FBI sting.
An early-morning fire damaged a Midway game booth at the State Fair of Texas in Dallas. No injuries were reported, and officials said operations would continue.
A 17-year-old from Lethbridge, Alta., faces six charges, including terrorism offences, in an RCMP investigation involving the 764 network.
Two juveniles were wounded in a shooting after Warren Central High School's football game in Indianapolis on Oct. 2, 2026, police said.
The Supreme Court denied Christa Pike's stay request. Tennessee plans to execute her Sept. 30, its first execution of a woman in over 200 years.
Police charged a 12-year-old boy in an Ewa Beach gun case after he allegedly pulled a firearm on a girl, 13, on Fort Weaver Road, Hawaii News Now reported.
Gregory Magin, 46, of Glenville was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for distributing and possessing child pornography, CBS6 Albany reported.
A 17-year-old was stabbed outside the Bronx's Taft Educational Campus after arriving with his mother to register for classes. No arrests have been made.
Lake America, Trump Strait, New America: what Trump renamed in 2026, who pushed back, and what a president can and can't legally rename.
Nazira Haji Zada, 47, was deported to Afghanistan in the first case before the long-dormant Alien Terrorist Removal Court.
One dead and seven injured after a house party shooting on Weir Street in Taunton. Officials identified the deceased as 22-year-old Zirovick Depina of Brockton.
Two teenage boys were hospitalized after separate shootings in Chicago on South Dorchester Avenue and South Claremont Avenue Saturday night. No suspects.
One man died and two people were hospitalized after a Buford triple shooting Saturday morning. Gwinnett County police are investigating.
Florencio Ramos Martinez, 42, died after an early-morning assault outside his Grattan Street building in Bushwick on Sept. 4, 2026. No arrest was announced.
