Police in Douglasville, Georgia, are investigating after an off-duty U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer allegedly shot and killed a 45-year-old man in a Walmart parking lot. Police said in a statement released on Monday that officers responded to reports of a shooting at the Walmart location in the 1000 block of Thornton Road at … Read more
“The defendant is a domestic terrorist bent on committing acts dangerous to human life.” That was the first sentence in the case of United States of America v. Christopher Paul Hasson, a U.S. Coast Guard lieutenant accused of being inspired by Norwegian far-right Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik and “bent on committing acts dangerous to … Read more
An 18-year-old college student has been indicted on charges of selling drugs via a smartphone app. According to the U.S. attorney’s office for the Northern District of California, Collin Howard was arrested on Feb. 15 by campus police at the University of California Santa Cruz after Howard met with an undercover officer from Homeland Security … Read more
Actor Jussie Smollett has been indicted by the Chicago Police Department for allegedly filing a false police report, which is a felony. The charges come nearly three weeks after Smollett, one of the stars of FOX’s Empire, said he was attacked by two men who allegedly assaulted him, hung a rope around his neck and … Read more
A mother and her live-in boyfriend have been arrested on suspicion of “heinous” crimes against her two young children, including rubbing hot sauce on their face and genitals and suffocating them with pillows. Robert Earl Kailiala Saladaga, 37, and Sabrina Irene Emerick, 25, have both been both charged with unlawful neglect of a child and … Read more
A New York man has been charged with murder after he deliberately drove his vehicle into a family, killing the mother, according to police. The 35-year-old man had an argument with a member of the family outside a 7-Eleven store on N. Central Highway, in the Hamlet of Garnerville, New York., at around 1:50pm, Haverstraw … Read more
A man who allegedly attacked three Hispanic men with a metal pole while shouting how he wanted to “kill Mexicans” has been charged with hate crimes. A federal jury in Salt Lake City, Utah, returned a three-count indictment against Alan D. Covington, 50, after he allegedly launched the racist attack at a tire store on … Read more
A New Jersey woman who had to be given anti-overdose medication after crashing a school bus she was driving is facing criminal charges, police said yesterday. The Newark New Jersey Department of Public Safety confirmed in a release that Lisa Byrd, 57, had been arrested following the collision—which took place at at 14th Avenue and … Read more
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez attacked media outlets for reporting the details of her new Washington, D.C., home on the same day that federal agents arrested a self-described white nationalist after they found he had amassed a cache of weapons and had made a hit list including high profile politicians and journalists. According to court documents shared … Read more
Houston authorities are reviewing more than 1,400 criminal cases linked to a police officer who allegedly used fabricated information to justify a botched home raid which resulted in the deaths of a husband and wife last month. The Harris County District Attorney’s Office said in a statement that 27 of the cases involving officer Gerald … Read more