Christina “Tina” Marie Plante vanished from Star Valley, Arizona, on a May afternoon in 1994. She was 13 years old. For more than three decades, investigators treated her disappearance as a possible kidnapping. Now the Gila County Sheriff’s Office says she has been found alive, and that she left on her own. The revelation, confirmed […]

Federal prosecutors on Thursday filed a firearm charge against the illegal immigrant accused of gunning down 18-year-old Loyola University Chicago student Sheridan Gorman, a move one criminal defense attorney says reflects Washington’s distrust of how Chicago handles violent crime. The charge of illegal firearm possession carries up to 10 years in federal prison and lands […]

Federal authorities arrested eight people in Los Angeles on Thursday in a sweeping crackdown on alleged sham hospice operations that prosecutors say bilked Medicare out of more than $50 million by enrolling healthy patients, paying cash kickbacks, and billing for care that was never needed or never provided. The operation, dubbed “Never Say Die,” marks […]

A seven-month-old baby girl was shot and killed Wednesday afternoon in Brooklyn after a gunman riding on the back of a moped opened fire on a crowded sidewalk in what police described as a gang-related attack, Fox News Reported. The child, identified by the NYPD as Kaori Patterson-Moore of Brooklyn, was struck by a stray […]

Guides near Mt. Everest allegedly laced trekkers’ food with baking powder, scared them into helicopter evacuations they never needed, and billed foreign insurers for millions, all while Nepal’s government sat on a 700-page report that was supposed to stop the scheme years ago. Nepal’s Central Investigation Bureau charged 32 people last month with offenses against […]

U.S. Marshals arrested a 20-year-old murder suspect in St. Louis this week, more than five months after staff at a California jail accidentally set him free while he awaited extradition on a homicide warrant tied to a fatal shooting in Seattle. Isaiah Jamon Andrews had been on the run since October 22, when the Contra […]

A 68-year-old Georgia man now sits in the Ware County Jail, charged with rape and murder in a case that went cold for nearly 42 years. Freddie Lee Granger Jr. was taken into custody March 31 after DNA technology linked him to the 1984 killing of Sandra Kaye Davis, a 22-year-old woman found strangled next […]

Three men prosecutors call MS-13 gang members went on trial this week in Las Vegas federal court, facing a 34-count indictment tied to at least 11 killings that spanned California and Nevada during 2017 and 2018. Assistant U.S. Attorney Melanee Smith told jurors the defendants spent night after night prowling for victims, not over drug […]

A North Philadelphia storefront called Cumberland Coffee and Snacks sold something far harder than espresso. Authorities say its second floor served as a full-scale crack cocaine lab, and it operated that way for more than a decade before law enforcement finally shut it down. Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday announced the sweeping takedown, dubbed Operation […]

Federal authorities arrested a 28-year-old Canadian fugitive wanted for murder at a residence in Tupelo, Mississippi, on March 23, and the Department of Homeland Security says he had entered the United States illegally and was armed when agents found him. Adrian Vincent Walker, described by DHS as one of Canada’s top 25 most-wanted international fugitives, […]