Crime

Attorney General Todd Blanche stood in the White House Rose Garden on Tuesday and laid out the numbers: 160 criminal defendants arrested, more than $245 million in suspected fraud losses, and a blunt warning aimed at anyone who looted COVID-era relief programs and thought the government had moved on. “If you knowingly break the law, […]

Federal agents fanned out across the Dallas, Fort Worth area over several days this month, arresting six noncitizens on charges tied to illegal voting in the 2024 general election. A seventh defendant, a convicted felon and illegal immigrant from Mexico who had been on the run, surrendered to authorities the same morning the last arrest […]

Fourteen men, most of them fraternity brothers, now face charges for allegedly running a cocaine trafficking operation out of two off-campus fraternity houses at Penn State University, and a Centre County drug official says the bust barely scratches the surface of a synthetic stimulant wave sweeping rural Pennsylvania and communities like it across the country. […]

White House border czar Tom Homan went on the record confirming that the Department of Homeland Security is running what he called an “ongoing criminal investigation” involving Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., over long-standing allegations that she committed immigration fraud by marrying a man critics allege is her brother. Homan made the disclosure during an appearance […]

A Santa Monica police officer shot and killed a 44-year-old man who charged at him with a large combat-style knife raised overhead in a packed seaside park on a Saturday afternoon, newly released bodycam footage and a critical incident briefing from the department show. One round. One hit. No bystanders harmed. And the officer who […]

Vandals smeared bright red paint across a newly unveiled bronze statue of the late Charlie Kirk and defaced a Christian memorial sign outside Turning Point USA’s Phoenix headquarters, just days after the eight-foot monument was installed to mark the one-year anniversary of Kirk’s killing. Phoenix police began receiving calls reporting the vandalism around 8:09 a.m. […]

A Georgia judge last week rejected a final attempt to overturn the death sentence of Stacey Ian Humphreys, clearing the way for the 53-year-old convicted killer to be executed on September 16, nearly 23 years after he walked into a suburban model home and shot two young real estate agents to death. Humphreys’ attorney had […]

A 44-year-old Rio Rancho man filmed himself dismantling Flock Safety license plate reader cameras across Bernalillo County, New Mexico, loaded ten of them into his pickup truck, and then, for reasons only he can explain, drove past the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office three times before deputies stopped him at gunpoint and slapped on the cuffs. […]

A Lucas County jury convicted former attorney Matthew Exton of attempted murder on September 4 after surveillance footage captured him walking into a Toledo restaurant, pressing a loaded handgun to his ex-wife’s head, and pulling the trigger. The gun did not fire. The safety was still on. Exton, 43, once worked as a local prosecutor. […]

The FBI arrested Khalid Ahmed Satary in late July in the Middle East, capturing a man accused of masterminding a conspiracy that fraudulently billed Medicare more than $547 million for medically unnecessary genetic tests. Satary is the third suspect nabbed from the bureau’s newly created “Most Wanted Fraudsters” list in just five weeks, part of […]